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There's no normal blog this week, but we're releasing a small maintenance update containing fixes, performance improvements and quality of life changes. Stability Fixed several rare crashes in rendering, animation, texture streaming and Vulkan. Fixed a crash when importing meshes that are too complex. Fixed a crash when saving a Shader Graph while the game is playing. Crash reports now include mor

A small maintenance update with crash and bug fixes. Stability Fixed a GPU crash on characters with facial animation and other morphs. Fixed a GPU crash when reflection probes were baked with the Quality filter. Fixed crashes involving 3D skyboxes, including when the world they belong to is unloaded. Fixed a crash when UI elements were added or removed while the UI was updating. Fixed a crash from

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-09-15 Painter `Painter` is a small utility struct that replaces `HudPainter` and the panel rendering system. It's now used to render the whole panel system and you can use it to render things like UI, HUDs, panels and world panels manually using a common sense API.Shapes are generally S

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.https://sbox.game/news/update-26-09-082D Physicss&box now has 2D physics, powered by Box2D (yes, like Box3D). Switch the physics mode in your scene settings and bodies will simulate in the XY plane, using the same physics components and APIs you already know instead of having a 2D and 3D API split.Open VideoGame JamThe

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-09-01 New Main Menu I am aware that us re-doing the menu is a meme at this point, but the main menu has once again been rebuilt. The common complaint we get is that there are no good games. I think there are good games but we're not sufficiently putting them in front of people. Their in

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-08-05 Main Menu Changes The front page of the main menu isn't doing it's job, it should be getting you into a game you're interested in as easy as possible. I've made a few changes this week, and we'll keep changing it until it's useful. Friends List The friends list got a couple of upg

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-07-22 AnimGraph 2 We've released the first version of AnimGraph 2 onto a separate branch on Steam this week. We invite developers to try it out and provide feedback in its early stages. You can get access by switching to the animgraph2 branch. Set to GameObject Bounds You can now make B

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-07-15-4d62b783 Talking NPCs Adds subtitles and lip sync to sound files. This is kind of how HL2 did it, except better. Open Video Sound Import Settings Adds import-time processing options to sound compiles, driven from the sound's `.meta` and applied by the native sound compiler: Force

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.https://sbox.game/news/update-26-07-08AddonsPreviously, you were able to publish a single asset to our workshop, you'd be able to add code and use your own components. However, you weren't able to use the game's code, just stuff from the engine. This week, we've added support for these addons to target games. In your ad

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-06-24 More Discovery The menu home page has been updated with a couple of discovery moves. First of all we have a social feed on the right. This will show your friends interactions with the game (if you have any, and if their profile is not set to private in Steam). Then we have a spotl

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.https://sbox.game/news/update-26-06-17Mini MotorsWe're going to be making a bunch of small scoped, polished, fun games. The first of many is Mini Motors - we've worked on this as a small team of a few people over the last 2 weeks, start to finish.Mini Motors is a top down arcade racer which includes a bunch of maps, car

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post. https://sbox.game/news/update-26-06-10 Reward Changes The random drop reward system was pretty opaque. You didn't know why you didn't get your drop, you didn't know how close you were, you didn't know what you needed to do. So I've added a progress thing to the menu to make that more clear. That should make things a lo

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.https://sbox.game/news/update-26-06-03Package FlairThe package tiles can now show more information about the package. by overlaying an icon on top. We're calling these flair, like in Office Space. Right now we supply these types of flair:Workshop Approved - a clothing item that has been acceptedUpdated Since Played - th

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.https://sbox.game/news/update-26-05-27Changelog🎁 AddedRuntime mesh morphs API - `Mesh.AddMorph()` lets you add morph targets (position and normal deltas) to meshes at runtimeMesh to model dialog now shows options for configuring collision when converting meshesMirror tool can now be repositioned after placing, similar t