VTP Development Log

<release 1.1 (110804), SVN revision 7570>

11.08.04

• Enviro: Exposed support for stereo modes HORIZONTAL_SPLIT and VERTICAL_SPLIT.

11.08.01

• RJ: Added very rudimentary install and packaging support to the CMake build system. The build files will now have an INSTALL target. Added an option USE_CPACK which will add a PACKAGE target if it is switched on.

11.07.31

• vtui: Fixed Distance dialog Line/Path radio buttons (fbp issue)

11.07.30

• VTBuilder: implemented command Elevation: Generate Contours.
• Fixed the fltkSimple example application.
• Enviro: Changed 'Move' mode to use Alt modifier key for up/down, to be consistent to 'Select and Move' mode.

<release 1.09 (110727), SVN revision 7556>

11.07.27

• Enviro: Added 'every N meters' option to Contour dialog, making it significantly more useful.
• Enviro: When showing the Style dialog for a new Line layer, show the Line geometry panel first.
• vtlib: Fixed draping of 2D polylines (such as contours) on terrain with vertical exaggeration.
• all apps: Fixed all dialogs to make the 'OK' button default, not the 'Cancel' button.

11.07.24

• Enviro: Began work on code-level docs. Removed SpecificTerrain and other minor cleanup.
• Enviro: Moved MapOverviewEngine to vtlib. Moved TerrainPicker and GlobePicker to vtlib/core/PickEngines.

<release 1.08 (110723), SVN revision 7539>

11.07.23

• vtdata: More work on vtFeatureSetPolygon's FixGeometry and SelectBadFeatures, added RemoveColinearPoints.
• Exposed them in VTBuilder as Raw: Clean polygon geometry and Raw: Select bad geometry.
• vtdata: fix very minor memleak in Triangulate.cpp
• Enviro: fixed TParamsDlg to make 'OK' the default button, not 'Cancel'.

11.07.20

• VTBuilder: Draw polygon holes as dotted lines to tell them from outer edges.

11.07.18

• renamed StartOfFilename (taking wxString) to StartOfFilenameWX to avoid Mac compiler ambiguity (and prepare for wx 3.x)

<release 1.07 (110717), SVN revision 7539>

11.07.17

• Fixed support for geographic CRS in vtBuilding::DetermineLocalFootprints (adopt scale from the global conversion); the symptom was "swollen" 3D buildings with slightly wrong scale

11.07.15

• RJ: Fix for saving high resolution snapshots

11.07.14

• RJ: Fix for Enviro save snapshot in multi-threading environment.

11.07.11

• Moved LogCatcher to vtui.
• Made SUPPORT_WSTRING=0 build (at least on Windows).
• Fixed the rotation in vtLoadModel (again, sigh).

11.07.10

• vtdata: in vtElevationGrid::FillGaps, replaced new/delete arrays with std::vector, which solves a potential memory leak on early exit from the function

<release 1.05 (110708), SVN revision 7530>

11.07.08

• CManager: Add menu command "Model: Fix normals (apply smoothing)"
• vtdata: added vtTin::AppendFrom, and accessors.
• VTBuilder: renamed Layer Flatten to Layer Combine. Added support for combining TIN layers.

11.07.07

• vtdata: added vtTin::WriteGMS
• VTBuilder: added support for exporting TIN as GMS
• vtlib: Fixed lighting (materials) by turning LIGHTING ON, which solves the problem that CManager was rendering everything white.
• Enviro and CManager: replaced .wrl with .dae in GUI for supported file formats

11.07.06

• RJ: vtlib: Added support for using OpenGL buffer objects. Turned off by default.
• RJ: Use glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS) directly to establish number of fixed pipeline texture units available.
• RJ: Added logging of the OSG threading model being using.
• Display the version number in Enviro's startup dialog.

<release 1.03 (110705), SVN revision 7520>

11.07.05

• Enviro: Fixed removing layers from a terrain, and removing layers which contained structures that were off the terrain
• Enviro: Smooth continuous update when making buildings.
• Enviro: Added option to constrain building point to right angles. Try to prevent user from entering degenerate building points.
• Enviro: Removed old mfcEnviro code.
• vtlib: Added class ElasticPolyline
• RJ: prepare GraphicsWindowWX for OSG 3.0 support

11.07.04

• Enviro: added global options to enable joystick and spacenavigator, rather than just always using them if present.

