L3DT release 2.5c

Released on the 22nd of March, 2008 (see announcement)

• New material editor / manager interface, which should streamline climate development.
• Automatically generated materials for 'old' climates, and converts to new climate format.
• Added material dependency list in climate file, and attempt to auto-load missing materials (looks in resource dir and climate dir).
• Added 'v26' climates to installer, using new materials.
• Added 'edit', 'copy' and 'manager' buttons to the 'appearance' tab on the land type editor, for editing materials.
• Enabled material 'preview' function in material editor.
• See blog post for more info.

• Added Spring SD7 archive support (via 7zWrap).
• Added 'Import→Metal map' to L3DTio_Spring.
• Added grass, geovent and feature map support to L3DTio_Spring.
• Completed L3DTio_SMD, for writing Spring SMD files.
• See blog post for more info.

• Finished unique and blended terrain support in L3DTio_Atlas2 plugin.
• General improvements to the activation system, including auto-detecting proxy settings for Ignition.

• Added attributes map brush to Sapphire, for making roads &c (via atAttribBrush plugin.
• Added spraycan brush pattern, and 'auto calc' mode.
• Built atCalc_AM_Image plugin, as required for runtime AM editing.
• Updated Sapphire plugin to support AM brush mode, plus faster texture switching, script queuing, texture area updates, etc.
• Updated L3DTio_Backup plugin to allow multi-map backups (AM and AM-image)
• See blog post for more info.

• Added an 'Update Manager' and dialog box.
• Added 'multi-thread settings' dialog box.
• Added brush tool for RGBA maps.
• Added 'flat line' brush tool to Sapphire, as per user request.
• Added 'change mosaic tile size' menu option.
• Changed AM and TN wizards to use MFC rather than CommonUI (doesn't crash now).

• Completed DesignInflate plugin.
• Revised ZeoScript and ZeoWrap plugins to improve string parsing functions.
• Completed L3DTio_Atlas2, and included in L3DT installer (all versions).
• Completed 7zWrap, for archiving/extracting files.

• Changed to late linkage to PDH.dll via ZeoPerfMon_NT plugin (PDH.dll isn't supported by WINE at time of writing).
• Fixed “OnEndAlphaCombo error: - invalid iItem” message in alpha map wizard.
• Fixed speed of alpha map layer rendering in alpha map wizard.

• Updated to Zeolite API v2.5.3.
• More functions (core):
  • Added combosel_InitCS
  • Added var_SetValueA
  • Added var_EditUI2
• More functions (via zeofuncs):
  • application.Restart
  • application.Shutdown
  • application.About
  • settings.GetWndSetting
  • calc.HF.VolcanoOverlay

• Add volcano overlay function (see this thread).
• Store shadow map (“SH”) for later use.
• Added 'recalc shadow map' flag to LM wizard.
• Report DPI setting in the logfile.
• Report system font family/height/width/weight in the logfile.
• Rebuild progress map display for shadow map calculation, without time estimate.

• Major bugfix for multithreading with mosaic maps (added new thread lock to CMosaicMap to prevent concurrent read/write/allocate/close operations on tiles.)
• Fixed pop-to-top behaviour of wthru guide.
• Fixed settings inheritance of light map, terrain normals wizards.
• Fixed CPU throttle on high-res shadow maps.
• Fixed failure to re-render map in main window after blanking.
• Fixed mosaic map export (see thread)
• Fixed TN calc bug when using 10537×1153 HF, TN/HF of 2x or more, and mosaic of 512 (reported by Arttu, via e-mail).
• Fix 'cannot create new material' bug in material manager (see this thread).

• Rewrote fjord tutorial.
• Documented the material manager/editor/etc.