5.4.0b5 Release Notes --------------------- ### Known Issues * After expand/collapse Unity Editor window looks corrupted. If you maximize/minimize/click on windows in Editor they'll return to normal state. * Bug reporter crashes if it's opened from Finder/Explorer * Changing the active graphics API in the Editor while a Canvas is in the scene will crash the Editor. As a workaround, open only a new, empty scene before changing graphics API. * Crash of Standalone player when character with SkinnedMeshRenderer is on the scene * In deferred rendering, lightmapped objects affected by mixed-mode lights will fallback to forward rendering. Plan to fix this in the future by introducing baked shadow masks. * Saving a scene on OSX might throw the error in the console: "TLS Allocator ALLOC\_TEMP\_THREAD..". Happens only on OSX El Capitan (10.11.1). Doesn't happen on OSX 10.10; * Shadows: Directional shadows will present shadow acnee when using a custom projection matrice and a very large frustum (20k+) * Unity crashes sometimes after deleting asset files from project folder * \[Billboard\]\[LOD\] Unity crashes when picking deleted Speedtree Billboard LOD level * \[GL\] \[Windows\] Unity crashes or hangs with no respond on moving and undocking tabs * \[MonoDevelop\] "..UnitTestTextEditorExtension not found.." error message appears when user open script in MonoDevelop * \[Skinning\] Skinning broken on Mac * \[Windows\]\[MT\] Unity crashes after mass placing SpeedTrees on terrain ### Features * Graphics: Added \[ImageEffectAllowedInSceneView\] attribute for Image Effects. This will copy the Image effect from the main camera onto the Scene View camera. This can be enabled / disabled in the Scene View effects menu. * VR: Optimized Single-Pass Stereo Rendering available in Player settings ### Improvements * Editor: Added EditorSceneManager.DetectCrossSceneReferences API * Scripting: Improved Instantiate() performance. * UI: Begin work on improving performance of MaskUtility functions * UI: UI now sets the texelSize for use in custom shaders * VisualStudio: Stop using COM to launch VisualStudio for a better immediate feedback experience * Windows Store: Improved deserialization performance when using .NET scripting backend ### Fixes * Editor: Fixed when dragging a second scene to Hierarchy the first scene would auto expand * GI: Fix fallback to non-directional lightmaps on SM2.0 hardware * Graphics: Fixed null reference exception being thrown when setting null to mesh triangles/indices * Graphics: Fixed problem of being able to set syncUploadBufferSize below 2 which leads application to crash on startup * MonoDevelop: Disabled Git, Subversion and NUnit add-ins by default. Fixes issue with being unable to write to newly created scripts * MonoDevelop: Fixed issue with MonoDevelop showing "��u" symbols in document view after using "Save As" * MonoDevelop: OSX: Fixed issue with MonoDevelop not working when copied to case-sensitive partition * MonoDevelop: Show hint in breakpoints dialog that explains exceptions list is generated from currently selected project * Scripting: GetTransform<>() invoked from a constructor or field initializer could crash Unity. * Shaders: Fix DX11 shader disassembly not showing correctly in the editor UI for 'show compiled code'. * UI: All struct value types now use iEquatable to prevent memory allocations * UI: Changed Canvas scaler to only scale the XY and not the Z of the transform * UI: Fix for 1/2 pixel offset not working on screen-space camera canvases * UI: Fix issue where setting canvas scaller to zero would cause a out of memory exception * UI: Fixed issue where text glyphs would be truncated if any texture filtering occured. * UI: Fixed issue where UnityEvent wouldn't allow the removeal of events after reload * UI: Fixed issue with Masking when enabling and disabling graphics * UI: If the mask is disabled we should use the baseMaterial instead of the masking material * UI: If the UI shader is not found the default "pink" shader will be used * UI: Make sure FontUpdateTracker get called for tracking fonts changed in the inspector * UI: Make sure InputEvents are sent when IME composition strings are updated in Windows Standalone. * UI: Prevent null list from geting passed as a parameter for VertexHelper functions * UI: Remove special case ascent calculation for non-dynamic fonts * UI: The UI batching grid size is not deterministic based on canvas/ element size. * UI: UI overlay canvas's will now always be drawn ontop in the scene view. * UI: Use GetRayIntersectionAll in Physics2DRaycaster to get more accurate results. * UI: When updating rectTransform data make sure comarisons are against old value not the set value * VR: Exposed Camera.targetEye to script for Virtual reality Applications. * VR: Fix Screen Orientation on GearVR applications. * VR: Fixed Splash Screen Aspect ratio issues for VR Applications. The following are changes and fixes to 5.4.0 features and regressions... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ### Improvements * Graphics: GPU Instancing: Added #pragma instancing\_options for specifying instancing-specific options. Currently maxcount is the only option which allows the max batch size (i.e. the array size of the instanced properties) to be configured. * Graphics: GPU Instancing: Surface shader now supports instancing by simply adding #pragma multi\_compile\_instancing directive. ### Fixes * Analytics: Fixed Analytics fails to start on clean install * Animation: Fixed a bug where Light.m\_Enabled didn't animate properly when using AnimationComponent * Editor: Fix CaptureScreenshot in editor and screen-capturing for Unity Remote * Editor: Fix the issue that SceneManager.sceneCountInBuildSettings gives 0 until entering play mode * Editor: Fixed the issue that calling SceneManager.LoadScene\*\* while exiting playmode causes scene unremovable from the hierarchy * Editor: Make sure persistent transforms are not added to the active scene when running in a player. This could happen if a prefab is loaded from Resources * GI: Enlighten. Unity crashes if scene is unloaded before it gets a chance to fully load * Graphics: Fixed GPU Instancing now working with Graphics.DrawMesh. * iOS/IL2CPP: Prevent a managed exception on 64-bit builds during some array creation operations which has the message "ArgumentException: Destination array was not long enough. Check destIndex and length, and the array's lower bounds". * Profiler: Fixed missing Worker threads data from Timeline Profiler * Renderdoc: When making a RenderDoc capture from editor UI, make sure to include the whole frame including user script updates. * Shaders: During surface shader generation, do not initialise non-vector type members of the Input struct i.e. a struct/int/matrix as a member variable of the Input struct * Shaders: Fixed a shader compiler crash if a compute shader declares a samplerstate that doesn't match the naming scheme. * Shaders: When changing shader hardware tier emulation, only reload shaders (not textures/RTs) to stop refl probes breaking. * Shadows: Change light shadows near plane minimum bound to either 1% of range or 0.1, whichever is lower. * tvOS: Fixed Apple TV inclusion into Mac and Windows installer sets * Windows Store: Fixed a "MdilXapCompile failed" error when trying to build Visual Studio project for Windows Phone 8.1. This used to happen when the Unity game had over 8000 classes across all assemblies. * Windows Store: Fixed a crash which happened on "Windows N" versions when using IL2CPP scripting backend. * Windows Store: Fixed an issue which caused small tiles get copied to Visual Studio solution incorrectly for Windows Phone 8.1 SDK. * Windows Store: Fixed Application.Quit() when using D3D project type or IL2CPP scripting backend. * Windows Store: Fixed error "Task 'ExpandPriContent' failed." which occurred when trying to build an application package with IL2CPP scripting backend when using default Unity icons. * Windows Store: Fixed Visual studio graphics debugger crashing when trying to debug Windows Phone 8.1 projects.