- "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, Sound Environments mode: current sound environment is now highlighted (can be toggled using "Toggle Highlight" action).
Added: Tag selectors now have up/down buttons.
Fixed, Sound Environments mode: sound environments were not updated after performing Undo/Redo actions.
Fixed, Sound Propagation mode: sound zones were not updated after performing Undo/Redo actions.
Internal: moved "Toggle Highlight" action to the core, also changed it's category to "View".
Internal: "Toggle Highlight" action state is now saved in the Program configuration.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (GetZAt).
Updated ZDoom_linedefs.cfg (Sector_SetPortal args).
Fixed severe lock-up after finishing dragging many vertices/linedefs/sectors in Classic modes.
Updated documentation ("Synchronizing camera position").
Fixed, "Find and Replace" mode: "Find and Replace" window no longer closes when no results are found and Replace mode is enabled.
Changed, "Find and Replace" mode: renamed some search modes for better grouping.
Changed, Draw Lines and Draw Curve modes: "Auto-finish drawing" option now works regardless of "Continuous drawing" option (previously it worked only when the latter was enabled).
Changed: position and size of the "Errors and Warnings" window is now stored while the editor is running.
Internal: rewritten parts of long texture names support code. It now involves much less special handling.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_QuakeEx, A_CheckBlock).
Updated ZDoom_ACS.cfg (QuakeEx).
Updated ZDoom ACC (QuakeEx).
Added, Draw Line and Draw Curve modes: added "Auto-finish drawing" setting. When enabled, the modes will automatically finish drawing when currently drawn lines and already existing level geometry form a closed shape.
Changed: sector-wise linedef flipping is now done using the new "Align Linedefs" action. "Flip Linedefs" action works the same as in DB2 again.
Changed: when a map was already loaded, using "Open Map" action will use that map's directory as the starting directory.
Changed: official IWADs can no longer be saved.
Changed: disabled lump ranges/duplicate entries checks for official IWADs.
Changed: wad type is now preserved when saving a map (previously all wads were saved as PWADs).
Changed: moved Updater.exe launch much closer to the editor termination point to avoid any chance of it closing the editor before it properly closes itself.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_Blast).
Updated documentation.
Changed, cosmetic: elapsed time is now displayed after resources loading finishes.
Changed, internal: changed Clock.CurrentTime type to long.
Fixed, Tag Statistics window: in some cases the map view was not updated after selecting items in Sectors/Linedefs/Things columns.
Fixed, cosmetic: Draw Curve mode icon was missing a shadow.
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases GLDEFS glow effect was not updated after changing floor/ceiling texture.
Fixed, Draw Rectangle and Draw Ellipse modes: in some cases pressing "Reset" button did not update the shape preview.
Fixed, DB2 bug: sector geometry was not updated after undoing "Flip Sidedefs" action.
Changed, all drawing modes: changeable drawing mode settings are now persistent.
Changed: "Dynamic grid size" mode is now disabled when changing grid size manually.
Documentation: "Command Line Parameters" topic contained a lot of incorrect information...
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, general interlace: in some cases "Show Editable Vertices in Visual Mode" top toolbar button showed up when using Doom/Hexen map formats.
Fixed(?), Classic modes: probably fixed an rare issue when map element dragging was not starting when supposed to.
Fixed, General interface, cosmetic: in some cases the warnings label was disabled in a flashing state (e.g. with red background).
Internal: moved some older GZDB actions form GZGeneral to MapManager. They can no longer be toggled when no map is loaded (which is probably for the best).
Updated ZDoom_ACS.cfg.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, Map Analysis mode: fixed a crash when trying to dissolve an invalid sector when one of it's linedefs referenced it on the both sides.
Fixed, Sectors mode: fixed incorrect undo description when deleting sectors.
Internal: joined declaration and assignment of some more variables.
Fixed, Script Editor: in some cases clicking on an error in the errors list didn't navigate to the error location.
Fixed, Script Editor: in some cases incorrect error line number was shown.
Fixed, Text lump parsers: fixed a crash when trying to get a filename from a quoted string with missing closing quote.
Fixed, Text lump parsers: in several cases parsing errors were ignored by overlaying data structures.
Fixed: in some cases Thing Filter thing flags were cleared when switching game configurations in the "Game Configurations" window.
Changed, PK3 reader: loading of files with invalid path chars is now skipped instead of skipping loading of the whole resource. Also more helpful warning message is now displayed.
Updated SharpCompress library to v.0.11.2.0.
Fixed: 3d floor linedef indicators shown in Classic modes were not updated when 3d floor creation was undone in Visual mode.
Performance optimization when selecting sectors in Sectors mode with "Synchronized Things selection" setting enabled.
Sectors mode: removed "Move Things in Selected Sectors" toolbar button.
Sectors mode: added "Synchronized Things Editing" menu item, action and toolbar button. When enabled, things dragging will be synchronized to sector dragging. Regular, Paint and Rectangular selection will also select things (holding Alt while selecting inverts this behavior). Deleting sectors will also delete selected things.
Linedefs mode: added "Synchronized Things Editing" menu item, action and toolbar button. When enabled, selected things will be dragged when dragging linedefs. Rectangular selection will also select things (holding Alt while selecting inverts this behavior).
Changed: selection info now always displays info about all types of map elements.
Fixed: .dbs containing only current map settings was created when trying to save unchanged map.
Fixed, Visual mode, "Copy Texture" action: when "Use long texture names" option is disabled, texture name as stored in Sidedef should be used, not the 8-char texture name.
Updated documentation.
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.
Fixed, UDMF parser: parser failed to parse decimals stored using scientific notation (like "1E-06").
Fixed, UDMF parser: incorrect line numbers were shown when displaying errors.
Changed, UDMF parser: many error descriptions are now more detailed.
Updated ZDoom ACC to Git rev. ae5f036.
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).
Removed, Texture Browser: removed "Show image sizes" checkbox. "Show texture and flat sizes in browsers" preferences setting is now used instead.
Fixed, Things mode: event line between pre-last and the last PatrolPoint was not drawn.
Fixed, Things mode: highlight range for sizeless things (things with "fixedsize" game configuration property) was calculated incorrectly.
Fixed: fixed a crash when opening Script Editor after using "Open map in current wad" command to switch to UDMF map with SCRIPTS lump when current script configuration was not saved in the wad's .dbs file.
Fixed: map closing events were not triggered when using "Open map in current wad" command, which could potentially result in plugin crashes/incorrect behavior.
Fixed: Sector Drawing overrides panel could trigger an exception when closing the map during resource loading.
Internal: added "Debug + Profiler" solution configuration, added 2 profiling methods to DebugConsole.
Internal: rewrote MainForm.DisplayStatus() / StatusInfo to handle selection info in a more structured way.
Fixed, internal: some destructors could potentially be executed more than once potentially leading to exceptions. Other destructors were not called at all.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, Edit Selection mode: sector highlight was not updated when switching from Edit Selection to Sectors mode.
Fixed, Edit Selection mode, UDMF: in some cases texture scale Y was flipped when applying/canceling changes made in the mode.
Probably fixed a crash caused by uninitialized Association when highlighting map elements.
Fixed, Comments Panel plugin: selection info was not updated when selecting map elements in the side panel.
Fixed, Tag Explorer plugin: selection info was not updated when selecting map elements in the side panel.
Fixed a typo in Hexen_things.cfg.
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).
Changed: current 2D position and zoom is now stored in the .dbs file when saving the map and restored when opening it (should this be turned into toggleable option?).
Draw Lines mode, Draw Curve mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to snap to 8 cardinal directions.
Draw Rectangle mode, Draw Grid mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to draw square shapes.
Draw Ellipse mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to draw circle shapes.
You can now hold Alt - Shift to snap to 8 cardinal directions while dragging map objects.
