http://www.bundysoft.com/news/ 2026-06-11T00:39:21+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/ http://www.bundysoft.com/news/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2017-08-31T05:40:08+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v1.0 Date: 3rd of July 2003 L3DT release 1 released * The executable for L3DT release 1 is now available on the downloads page (finally!). * There's a tutorial of sorts on the tutorial page. * Screenshots have been updated. * Minor corrections have been made here and there. text/html 2017-08-31T04:33:45+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v1.5 Date: 8th of July 2003 L3DT release 1.5 released It's much faster. It's slightly easier to use. It has progress bars. It can be downloaded for free. You can edit the intermediate map, which means you can now define how you want the heightfield to look before it's generated. The gallery has been updated, but the tutorial is now a little out of date. text/html 2017-08-31T06:05:10+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v11.07_beta_1 Date: 2nd of July 2011 L3DT 11.07 Beta 1 is available Hi Everyone, The first beta version of the forthcoming release of L3DT is now available for download. The major changes since the previous release (v2.9) are listed below. >> >> Version numbers In case you missed the news this week and were curious how I’d jumped all the way from v2.9 to v11.07, L3DT now uses date-based version numbers in the YY.MM format. text/html 2017-08-31T07:24:04+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v11.08 Date: 19th of August 2011 L3DT release 11.08 is available One year and a few days since the last major release of L3DT, I give you the next one. L3DT release 11.08 is now available for download, in Standard, Professional and Pro for Torque editions. text/html 2017-08-31T05:02:25+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v11.10_beta_1 Date: 18th of October 2011 L3DT 11.10 beta 1 is available! Hi Everyone, A beta release of the next version of L3DT Professional is now available for download, as v11.10 beta 1. The most noteworthy changes in this release are the enormous speed improvements achieved by optimising memory usage, improving linear interpolation, and by multi-threading the attributes map generation (see post). All up, these changes have increased the speed of some map calculations by as much as 3-4 times. This upd… text/html 2017-08-31T07:04:58+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v11.11 Date: 30th of November 2011 L3DT release 11.11 is available Hi All, L3DT release 11.11 is now available for download in all three flavours (Standard, Professional, and Pro for Torque.) Please read on for a description of the changes. >> >> Speed, glorious speed! This release includes some massive performance optimisations, which increases the speed of some calculations by as much as 4 times. These optimisations include multi-threading of the attributes map calculation, improved RAM usa… text/html 2017-08-31T05:13:40+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v13.11_beta_1 Date: 8th of November 2013 L3DT 13.11 beta 1 is available! Hi Everyone, After much delay, a beta release of the next version of L3DT is now available for download, as v13.11 beta 1. Version 13.11 is an incremental improvement of the previous release (v11.11), including the following changes: text/html 2017-08-31T04:37:45+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v14.01_beta_2 Date: 16th of January 2014 L3DT 14.01 beta 2 is available! Hi Everyone, The second beta-release of the forthcoming L3DT 14.0X release is now available for download (in Professional trim only). This update adds much improved detail maps to T3D exports, giving rather pleasing results (see gallery here). text/html 2017-08-31T06:06:10+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v14.02_beta_3 Date: 28th of February 2014 L3DT 14.02 beta 3 is available! Hi Everyone, The third (and one sincerely hopes, final) beta-release of the forthcoming L3DT 14.0X release is now available for download, in both Standard and Professional editions. This update fixes a bug in the fancy mosaic memory cache manager that was causing out of memory events for very large maps (see bug report.) text/html 2017-08-31T07:28:39+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v15.11se Date: 6th of November 2015 L3DT Standard Edition 15.11 is available! Hi All, The free Standard Edition of L3DT v15.11 is now available for download. Although many of the improvements in L3DT 15.11 are only available in the Professional and Torque editions (e.g. performance improvements for extremely large maps), the Standard Edition still benefits from a number of significant upgrades, as listed below: text/html 2017-08-31T06:53:29+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v16.03 Date: 28th of March 2016 L3DT Release 16.03 is available! Hi All, After much delay, I am pleased to finally announce that L3DT release 16.03 is available for download. Please read on for a description of the changes since the previous release (v11.11), which are many and varied. The full change log is available here. text/html 2017-08-31T04:41:45+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v16.05 Date: 5th of May 2016 L3DT Release 16.05 is available! Hi All, L3DT release 16.05 is now available for download. The main reason for this release, coming so soon after v16.03, is to fix two bugs: * The application crashes when displaying the water map, and; * The heightfield TIFF import fails when the image is small. text/html 2017-08-31T05:09:48+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.0 Date: 19th of August 2003 L3DT Release 2 has escaped! 