What’s new¶

1.4.1 (released 2026-10-20)¶

Mod weapons stay visible and fire in tactical missions after leaving the geoscape; before, they could come back invisible or without their fitted shoot point (NoValidTarget).
Creatures built from a model file shoot from their weapon's muzzle; before, the shot started up to ~0.8 m off the barrel.
A creature's melee Strike finds its targets, including when the Strike comes from an inherited animation set (it used to always answer NoValidTarget).
The bench 3D view no longer renders black with post-processing upscalers such as Renderforge DLAA enabled.
Add a weapon: Revert restores the weapon's rotation and size when ppcontent.json leaves them out; auto scale re-solves after a turn and stays automatic on Save fit; the paste-ready fit report no longer writes the auto scale as a fixed value.
Replacing a model works on ContentTool creatures whose mesh lives on the rig.

The bench looks like the game: its font (Purista), buttons, frames, cards, step bar, main buttons and PASS / WARN / FAIL badges come from the game's own widgets and sprites, and every field, toggle, slider and scroll bar wears the same look.
The bench scales to any resolution and window mode (windowed, borderless, fullscreen): the whole layout, the 3D gizmo, the Model Doctor's bone inspector, skeleton markers and legend grow and shrink with the window height, also while the window is resized.
Add a weapon starts with an Assault soldier holding a Phoenix assault rifle and playing the game's idle, instead of whatever the previous screen left on the platform.

A content mod's very long build line no longer reaches the game's own log sink in one piece, which caused the startup error Mesh can not have more than 65000 vertices.
The bundled demo mods are re-baked with the current ContentTool (their Dist bundles were baked by 1.0.0).

A redesigned bench: a home screen with six task cards, Home / < Back / breadcrumb navigation (Esc goes back), clickable completed steps, a right-hand pane that fits the task (the 3D view only on model and weapon screens), and selectable logs with Copy log and Open log folder. See Moving around and reading logs.
Sounds screen: search the game’s sounds, preview them and your own file (built or not), then Add to mod & build. A player shows progress and has its own volume.
Videos screen: preview game clips and your own in a player with pause, stop and seek, then replace a game video or add a new one.
Add a weapon screen: pick the weapon kind and the shipped weapon it copies, your .glb and a name, Create weapon, build, put it in the hand, fit it with move / turn / size sliders, Save fit, and check the kind’s moves on a filtered clip strip.
A content mod without a DLL builds its weapons rows when it is enabled.
ct_voices and ct_mission list are available as public console commands.
A video replacement can use the path printed by ct_list videos, including a whole-path tail that identifies one clip.
meta.json accepts comments and trailing commas, as the game’s reader does.

Replace a model builds on a WARN verdict too, including nearest-bone binding; only FAIL blocks Build mod & apply.
Build & share shows the log beside the steps, runs a single stage from Details - run one step, and marks a result with * only when the mod’s project key changed since that step ran.
Faster loading with many mods: patched copies are repacked with LZ4 fast compression instead of LZ4HC; ticking a mod on in the mod manager runs a patch-only bake (its replacement rows only, no read-back, no rebuild of its own bundle); a bake that failed is remembered and not repeated at every launch (the log says NOT RE-BAKED); a disabled mod keeps its patched copies. A stale weapon-mesh bake measured 9089 ms, and 118 ms once warm.
ct_voices watch refuses an argument that is not a number.
When mods claim the same shipped bundle or video key, the lower mod ID keeps it. Replacement sound banks also load in mod-ID order, and a later claim to the same media ID is refused.
ct_extract audio --all decodes in the background. A second bulk decode started while the first is running is refused; run it again after the first finishes.
A root id or bundle that is a Windows reserved device name, such as CON, NUL or COM1, is refused.
The Lifecycle log retains stage output when a run stops and appends its final line.
A new-sound bake extracts streamed media into that project’s own WwiseAudio folder.

Invalid ppcontent.json and missing or ambiguous video sources produce counted project failures instead of ending the whole bake with an exception.
Misspelled texture, mesh, audio, and video names produce ct_extract refusals instead of stack traces.
Packaging refuses a video row whose clip is missing or ambiguous. It also checks sound replacement sources against their baked banks; when only file dates suggest a change and no ledger entry exists, it warns.
Project validation checks the placement of video, sound, and published-model sources.
Several model import cases now preserve material assignments, animation data, and source geometry more reliably.
Replaced meshes carry a tangent channel, so the donor material’s normal map can shade them.
_EmissionColor is sRGB-encoded like _Color instead of being written raw.
When a content mod’s own DLL fails while enabling, content it had already published is taken back.
A creature build no longer writes into the shipped animation action definitions it borrows from its donor.
A mod ID with capital letters (for example one made by the bench, such as CtWpnTest) no longer gets its published model keys refused.
A second weapon that clones the same shipped weapon as another one no longer fails to load its model.
A bad material path in a seam swap is reported as a failure.
Reapplying a patched bundle that the game already loaded through ContentTool’s redirect keeps the working redirect instead of demanding a restart.

For earlier versions, see the GitHub releases.