Portal 2: Community Edition - October 4th, 2023 Update

Additions (16)

  • Added 'paintpower' property for paint color material proxy to request a specific color

  • Added CSM and flashlight to lightmappedreflective

  • Added ConVar traceray_force_vphysics for testing (1 = Use VPhysics collisions for displacements, 2 = for everything)

  • Added ConVar traceray_unshrink_vphysics_brushes which unshrinks VPhysics-type brush entities

  • Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate flexes

  • Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate pose parameters

  • Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate sequences

  • Added Panorama weapons API for custom weapon select HUDs

  • Added ForceDropPhysObject input to !player

  • Added GameStateAPI.IsPlaytest() and GameStateAPI.IsPlaytestRecording()

  • Added gameui_activate command to Steam Input command list

  • Added zoom, toggleconsole, showconsole and hideconsole commands to be usable in steam input

  • Added a mandatory whitelist file for Panorama's AsyncWebRequest function. The -unrestrictedwebrequests launch argument will skip this file and allow all requests

  • Added support for escape sequences \n, \t, \", and \\ in VMF and BSP #60 #1899

  • Exposed SetSelected(bool) on RadioButton in Panorama JavaScript API

  • Restore the original Connection Problem warning for Legacy UI #1144

Fixes (38)

  • Adjusted folder mounting order to fix wrong assets occasionally being used

  • Fixed AI disabling on maps with no navigation nodes (Like sp_a2_bts5)

  • Fixed Co-Op ping tool using SP custom colours

  • Fixed Hammer crashes related to entity outputs

  • Fixed Hammer crashes related to saving and loading files

  • Fixed Hammer inserting extra quotation marks for compile commands #753

  • Fixed Paint blob particles always being white

  • Fixed Panorama UI controller movement always moving right no matter the input direction

  • Fixed Panorama not loading images when game was started with +map

  • Fixed Portal 1 crosshair not swapping properly when playing with controller

  • Fixed VBSP not always acknowledging parameters in patched materials

  • Fixed VGUI panels not loading proper fonts in Panorama

  • Fixed -multirun not working #882

  • Fixed logic_branch not firing _OnLogicBranchRemoved to its listeners

  • Fixed player_speedmod not working in singleplayer when inputs are not called directly from the player

  • Fixed trigger_autosave being deleted upon map load

  • Fixed a crash on laser-triggered cube respawn #1510

  • Fixed certain VTFs failing to load due to added resources

  • Fixed certain entities not being found during a level transition

  • Fixed crash when determining recipients to multicast to

  • Fixed crash when omitting certain child elements from the Panorama loading screen panel

  • Fixed crash when popup-manager.xml is invalid (the game now exits with an error dialogue)

  • Fixed displacement tool sometimes making 2D views to not update

  • Fixed flashlight making some opaque water disappear

  • Fixed hang on start when the engine is told to play an invalid startup movie

  • Fixed instance outputs bugs

  • Fixed issues with some collision traces, notably bullet impact traces on displacements

  • Fixed opening the game menu sometimes requiring an extra ESC input

  • Fixed point entities in 2D view not drawing outlines and text

  • Fixed rare possibility for a trace that starts inside a world brush or entity and then runs into a different entity to pass through that entity

  • Fixed rendering of jigglebones within model panels

  • Fixed server content taking priority over game files

  • Fixed shaded textured view not working

  • Fixed string truncation when using SetMessage input on point_worldtext

  • Fixed the map name not displaying in the top right corner #912

  • Made ModelPanel rotation speed consistent regardless of FPS

  • Prevent a crash when the surface vertex count exceeds the max decal vertex limit

  • Restore timeout while waiting for your partner in Cooperative

Improvements (27)

  • Allowed the game to run alongside other Source games without -multirun #268

  • Displacements now use the more accurate VPhysics collisions by default (traceray_force_vphysics 1)

  • Fogui FarZ can now be set to -1 (Default value), which disables the override

  • Fogui now allows users to enter and copy numbers manually on sliders

  • Game no longer creates soundcache directory in maps folder when not needed

  • Hammer fix map dialog now will try to warn about unused keyvalue typos of existing keyvalues are not set, instead of suggesting to remove them

  • Hammer options dialog now only saves settings when pressing OK button

  • Hammer options dialog now updates 2D/3D views when changing visual settings

  • Logical view in Hammer now draws its title

  • Made VMF saving a little bit more robust to not keep corrupted file on crash

  • Made steam.inf parsing hardier and informative

  • Move to visgroup dialog now shows user visgroups as well

  • Overlays in Hammer should no longer z-fight with wall they are on

  • Panorama XML parsing errors should now give more context to the error

  • Panorama now can handle texture reloading without freaking out

  • Ported Hammer Arch and Torus dialogs to Qt

  • Ported Hammer Map Diff dialog to Qt

  • Ported Select Entity dialog to Qt

  • Reduced the number of required child elements for the Panorama main menu and intro movie

  • Removed SFUI prefixes from all localization files

  • Removed max limit on texlights in VRAD

  • Toggling maximized view in Hammer now doesn't break active mouse look

  • Transform dialog now shows 1 as placeholder when scaling

  • Un-developered sv_soundemitter commands

  • Unamed instances can now use func_instance_io_proxy

  • ambient_generic now finds Sound Source entity's every time it is played, not only when initialized

  • material_modify_control now should be able to handle when materials are modified by VBSP (cubemap fixup or wvt patch) on newly compiled maps

Console (8)

  • Console autocomplete and history can now be navigated with tab and shift+tab, like in other games

  • Console input is now immediately filled in when navigating the autocomplete menu

  • Autocomplete now correctly shows the first 100 results alphabetically out of all matches, instead of just the first 100 found

  • Input history no longer saves empty or duplicate inputs

  • The backtick key (`) will now always close the console if it is open (controlled by con_backtick_always_closes)

  • Closing the console now also automatically closes the game menu

  • Pressing ESC will now clear the console input box if it has text, otherwise it will close the console

  • Closing the console no longer clears the input box automatically