'Escape' is probably a bit dramatic - 'left home' would be a better way to put it. Sick of sitting around on my computer, Release 2 uploaded itself onto the downloads page and is patiently waiting there for you to give it a home on your Win32 PC. text/html 2017-08-31T04:28:52+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.1 Date: 18th of November 2003 L3DT Release 2.1 available, finally. What's new? The maximum map size in L3DT 2.1 has increased from 16 million pixels (4096 x 4096) to 1 billion pixels (32,768×32,768). That's equivalent to 107,000 sq km of map (~Tennessee) at 10m resolution. text/html 2017-08-31T06:47:29+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.2 Date: 20th of October 2004 L3DT 2.2 released Hey, it's finally here...and I thought I'd never live to see the day. It only took eleven months. New features In the most severe case of feature-creep I've yet seen, the following improvements have been made to L3DT: text/html 2017-08-31T07:32:23+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.2a Date: 1st of December 2004 Release 2.2a is available! This revision to L3DT 2.2 is largely a 'look-and-feel' upgrade to make L3DT easier to use - particularly for new users. The main changes include: * Addition of the next button in the toolbar, so that you don't have to remember the right sequence of menu options. * Progress bars now have 'cancel' buttons, as well as time estimates for most calculations (via multithreading). * There's now a delete water body mouse tool. * The mouse… text/html 2017-08-31T07:07:05+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.2b Date: 29th of December 2004 Release 2.2b L3DT can now export to the GLScene height tile file (HTF) format. The new version is available on the downloads page. text/html 2017-08-31T04:59:42+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.2c Date: 26th of January 2005 Release 2.2c What's new? L3DT The changes include bug-fixes, user-interface improvements, and some modifications to the heightfield generation routine (particularly erosion). See the release history page for details. L3DTVi2 Stuart Gooding has added a vertex shader program for L3DTVi2 that blends the detail-map at two spatial resolutions, giving improved close-ups (see screenshots below). Also, in response to some user-feedback the camera controls have been revised… text/html 2017-08-31T07:04:32+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3 Date: 28th of June 2005 Release 2.3! Hooray! It is done! The installer for L3DT 2.3 is available on the downloads page. Please note that L3DT now includes an end-users licence agreement. It's still free to use, but rights are reserved and liabilities disclaimed (the usual formalities). text/html 2017-08-31T04:36:03+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3a Date: 16th of July 2005 Release 2.3a Release 2.3a is patches the known faults introduced with release 2.3 (see release history). In particular, there were a few bugs in the new 'wizard' dialog system and some of the underlying 'glue-code' scripts. These have been fixed. text/html 2017-08-31T05:22:04+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3b Date: 6th of November 2005 L3DT 2.3b available Many thanks to the beta-testers, who did a great job of stress-testing all the new features (and suggesting new ones). There have been a large number of changes from 2.3a to 2.3b, most of which are listed on the release history page. Below I have summarised the key changes. text/html 2017-08-31T05:38:43+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3c Date: 10th of January 2006 L3DT 2.3c available Due to popular demand I've rushed L3DT release 2.3c forward a few days, so here it is! Judging by past form, I've probably forgotten something and will need to issue an update in two days time anyhow. Nevertheless, there is much to discuss with this new release: text/html 2017-08-31T04:51:51+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3d Date: 27th of January 2006 Surprise! L3DT 2.3d is available Some time late last night I made a few small but potentially rather useful additions to L3DT, so rather than hold back I thought I'd pop-out an unexpected and unscheduled update. If you're feeling impatient, you can find a brief list of changes on the release history page; otherwise, you may benefit from the somewhat more lengthy descriptions below. As usual, the installers are on their respective downloads pages. text/html 2017-08-31T04:27:12+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.3pr Date: 17th of March 2005 L3DT 2.3 pre-release available Hurrah! The last of the serious mosaic errors have been fixed. To celebrate, I've uploaded a beta-version of L3DT 2.3, the full version of which will follow in a week or two. The main change from 2.2 to 2.3 is the re-implementation of heightfield mosaic maps, which were last seen in L3DT 2.1 (Nov 2003). As a result of this, you can now generate heightfields up to 32k × 32k pixels in size. This version also includes various bug-fixes, op… text/html 2017-08-31T04:55:47+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4 Date: 30th of June 2006 L3DT 2.4 is available! Hurrah! It's been nearly three months since the first beta-release of L3DT 2.4, and I'm proud to announce that it is finally ready for public consumption. Many thanks go to the cast of beta-testers for their assistance and patience with debugging, and also for their numerous suggestions for improvements. text/html 2017-08-31T07:12:33+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4a Date: 8th of August 2006 L3DT release 2.4a is ready! Hellooo, Release 2.4a is smallish update of the recent v2.4. Highlights of the change-log include: * A calculation queue wizard, to replace the 'calc' toolbar button. * High-resolution alpha maps. * File overlays for the heightfield (see tutorial). * Some tweaks and bug-fixes, in response to user feedback from v2.4. text/html 2017-08-31T04:53:47+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4b Date: 18 of October 2006 Release 2.4b is ready! Come and get it, while it's still warm. L3DT release 2.4b is ready for download. The full list of changes is in the release history, over here. Since this final release is pretty much the same as v2.4b Release Candidate 1, I'm going to be a bit lazy and in-line the RC1 announcement to describe the changes: text/html 2017-08-31T06:31:59+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4b_rc1 Date: 12th of October 2006 L3DT 2.4b Release Candidate 