L3DT release 2.3

Released on the 28th of June, 2005 (see announcement)

• New features
  • Added perlin heightfield generator, with support for mosaic maps.
  • Added thermal erosion stage to design/inflate algorithm.
  • Added 'file header report' option, for checking header information in L3DT binary files.
• User interface
  • Added multi-purpose 'Wizard' dialog engine, including:
    • Open, Import HF, Import DM.
    • Gen design map and design map parameters.
    • Gen fractal map.
    • Gen perlin map.
    • Water table parameters.
    • Gen light map and light absorption.
    • Gen texture map.
  • Added 'stage list' view to the progress bar window.
  • Added 'mosaic tile' line overlay in view.
  • Slightly increased the size of hitherto microscopic slider bars in dialogs for design map pixel edit and pencil tool.
  • Made salinity map display logarithmic.
• Algorithm tweaks and optimisations
  • Tweaked design-map generation, fluvial erosion settings, terracing settings, and peak overlay settings.
  • Increased speed of water-table flooding algorithm using tolerance settings, and increased quality by better raster-order optimisations.
• File I/O
  • Added import design map option.
  • Enabled export of water map as HFF, TER, BT, HTF, BMP.
  • Simplified 'File preferences' dialog, using a tree-view to replace tabs and combo box.
  • Can now edit file paths for L3DT data, VTP Enviro.
  • Improved 'Export to Enviro' feature (including no-texture option).
  • Changed the format of the map group file (.mgf), excising all settings into separate definition file (.def).
  • Mosaic scales are unified automatically on save.
• Extended mosaic map support for:
  • Set horiz scale.
  • Set vert scale + histogram.
  • Compile texture list.
• Bug-fixes
  • Fixed mosaic water-flooding bug — It only took two years!
  • Fixed bug in MGF-loader that caused it to fail for map group names with spaces.
  • Increased thread-safety by disabling load/save options when calculations are under way.
  • Fixed CPU throttle behaviour.
  • Fixed some bugs in the display.
• Structural changes
  • Increased default mosaic cache size.
  • Added scripting engine foundations (parsing, declarations and assignments).
  • Most major user-interface commands are now performed via internal scripting.
  • Completed VarFactory type handling routines.
  • Changed type identifier in CVar from string to UINT.
  • Moved group settings into CVarList class.
• L3DTVi2
  • Added a water texture.
  • Added a rotate skybox option.
  • Re-built L3DTVi2 to handle mosaic maps.