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O3DE 23101 Feature List #258

Open Ulrick28 opened 10 months ago

Ulrick28 commented 10 months ago

The Open 3D Engine (O3DE) 23.10.1 fully implements Prefab Overrides and the Document Property Editor (DPE), enabling these by default. The release also simplifies steps for exporting packages, fixes crashes in the Material Canvas, implements Asset Browser optimizations to improve editor startup times in projects with large numbers of assets (eg several thousand assets), and ROS2 gem and Robotics Templates bug fixes and improvements.

Highlights

Here are some highlights of O3DE 23.10, followed by a detailed list of features broken down by Special Interest Group (SIG).

  1. Prefab Overrides: Prefab Overrides are now enabled by default. Addressed several stability, usability, and performance issues.

  2. Materials and shaders:

    • Material canvas stability improvements, usability fixes, and configuration settings.
    • Material canvas base and standard PBR nodes now use the material pipeline system to share shader code, generate fewer files, and look closer to the original material types. Material graph files will not need to be updated but users might need to delete previously generated material and shader files and let material canvas create new ones. It might take longer to process assets and update previews depending on how many material pipelines, platforms, and RHI are enabled. These can be configured in project and asset processor registry settings.
    • Fixed material and shader builder warnings, errors, dependency tracking, and problems with consistent reloading that affected iterating on shaders and material types in and out of material canvas.
    • Material component generate source materials feature now tracks and displays progress for generated materials to ensure that assets are ready before assigning them. This would previously print several warning messages when assigning unprocessed materials.
    • Material component, instance editor, and generate source materials have been fixed to reference original source material types instead generated files in the intermediate asset folder.
    • The atom instance database and instance id classes were updated with better support for tracking specific versions of assets so that new instances can be easily created when assets reload.

  3. Improved Editor Load Times: Users with large asset databases have had issues with long startup times in the main editor. These changes add some high level optimizations, caching various values, replacing vectors and linear searches with unordered sets, removing seemingly unnecessary recursion, and other changes.

  4. VS 2022 MSVC 14.38 toolset build fixes (VS2022 17.8.x series): QT library is using Microsoft extension for stdext::checked_array_iterator which has been deprecated as part of the MSVC compiler 14.38 toolset.

  5. Improved Terrain feature stability: Resolved several issues with crashes in the terrain system.

  6. ROS2 and Robotics Templates bug fixes and improvements:

    • Improved spawn points reflection and handling during Robot Import .
    • Made adjustments to the Robot Importer to better handle nested SDFs and OBJ meshes.
    • Transform broadcasting is now much faster, resulting in even better performance of multi-robot simulations.
    • Enhanced the user experience with robotics project templates by updating readmes and preview images.
    • Optimized ROS 2 transform frame publishing.

  7. Added support for the android gradle plugin 8.1+

PR's for point release

https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17165 - Make sure ios export script uses correct asset processor path https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17160 - Quality of life improvements for the project export script https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17158 - fix instance pointer for EditorData attributes https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17155 - Editor material component optimization to only render custom previews if properties are overridden https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17154 - Simplifying thumbnail system asynchronous loading. https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17153 - Fix AddFileToArchive https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17149 - Cherry Pick Updates for Android scripts into the point release https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17145 - Point release fix/installer export script support https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17140 - Updated Linux GPG key https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17139 - fixing material pipeline builder failure caused by relative texture references https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17137 - Changing material canvas default sampler settings to common values from preexisting material types https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17134 - fixed prefab adapter DOM update to fire regardless of update type https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17127 - fixed missed generate source materials function to use progress dialog https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17126 - Reduce the gap between DPE property rows https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17121 - Fix material component generate source materials warnings/spam caused by assigning assets before they have been added to the catalog https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17120 - add material canvas compile graph interval setting https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17119 - Fix alpha clipping, cut out, and add opacity factor in material graph based material types https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17106 - DPE Inspector support for IndexedChildNameLabelOverride https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17104 - Fix performance drop caused by updating material component previews every time the asset load notification is received https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17101 - Asset browser optimizations (changing container types, removing recursion, fixing memory leak) https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17086 - Increment engine version for point release https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17082 - Fix for crash from delayed refresh on deleted adapters https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17077 - Fix for DPE widgets being briefly visible during reset https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17076 - Properly inherit DescriptorAttributes::ParentContainerCanBeModified attribute https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17074 - Fix for "Add Material Component" crash when prefab overrides are enabled https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17071 - Prefab override fixes https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17069 - Cherry picking material fixes from development into point release 23101 https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17062 - Fix for typeID in the DPE Inspector https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17054 - Add lambda to reject replacement patches on nested rows https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17011 - Fix for sequenced container crash in DPE-based Inspector https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17008 - Fixed VS2022 17.8.0 and clang compilation of the SceneAPI PairIterato… https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17006 - Add AssImp import settings to the Scene Processor https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17005 - Fix debug output for scenes when two files with same name but different extensions exist https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17004 - Scene Import mesh/material bugfixes https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/17003 - Consolidate the CreateTestFile function into the AzTest library https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16999 - [DPE] Fix handling of pending/disabled components https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16993 - Workaround Visual Studio 2019 compiler defect where it warns https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16989 - MSVC 14.38 toolset build fixes (VS2022 17.8.x series) https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16988 - Fixed Wwise 3rdParty integration not using VS2022 libraries and fixed Compression gem issue that caused release applications to freeze on start https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16973 - Fix asserts/crashes caused by missing component serialized identifiers https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16960 - Fix terrain renderer memory trashing https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16953 - Fix divide-by-zero bug when surface material size is too large https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16952 - Fixing the gradle_windows.cmd script to set the JAVA_HOME env https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16944 - Unused variable fix on Linux to point release https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/16906 - Prefab override cherry-picks, and defaulting DPE editing to "on"

o3de-extras PR's: o3de/o3de-extras#588 - fix lidars in ROSBot prefabs (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#602 - Change reflect in spawn points (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#598 - Change spawnning of robots during import (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#583 - Change kinematic update to pre-simulation (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#584 - Broadcast transforms en masse. (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#580 - Updated readmes to include new features, fix typos etc. (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#586 - Fix template preview images; add obj support to templates' registry. (cherry picked from development with o3de/o3de-extras#620) o3de/o3de-extras#524 - Add import optimization settings for obj files. o3de/o3de-extras#578 - Adding UnitTest for verifying import of nested SDF import via the tag o3de/o3de-extras#591 - Fixed parenting of SDF model and link entity transforms.

gadams3 commented 10 months ago

I'm not sure if this is too much detail. Can we replace "2. Material Canvas: Resolved several crash issues with Material Canvas." with more details like these?

  1. Materials and Shaders:
Ulrick28 commented 10 months ago

Done

lsemp3d commented 10 months ago

Do you want to consider bringing in the Script Canvas registration improvements:

PR 16678

And the bug fixes from this project:

https://github.com/orgs/o3de/projects/54 look at the "Done" field

Ulrick28 commented 10 months ago

Those changes look to large/risky for the point release. I know some people have had difficulties with the registration changes (particularly with PopcornFX, though this has been fixed). Note that we are planning a major release in February which would contain all of the fixes and the new registration.

michalpelka commented 10 months ago

Here is a list of o3de-extras:

Highlights

Ulrick28 commented 10 months ago

Updated notes to include o3de-extras updates.

lsemp3d commented 10 months ago

Those changes look to large/risky for the point release. I know some people have had difficulties with the registration changes (particularly with PopcornFX, though this has been fixed). Note that we are planning a major release in February which would contain all of the fixes and the new registration.

The registration changes are the ones that were impactful, the project fixes however are frontend QoL type issues. It's not critical they go out on the point release though, I just wanted to check if you wanted to consider them. Thanks @Ulrick28 !

Ulrick28 commented 10 months ago

What is the blast radius if things go wrong for these fixes? I agree these are good fixes, but given how close we are to Dec 5th, we need to be careful about what we take into the release.

lsemp3d commented 10 months ago

What is the blast radius if things go wrong for these fixes? I agree these are good fixes, but given how close we are to Dec 5th, we need to be careful about what we take into the release.

They are all contained within Script Canvas, mostly small fixes. Is there a tentative date for the next release?

spham-amzn commented 10 months ago

The updated android scripts are now in the point release (https://development--o3deorg.netlify.app/docs/user-guide/platforms/android/) so its worth adding support for the android gradle plugin 8.1+ as well