Changelog

v26.2.2.11

• Added timeline sections (like Unreal montage sections): split a timeline into named sections that play once, repeat or loop until told to move on, so one effect can hold a start, a loop of any length and an end; edit and preview them in the timeline editor, and switch them from Java (FXRuntime.sections()) or with /photon fx section
• Added release sections: stopping an effect without force (such as destroy(false) or /photon fx remove ... false) plays its release section first, then lets it wind down
• Added a Drain exit mode to control clips: when the clip ends, its object stops emitting and the particles fade out instead of vanishing
• Added Loop and PingPong lifetime modes to particles, which keep cycling through their lifetime and only die once their emitter is stopped
• Fixed effects stopped without force misbehaving while they faded out: their timeline kept running and brought objects back, particles with a Start Lifetime of 0 never died, and lights went out early
• Fixed timeline animations stuttering when an effect plays at a rate other than 1
• Fixed /photon fx remove entity skipping the remaining targets after one that had no effects

v26.2.2.10

• Allowed creating a ParticleEmitter directly from a ParticleConfig
• Fixed glTF models not reloading after their file is edited in the assets folder
• Fixed billboards not spinning when Rotation over Lifetime uses world or custom space
• Fixed the FXPack manager overflowing with many effects; it is now a resizable, scrollable window
• Fixed pasting onto a curve field reverting
• Fixed the FX instance Revert option missing when right-clicking inside an override row
• Fixed missing translations and some editor labels
• Bump up ldlib2

v26.2.2.9

• Added FX instances (like Unity prefabs): place an .fx inside another effect, at any depth, and override, disable or delete what it places; only the overrides are saved, so it keeps following its source
• Added a new particle collision system with colliders, triggers, entities and fluids; collision is swept, so fast particles no longer pass through walls
• Added preloading effects ahead of their first play (FXHelper.preload), warming their shaders, textures and sub-emitter effects in the background
• Added converting an .fx into an editable project, from the File menu or the FXPack manager, and removing effects from an FXPack
• Added dynamic lights: clustered point and spot lights with voxel soft shadows, a Light object, particle light emission and lit particles
• Added volumetric lights and fog volumes
• Added dynamic lights to shader graphs (Dynamic Light node) and custom shaders
• Added KilaMaterial, a built-in all-in-one VFX material, with 27 presets grouped by category
• Added exporting a KilaMaterial as a shader graph, and an optional render state on shader graph materials
• Added a custom space to force, velocity, rotation and ara trail gravity
• Added copy, paste and duplicate for FX objects
• Fixed FXPack updates not taking effect until a resource reload
• Fixed ara trail physics stutter
• Fixed speed and loop being ignored by per-particle animation phase
• Fixed removed FX objects' children staying in the project and coming back after reopening
• Fixed hierarchy shortcuts doing nothing right after a context menu action
• Fixed a context menu click also selecting the hierarchy row under the menu, putting an extra step into undo
• Fixed integer literals in float math breaking particle and bloom shaders on GLSL ES translators (mobile launchers)
• Fixed beam raycast crashing and look-at facing aiming at the origin in the editor
• Fixed bloom at full intensity blacking out everything below the threshold
• Fixed late-composited effects picking their layer and blend by what was drawn before them
• Fixed the editor crashing when more material previews are on screen than it keeps, or when the post effect preview is resized
• Fixed depth read through Photon's shader includes, such as soft particles, in custom shaders converted from 1.21
• Fixed the editor scene drawing nothing after a project is loaded or the scene mode is changed
• Bump up ldlib2 and kilagraph