News for January 2010

Hi Everyone,

[Aside: Happy new year!]

Methinks it's time for a little clean-up of the L3DT user interface. Changes include:

• The addition of icons for frequently-used menu options (see image below).
• The Active map and Mouse tools menus have been renamed Layers and Tools, respectively. The contents of these two menus have also expanded somewhat, taking some options from other menus (e.g. Utilities→New map layer has moved to Layers→New map layer).
• Other menu options and dialog boxes have been renamed slightly for greater clarity or consistency.
• Some toolbar icons have been updated (New project, Show map) or removed (CPU throttle, RAM chart and Image drape).

Menu icons

All in all I think these changes should make the user interface a little easier to learn for new users, without having any lasting adverse effects on current users. However, if you have any strong feelings about these changes, please feel free to post a comment in the forums.

These changes are included in the latest developmental build of L3DT Pro (v2.8 build 6), which is on the downloads page now. These changes will also be included in the next builds of the Standard and Pro for Torque editions when they are next compiled.

Please note that the on-line user guide has not yet been updated to reflect these new changes. The documentation will be updated when these changes are rolled into the next stable release. Until then, please feel free to ask for help in the forums if you can no-longer find a menu option.

Best regards, Aaron.