1 It's been a long time coming. L3DT version 2.4b has just hit the RC1 stage, which means I think it could actually be ready for release. You will find on the downloads pages the latest installers, dated the 12th of October. text/html 2017-08-31T07:27:30+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4beta1 Date: 14th of April 2006 L3DT v2.4 beta-release available! The first beta-release of L3DT v2.4 is available for public testing. What is different? The full list of changes is provided on the release history page. Of these, the important ones are: text/html 2017-08-31T04:22:29+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4beta2 Date: 3rd of May 2006 L3DT v2.4 beta-release available! The second beta-release of L3DT v2.4 is now available for download. This update fixes a few bugs from beta1, and also significantly re-works the script-handling internals. The change-log may be read here. text/html 2017-08-31T05:47:19+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4beta3 Date: 1st of June 2006 L3DT 2.4 beta3 is available The third and final beta-release of L3DT v2.4 is available for download. As usual, a summary of the changes is provided on the release history page, and a description follows: Bug-fixes The main focus of this release was to fix bugs in preparation for the final L3DT 2.4, and indeed there were many bugs to fix: text/html 2017-08-31T07:22:40+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.4rc1 Date: 22nd of June 2006 L3DT 2.4 Release Candidate 1 I've uploaded what will hopefully be the last pre-release of L3DT v2.4. This version has a few more bug-fixes compared to beta3, re-re-jigged erosion, and better default settings for the design/inflate terrain generator. I've also changed the texture size limits for the Standard Edition (max is 4x texture res, or 2048×2048 pixels). text/html 2017-08-31T05:05:20+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.5 Date: 20th of April 2007 L3DT Release 2.5 It's done! L3DT Professional release 2.5 is now available for download. Major changes About a month ago I gave a rundown of the feature list in the forums. Since then there has been a few changes here and there, and so, I give you the revised list: text/html 2017-08-31T06:01:04+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.5a Date: 8th of June 2007 Release 2.5a is ready! Hello all, On the downloads page you will now find L3DT release 2.5a. This update includes a number of improvements, such as multi-core support, anti-aliased texture blending, an updated 3D renderer, better debugging features, and an assortment of bugfixes. Additionally, TGEA users may be interested in the updated L3DT_Atlas plugin, which fixes the crashing bug that was affecting some users (kudos to Ben for the fix!). This updated plugin is also… text/html 2017-08-31T06:17:26+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.5b Date: 7th of November 2007 L3DT release 2.5b Hi Everyone, I'm delighted to announce that L3DT release 2.5b is now available for download. This is a free upgrade for absolutely everyone. Users of L3DT Standard Edition can download the update from here, and users of the Professional and Pro for Torque editions should consult their sales/registration e-mails for the appropriate download links. text/html 2017-08-31T06:31:25+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.5c Date: 22nd of March 2008 L3DT Release 2.5c L3DT release 2.5c is now available on the download pages in both Standard and Professional editions, and is also available for download via the GarageGames.com site for L3DT for Torque users. Free update? (yes and no) This is a free update for all users of L3DT Standard, and for all users who have purchased a license for L3DT Professional or L3DT for Torque in the last 18 months (since September '06). text/html 2017-08-31T05:08:56+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.6 Date: 18th of October 2008 L3DT release 2.6 Professional Hi Everyone, L3DT release 2.6 is now available for download in Professional and Pro for Torque flavours from here and GarageGames, respectively. In fact, it's been available for the last two or so weeks, but due to other commitments I've not been able to properly announce it until now. text/html 2017-08-31T05:51:34+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.7 Date: 28th of February 2009 L3DT Release 2.7 Hi Everyone, I am delighted to announce that L3DT Release 2.7 is now available for download. Please read on to find out , , and . What's new? As is traditional/habitual with release announcements, the full list of changes is provided in the release history page, and a condensed list of highlights is provided below: text/html 2017-08-31T04:52:00+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.8 Date: 19th of November 2009 L3DT release 2.8 Hi Everyone, Release 2.8 of L3DT is finally available for download. The changes and improvements in this release were described previously in the v2.8 beta release announcement back in October. If you missed the announcement, or would enjoy reading it again, please find a description of the changes below: text/html 2017-08-31T05:16:58+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.8_beta Date: 19th of October 2009 L3DT release 2.8 beta Hi Everyone, I am pleased to announce the availability of the first public beta release of L3DT version 2.8, the installers for which are on the downloads pages now. * Users of L3DT Standard Edition may download the update from the Standard Edition downloads page. * Users of L3DT Professional Edition may download the update from the link provided in their sales/registration receipt e-mail. * Users of L3DT For Torque Edition may request … text/html 2017-08-31T05:11:34+00:00 http://www.bundysoft.com/news/doku.php?id=l3dt:ann:v2.9 Date: 17th of August 2010 L3DT release 2.9 Hi Everyone, Release 2.9 of L3DT is now available for download. The focus for this update was on consolidation and refinement. Bugs have been fixed and existing features have been extended, but there are no radically new 'wow' features. The major changes are summarised below: