Due date: April 2007.

Last updated: aaron 2007/04/02 00:06

• Added brush size/shape to DM paint tool (last used value is remembered).
• Add copy, paste, select all, and deselect area to edit menu.
• Added 'Edit→Select area' option (for copy, paste, export).
• Enable water flood tool and water body delete tools for mosaic maps.

• MipMap main window display, for faster rendering of large mosaics.
• Threaded map rendering, with cancel button.
• Added view shortcuts (1=DM, 2=HF, etc. '~' for cycle.)
• Added 'View→Show map area' option.

• Operations→Heightfield→Filter (diffusion)
• Operations→Heightfield→Fractal inflate
• Operations→Alpha maps→Alpha express
• Operations→Design map→Resize design map
• Added climates to 'climates' menu, allowing direct edit.

• Added more keyboard shortcuts.
• Cancel button in progress box turns to 'Really?' button after 1st click, requiring 2nd click. This avoids accidental cancellation.
• Added 'Export to Atlas' menu option and dialog (note: requires Torque plugin.)
• Added move up/down buttons to plugin manager.
• Check for changes in extension dialog before asking for reset.
• Enable wizard presets in standard edition.
• Beep when calc queue is completed (off by default, enabled 'Settings→Local settings', then 'Calc→AutoComplete→BeepWhenDone').
• Remember last used settings in image drape.

• Improved accuracy of shadow mapping with light divergence & multi-casting (L3DT Pro only).
• Allow re-sizing of mosaic heightfield.
• Stronger heightfield erosion.

• Created thread manager.
• 'Basic' parallel multithreading:
  • calc_LM_lighting — to be revised in v2.5a
• 'Better' parallel multithreading (via threadman):
  • calc_TN_GenMap
  • calc_TX_GenMapPro
• Use CCriticalSection lock for Get/SetPixel in CMosiacMap when tile allocation is changed.
• Use CCriticalSection lock for loading of textures/bump maps in CTexLayer (needs more testing).

• Make re-size on export create a temp mosaic (uses less RAM.)
• Option to nuke temp directory on close ('Local→File→DeleteTempDirOnExit') - on by default.
• Switch L3DT's temp dir to subdir of TEMP environmental variable (by default, can be changed).
• Made option to force MinAlt/MaxAlt in HF image import to apply to 0→255 greyscale range, rather than Imin→Imax range from image. Option is at 'Settings→Local settings→File→Import→Image→UseGreyscaleRange'.
• Allow other file types to open from MRU (RUN, DEF.XML, HFF, etc - like proc cmd line).
• Changed summary file extension back to HTML.
• Removed RLE from WMF.
• Re-used WMF for TWM (that's one less format!)
• Remove mosaic sub-sample code (replaced by mipmapping).

• Debugged prog display on erosion routine for odd sizes (256×163 design maps, with mosaic HF tile size of 1536.)
• Fixed bug in resize code that called GetMinMaxScale on non-HF/WM maps (see thread.)
• Fixed overlay of plateaux on map edges.
• Fixed resizing of non-square maps.
• Fixed path handling when land type textures are on a different drive.
• Fix reported map size in light/texture wizards.
• Fix lininterp pixel access in shadow calc (see this post).
• Fix high-res mipmapped drape (thanks: Leon.)
• Fix preservation of extents HF resizing (was preserving scaling instead.)
• Redraw design map after 'Operations > Design map > Generate from HF'
• Fix mip-map bounds checking in CMapWrap::SetPixel.
• Fix tool view-mode checking (DM, WM, etc.)
• Fix split to mosaic.
• Fix bug in mosaic wizard pane (see this thread.)
• Debug atFilterAM on climates other than temperate.
• Add more hacks to make mosaic HF/WM work in L3DTVi2.
• Fix offset and null x-max, y-max edges in import DM.
• Fix refresh DM of when using design map schemes dialog.
• Fix DM resize (see this thread)
• Fix shadow offset with high-res normals/light-map.
• Fix slow speed when generating AM with a DM (see this post)
• Fix incorrect climate selection when no AM present (see this post)
• Fix black lines in light map/texture (see this post).
• Fix alpha layer depth selection in L3DT SE.

• Move settings to %APPDATA% (for non-admin privileges) .
• Made settings more easily transferable between versions.
• Added logfile link in start menu.
• Added shell file associations for PROJ, MMF, ZEO, HFF, HF2, HFZ, TER (optional), BT (optional).
• Made 'L3DT for Torque' version.

• Allowed plugins to add functions to L3DT.
• Allowed plugins to add menu options to L3DT.
• Allowed L3DT to dynamically add zeolite functions.
• Added ExtGetApiVersion to CExtAPI.h.
• Added various API functions (see change log.)
• Catch exceptions thrown in plugin functions.
• Remove MFC dependence of CExtAPI (not derived from CObject, doesn't use AfxMessageBox)
• Threading:
  • Allow plugins to call zeofuncs in worker threads, using zeofunc_ExecuteThreaded.
  • Allow plugins to determine whether their menu items should fun in threads, using menu_InsertItemEx.
• Made VarID_Climate, VarID_LandType and VarID_vector3f editable by var_EditUI

• CzVar
• CzList
• CzStr
• CzMap
• CzFormat
• CzComboSel
• CzProgBox
• CzBuffer
• CzFunc
• CzColour

• L3DT_Atlas (by Ben Garney).
• L3DTio_DMF
  • Make mosaic-compatible (for mipmapping.)
• L3DTio_HFF
  • Fix scale checking in LoadMapFile/LoadTileFile (allow zero range.)
• L3DTio_FI
  • Update for TGA.
  • Fix byte ordering on DWORD/RGBA maps (FI assumes BGRA, apparently.)
  • Fix colour-mapped AM.
• L3DTio_TER.
• L3DTio_HFZ.
• L3DTio_RAW_HF.
• L3DTio_BT.
• L3DTio_WMF.
• L3DTio_AMF.
• L3DTio_PCX.
• L3DTio_WMPRO.

• Built Sapphire rendering plugin.
• Built atExportToTV3D.
• Built CopyPaste.
• Built atGrowTilesByOne.
• Built SphericalDistort.
• Built atExportArea.
• Built atFilterAM.
• Built atFuncBrowser.
• Built atLightMapSequence.
• Update ExportArea to work with mosaics.
• Update atGrowTilesByOne to work with non-mosaics.

• Allow plugins to be installed by drag-n-drop on L3DT icon (parse shell commands).
• Allow plugins with '.zeo' extension to be installed by double-clicking (shell file association)

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