0.2 Released

Key Information

Scriptable Client Actors

Scripters can now create their own client-side NPC's!
Civilian Model Support

All civilian models are now available to use!
Depth-Tested Rendering

Render inside of the game world!
Basic Unicode Support

Allowing use of more languages.
Main Menu Overhaul

Convenient access to your favorite servers.
Steam Achievements

Unlock them by completing tasks with players.

Other Major Features:

Major sync improvement to vehicles and on-foot weapons
Implementation of following classes, which greatly improve client/server communication:
- SharedObject
- NetworkObject
- WorldNetworkObject
Extended ability to store values from player-only to all entities
Fixed major bug causing random models/effects to become invisible

0.2 Changelog

New Features

Shared

Added support for all of the previously unsupported civilian models
Added Steam achievements
Added SharedObject class
Added NetworkObject class
Added WorldNetworkObject class
Added basic UTF-8 support to Lua strings
Added SetUnicode(boolean) global function
Added storage to all entities, not just Players
Deprecated PlayerValueChange and PlayerNetworkValueChange events
Refactored Chat class functions to support multiple colours in a single message
Added Vehicle.GetClassByModelId
Added Vehicle:GetClass
Added VehicleClass enum
Improved Lua errors with event argument printout
Added delta argument to PreTick/PostTick and Render/PostRender
Added Angle.Delta
Added Vector2.Reflect and Vector3.Reflect
Added ComponentMultiply method to Vector2 and Vector3
Added Weapon equality operator

Server

Added module metadata
Added Player:Damage
Added Vehicle:SetStreamPosition and Vehicle:SetStreamAngle
Added Vehicle:Get/SetSpawnPosition and Vehicle:Get/SetSpawnAngle
Can now disable collisions between two different types with Player/Server functions EnableCollision/DisableCollision
Added ClientModulesLoad event
Added Player:RequestGroupMembership(groupId, callback
Added StreamableObject:GetStreamedPlayers
Added SLED debugger support
Added suppressible PlayerAchievementUnlock event
Added Server:GetFrameTime
Added SendAutorunWhenEmpty config variable, default as false, to control whether autorun scripts are sent for empty modules
Added netstat command

Client

Added ClientActor class which provides a basic client-side NPC interface

Added GameRender event for depth-tested rendering in the game world

Main menu overhaul

Added support for streaming image resources with AssetLocation.Resource

Added support for Unicode characters in CharPress

Vastly improved the chat window with word wrap and chat history

Added LocalPlayer:SetLinearVelocity

Added Character class, common to Player and ClientActor

Added Character:Get/SetLeftArmState

Added Character:GetSeat

Added Vehicle:Set(Linear/Angular)Velocity

Added VehicleTransmission, with methods Get/SetGear, Get/SetClutchDelayTime and more

Added VehicleSuspension, with methods Get/SetChassisDirection, Get/SetStrength and more

Added VehicleAerodynamics for land vehicles, with methods Get/SetAirDensity, Get/SetDragCoefficient and more

Added Vehicle:GetTransmission, Vehicle:GetSuspension and Vehicle:GetAerodynamics

Added Vehicle:GetTorque, Vehicle:GetWheelCount, Vehicle:GetRPM, Vehicle:GetMaxRPM and Vehicle:GetTopSpeed

Added GetClimateZone method to streamed and client entities

Added ClimateZone enum

Added ShapeTrigger with events ShapeTriggerEnter and ShapeTriggerExit

Added TriggerType enum

Added VehicleTriggerType enum

Added Player:GetAvatar

Added AvatarSize enum

Added Featured tab to the server browser

Added description field to the server browser

Server browser filters are now consistent between restarts

Added Camera functions SetFOV and GetFOV

Added LocalPlayerEjectVehicle event

Added 'entity' and 'impulse' arguments to VehicleCollide event

Added LocalPlayer functions SetOxygen and GetOxygen

Added LocalPlayer:IsFriend(steamid/player

Added Client:GetFrameTime

Added Game:GetWeatherSeverity

Added ClientStreamableObject as a base class to Vehicle/Player

Added an optional boolean parameter to Physics:Raycast to disable the raycast filter

LocalPlayerBulletHit event now contains a bone argument

Added a setting to toggle vehicle camera snap and adjust timeout

Added a setting to toggle vehicle stunt camera

Added chat key and chat toggle key settings

Removed apostrophe keybind opening console, added a setting to configure console keybind

Added support for correctly rendering the tab character in text

Added Render:GetDepthEnabled

Added CursorType enum

Added Mouse:SetCursor

Added FontAwesome and League Gothic fonts to resources

Added ability to navigate through TextBox history using Up and Down arrow keys

Added Ctrl-Left/Ctrl-Right hotkeys to TextBox to facilitate moving the cursor word by word

Added Label:SetLineSpacing

Added TextBoxNumeric:Get/SetNegativeAllowed

Added gui_show_netstat console command

Added window position and size launch parameters

Bug Fixes

Shared

General sync improvement
Luabind now checks parent classes when looking up class members (class("MyDerived")(MyBase) in _init.lua works now)
Scripts are now loaded in alphabetical order on all platforms
Fixed script profiler not counting network events
The marshaller now accepts table keys of any type
Angles sent over the network no longer lose precision from compression
Vector2/Vector3/Color statics can no longer be edited
Comparing any API class with '==' should now work
Fixed random number generator not being seeded at startup
Improved Timer precision
Fixed issue where IsValid would raise an exception for non-table/userdata types

Server

Fixed issue with server memory not being freed on entity removal
Cleaned up streamer code, hopefully reducing amount of server crashes
Fixed issue with world iterators not working correctly
Fixed a bug where scripts would still be run even if the server failed to start
Fixed SteamId outputting the community id when printed on Windows

The client bug fixes exceed Steam's news post limitations, so for further information on the patch, check out our announcement post here.

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Key Information

Scriptable Client Actors

Civilian Model Support

Depth-Tested Rendering

Basic Unicode Support

Main Menu Overhaul

Steam Achievements

Other Major Features:

0.2 Changelog

New Features

Shared

Server

Client

Bug Fixes

Shared

Server