L3DT release 2.5

Released on the 20th of April, 2007 (see announcement)

• Added heightfield editing tools to Sapphire 3D renderer.
• Added brush size/shape to DM paint tool (last used value is remembered).
• Added copy, paste, select all, and deselect area to edit menu.
• Added 'Edit→Select area' option (for copy, paste, export).
• Enabled water flood tool and water body delete tools for mosaic maps.

• MipMapped 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.
• Added '3D' toolbar option, for opening the 'sapphire' 3D renderer.

• Added 'Operations→Heightfield→Edit heightfield in 3D'
• Added 'Operations→Heightfield→Filter (diffusion)'
• Added 'Operations→Heightfield→Fractal inflate'
• Added 'Operations→Alpha maps→Alpha express'
• Added 'Operations→Design map→Resize design map'
• Added all installed climates to 'climates' menu, allowing direct edit.

• Added more keyboard shortcuts.
• Made cancel button in progress box turn 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.
• Checked for changes in extension dialog before asking for reset.
• Enabled wizard presets in standard edition.
• Beeps when calc queue is completed (off by default, enabled 'Settings→Local settings', then 'Calc→AutoComplete→BeepWhenDone').
• Remembers last used settings in image drape.

• Improved accuracy of shadow mapping with light divergence & multi-casting (L3DT Pro only).
• Allowed re-sizing of mosaic heightfield.
• Added 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
• Used CCriticalSection lock for Get/SetPixel in CMosiacMap when tile allocation is changed.
• Used CCriticalSection lock for loading of textures/bump maps in CTexLayer (needs more testing).

• Made re-size on export create a temp mosaic (uses less RAM.)
• Added option to nuke temp directory on close ('Local→File→DeleteTempDirOnExit') - on by default.
• Switched 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'.
• Allowed 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!)
• Removed mosaic sub-sample code (replaced by mipmapping).
• Added georeferencing support for BT and HF2/HFZ formats.

• 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.
• Fixed displayed map size in light/texture wizards.
• Fixed lininterp pixel access in shadow calc (see this post).
• Fixed high-res mipmapped drape (thanks: Leon.)
• Fixed preservation of extents HF resizing (was preserving scaling instead.)
• Redraw design map after 'Operations > Design map > Generate from HF'
• Fixed mip-map bounds checking in CMapWrap::SetPixel.
• Fixed tool view-mode checking (DM, WM, etc.)
• Fixed split to mosaic.
• Fixed 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.
• Fixed offset and null x-max, y-max edges in import DM.
• Fixed refresh DM of when using design map schemes dialog.
• Fixed DM resize (see this thread)
• Fixed shadow offset with high-res normals/light-map.
• Fixed slow speed when generating AM with a DM (see this post)
• Fixed incorrect climate selection when no AM present (see this post)
• Fixed black lines in light map/texture (see this post).
• Fixed alpha layer depth selection in L3DT SE.
• Fix bump-mapping of flat terrain (thanks Ryan!)¹⁾

• Moved 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.)
• Caught exceptions thrown in plugin functions.
• Removed MFC dependence of CExtAPI (not derived from CObject, doesn't use AfxMessageBox)
• Threading:
  • Allowed plugins to call zeofuncs in worker threads, using zeofunc_ExecuteThreaded.
  • Allowed 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.
• L3DTio_DMF
  • Made mosaic-compatible (for mipmapping.)
• L3DTio_HFF
  • Fixed scale checking in LoadMapFile/LoadTileFile (allows zero range.)
• L3DTio_FI
  • Update for TGA.
  • Fixed byte ordering on DWORD/RGBA maps (FI assumes BGRA, apparently.)
  • Fixed colour-mapped AM.
• L3DTio_TER.
• L3DTio_HFZ.
• L3DTio_RAW_HF.
• L3DTio_BT.
• L3DTio_WMF.
• L3DTio_AMF.
• L3DTio_PCX.
• L3DTio_WMPRO.

• Sapphire rendering/editing plugin.
• atExportToTV3D.
• CopyPaste.
• atGrowTilesByOne.
• SphericalDistort.
• atExportArea.
• atFilterAM.
• atFuncBrowser.
• atLightMapSequence.
• ZeoScript.
• Updated atExportArea to work with mosaics.
• Updated atGrowTilesByOne to work with non-mosaics.

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