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L3DT release v11.11
Major features
Memory management
Optimisations
Mesh decimator
Sapphire
Other changes
Bug fixes
User interface
Plugins
Installer
L3DT release v11.11
Released on the 30th of November, 2011 (
see announcement
)
Major features
Memory management
Implemented adaptive mosaic cache size, to allow app to consume more RAM.
Provides 3x speed improvement for mosaic water table flooding.
Marked support for large addresses, allowing up to 3.5GB of ram to be used.
Optimisations
Optimised LinInterp for RGB textures (80% speed improvement for high res TX generation without antialiasing).
Optimised LinInterp for normal maps (20% speed improvement for TN generation).
Dropped automatic saving of mosaics between calculations; was slow an unnecessary.
Multithread AM calculation (4x faster than L3DT 11.08 on quad core; figure includes cache optimisations).
Mesh decimator
Fix seam problem in texture tile edges from mesh exporter (was adding two extra rows/columns of data, instead of one).
Fixed unoptimised north/east edges of mesh exports in
atMeshDecimator
(
see announcement
.)
Sapphire
Fix brush size stepping in Sapphire (
see request
.)
Other changes
Bug fixes
Fixed core count calculation in L3DT startup to ensure thread count is equal to or less than the core count.
Added 'View.HalftoneFlag' to local settings, to allow users to disable halftone blending when drivers are bung.
Changed global app memory accounting to use a lock to prevent race conditions in multithreaded calcs.
Fixed atAttribBrush tool to gracefully handle invalid climates (
see bug report
.)
Fixed view to properly cancel brush mode and close edit records after brush tool application fails.
Fixed
atViewShowMapDlg
plugin to properly create the window.
User interface
Added 3D anaglyph rendering to Azurite mesh viewer.
Added radius spin control to attributes map brush.
Plugins
Updated
L3DTio_BigBitmap
to log more descriptive errors when attempting to load compressed bitmaps.
Added
ZlibWrap
plugin, for zlib compression/decompression.
Installer
Update to NSIS 2.46, with fixes for UAC annoyances.