Fixed, Draw Lines mode: line angle is now displayed in 0..359 range (was -45..314).
Fixed, Linedef info panel: line angle is now displayed in 0..359 range (was -45..314).
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.
Fixed, long texture names support: in some cases long texture names were not processed correctly when pasting map geometry.
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases combined sidedef brightness was calculated incorrectly. Also, MAPINFO FadeColor and OutsideFogColor properties are now taken into account.
Hexen_linedefs.cfg: "Door Raise" and "Door Locked Raise" used incorrect enums for "Close Delay".
Game configurations, Line Identification action: added "Front side only" (128) flag to arg1.
Game configurations, Line Identification action: renamed arg1 flags to match corresponding UDMF flag names.
Updated udmf_zdoom.txt.
Import Wavefront .obj as Terrain mode: floor height of each created sector is now set to the average height of an .obj polygon it was created from.
Import Wavefront .obj as Terrain Settings window: added "Use slopes" checkbox. When enabled, the mode will create slopes using vertex height offsets (UDMF) or Floor Vertex Height things (1504).
Fixed, Visual Mode: things were rendered at wrong height after using "Lower/Raise Height" actions in sectors with sloped floor (or ceiling for ceiling-aligned things)
Fixed: info panel was not updated after switching to another Edit Mode.
Fixed, Texture Browser Form: well, I broke "Tab" key functionality again (in previous commit)...
Maintenance: changed curly braces style to match DB2 one (hopefully not breaking anything in the process...).
Maintenance: changed private method names casing to match DB2 one.
Texture browser form: added "Long texture names" check-box. It can be used to toggle between displaying long and short texture names.
Texture browser form: added "Show image size" check-box.
Texture browser form: image size is now shown differently.
Image Selector: added a button to toggle between long and short texture name.
Linedef info panel: long texture names are now displayed properly.
Sector info panel: long texture names are now displayed properly.
Fixed: "Save Screenshot" and "Save Edit Area Screenshot" actions were triggered multiple times when a child window was open.
Fixed: used textures should be always updated after using "Change map in current WAD" action.
Fixed, "Change map in current WAD": fixed a crash when trying to switch from a map with missing game configuration path.
Updated ZDoom_ACS.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.
Texture Browser Form: don't save current texture group when the form was canceled.
Keyboard Shortcut Reference export: generated html will now be saved to program configuration folder if working folder is write-protected.
Internal: added SupportedMapFormats property to EditModeAttribute. A mode with this property specified will be available only in specified map formats.
Interface: Ceiling Align Mode and Floor Align Mode are now enabled by default.
Interface: Ceiling Align Mode and Floor Align Mode are now only available in UDMF map format.
Interface: Visplane Explorer Mode is now available only in Doom map format.
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.
Error Checker mode: added "Check missing flats" check.
Error Checker mode: fixed several descriptions.
Sprite patches for sprites defined in TEXTURES are now loaded from Sprites namespace.
Some of my older texture alignment code didn't work properly when strict texture/flat handling ("mixtextureflats" game configuration flag set to false) was enabled.
Fixed some incorrect checks for missing texture ("-").
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.
Numeric textbox: in addition to '++NN' and '--NN', you can use '*NN' and '/NN' to multiply or divide the values.
Configurations, ZDoom_linedefs.cfg: some linedef action arguments were missing a proper type.
Rewritten parts of hints system. Hints are now loaded from "Hints.cfg" file.
Sectors mode, rectangular selection: you can now hold Alt to select things inside of selected sectors.
Sector highlight is now shown when selecting sectors in Tag Explorer.
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.
Classic modes: "Paint Selection" and "Toggle Full Brightness" actions can now be used from any plugin.
Fixed possible crash in DECORATE actor color override logic.
UDMF map parser should work ~35% faster now.
Texture browser form: keyboard focus was not updated when switching between textures using Tab key.
"Graphics" folder is now checked when searching for texture patches.
Various cosmetic changes here and there.
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.
Sector and Thing Info panels: fixed possible crash when trying to show unknown thing/sector flag.
