Sapphire is still very much in active development. Below are listed the main features to be added in the near future. If you would like to request a feature, please do so at the bottom of the page.

• Use build lists for each visible patch.

• Add heightfield brushes:
  • Special overlays, for file overlay, volcano, plateau and mountain.
  • Fluvial erosion
  • River?
• Edit DM in 3D?

• When toggling between flying and walking, store/restore flying altitude. Also, accelerate between the two, rather than teleport (see request).
• Add tooltips to toolbar.
• Add compass indicator to HUD.
• Allow user to set HUD text colour / HUD background.
• Add mini-map to HUD.
• Make mouse x/y/z pos text hover next to cursor.
• Add marker/tag support, and teleport to marker.

• Geep mode.
• Flight-sim mode.

• Anaglyph (stereo 3D) rendering.

• Rendering HF/WM tiles at same time for cache coherency (stuffed up WM transparency).

Please leave your requests below:

• Raise/Lower brush tool that lowers/raises by a set amount, and doesn't re-apply to pixels in the same brush stroke. If possible, make linear or spline-based.
• Select area tool in 3D.
• Export selected area as mesh (aligned to patch boundaries).
• Define movement paths.
• Seamless tiling/repeating of terrain.
• Grid overlay in Sapphire.