Added "doomthingrotationangles" Game Configuration property. When enabled, editor actions related to changing thing angle will snap the resulting angle to 45 degree increments. This property is set to true for vanilla game configurations.
Fixed a crash when changing game configuration from one without Thing actions support to one with them while in Things mode.
Fixed, cosmetic, DB2 bug: current editing mode button was deselected after reloading resources.
Updated documentation ("Game Configuration - Basic Settings" page).
- "Merge Dragged Vertices Only". Only vertex-line intersections will be processed (DB2 mode).
- "Merge Dragged Geometry". Geometry merging will be performed.
- "Replace with Dragged Geometry". Dragged geometry will replace underlaying geometry.
You can switch between these using 3 new actions, top toolbar buttons and Edit menu buttons.
Changed: activating the same 2D mode repeatedly now toggles View modes.
Renamed "Merge Geometry" action/menu item to "Snap to Geometry".
More fixes to vertex/linedef/sector dragging logic.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Added "Toggle sky rendering" action and toolbar button.
Added, MAPINFO parser: the editor now recognizes map number from classic map definition format. Hexen MAPINFO is now properly parsed.
Added, MAPINFO support: if current map definition contains map name as a text string, it will be shown in the editor's header.
Changed: "Toggle dynamic lights rendering" now toggles between "Don't show dynamic lights" and "Show dynamic lights" when used in Classic modes.
Changed, Things mode: lowered the opacity of dynamic light radii.
Changed, (G)ZDoom text parsers: empty include files now trigger a warning instead of an error and no longer abort parsing.
Fixed, Game configurations: moved Stalagmite:5050 thing to Doom block (so the editor no longer tries to load it for non-Doom game configurations).
Fixed(?), Visual mode: probably fixed a hard-to-trigger exception when sorting translucent geometry.
Fixed, Visual mode: floor glow effect was incorrectly applied to walls (was broken in R2452).
Internal: restructured most of MAPINFO and GLDEFS parsers. Should be more maintainable now.
Updated ZDoom ACC.
Updated zdbsp to 1.19.
Updated documentation.
Fixed, Visual mode: glow effect was not updated when changing sector textures using the "Select Texture" action.
Browse Textures/Flats window: when textures list is focused, you can now start typing to change the Filter.
Added "makedoorceil" game configuration property. Works the same way as "makedoortrack" and "makedoordoor", but for ceilings of door sectors.
Changed, Game configurations: the editor no longer tries to load DECORATE/MODELDEF/VOXELDEF/GLDEFS/REVERBS lumps when "decorategames" setting is not specified / is set to empty string.
Changed, General interface: "Tools -> Reload MODELDEF/VOXELDEF" and "Tools -> Reload GLDEFS" menu items are no longer shown when current game configuration doesn't support DECORATE.
Fixed a crash when pasting linedef/thing properties in Hexen map format.
Fixed, Visual mode: Visual Thing resources were not fully unloaded when resetting D3D device leading to crash when switching to the editor from a DX-using game engine (like ZDoom) running in fullscreen.
Fixed: in some cases, when current game configuration supported multiple script compilers, it was possible to open/create a map or change map options without selecting any script compiler.
Fixed, New Map Options window: default map name was not updated when switching game configurations.
Fixed: copied map element properties were not reset after switching to another map.
Fixed: stored textures for "Make Door" action were not reset after switching to another map.
Fixed, Game Configurations window: currently selected test engine name was not updated when pasting test engines from another configuration.
Fixed, Game Configurations: all "Heretic in Doom map format" configurations were using Doom sector effects list.
Fixed, Game Configurations: all "Strife in Doom map format" configurations were using Doom sector effects list.
Added "Paste Properties Special" actions in "Classic" and "Visual" categories. They work the same way as "Paste Special" action.
Added: "Copy Properties", "Paste Properties" and "Paste Properties Special" options are now shown in the Edit menu if current classic mode supports them.
Changed, Paste Properties Special window: only options relevant to current map format are now displayed.
Changed, Paste Properties Special window, UDMF: all UI-managed options are now available.
Fixed: MAPINFO parser was unable to process "include" directives.
Fixed, General interface: selection info was reset to "Nothing selected" after few seconds regardless of current selection.
Fixed, Visual mode: thing bounding boxes were not updated when changing things positions using Randomize mode.
Fixed, Visual mode: event lines were displayed at incorrect height when entering Visual mode for the first time.
Fixed, Texture Browser window: when MixTexturesFlats Game Configuration option is disabled, textures/flats are no longer shown in the Used group when flats/textures with the same names are used in the map.
Fixed(?): probably fixed an exception some users reported when trying to initialize a Classic mode after switching from Visual mode with "Sync cameras" option enabled.
Changed, Game configurations, Thing Categories: a block must have at least one thing category property to be recognized as a thing category.
Changed, Visplane Explorer: the plugin now outputs more info when it fails to initialize vpo.dll.
