CryEngine 5.5 Preview 5 Released

CryEngine 5.5 Preview 5 Released

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cryengine-5-5-preview-5-released.png" width="384" height="218" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>CryEngine 5.5 just got a step closer with today’s release of Preview 5.  Beyond bumps to a few SDK dependencies, 5.5 preview 5 is mostly composed of fixes.  New features include a new lens flare effect and a screen fader post effect.<a href="http://www.gamefromscratch.com/image.axd?picture=Cry55.png"><img width="384" height="218" title="Cry55" align="right" alt="Cry55" src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cryengine-5-5-preview-5-released.png" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p>
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<li>Updated to <strong>Wwise</strong> SDK v2017.2.6 build 6636. </li>
<li>Updated to <strong>Fmod</strong> Studio 1.10.06. </li>
<li>Updated <strong>Oculus</strong> spatializer plugin for Wwise 1.27.0. </li>
<li><strong>New:</strong> View dist ratio for clip volumes. </li>
<li><strong>New:</strong> Added feature light lens flare. </li>
<li><strong>New:</strong> Screenfader post-process effect. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Bug where m_fZoomDistanceSq would change during successive render passes and cause culling of attachments during skinning. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Map load causes collider component settings to change. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Crash when opening a certain Particle Effect. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Missing WaterDDN in vertex-shader. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Cubemap rendering. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> SVOGI in combination with forward tiled. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Temporal AA jitters. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Clip volumes for fog volumes </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Emitters not activating properly (muzzle flashes etc.). </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> C# solution not being generated for non-C# projects in the Sandbox Editor (when the first C# file is added). </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Crash in obtaining help info in python module after VS 2017.7 compilation. Autocomplete data is generated by pythoneditor.generate_pythoneditor_autocomplete_files. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> .level.cryasset file is not generated after upgrading levels from .cry to .level. </li>
<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> Not enough occlusion if offline voxelization for GI is used.</li>
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<p>You can read more about the 5.5 Preview 5 release <a href="https://forum.cryengine.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=10947&amp;sid=834727feb7742ebe0233b5b6b1931b05">here</a>.  </p>
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