Hints were not shown properly when multiselection was started while highlighting a map element.
Copy/Paste actions work much faster now.
Classic modes: rendered grid size in now adjusted to current zoom level.
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.
Increased maximum zoom level in Classic modes to 3000%.
Added "1 mp" option in grid size menu.
Added "400%" option in zoom menu.
Renamed "Toggle GZDoom rendering effects" action to "Toggle Geometry Effects".
Sync camera position: Visual Camera height is now changed only if camera is above or below current sector.
Classic modes: view was not redrawn after "Test map from current position" action.
"Test map from current position" action: incorrect player start was used when a map had several Player 1 Start things.
Textures now load up to 2x faster when "mix textures and flats" flag is set in game configuration.
TEXTUREx/TEXTURES: texture will now be created if at least one of it's patches is loaded.
Visual mode: fixed a crash when "Slope floor to here" (9500) or "Slope ceiling to here" (9501) things were not inside sector.
Fixed: flats were not loaded form wads inside Directory and PK3/PK7 resources.
Sector Info Panel, Linedef Info Panel: texture size was shown for unknown textures.
Point Thing at Cursor action: action now works when used from menu, changed default shortcut to Shift-L. You can now hold Ctrl to point Things away from cursor.
AngleOffset, PitchOffset and RollOffset MODELDEF properties are now supported.
Fixed a crash when editor tries to display a model for an actor without a valid sprite in Visual mode.
Fixed a possible crash when MODELDEF is reloaded from 2d-mode.
Fixed several things in Doom2_things.cfg.
UDMF Controls plugin:
Fixed several bugs in plugin's sliders logic.
GZDoom Builder now uses SharpCompress.dll instead of SharpZip.dll.
Added PK7 archive support.
PK3 archives now load aprox. 40% faster.
Textures browser now shows Folder/PK3/PK7 folder structure.
TextureBrowserForm is now used to display both Textures and Flats.
ACS scripts from #include and #import directives are now shown in Script name/number dropdowns.
Fixed several cases when ACS scripts lists used in Edit Thing and Edit Linedef forms wasn't updated when they should've (i.e. after compiling a script).
Replaced all doubles with floats.
Script Editor:
Navigator drop-down now updates automatically.
Navigator drop-down now also works for external files.
Added Navigator drop-down support for Decorate and Modeldef.
Things with "hangs" flag are now aligned to ceiling properly in GZDoom Visual mode.
Things can now be added and deleted in GZDoom Visual mode.
Several fixes in Doom, Doom 2, Heretic and Hexen configs (based on Doom Builder 2 SVN 1553 and 1560)
Added "countsecret" thing UDMF flag to configs.
UDMF Controls plugin:
Scale of 3d-floor's sidedefs textures is now applied properly.
Translation of 3d-floor's sidedefs textures is now applied properly.
Added "hidden" UDMF flag.
Tag Explorer plugin:
TreeView is now updated when thing is deleted.
Tag Explorer plugin is now compatible with Doom Builder 2.
Added "Test Map from current position" action (default shortcut is Ctrl-F9), which lets you play the game from cursor position, if you are in 2D-Mode, and from camera location if you are in Visual Mode.
Added "Sync camera position between 2D and 3D modes" (found in Preferences -> Interface -> Options), which automatically centers 2D-mode on camera position when you leave Visual Mode, and places camera at cursor position when you toggle from 2D-mode to Visual Mode (unless you have Visual Mode camera thing in your map).
Several improvements in Draw Rectangle and Draw Ellipse modes: added info label with current bevel amount and subdivision level; bevel amount now applied properly when shape size is smaller than it.
Added two new type handlers that can be used in UDMF ('Thing Type' and 'Thing Class')
Polished the browse icons and browse buttons.
Added more events for plugins to intercept.
- Camera offsets in Visual Modes now changeable in Game Configurations (default is Doom's camera position)
@ Some other stuff dealing with the new dockers I forgot what it's for.
