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, 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).
Added, Tag Explorer plugin: a separate category for each generalized/predefined effect is now created when "Sort by action special" sort mode is used.
Added, Edit Effect window: normal and generalized effects can now be set at the same time.
Fixed, Edit Action window: in some cases Generalized actions were incorrectly processed.
Fixed, Edit Effect window: in some cases Generalized effects were incorrectly processed.
Fixed, Select Similar window: Tab control was incorrectly anchored.
Fixed, Nodes Viewer mode, cosmetic: segs angles were calculated incorrectly when showing nodes in classic format.
Fixed: HiRes textures, which didn't override any texture or flat were not loaded.
Fixed, Tag Explorer plugin: linedef action categories were missing title when "Sort by action special" sort mode was used.
Cosmetic: renamed "Grid Setup" action to "Grid and Backdrop Setup".
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, long texture names: textures located in a directory/pk3/pk7 root can't have long texture names.
Fixed, texture selector controls, long texture names: both long and short texture names should be added to texture name auto-completion list.
Changed: "Grid Increase" and "Grid Decrease" actions can now be bound to mouse wheel.
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).
General interface: selection info is now always displayed.
Visual mode: you can now hold Alt-Shift or Ctrl-Alt while selecting sidedefs to stop selecting connected sidedefs when already (un)selected sidedef is encountered.
Added, Numeric Textbox: you can now use "+++" and "---" prefixes to incrementally increase or decrease result values by given value.
Fixed, Numeric Textbox: fixed a potential divide by zero exception when using "/" prefix in numeric textboxes with decimal input enabled.
Fixed, Thing Info panel: relative z position of things with "+SPAWNCEILING" flag was incorrect.
Changed: Update checker now displays messages using MessageBoxes when called manually.
Map Analysis: changed result descriptions for Unknown Texture and Missing Texture checks.
Doom map format: renamed "Secret" linedef flag to "Shown as 1-sided on automap".
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_RadiusGive stuff).
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.
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.
Renamed the default program configuration file from "GZBuilder.cfg" to "GZBuilder.default.cfg".
Changed the default keys of "Move Thing Left\Right\Forward\Back" actions to arrow keys (was Ctrl + arrow keys).
Updated documentation: added "Command Line Parameters" topic.
Changed, Numeric textboxes: trailing zeros are no longer displayed to reduce visual noise.
Fixed, paired numeric controls: in some cases culture-specific decimal separator was not used.
Fixed, map loading: inability to initialize D3D device is now handled a bit more gracefully.
Fixed, main toolbar context menu: we should suppress context menu closing only when user clicks on a menu item while holding Shift key.
Fixed, Game configurations: several Skulltag things were not included in many Zandronum game configurations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Added Selection Groups options to Edit menu.
Selection Groups can now be cleared using either Edit -> Clear Group or Ctrl-Shift-[group number] shortcut.
Toolbar button groups can now be toggled using context menu. Hold "Shift" to toggle several button groups at once.
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.
Dynamic lights defined in GLDEFS are now rendered in Visual modes (currently only one light per Thing is supported).
Several values from (Z)MAPINFO are now used in Visual modes.
Added "Reload GLDEFS", "Reload (Z)MAPINFO" and "Reload MODELDEF" menu options (in "Tools" section).
MODELDEF parser now checks which model(s) is/are used in first frame.
Dynamic lights are now created with more meaningful default parameters.
Added errors and warnings indicator to main window.
Fog rendering (including colored fog in maps in UDMF format).
Fixed lots of bugs in model loading and rendering.
Added "Toggle GZDoom Effects" button, which currently toggles dynamic lights, models and fog rendering.
Model loading process is more verbose now, so if something goes wrong, check Errors and Warnings window (F11) for details.
ColorPicker plugin:
You can now select surfaces in 3D-mode and then open Color Picker window to edit sector colors of sectors, to which these surfaces belong.
If nothing is selected, you can hilight a surface and then open Color Picker window to edit sector colors of sector, to which hilighted surface belongs.
If nothing is selected, you can hilight a Light Thing and then open Color Picker window to edit it's properties.
