ME3Explorer - ME3Tweaks Fork 5.1 Changelog

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This is the changelog for the 5.1 release of the toolset. This will be the last major stable version of ME3Explorer - ME3Tweaks Fork. Toolset development will move onto a new project, LegendaryExplorer, which will support both the LE and OT versions of all three games. For more information, please read Mgamerz's blog post.

Global Changes

• Executable version checks have been added to ensure LE versions of the game are not loaded by the toolset
• This fork has been unlinked from the legacy ME3Explorer repo. This should moderately improve the GitHub experience for toolset devs and users.

Tool Changes

Asset Database

• Added option to view all instances of a class, instead of one per file
• Fix error preventing first file in the file list from showing up in usages
• Switch from JSON to MessagePack for serializing the DB. This will require a regeneration of the database.

Coalesced Editor

• Coalesced Editor saves file paths between sessions, thanks to Scottina for the suggestion

FaceFX Editor

FaceFX Editor has seen a lot of refinement with this release thanks to the amazing suggestions from D0lphin. Check out their new tutorial for tips and tricks and more information on the new features.

• Color scheme in the Curve Editor has been changed to be higher contrast and easier on the eyes
• TLK strings and line length will now be shown in the lines list where available
• You can right click on a phoneme to select it as a "Reference Curve". This curve can optionally be shown in gray behind the animation you are currently viewing.
• You can now delete all keys in a phoneme via the right click menu.
• You can now specify a fixed time span in which to view a curve, which persists between phoneme selection.
• By holding Shift, you can drag a key forwards and backwards in time, but not in weight.
• By holding Control, you can drag a key in all directions.
• You can Shift-Drag and Shift-Scroll to pan and zoom the graph in the X direction.
• You can right click in the Curve Editor to add a key with zero weight.
• You can delete all lip-sync related keys from a line by selecting "Clear all m_ lip sync keys" in the right click menu. This only works for human/asari FaceFXLines in ME3.
• Drag-and-drop behavior has changed to prevent unnecessary cloning. You may now only drag-and-drop between different AnimSets/Lines. To copy within a single AnimSet you can select Clone from the right click menu.
• Add recents menu, welcome screen, and standard bottom bar

Interp Viewer

• You can now easily add InterpGroups and InterpGroupDirectors within the Interp Viewer interface
• By right clicking on an InterpGroup, you can add InterpTracks
  

Live Level Editor

• LLE now supports ME2
• LLE can now alter Roll

Pathfinding Editor

• Some new node types have been added for Mass Effect 2.
• Archetyped skeletal mesh actors will now display their archetype

Package Editor

Development of Mass Effect 2 Randomizer has led to many small improvements and optimizations in Package Editor.

• Optimized memory usage when opening packages
• Package decompression performance has been improved
• "Restore Export Data from Backup" can be selected from the treeview right-click menu to reset an export back to vanilla from your linked ME3Tweaks backup folder
• "Extract to File" in the right-click menu copies an export and all it's references into a new package. This can be used to extract things to their own asset file for easy use later.
• You can now create a blank ME2 level file
• You can force reload a package with CTRL-SHIFT-R
• Renamed classes can be looked up if the superclass is properly set
• Fixed a relinking bug that could cause crashes in ME1 and ME2

Interpreter:

• An Object Property will now tell you the type of object it is expecting
• More structs can be previewed in the Interpreter
• "Copy Parsed Value" can be selected from property right-click menus to copy the value to your clipboard

Bytecode Editor:

• You can now easily nop out statements in Bytecode Editor, which can be a quick alternative to using the full Script Editor in some cases

Mesh Renderer:

• Save rotation settings across sessions

Plot Editor

• Support for editing ME1 ConsequenceMaps has been added
• A Goto State Event field has been added to the toolbar, and can be quickly accessed with CTRL-G
• The Find Usages tab has more searching options, including searching for conditionals and TLK strings
• You can double click on any Find Usages result to jump to that element
• Better display of TLK strings across the tool

Script Editor

The UnrealScript decompiler and editor in Package Editor has received some huge upgrades thanks to the hard work of SirCxyrtyx.

• The editor now fully works with ME1 and ME2 scripts!
• Line numbers, syntax highlighting, brace folding, error detection, and auto-indentation have been added to improve the editing experience.
• Support for editing local variables and method signatures has been added

Sequence Editor

• Improvements to Kismet Logger parsing speed
• You can now force reload a package with CTRL-SHIFT-R
• Fix objects created from the toolbox not copying the input values

Soundplorer

• Improved double-click to play behavior. Double clicking will properly stop any playing audio and start the new audio
• Add option to auto-play audio on selection, thanks to Herobrine24 for the suggestion
• TLK strings will be displayed for ISACT entries if available in TLK Manager
• Add option to automatically replace referenced WwiseEvent lengths when replacing audio, thanks to D0lphin for the suggestion

TLK Editor

• Add full functionality for editing ME2 and ME3 TLK files
• Several bugs relating to XML import and export have been fixed, thanks to Herobrine24 for reporting them
• A bug where TLK Editor adds extra linebreaks has been fixed

New Custom Sequence Actions

ME3:

• SFXSeqAct_OverrideCasualAppearance has been added to ME3. This is an easy way to instantly switch casual appearances in a cutscene
• SFXSeqAct_SetEquippedWeaponVisiblity
• SFXSeqAct_SpawnHenchmanWeapons
• SFXSeqAct_SetPawnMeshes
• SFXSeqAct_SetStuntGearMesh
• SFXSeqVar_Rotator
• SFXSeqAct_GetRotation
• SFXSeqAct_SetRotation
• SFXSeqAct_GetRotatorComponents
• SFXSeqAct_SetRotatorComponents
• SFXSeqAct_SetRotator

ME2:

• SeqAct_GetLocationAndRotation
• SeqAct_SetLocationAndRotation