Cosmetic, Thing Edit window, Doom/Hexen map format: adjusted UI layout so thing flags control no longer displays scrollbars in Hexen map format.
Internal: merged methods from UDMFTools into UniFields, removed UDMFTools.
Updated Inno Setup script (added VC++ 2008 SP1 distributive).
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_CheckBlock).
Updated documentation (added "System Requirements" page).
More detailed info is now saved to the log file (GZBuilder.log) when an editing mode fails to initialize.
General interface: added "Help -> Program Configuration Folder" menu item.
High-DPI: fixed many issues with incorrect controls size (Tag selector width, Comment Editor size, icons size, tabs size etc.).
Cosmetic: changed map geometry dragging undo messages to more descriptive ones.
Fixed, Textures Browser, cosmetic: "Show textures in subdirectories" checkbox should be repositioned when "Long texture names" one is invisible.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (added A_SetFloatSpeed + a couple of fixes).
Changed, Visual mode: changed thing fog calculation logic. Should be closer to GZDoom now.
Fixed, GLDEFS parser: "height" texture parameter was not treated as optional.
Fixed, text lump parsers: in some cases incorrect line number was displayed in error and warning messages.
Fixed, Visual mode: glow effect was not applied to sectors with 3 sidedefs.
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases glow effect was not updated when replacing textures.
Fixed, general interface: "Full Brightness" button state was not updated during map loading.
Fixed, Drag Linedefs/Vertices/Sectors/Things modes: positions of line length labels were not updated while panning the view.
Cosmetic: added a bunch of new icons.
Cosmetic: changed Visual mode crosshair.
Changed, General interface: all main menu toolbars are now visible when starting the editor for the first time.
Changed, General interface: "Prefabs" and "Edit" menus are now hidden when no map is loaded.
Changed, General interface: moved "Dynamic Grid Size" menu item to the "Edit" menu, also moved the button to the matching position on the toolbar.
Changed, General interface: changed "Show Comments" menu item position in the "View" menu, also moved the button to the matching position on the toolbar.
Game configurations: removed "gamedetect" block, because it was unused by the editor.
Updated documentation ("Map Format Settings" page).
Changed, Things mode, cosmetic: tweaked thing sprite/bounding box appearance a bit more...
Fixed, Linedefs mode, cosmetic: fixed event lines and sector highlights flickering when view panning was started while displaying action highlight.
Linedef Color Presets: Linedef Color Presets can now be disabled.
Things Filters window: a warning icon is now displayed near the filter name in the filters list when the filter has no usable settings.
Change Map in Current WAD window: keyboard focus was not set to initially selected item.
Changed the default wad filename from "unnamed.wad" to "[map name].wad".
Updated documentation ("Custom linedef colors" page).
Sectors, Linedefs, Things modes: comment icons for appropriate map elements with comments are now rendered in these modes. This can be disabled using either the new "Toggle Comments" action, "View -> Show Comments" menu item, or "Show Comments" button on the main toolbar.
Changed, Classic modes: increased maximum zoom level to 9000% (was 3000%).
Added, General interface: added "800%" zoom level to the bottom toolbar zoom menu.
Added, General interface: added "400%" and "800%" zoom levels to "View -> Zoom" menu.
Changed, Things, Sectors, Linedefs, Vertices modes: we shouldn't select highlighted map element during the copy action when no map elements are selected.
Internal: removed some debug stuff from CheckTextureAlignment and ResultTexturesMisaligned.
MAPINFO: added "DoomEdNum" and "SpawnNums" blocks support.
MAPINFO: added "#include" directive support.
MAPINFO: added "$gzdb_skip" special comment support.
DECORATE: "spawnthing" Game Configuration block is now updated using "SpawnID" actor property.
Game configurations: added "class" property to the most of ZDoom things.
Actions: removed "Reload MAPINFO" action.
Documentation: merged "GLDEFS and MODELDEF support", "(Z)MAPINFO support" and "TEXTURES support" topics into "(G)ZDoom text lumps support", added info about the other text lumps GZDB can use.
Internal: changed the way apppath is acquired. It should no longer fail when launching the editor from a shared network folder.
Main Form: changed some labels of dynamic light and model rendering selectors to be less confusing.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Open Map in Current WAD: resources are now reloaded when current and target map's resources don't match.
Added some boilerplate to UniversalParser and PK3FileImage.
Internal: ImageSelectorControl now has "UsePreviews" property.
Internal: added ConfigurablePictureBox.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Added icons for "Save Screenshot" menu items.
Development: "Save Screenshot (active window)" action will work on a child Form only if it is inherited from DelayedForm.
Renamed "Toggle dynamic lights rendering" action to "Show dynamic lights".
Changed: "Show dynamic lights" action now toggles between available dynamic light rendering modes.
Renamed "Toggle models rendering" action to "Show models".
Changed: "Show models" action now toggles between available model rendering modes.
