L3DT release 2.4a

Released on the 8th of August, 2006 (see announcement)

• High-res alpha maps.
• Revised shape of mountain overlay.
• Made per-pixel land types algo work without DM.
• Added file overlay special type, with overlay manager.
• Fixed LM, TX & alpha compatibility with high-res AM.

• Added new calculation queue wizard, using CommonUI framework.
• Removed obsolete 'Next »' toolbar/menu option.
• Add presets bar to texture and 2nd light-mappping wizards.
• Updated walkthrough.
• Added progress display for 'clip heightfield' and 'set vert. scale'.
• Added 'Auto layers' button to textures pane in land type editor, which generates all layers based on texture and bump-map filenames.

• Increased size-limit in export wizard to 8193×8193.
• Set min/max alt for BMP/JPEG/PNG exports (forcing scale values).
• Don't set active format on a file import.
• Set default TN JPEG quality to 95 (was 90).
• Moved settings.ini.xml→Presets to settings.ini.xml→Presets→Wizards to make space for other presets.

• Made 'Operations→Heightfield→Change horiz. scale' modify HF.HorizScale in project settings.
• Fixed 'Design map→Gen from HF'.
• Properly enforce map size limits in 'design map size' wizard.
• Fix bug reported by kanetsb (see here).
• Fixed colour-clipping bug (see here).
• Fixed 8-bit bitmap heightfield import bug.
• Auto-translate '.mgf' to '.proj' without error message.
• Added more debugging code to PDH usage.

• Started a reusable and scriptable UI framework, wrapping MFC.
• Completed Dialog, Edit, Combo, Static, Button and Checkbox classes.
• Handled hide/show, enable/disable, parents, callbacks/message passing.

• Allowed pro activation without registry write-access.
• Applied new wizard settings model.