The editor will fail more gracefully when no D3D device is detected.
In some cases the editor was constantly checking D3D device availability when minimized.
Added more DX-related debug output (only in Debug builds).
Fixed: certain UDMF-only properties were not cleared when pasting map elements from UDMF to non-UDMF maps.
Fixed a bug introduced in r2043: helper objects were not updated in some cases.
Randomize mode: randomized pitch, roll and scale can now be applied to things.
Randomize mode: removed "Relative" option, because results with this option enabled were almost the same as without it.
Classic modes, model rendering: selected models are now rendered using highlight color, so they no longer blend with thing rectangle/circle.
Model rendering, UDMF: scale was applied incorrectly to models with pitch or roll.
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.
When Draw Rectangle or Draw Ellipse mode is enabled, it's settings are now shown in side panel.
Draw Ellipse mode: increased maximum number of sides to 512.
Changed the way tags are shown in Tag Selector controls. Tags without labels are now shown as a number (not "Tag N"), and tags with label are now shown as "N (label)", not "label (N)".
Tag labels are now shown in Thing, Sector and Linedef info panels.
Once again changed the way things are rendered while dragged.
Rearranged the label in PairedIntControl and PairedFieldControl (it is now behind numeric controls).
Optimized MapSet.GetSectorByCoordinates().
Error checks: added "Check unused textures" option.
Replaced MissingTexture3D and UnknownTexture3D.
Sectors mode: restored "Lower/Raise Floor/Ceiling by 8 mp" actions.
Visual mode: in some cases sidedefs were rendered as selected when they were not.
Existing linedefs were not split while drawing new lines in some cases.
Texture and height overrides were not applied correctly in some cases.
Preferences form: "Ctrl+Alt+ScrollUp" and "Ctrl+Alt+ScrollDown" dropdown items were setting the shortcut to "Ctrl+Shift+ScrollUp" and "Ctrl+Shift+ScrollDown".
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.
Angle control (the newer, photoshop-like one): left-clicking inside the control now clamps angle to 45-degree increments. Right-clicking inside the control sets precise angle.
Thing Edit Form: replaced angle control with newer one.
Classic modes: fixed minor rendering artifacts when drawing thing direction arrow.
Fixed a possible crash when rendering thing arrows in classic modes caused by incorrect vertex buffer size calculation.
Reverted changes to texture\flat access when "mixtexturesflats" option is set to true in game configuration.
Plugins: fixed a crash caused by inability to find referenced assembly when loading a plugin, which depends on other plugin(s).
Undo-redo, UDMF: undo information was not created properly for several types of UDMF fields for the last map element in the selection when the selection contained more that 1 element.
Updated documentation.
Maintenance stuff:
Core/Plugins/Plug: made current display location and size information properly available to plugins.
Made Core/Controls/ColorControl available to be used by plugins.
Visual mode: added support for "fogdensity" and "outsidefogdensity" MAPINFO properties.
Sector Info panel now shows the number of sector's sidedefs as well as light and fade colors (UDMF only).
UDMF: Sector and sidedef flags are now copied/pasted when using "Copy Properties" and "Paste Properties" actions.
Fixed: in some cases default texture overrides were used even when corresponding option was disabled.
Sector Edit form: light and fade values were not saved when a value was pasted/entered into text box.
Sector Edit form: "reset value" button was not shown for light and fade values when selected sectors had different light/fade colors.
Reverted Open Map form changes from previous commit (my assumption that map marker is always empty was not correct...)
Updated documentation.
Script editor: pressing "F1" now opens keyword help instead of program manual.
Linedef edit form, Thing edit form: rewritten script support logic. It should now work in the same manner as the rest of controls.
Thing info panel: thing arguments now have proper labels.
Edit forms, UDMF: fields, which are handled by UI, are no longer shown in "Custom" tab.
Visual mode: fixed a crash when loading a model on a video card without Shader model 2.0 support.
Fixed incorrect argument number and changed most of labels in "Cameras and interpolation" section of zdoom_things.cfg.
Visual mode: rendering was broken on video cards without Shader Model 2.0 support.
Engines list was not updated after changing engine in Test button's drop down.
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.
Texture scale controls now have "Link" button.
Thing, Sector (UDMF) and Linedef edit forms now work in realtime mode.
Some more fixes in Edit form realtime update stuff.
Removed some unused variables and functions.
Event lines for "event activators" (ActorMover, Camera and things with Thing_SetGoal special) are now drawn with different color.
Fixed a crash when a Thing with arguments is pasted in Visual modes.
Several other small fixes.
Fixed config error in ZDoom_things.cfg.
Fixed config error in ZDoom_ACS.cfg
TEXTURES patches can now be loaded from anywhere inside resource.
Configs: things from "Cameras and Interpolation" and "Boom Items" categories weren't rendered in Visual modes.
