L3DT release 2.7

Released on the 28th of February, 2009 (see announcement)

• Added support for multi-level 'undo', with CTRL+Z support and an 'undo' toolbar button.
• Modified L3DTio_Backup:
  • Don't backup maps that aren't initialised (instead flag that they are to be freed on record revert).
  • Backup project settings (using flag).
  • Auto-delete records on plugin shutdown to reduce disk spam.
  • Support undo for simultaneous brush editing of multiple maps (e.g. TX and AM in TX brush).
  • 'Backup' option now clears all previous undo records.
  • 'Restore' option now recurses through all undo records, up to last restore point.
  • Record stack is trimmed when longer than user-definable limit (default is 20).
  • Added a toolbar button to enable/disable automatic backup point for undo, and added get/set functions for said flag in L3DTio_Backup plugin, to be used by other plugins.
• Added automatic 'undo' backup to:
  • Menu-based map operations.
  • Core calculations (HF, WM, TN, LM, TX, etc.)
  • Plugins, including Sapphire, atMergeMap, atRotate, Copy/paste¹⁾, SphericalDistort, and atImportMap.
  • New map layer option.
  • Edit pixel options.
  • 2D mouse tools.
  • 3D radial mouse tools for HF.
  • 3D AM & TX mouse tools.
• Added menu/toolbar options for:
  • 'Undo' in L3DT and Sapphire.
  • 'Enable undo' menu option (checked by default), with warning for memory usage &c.
  • 'Clear undo history' menu option.
• Other:
  • Added 'view.RefreshMap [lpMapName]' function to allow zoom to be retained when undoing during map edit.
  • Added callback in edit record to refresh Sapphire TX/HF on undo/restore.
  • Hid file save progress bars during mouse brush strokes [includes updates to atExportArea].

• Added 'if' / 'else' / 'endif' support.
• Added 'do' / 'while' support.
• Support auto-casting of variable types.
• Added more core functions:
  • Math functions (sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, pow, sqrt, log, log10)
  • More map functions (Init, Free, GetPixel, SetPixel, GetFlag, SetFlag)
  • Progbox functions (ShowWnd, HideWnd, SetTitle, SetProgress)
  • File helper functions (GetExt, GetDir, GetFilenameNoDir, GetFilenameNoExt, FileExists)
  • File i/o functions (fopen, fclose, ftell, fseek, rewind, fwrite, fread)
  • Buffer functions (InitByType, Free, nItems, MemSize, ItemSize, ItemType, SetValue, GetValue)
  • 'GetScriptFilename' function.
  • 'GetLineNo' function.
  • 'isdef' functions.
  • 'RunScriptFile' function, to allow scripts to run other scripts.
  • 'return' function.
  • 'view.GetActiveMap' function.
• Changes to previous behaviour:
  • Added support for literals in 'setv' intrinsic.
  • Re-mapped 'set' to point to 'setv' (was 'seta').
  • Removed 'newset' intrinsic.
  • Corrected line numbers for goto by including empty code lines.
• Add memory stack to scripts to allow variable scoping.
• Added 'undo' support to example scripts where appropriate.
• Updated example scripts for above changes.

• Provided 'L3DT will now exit' notification before shutting down following a failed activation attempt.
• Provided a more descriptive message to indicate free update period has elapsed.
• Removed generally meaningless error messages (e.g. “Name '44' is already taken”).
• Fixed activation problem for Carl B. (via e-mail).
• Include 'KeyReset.exe' utility in installer, to nuke keys in case of error.

• Added AVI capture support (see examples).
• Added selected area display in Sapphire (see image).
• Removed topmost status for Sapphire to fix Z-order problem with attributes map brush.
• Added toolbar.

• Support for Windows 2000 has been discontinued (see bug-report for reason).

• Allow high-res textures up to 32x (same as Pro).

• Automatically check for updates, with user-changeable period (never|monthly|fortnightly|weekly|daily|each session)
• Provide modeless pop-up notification when updates are available.

• Added consistent 'on-line help' syslink to control windows & wizards.
• Re-designed wizards to be more intuitive (algorithms and hfsize) (: update docs)
• Display plugin name in format info within file preferences dialog box.
• Added 'Operations→Active map→Resize map' option.
• Added 'File→Import→Texture map' menu option.
• Added calculation progress text to main window.
• Removed defunct 'Utilities→Read file header' option.

• Modified Atlas2 plugin to support '8 textures' resource for TGEA (see this thread).
• Modified L3DTio_RAW_HF plugin to support r32 and r16 file extensions.
• Modified L3DTio_BigBitmap plugin to support full load/save/mosaic, and auto split to mosaic. Plugin replaces L3DTio_FI as default bitmap plugin for L3DT.
• Updated ZeoImage plugin to support stretched image overlays.
• Added L3DTio_CSV plugin to support spreadsheet→design map workflow (see this thread).
• Added L3DTio_B3D plugin to support Blitz3D and Realm Crafter.
• Added L3DTio_VFW plugin for recording video streams.

• Moved resources to '[HOMEDIR]\L3DT\resources\[version]\'
• Moved logs to '[HOMEDIR]\L3DT\logs\[version]\'
• Added start menu links to extensions, logs and resources folders (see here).
• Updated uninstaller to remove more logs & setting files.

• Updated to Zeolite v2.7.1

• Fixed the horizontal scale calculation in L3DTio_BT plugin when importing terrain encoded with lat/lon extents in degrees (see this thread).
• Fixed bug in atMergeMap plugin that failed to set MAPFLAG_SAVED to true for mosaic heightmaps (see this thread).
• Fixed bug in resizing design map.
• Modified DM resize wizard so that it doesn't resize the map when only changing the horizontal scale.
• CMosaicMap::ExportMap now forces blank tiles to be written (see this post).

• Added option to bake texture onto lightmap (see request).