Portal 2: Community Edition - November 14th, 2024 Update

Additions (21)

  • Added animation event AE_SV_SET_SKIN to control server side model skin

  • Added animation events AE_SV_ENABLE_BODYGROUP, AE_SV_DISABLE_BODYGROUP, and AE_SV_BODYGROUP_SET_VALUE to control server side model bodygroups

  • Added automatic mount reordering based on the assets the current map references. Use host_map_mount_order_detection to enable/disable

  • Added boots bodygroup name support for custom player models

  • Added cl_player_render_in_shadows_view command to cast player shadows from projected textures and CSM in first-person

  • Added cl_portal_crosshair_scale for scaling the crosshair

  • Added ImGui themes strata and vgui_green

  • Added ImGui theming support

  • Added ImGui windows cl_anim_debug and sv_anim_debug

  • Added mountinfo executable to print search paths used by the game

  • Added OnActivated and OnDeactivated outputs to prop_weighted_cube

  • Added $ParallaxDither parameter to PBR shader to enable/disable dithering

  • Added $ParallaxScale parameter to scale the number of parallax steps. This can be expensive if you're not careful!

  • Added snd_thread_mode 2 for updating audio separately from the main thread

  • Added support for $basetexturetransform to VRAD -textureshadows

  • Added support for new lines and tabs to point_worldtext

  • Added support to VRAD for L4D1/ASW static prop models (those using .vtx instead of .dx90.vtx)

  • Added VBSP flag -upgradeversion which upgrades an existing BSP to Strata Source BSP version 25

  • Expose npc_rocket_turret lock-on time and cooldown time as keyvalues

  • Print sound's active channel when snd_report_start_sound is enabled

  • When player is noclipping and player_held_object_use_view_model is the default value, use viewmodel grab to carry objects through walls

Fixes (52)

  • Audio pitch will no longer be modified when host_timescale is not equal to 1 and cheats are disabled

  • Changed npc_rocket_turret default lock-on time and audio to match Portal 1

  • Compressed VTFs will now load correctly if they have less than the maximum amount of mip levels

  • Fixed a crash related to Steam avatars when offline

  • Fixed a crash when giving NPCs portal guns

  • Fixed a crash when precaching sounds after running sv_soundemitter_flush

  • Fixed a few Particle Editor crashes

  • Fixed a few renderer crashes

  • Fixed a rare crash related to sound loading

  • Fixed an uncommon crash when loading into maps with a compressed entity lump

  • Fixed backslashes not working in older BSPs, and increased the entity lump version to 1

  • Fixed being unable to switch back to default DevUI theme in the menu bar

  • Fixed certain commands related to controlling demos being recorded by demos

  • Fixed crash in the particle editor when attempting to add new item to the root particle node

  • Fixed crash on exit in bspzip

  • Fixed crash on exit when the mod is missing challenge_maplist.txt

  • Fixed crash on save restore after death

  • Fixed crash on some older maps with displacements

  • Fixed crash related to loading a map that uses templates from a save file

  • Fixed crash related to NPCs dying with an invalid ragdoll model

  • Fixed crash when a vehicle fails to initialize its physics body

  • Fixed crash when disconnecting from splitscreen game

  • Fixed crash when loading malformed or missing VCDs

  • Fixed crash when npc_combine attempts to attack without a held weapon

  • Fixed crash when running a script in the DevUI script console without having loaded into a map prior

  • Fixed crosshair scaling with cl_portal_crosshair_scale

  • Fixed cursor being recentered even when the game isn't focused on Linux

  • Fixed duplicate extensions being appended to tool modules in the tool load dialog

  • Fixed exclusive fullscreen mode not entering fullscreen in some cases

  • Fixed Faceposer locking up on startup

  • Fixed fall damage not working from load/save when unequip boots

  • Fixed func_movelinear sounds getting stuck looping forever if interrupted or removed

  • Fixed func_tracktrain getting stuck when not using Instantaneously

  • Fixed game crashing when changing display mode without opening Panorama video settings

  • Fixed issue in the particle editor on Linux related to adding new operators

  • Fixed paint stretching

  • Fixed props not rendering at (0, 0, 0)

  • Fixed rare crash when standing on displacements

  • Fixed setang not working when paused with sv_alternateticks

  • Fixed some displacements in older maps having no collision when traceray_force_vphysics is enabled

  • Fixed some quirks with command line arguments

  • Fixed the startdemos command not working

  • Fixed trigger_look firing whenever touched

  • Fixed vbspinfo not extracting lumps

  • Fixed WebM recordings encoding incorrectly

  • Increased value of sv_max_allowed_developer to 99

  • Increased value of sv_max_allowed_net_graph to 99

  • Malformed VTF compression info resources (AXC) will no longer potentially crash the game on load

  • PBR and PaintBlob shader now respect configured texture in env_projectedtexture

  • Properly fire OnDamaged output for buttons without requiring damage activation spawnflag

  • Re-enable mat_buffered_primitives by default on Linux. This may result in a small performance boost

  • +slowtime must now be explicitly enabled by mappers to be used

Improvements (21)

