Due date: 7th of November 2007.

• Add mosaic mip-mapped texture support to Sapphire.
• Add auto texture LOD management to keep tex mem below threshold.
• Disable L3DTVi2 compatibility hacks in L3DT.
• Remove L3DTVi2 from installation package.
• Update walkthrough to replace L3DTVi2 reference with Sapphire.

• Use of compressed heightfield files (hfz) as default.

• Created L3DTio_Spring
• Created L3DTio_SMT (and SSE2 version)
• Created L3DTio_SMF
• See L3DTio_Spring for more to-do items.

• Multithread calculations:
  • calc_TX_GenMap
  • calc_TN_GenMap
  • calc_LM_lighting (redone with new model)
• Make threadmanager bomb-out when tile error occurs in multithreaded calc.

• Create L3DTio_Backup plugin.
• Add 'backup active map' option.
• Add 'backup selected area' option.
• Nuke undo stack when saving project, or when closing project.
• Show progress when reverting map.
• Added backup/restore to Sapphire.
• Add copious error reports & log writes.

• Added bulldozer tool to Sapphire (using atRoads plugin).
• Added smoothing tool to Sapphire.
• Added Perlin noise tool to Sapphire.
• Auto-open editor when first making blank HF or DM.
• Add double-click info for BYTE, WORD, 24bit and DWORD maps.

• Added 'File→Import→Custom map layer…' menu option (TODO: add userguide entry).
• Update RUN batch processing to use new '.def.xml' map definition files.
• Allow heightfield mosaic import in import wizard.
• Added greyscale→RGB, RGBA→RGB and RGB→RGBA conversion support for loading images in L3DTio_FI.
• Added InvertY option and RGB support to L3DTio_PCX.
• Add mosaic support for L3DTio_DDS, and include with installer.
• Added gzip support to L3DTio_AMF, and set AMF.GZ to default AM format (it's smaller than PNG).
• Dynamically generate format list in import wizard dialog from the actual format list for the heightfield (was using hard-coded format list before).
• Added Wavefront OBJ support with L3DTio_OBJ.
• Added support for import of super-large single TER/BT/HF2/HFZ files, which are too large to fit in memory (auto-split to mosaic).

• Added res slider to 'design map size' wizard.
• Revise the parameters pane of the land type editor.
• Update to XP UI theme.
• Update status info to include BYTE/WORD/24-bit/DWORD maps.
• Rebuild 1/2/3/4/etc hotkeys for viewing maps in main window.
• Allow re-binding of keys in Sapphire.
• Add indexed palettes to byte map rendering ('view→indexed palette…').
• Modeless and auto-updating dialog box for map selection.
• Added 'RGBA alpha means opacity' flag in view (see here).
• Revised alpha map settings wizard somewhat, and added a presets bar (as with most other wizards).

• Accelerate TX anti-aliasing by adding SkipSize.
• Add support for global/shared plugins.
• Add MinAltFlag & MaxAltFlag to climates, so that we don't have to use crazy values like 1E10 to indicate no alt range.
• Default to 2x mipmaps (was 4x) — needed for Sapphire megatextures.
• Disable shadow multi-casting for far off-axial light directions (10deg threshold) — Re-test!
• Converted all AM calc functions to use ushort arguments instead of shorts (affected L3DTio_FI and atFilterAM plugins).
• Allowed plugins to be disabled without throwing message on load (use CrashFlag instead of EnableFlag for crash monitoring).
• Store alpha maps in project map list.

• atRoads (provides bulldozer tool in Sapphire.)
• atRotate, for rotating/mirroring maps.
• ZeoImage, for compositing images, etc. (see request)
• ZeoWrap
• L3DTio_Atlas2 — Beta only.
• atRainMaker — Alpha only.

• More functions:
  • Added map_LinInterp
  • Added map_GenMipmaps2
  • Added map_ClearMipmaps
  • Added map_GetMipmapResStep
  • Added map_GetMipmapMaxLevel
  • Added map_GetMipmapLevel
  • Added project_CreateMap
  • Added project_GetOrCreateMap

• Check map types when saving PROJ (if un-loaded, use default type)
• Fix squares in high-res attributes map (see forum thread).
• Fix auto-update of mipmaps in SetPixel.
• Fix CPU throttle on mipmap generation.
• Fix shadow-casting for axial light orientations.
• Disabled some more menu options when calculations are in progress.
• Fixed 'blank heightfield' option for mosaic maps.
• Fixed tile max altitude bug in libHFZ and L3DTio_HFZ.
• Remove non-existent projects from file list.
• Fix exception in water map rendering (with water table)
• Change reg usage to allow non-admin usage after activation (this is a fix for Vista).

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