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Patch Name 14.07.08
Changelist Title Lua Scripting
date_range Tuesday, July 8, 2014
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Features

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    Entity:PhysicsDestroy
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    Weapon:GetHoldType
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    util.SharedRandom
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    util.BlastDamageInfo
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    Entity:SetLOD
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    Entity:SetLagCompensated
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    Entity:IsLagCompensated
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    Player:SetAllowWeaponsInVehicle
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    Player:GetAllowWeaponsInVehicle
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    CSoundPatch:SetDSP
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    CSoundPatch:GetDSP
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    IGModAudioChannel:EnableLooping
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    IGModAudioChannel:PlayFile
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    Entity:SetPhysicsAttacker
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    game.SetSkillLevel
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    EFFECT:StartTouch
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    CUserCmd:SelectWeapon
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    Added __tostring to CNavArea, CSoundPatch, IGModAudioChannel, PhysObj, dlight_t metatables
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    PhysObj:GetName
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    CNavArea:Draw
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    CNavArea:GetZ
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    CNavArea:IsOverlapping
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    CNavArea:Contains
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    CNavArea:IsCoplanar
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    CNavArea:GetClosestPointOnArea
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    CNavArea:IsVisible
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    CNavArea:GetCorner
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    navmesh.GetNavAreaCount
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    navmesh.GetNavArea
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    navmesh.GetNavAreaByID
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    navmesh.BeginGeneration
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    navmesh.IsGenerating
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    navmesh.GetPlayerSpawnName
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    navmesh.SetPlayerSpawnName
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    navmesh.AddWalkableSeed
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    navmesh.ClearWalkableSeeds
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    Entity:IsDormant
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    ENTITY:Blocked
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    Color:ToHSV
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    gui.InternalKeyTyped
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Improvements

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    Updated LuaJIT to version 2.0.3
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    Reverted Entity:IsValid to its old behaviour
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    Changed Entity:PhysicsInitBox behaviour to be more consistent with Entity:PhysicsInitConvex (no longer creates a broken physics object in some cases)
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    game.GetWorld is now shared
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    Player:HasWeapon and Player:GetWeapon are now shared
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    Entity
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    Entities can now have up to 64 DT vars of each type (except strings)
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    Player:Kick and Player:Ban kick/ban reasons are now optional and may contain newlines
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    SWEP holdtypes are now properly networked
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    Vector and angle access using a numerical index rather than x/y/z is now slightly faster
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    gui.OpenURL now clamps URLs to 511 characters max
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    Added safeguards to mesh library functions
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    Entity:GetMaxHealth is now shared again and properly networked
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    Entity:DrawViewModel now takes an optional second argument which controls which viewmodel to show/hide (defaults to 0)
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    Moved Entity:Disposition, GetActivity, IsNPCMoving, IsUnreachable to NPC:Disposition, GetActivity, IsMoving, IsUnreachable
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    Trace tables now accept an "output" parameter which may contain the table the trace results should be written into
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    sound.PlayFile and sound.PlayURL callbacks now receive an error ID and error name as their second and third parameters if an error occurs
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    Weapon:CallOnClient second argument is now optional (defaults to "")
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    Moved Player:PlayScene, NPC:PlayScene and NextBot:PlayScene to Entity metatable
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    Entity:PlayScene second argument (delay) is now optional (defaults to 0)
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    MsgC can now print text with several colors in a single call
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    Moved Player:Freeze, Player:GodEnable, Player:GodDisable, Player:IsFrozen, Player:HasGodMode to Lua
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    Clamped pitch between -90 and 90 instead of -180 and 180 for AngleRand
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    util.KeyValuesToTable and util.KeyValuesToTablePreserveOrder now accept a third parameter which prevents keys from becoming lowercased when set to true
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    vgui.LoadControlsFromFile/LoadControlsFromString now properly creates scripted panels
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    Improved vgui.LoadControlsFromString (no longer writes to a temporary file)
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Fixed

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    Fixed Entity:PhysicsFromMesh building a deformed collision mesh
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    Fixed PhysicsCollide entity callback missing information about the entity which was collided with
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    Fixed IMaterial:GetMatrix crashing the game
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    Fixed sound.Add not working on dedicated servers
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    Fixed ents.FindByClass not interpreting wildcards correctly
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    Fixed util.CRC not working correctly on strings with embedded zeroes
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    Fixed util.JSONToTable losing precision for large integer values
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    Fixed Entity:GetBoneController returning a truncated value
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    Fixed Entity:SetHitboxSet not working properly with an integer parameter
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    Fixed NPC:FoundEnemySound, LostEnemySound, FearSound, IdleSound and AlertSound not calling their appropriate equivalent in the engine
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    DynamicLight
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    Fixed util.TableToJSON crashing when passed a table containing keys that aren't strings or numbers
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    Fixed GM:OnReloaded being called more than once on most gamemodes
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Removed

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    Removed "loop" flag from sound.PlayURL
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    Removed support for vm_origin and vm_angles from GM:CalcView