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Patch Name October 2024 Update
Changelist Title Lua API Changes (2024.10.29)
date_range Tuesday, 29 October 2024
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Features

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    Added MatSelect:OnSelect and MatSelect:OnRightClick
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    Added new function to util.Timer object - TIMER:GetElaspedTime (Community Contribution)
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    Added properties.Remove (Community Contribution)
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    Implemented ENTITY:GetPreferredCarryAngles for ai type SENTs
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    Added NPC:SetIdealSequence
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    Added 5th argument to constraint.Nocollide - disableOnRemove
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    Added surface.GetPanelPaintState
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    Added massCenterOveride for certain physics initialize functions - Entity:PhysicsInit. Entity:PhysicsInitMultiConvex, Entity:PhysicsInitConvex, Entity:PhysicsFromMesh, Entity:PhysicsInitBox
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    Added ProjectedTexture:SetNoCull and ProjectedTexture:GetNoCull
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    Added NAV_MESH_BLOCKED_LUA
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    Added PropSelect:OnSelect hook
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    Added PropSelect:OnRightClick hook
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    Added PropSelect:FindModelByValue
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    Added PropSelect:SelectModel
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Improvements

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    DNumSlider: Setting min or max value updates slider pos
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    Optimized SortedPairs further (Community Contribution)
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    Player:StripWeapons drops weapons before removing them - This mimics behavior of Player:StripWeapon
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    Fallback to garrysmod.ver for when Steam is not available to set BRANCH (SRCDS)
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    Made gui.HideGameUI work more like GM:OnPauseMenuShow
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    Merge some math library optimizations (Community Contribution)
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    Consistent return values from Sandbox tool Make* global functions
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    Reduced net.WritePlayer bit count based on server's maxplayers (Community Contribution)
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    Micro optimization for GWEN.CreateTextureBorder and related functions (Community Contribution)
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    Implemented Panel:Clear for PropSelect
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Fixed

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    Fixed IMaterial:SetVector4D not using float inputs
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    Fixed DropEntityIfHeld affecting all players holding anything
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    Fixed MatSelect and PropSelect erroring on select if not given a convar
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    Fixed Entity:ManipulateBoneJiggle type 2 non functioning
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    Corrected UTF8<->UTF16 conversion for the close caption function & hook
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    Call GM:PlayerAuthed outside of player prediction so CurTime has a valid value
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    Fixed Player:UniqueID returning nothing before GM:PlayerInitialSpawn
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    Fixed huge network load of ManipulateBone* functions
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    Fixed CNewParticleEffect.AddControlPoint attachment default value - No longer produces console warnings when not given an attachment name
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    Fixed a crash with Panel:AppendText
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Removed

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    Added killserver, cancelselect to concommand blacklist
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    Block gui.SetMousePos/input.SetCursorPos while main menu is open
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    Disallow Panel:SetHTML on panels with non empty hostname (i.e. SetHTML can only be called on empty HTML panels, or on panels that previously had its content set via SetHTML)
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    Disallow Panel:RunJavascript on panels with local IP addresses