April 2024 Workshop Release Notes

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April 2024 Release

Nope, that's not a late April Fool's joke. We're rolling out an update today to the Workshop.

There's been a ton of changes and bugfixes over the past months, so I'll try to be brief while covering all the new stuff. Check out the full changelog for bugfixes!

Quick fixes

First up, there's now quick-fixes to the E2 editor. If you've been sick of having to manually solve all of your warnings over the past few months, then hopefully you'll appreciate these one-click solutions.

Notifications

We've added a new notification system that should hopefully give you a little more insight into problems with Wiremod. We know we've been getting quite a few questions about the new errors popping up from the recent updates, so we're adding these to help clarify that you are not receiving actual errors. Don't worry, you most likely won't see these if your Wiremod setup is already fine.

More E2 functions

We've added a few new E2 functions for various tasks. First we have setClipboardText(string) which, as you may guess, allows you to set your clipboard contents directly. Pretty handy! Next up we've had a lot of CPPI checks exposed, meaning you can more easily check if you can do something to a player without having to error your chip or use a try/catch block. We've also added some small things like array:indexOf() which returns the index of an element in the array, just in case you need to use that. We also added compression for strings and the much needed _TAU constant!

And again, we've made many fixes and improvements these past few months. From reducing file size to fixing exploits, we've been all over the field the past few months making sure Wiremod is in tip top shape, and we hope you can enjoy that!

That's all for this month(s)! Thanks for stopping by, and we look forward to seeing what you create!

Full changelog:

Wiremod

Additions

• Added the ability to remove generated entity/wirelink Wire outputs
• Added dynamic FPS limiter to RT cameras (Community contribution from stepa2)
• Added pattern complexity checks to string gates to prevent expensive patterns from running

Changes

• Decreased file size of various textures (Community contribution from Fasteroid and Redox)
• Updated material blacklist
• Sound Emitter paths are now limited to 260 characters max
• Rewrote Wire Wheels to be better
• Moved and updated icons to speed up loading (Community contribution from Redox)
• Improved wire rendering (Community contribution from Fasteroid)
• Improved RT Cameras to be more performant (Community contribution from stepa2)

Fixes

• Fixed an error that could occur with generated entity/wirelink outputs
• Fixed Graphics Tablet would only use part of the screen to track the mouse
• Fixed error on removing a CD Lock with a Disk inside
• Fixed Wheel would reset direction after being pasted from a dupe
• Fixed an exploit with CD Disks storing other data besides numbers
• Fixed Explosives would cause odd physgun behavior
• Fixed a crash from balloon deployer using too much force
• Fixed small code errors in ModelPlug
• Fixed RT Cameras not cleaning up properly (Community contribution from Redox)
• Fixed Wire Map Interface for new maps (Community contribution from Grocel)

Removals

• Removed some unused model formats (Community contribution from Redox)

Expression 2

Additions

• Added quick-fixes to the E2 editor
• Added warning for using changed with an input
• Added setClipboardText(string) with convar wire_expression2_clipboard_allow to allow changing clipboard text (Community contribution from Sandalot)
• Added entity:createWirelink() to create wirelink outputs on an entity dynamically
• Added op cost to ragdollSetPose based on size
• Added E2 descriptions for ragdollGetPose and ragdollSetPose
• Added op cost to printColor based on size of transmission
• Added convar wire_expression2_printcolor_warn to control showing warnings for printColor
• Added array:indexOf to return index of object in array
• Added pattern complexity checks to find library to prevent expensive patterns from running
• Added string compression functions compress and decompress to LZMA compress strings
• Added _TAU constant

Changes

• Optimized parts of the compiler
• Made datasignal and gtable registered (optional) extensions
• Rewrote printColor to be faster
• Changed printColor warnings to not happen on your own chips
• Optimized internal function used for validating EGPs (Community contribution from Brandon Sturgeon)
• Sounds are now limited to 260 characters max
• Updated file extension to use netstream
• Improved performance of E2 marginally (Community contribution from thecraftianman)
• Updated vector2 extension to use new syntax (Community contribution from Smiggy)
• Hardened EGP line position setting against bad input
• Allowed players to be modified by entity:setSkin(number)
• Changed propcore setPos and setAng directly modify the entity instead of the entity's PhysObject (Community contribution from Redox)

Fixes

• Mitigated exceptional behavior when sending EGP messages
• Fixed EGP egpObjectContainsPoint for RoundedBoxOutline objects didn't work
• Fixed EGP parented position not updating properly
• Fixed getting bones of an entity would not return the full list of bones
• Fixed ragdollSetPose(table, number) with 0 would not rotate to the correct target angle
• Fixed printColor would use default size for host/singleplayer
• Fixed E2 functions would not apply the proper op costs
• Fixed EGP polys when parented would not move properly
• Fixed error from certain functions calling an undefined global getBone
• Fixed EGP polys could break if position was set too high
• Fixed EGP poly contains function
• Fixed egpobject:show()

Removals

• Removed the ability for entity:wirelink() to create wirelink outputs on the entity
• Removed redundant wirelink:egpObject(number) function

CPU

Additions

• Added testing framework to ZCPU
• Added extension framework to ZCPU to allow adding instructions
• Sandboxed the ZCPU VM
• Added missing L-prefixed mnemonics for logical operations

Changes

• MCOPY now defers to smooth performance cost
• Moved examples around to work with data_static
• Bitwise operations under 32 bits now use Gmod's built-in bitwise functions

Fixes

• Fixed interrupts would break the compiler
• Fixed issues with CPG not working properly
• Fixed returning pointers from functions
• Fixed MLOOKAT not functioning
• Fixed DWRITEFMT would parse improperly
• Fixed dereferencing constant defined labels
• Fixed the "mario_theme" example
• Fixed #else statement would end scope erroneously
• Miscellaneous bug fixes from WallopingEwe and Doridian

API

Additions

• Added networking library WireLib.Net
• Added trivial networking library WireLib.Net.Trivial for sending small amounts of data without adding a network string
• Added netstream net.Stream
• Added WireLib.Notify for advanced player/server notifications