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Patch Name December 2021 Update
Changelist Title 4
date_range Wednesday, December 15, 2021
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Features

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    Added second argument to util.Base64Encode - skipNewLines, defaults to false
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    Added spawnmenu.SwitchCreationTab
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    Added VMatrix.Add, VMatrix.Sub and VMatrix.Mul (matrix*matrix only)
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    Added VMatrix.GetTransposed
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    Added Angle.Random
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    Added Vector.Random, Vector.Negate, Vector.GetNegated
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    HTTP() function now has a timeout field, which dictates the network activity timeout, and will fail with reason "timeout" if it is hit
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    Added render.GetViewSetup() - returns the CViewSetup stuff including both real FOVs and the de-corrected for aspect ratio FOV
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    Filesystem search now works with map's PAK lump (file.Find included)
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    Added CUserCmd.AddKey
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    Added table.Shuffle (Community Contribution)
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    Added a new library: math.ease (Community Contribution)
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    Added DComboBox:OnMenuOpened( menu ) (Community Contribution)
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    Added table.MemberValuesFromKey (Community Contribution)
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    Added ENTITY:AddOutputFromKeyValue and ENTITY:AddOutputFromAcceptInput (Community Contribution)
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    Added SlowWalkSpeed to player_manager (Community Contribution)
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    Added DForm.PropSelect, ControlPanel.ToolPresets, ControlPanel.ColorPicker and ControlPanel.KeyBinder (Community Contribution)
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    Added math.DistanceSqr (Community Contribution)
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    Added support for 3 new types in AccessorFunc() - Vector, Angle and Color (Community Contribution)
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    markup library improvements - Adds markup.Escape, markup.Color, MarkupObject:GetMaxWidth, new argument to MarkupObject:Draw (Community Contribution)
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    Added permissions.EnableVoiceChat( bool )
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    Added CLuaLocomotion.Get/SetClimbAllowed
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    Added CLuaLocomotion.Get/SetJumpGapsAllowed
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    Added CLuaLocomotion.Get/SetAvoidAllowed
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    Added new argument to net.WriteColor - alpha (Community Contribution)
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    Added new argument to net.ReadColor - alpha (Community Contribution)
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Improvements

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    Better implementation of Player.IsUserGroup (Community Contribution)
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    util.GetModelMeshes is now also available serverside
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    Entity:SetBodyGroups now accepts a-z as 10-35
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    Disallowed include()ing non .lua files
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    Made Entity.GetBloodColor shared
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    stopsound also shuts down all CSoundPatches (So their IsPlaying status resets to false)
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    Made hook.Add/Remove not silently fail on arg type mismatch (Community Contribution)
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    Micro optimization in draw.SimpleText (Community Contribution)
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    Minor optimizations to string.Comma (Community Contribution)
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    Added +voicerecord to blocked console command list - use permissions.EnableVoiceChat instead
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    GM:PlayerAmmoChanged now runs AFTER the ammo count has been changed
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    Made File:Read() size argument optional, defaulting to File:Size()
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Fixed

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    file.Exists now works with addon title pathIDs like file.Find
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    Fixed spawnmenu.SwitchToolTab doing nothing
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    Fixed constraint.GetAllConstrainedEntities returning all entities constrained to world if the given entity is constrained to world
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    Fixed Entity.StopLoopingSound() not working as expected when multiple sounds are involved
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    Fixed table.RemoveByValue throwing an error when key is not a number (Community Contribution)
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    Fixed invalid argument being given to TextEntry.AllowInput with non ASCII characters (Windows and OSX)
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    Fixed potential Lua errors in scripted_ents library (Community Contribution)
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    Fixed a linux crash with file.AsyncRead