  • Admin only commands now respond with an error if ran by a non-admin

  • Allowed vbspinfo to extract from multiple BSP files at once

  • Bumped MAXSTUDIOFLEXCTRL to 128

  • Enabled HW morph by default

  • env_spritetrail no longer draws a segment where it teleported

  • Improved performance of VGUI text overlays

  • Improved reliability of networked messages referring to entities

  • Main window on Windows 11 now uses square corners

  • mat_picmip now allows its full -10 to 4 range

  • Moved func_movelinear sound handling to client side

  • Raised MAXSTUDIOFLEXVERTS to 65536

  • Reduced VRAD memory utilization when using -textureshadows with multiple materials that refer to the same texture

  • Replaced dumpentityfactories with cl_dump_entity_factories and sv_dump_entity_factories

  • Replaced dumpentitynamespaces with cl_dump_entity_namespaces and sv_dump_entity_namespaces

  • Replaced dump_entity_sizes with cl_dump_entity_sizes and sv_dump_entity_sizes

  • Replaced host_threaded_sound 1 with snd_thread_mode 1

  • Slightly decreased memory usage

  • Title bar on main window now follows system dark mode

  • Unified the autosave and quicksave game events into game_saved

  • Updated DXVK to v2.4.1

  • Viewmodel lag now works properly with world mirroring

Hammer (33)

  • Added a Find All button and Results list to Hammer's Find and Replace dialog

  • Added FLAC and Ogg to Hammer's Sound Browser for raw files

  • Added Hammer commands hammer_history_list, hammer_history_undo, and hammer_history_redo

  • Added modelbrowser-like search mode to the Texture Browser

  • Added MP3, FLAC, and Ogg preview support to Hammer

  • Added new icons for phys_constraint and phys_slideconstraint (Thanks TwoKrazy!)

  • Added support for Hammer Qt themes via the -theme launch argument. (See hammer/resource/themes/dark.kv for an example)

  • Allowed negative noise in the displacement noise dialog

  • Allowed the commands echo, path, path_file, fs_printopenfiles, fs_warning_level, cache_print, cache_print_lru, cache_print_summary, sv_soundemitter_filecheck, sv_findsoundname, and sv_soundemitter_spew to be run from Hammer's Console

  • Double clicking an item in the Sound Browser will close the dialog with that selection being returned

  • Fixed a bug where a VMF could be opened before Hammer was done loading

  • Fixed a Hammer crash related to renaming visgroups

  • Fixed crash-on-exit in Hammer when running it in Wine

  • Fixed Hammer Entity Report dialog selecting multiple entities

  • Fixed Hammer Go To dialog ignoring angle arguments and not allowing angle only movements

  • Fixed Hammer maps loaded as autosaves or via -map showing black viewports until reloaded

  • Fixed Hammer window title being H

  • Fixed issue with dynamic mounts in Hammer when running in Wine or Proton

  • Fixed matrials with missing texture not reloading properly in Hammer

  • Fixed occasional Hammer crashes when changing targetnames or undoing, related to entity IO

  • Hammer game configuration dialog will now repopulate entity dropdowns when FGD list changes

  • Hammer now uses the same audio system as the game. This allows rndwave, sound operators, and more to function correctly

  • Image preview in Hammer now applies $color value in linear space

  • Image preview in Hammer now shows all $baseTextures that a material has

  • Improved models for prop_indicator_panel and prop_testchamber_sign (Thanks TwoKrazy!)

  • Ported Hammer's Paste Special dialog to Qt

  • Ported Hammer's Run Map Configurations dialog to Qt and added "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons

  • Ported Hammer's Run Map Expert dialog to Qt

  • Ported Hammer's Search Replace dialog to Qt

  • Ported Hammer's Sound Browser to Qt

  • Ported Hammer's Texture Browser and Texture Replace dialog to Qt

  • Replaced Hammer's Message Window with a new Qt Console window that can run commands and set ConVars

  • Updated HammerAddons Postcompiler

Panorama (9)

  • Added Panorama achievements API

  • Added save-restore API for Panorama

  • Added support for JavaScript module loading in Panorama

  • Exposed $.SystemInDarkMode() function to Panorama to query system dark theme status

  • Fixed -console showing the VGUI console in Panorama mode, and not working with the Panorama console

  • Made width/height key on the root SVG element optional. Dimensions can now be parsed from the viewbox attribute

  • Panorama can consume TypeScript files directly

  • Panorama will now load resource/game_language.txt instead of exclusively resource/p2ce_language.txt

  • Updated V8 to 12.9

VScript (13)

  • Added ApplyForce and ApplyForceOffset to CBaseEntity

  • Added GetButtons() VScript method to CBasePlayer class

  • Added IN_ flags to VScript

  • Added IsBSPModel VScript function

  • Added MoveType and MoveCollide enums to VScript

  • Added a bunch of methods to CBaseAnimating. Please just look at the wiki

  • Added VScript methods for setting move type and move collide: CBaseEntity::SetMoveType CBaseEntity::GetMoveType CBaseEntity::SetMoveCollide CBaseEntity::GetMoveCollide

  • Added VScript methods for setting/getting the collision group: CBaseEntity::GetCollisionGroup CBaseEntity::SetCollisionGroup

  • Added VScript parenting methods: CBaseEntity::SetParent, CBaseEntity::SetParentWithAttachment

  • Fixed crash on map exit in maps that use VScript

  • Fixed crash when using SendToPanorama in VGUI mode

  • Fixed memory leak with CGameTrace objects

  • The Portal 2 transition VScript is no longer forcibly instantiated loading v25 maps