Removed "Toggle dynamic lights animation" and "Render selected/all models" actions.
Fixed, Randomize Sectors form: selection highlight was not updated after applying the changes when the form was shown in Sectors mode.
Consistency: selection is now cleared after applying changes done in Randomize Things and Randomize Vertices forms.
Fixed, Classic modes: sprites of things with attached models were not rendered when model rendering was disabled.
Updated documentation.
Thing Edit Form, UDMF: added controls for setting pitch, roll, scale, render style, fill color, alpha, health and score.
Visual mode, UDMF: UDMF scale is now applied when rendering sprites.
Added Thing Statistics form (Edit -> View Thing Types...), which shows all loaded thing types with some additional info.
Visual mode: sprites with negative ScaleX and positive ScaleY were not rendered properly.
Classic modes: display was not updated after loading a sprite.
Current testing engine change was not saved on closing the program when no other game configuration settings were changed.
"Preferences -> Editing -> When splitting a linedef" setting is now always used when splitting linedefs.
"Preferences -> Editing -> When splitting a linedef": added "Reset X and Y" option.
"Preferences -> Editing -> Auto-align textures of newly created linedefs" option now works in a more intelligent fashion.
Fixed a crash when using "Reload GLDEFS" and "Reload (Z)MAPINFO" actions when GLDEFS / MAPINFO file was moved or renamed after opening the map in the editor.
Draw Curve Mode: added settings panel.
Sectors mode: added "Make Door" button to the toolbar.
Swapped Side panel and Info panel z-order.
Interface: split toolbar into 3 separate toolbars. All toolbar buttons are now viewable at 1024x768.
Interface: grouped stuff in "Modes" menu a bit better.
Interface: added "Draw [stuff]" buttons to modes toolbar.
Interface: reorganized main menu. Hope it makes more sense now.
API: added General.Interface.AddModesButton() and General.Interface.AddModesMenu(), which can be used to add buttons to specific group in "Modes" toolbar and menu items to specific group in "Modes" menu, so actions, which behave like an editing mode, but are not part of one can be added there.
Configurations: all 64 game configuration are now available by default.
Game Configurations window: game configurations can now be disabled. This setting is mostly cosmetic. When a game configuration is disabled, it won't be shown in "game configuration" dropdowns in New\Open Map Options and Map Options windows. If a map's .dbs file specifies a disabled configuration, it will be picked as a map configuration anyway.
Linedefs mode: vertex insert preview logic used Highlight range instead of Stitch range (which is used when draw mode engages).
Visual mode: double-sided middle textures were not selected when using "Select" action with "with same texture" modifier.
Textures: some optimizations in patch blending code.
ZDoom ACS script configuration: added definitions for StrLeft, StrMid and StrRight functions.
Reverted "Delete Item" action to the way it worked in DB2.
Added "Dissolve Item" action, which works the way "Delete Item" worked in previous revisions of GZDB.
Added "Auto Clear Sidedef Textures" action, "Edit" menu and toolbar button, which toggle automatic removal of sidedef textures when floor or ceiling height is changed or when geometry is drawn, copied or pasted.
Draw Settings panel: upper/lower texture overrides can now be used.
Draw Settings panel: added 2 sets of buttons, which allow to quickly set or clear textures in current selection.
Things are now rendered behind AND on top of the grid/linedefs/vertices when they are dragged.
Redesigned hints system. They are now shown in a side panel.
Edit area auto-focusing is now disabled when script editor is open.
Texture Browser form: no texture group was selected when opening the form in some cases.
Fixed several strange/misleading text messages.
Info panel was not updated after leaving Visual mode.
Moved hints logic to ClassicMode, so hints can be displayed by any plugin.
Visual mode: dynamic light animation was not working.
Minor performance improvements in Actor, Configuration, UDMF and TEXTURES parsers.
Sectors mode: optimized sector highlight rendering logic.
Sectors mode: optimized sector effect/tag labels update logic.
Geometry tools: optimized several core functions.
Hints for current editing mode can now be displayed when nothing is highlighted (currently the hints are shown only in Draw Geometry mode).
GZDB is now build with LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, which increases amount of RAM GZDB can use from 1.4 to 2.8 GB.
Visual mode: changed "Move Texture Left/Right/Up/Down by 8" actions to "Move Texture Left/Right/Up/Down by cur. grid size"
Visual mode: holding Ctrl-Shift while dragging texture with the mouse will snap texture offsets to current grid size.
Classic modes: interiors of highlighted sectors are now highlighted when the action target of currently highlighted map element is sector.
Unhandeled exceptions infos are now written to the event log.
Location and active tab of all Edit Forms are now stored while GZDB is running.
Focus management between editing window and the rest of the interface should work better now.
Tag Explorer plugin: editing window was not updated properly when Edit forms were opened from Tag Explorer.
Tag Explorer plugin, UDMF: comment editing was incorrectly initialized in some cases.
