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On the Loveland PD demo Caprice, the brake/taillights aren't being correctly drawn during the bloom pass -- but only after the emergency lights are activated.

This issue is not present on the other Caprice demonstrators.

When editing component files and vehicles at the same time, component updates will revert soft-reload changes previously made on the vehicle.

To bypass the issue, perform a hard reload on a vehicle profile before making changes to a component file.

The photon_controller entity utilizes the NW2Vars system, which has a known, major reliability flaw Garry's Mod issue #5455. Community testing has revealed that the photon_controller does indeed suffer from this.

As it's unlikely the underlying Garry's Mod issue will ever be fixed, the networking approach needs to be adjusted for Photon 2 to work reliably in multiplayer.

Without LICENSE, technically we have no permission to use, modify, or share the software. With a LICENSE, users would be able to know what things can do or not with Photon V2 (contribute to the project, modify it...).

You can have it done in just a minute, just choosing what license you want to use in Github and it's automatically generated.
You can see what licenses are available at https://choosealicense.com/. Maybe a MIT or GNU GPL will be enough.

The 2024.06.04 dev branch update for x86-64 rather spectacularly breaks about two-thirds of the Photon 2 codebase.

Likely related to changes for new metatable registration. This specific issue is fixed.

• There are potential issues with the follow bone changes, but the issue is not as severe as I thought.
• Changes to metatable registration and retrieval are actually the biggest problems. Photon's internal "exmeta" inheritance is not working correctly with the new system and it's unclear why.

Memory usage seems to increase quickly when a Photon 2 vehicle is spawned and lights are activated, but eventually plateaus and appears to decrease with time. It does not affect game stability.

Photon 2's bloom shader automatically deactivates when it detects there are no active lights to render. This results in overall HDR exposure fluctuating and is apparent that, when active, Photon 2's bloom shader is overexposing the scene.

Known issue relating to Photon's driver detection.

With CONTRIBUTING.md file, you can provide project contributors with a short guide to how they can help with Photon V2 (translations, fixes, features, documentation...)

Equipment components are apparently improperly registered and initialized, which causes inheritance errors when ancestor components are reloaded. The reason is not understood and this remains under investigation.

Since this commit a545023, now every time you spawn a Photon LE vehicle, appears without skin, lights... (basically all Photon funcionality) and this error appears:

[photon-v2] stack overflow
  1. __index - [C]:-1
   2. IsValid - lua/includes/util.lua:229
    3. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:19
     4. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
      5. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
       6. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
        7. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
         8. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
          9. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
           10. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
            11. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
             12. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
              13. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
               14. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
                15. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21
                 16. SpawnedVehicle - addons/photon-v2/lua/photon-v2/sv_init.lua:21

Timer Failed! [119-PHOTON-34.514999389648][@lua/autorun/photon/sh_photon_vehicles.lua (line 34)]

The previous commit works normally.

Major timing and PVS entry problems are present on dedicated servers, including joining a server when a vehicle is spawned, and errors when entering vehicles that make them impossible to interact with.

[photon-2] addons/photon-2/lua/photon-v2/meta/base_entity.lua:77: Tried to use a NULL entity!
  1. GetClass - [C]:-1
   2. Initialize - addons/photon-2/lua/photon-v2/meta/base_entity.lua:77
    3. Initialize - addons/photon-2/lua/photon-v2/meta/lighting_component.lua:567
     4. CreateOn - addons/photon-2/lua/photon-v2/meta/base_entity.lua:365
      5. SetupComponent - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:758
       6. AddEquipment - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:908
        7. OnSelectionChanged - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:1224
         8. SetupSelections - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:1126
          9. SetupProfile - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:1057
           10. unknown - addons/photon-2/lua/entities/photon_controller/shared.lua:1373
            11. CallProxies - lua/includes/extensions/entity.lua:340
             12. CallDTVarProxies - lua/includes/extensions/entity.lua:349
              13. unknown - lua/includes/extensions/entity.lua:214

Likely related error from Creeper:

When I save my file the props seem to shift when on a slope for what ever reason I made a video showing this below. I know this is not a big issue and easily avoidable just felt like I should bring it up anyways.

Video of slight issue file:
https://imgur.com/a/LD1Yt6w