Configs: several new icons are now used for things.
Reverted sectors rendering from 1.12b, because it was done in too hackish way and was causing more and more problems. Models rendered height is now 25% lower instead.
Models rendering height can be toggled between normal and 85% in Preferences->Appearance->"Scale models in Visual modes"
Fixed several small bugs here and there.
Things can now be rotated in visual mode.
Added JPG and TGA image format support.
Fixed: TEXTURES files with names other than "textures.ext" will now be loaded (as an example, files named like "textures.something.txt" or "textures_walls.ccp" will be loaded by (G)ZDoom, but not by Doom Builder 2 or previous versions of GZDB).
Fixed: textures defined in TEXTURES have higher priority in (G)ZDoom than images with the same name in "textures" folder.
Fixed another possible crash when MODELDEF is reloaded.
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.
Enhanced scripting workflow.
Thing and linedef arguments can now have default value in configuration files.
Fixed laggy visual camera movement on systems with big uptime.
Fixed incorrect alignment of Things with "hangs" flag in GZDoom Visual mode.
Fixed Editor crash when nodebuilder fails to build map. A window with error description will be shown instead.
Doom light levels were used even in maps in non-doom map format.
Tag Explorer plugin:
Elements list wasn't updated when map element was deleted.
Pugin wasn't disposed properly, which may led to Doom Builder 2 crash on map close.
Fixed plugin crash after opening another map.
Fixed unresponsive text entry in Filter text box.
Fixed plugin crash when Doom Builder can't determmine thing category ("UNKNOWN" category will be used instead).
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.
Visplane Explorer plugin will show warning message instead of chashing if current map is not in Doom map format.
Fixed a crash when trying to undo sector creation in Visual Modes.
Fixed incorrect colors in Script Editor.
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.
Fixed incorrect rendering of MD3 models with more than one MD3 Surface.
Fixed a bug introduced in 1.06b when models weren't rendered in Visual mode when Fullbright mode was on.
MODELDEFs and models can now be loaded from PK3 resources (does anybody know if models or MODELDEFs can be stored in WADs?).
Negative scale and zOffset are now correctly parsed from MODELDEFs (model surfaces may be inverted though).
Fixed a crash while reading MODELDEFs when Operation System's decimal separator was set to comma.
Fixed a crash when user changed Thing type in Visual mode to a new one with model override, which wasn't previously used in a map.
Fixed a bug introduced in 1.06 when models weren't rendered in Visual mode when Fullbright mode was on.
Non-breaking space is now correctly handled by all Doom Builder's data parsers.
ColorPicker plugin:
Fixed a crash when user attempted to open ColorPicker window to edit sector properties in Visual mode, using hilighted surface as selection source, without selecting anything before doing so.
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.
Fixed incorrect rendering of 3D-floors, masked and transparent surfaces introduced in 1.05...
Additive transparent surfaces aren't affected by dynamic lights now (because they aren't affected in GZDoom).
Added Color Picker plugin
Point, Flicker and Pulse light animation should now look almost exactly as seen in GZDoom.
Fixed a bug when editing thing properties in Visual mode didn't update visual thing.
Fixed incorrect doom-style walls shading when sector has "lightcolor" property set.
Fixed "Index was outside the bounds of the array in CalculateNormalsAndShading()" error.
GZDoomBuilder will now show error message prior to failing.
Added "Dynamic light size" slider, which matches GZDoom's "Light size" option.
Added "Dynamic light intensity" slider, which matches GZDoom's "Light intensity" option.
Fixed Vavoom light rendering (was rendered as additive light, light radius was twise smaller than in GZDoom)
Fixed bug in light rendering introduced in v1.03 (light radius was set to -1 when switching from 2D to 3D mode).
Increased dynamic lights rendering performance (currently I'm getting around 25 FPS in Spawn's MAP01 with 32 dynamic lights and rendering distance set to 3000, was getting 4-6 FPS in GZDoomBuilder 1.02).
Several fixes in animated lights rendering (secondary light radius can now be smaller than primary light radius, Pulse Light's maximum radius was rendered twise bigger than in GZDoom).
All dynamic light types are now rendered correctly.
Added Doom-style shading on walls (walls going from west to east are slightly darker than walls going from north to south)
Masked surfaces are now correctly lit by dynamic lights.
Fixed several bugs in models rendering.
- UDMF TEXTMAP now contains the indices of elements as comment next to the structure header.
- Thing cages in Visual Mode now also get the selection and highlight color so that a selection and highlight on things without sprite can also be seen.
- Changed the menu and status bar color to Tan instead of Blue for the default XP theme
- Fixed a crash after a warning when Direct3D could not be started
- Fixed highlight and selection in visual mode when shader model 2.0 is not available
- Added option to turn off glow animation of highlight and selection in visual mode