<release 1.01 (110703), SVN revision 7515>

11.07.03

• RJ: Added build option AVOID_OSG_INDICES. This ensures that fast paths are always used when rendering.
• Fixed single-loaded-texture in vtTerrain.
• Removed old-style '4x4 textures' from vtTerrain and from the GUI.
• Removed vtImageRead. Replaced most usage of vtImage with osg::Image, added vtImageWrapper.
• Removed vtOverlappedTiledBitmap and vtOverlappedTiledImage.
• Removed parts of vtDynTerrainGeom that did 4x4 textures.
• Changed Enviro shortcut for reshade terrain to Ctrl+H.
• Removed vtScene::DrawFrameRateChart.
• Added TransformStaticVisitor and use it on every loaded model, to ensure that Optimizer::FLATTEN_STATIC_TRANSFORMS will succeed.
• Added vtdata/Version.h to synchronize the 'version' shown in each application's About box. Bump version to 1.01.

11.07.02

• Fixed vtLoadModel to correctly apply Z/Y flip.
• Fixed ApplyVertexTransform to actually work.
• CManager: added command to fix ambient materials (which are frequently too dark) by scaling them from diffuse.
• Added vtTransform::Scale which takes 1 argument for when you don't need to set 3.
• Fixed SRTerrain to handle elevation grids with non-unit vertical scale.

11.07.01

• Quick fix for Enviro::OnMouse not being called.
• Show version '1.0' in About boxes.

<release 1.0 (110701), SVN revision 7506>

11.06.30

• Added a .dot file to generate the vtp library chart (for http://vterrain.org/Implementation/), and a script to call it.
• CManager: Fixed a crash on failing to load a model.

11.06.29

• Various fixes for Mac OSX build (SR)

11.06.27

• Major clean up of old build files (RJ)
• remove some '#pragma comment lib', which are now handled by CMake
• VTBuilder: added menu command 'Add Feature from WKT' (only does polylines)

11.06.26

• CManager: made it work on Linux
• CManager: fix to handle models with no LOD distance
• CManager: enable 'x'-key OSG stats for (also in Enviro and other wx-based VTP apps)
• wxosg: moved the shared canvas functionality of Enviro/wxSimple/CManager (and several dialog classes) to a new library 'wxosg', for things that depend on both wxWidgets and vtlib/OSG.

11.06.25

• Enviro: Made default 3D cursor thinner and consistently colored (turned off shading).
• Enviro: moved CarEngine and Vehicles modules to vtlib/core.

11.06.22

• Enviro: Added DriveDlg; it is clunky but it's a start

11.06.18

• Linux build fixes.  Tidying up bitmap resources.
• Removed usage of 'using namespace osg'
• Re-enabled i18n in the wxFormBuilder files
• Fixed the upload scripts to use sftp
• Renamed the doxygen files to 'Doxyfile' so that doxygen finds them automatically

11.06.17

• VTBuilder: also look on ../../.. for Data; that's one place it might be if you used CMake on Linux

11.06.15

• vtlib: added GetRootState(), change SetGlobalWireframe to use it

11.06.12

• Enviro: made the layer view dockable (as a panel, not a dialog)

11.06.11

• Enviro/CManager: extended the SceneGraphDlg to handle more types of node, and added option to output the scene graph as a .dot file
• VTBuilder added command: Elevation: Compute Difference Layer

11.06.07

• Created a new simple vtlib demo application (called Simple) which uses osgViewer so it doesn't depend on any application framework

11.05.24

• Enviro: extend -elev command line argument to handle either BT or ITF, and provide usable defaults for deriving color from grid

11.05.22

• all: add new fence style which uses hog wire
• VTBuilder: added command 'write species to HTML', which is only useful to the person updating the VTP website with the plant library.

11.05.16

• Enviro/vtlib: support colorable textured materials with transparency

11.05.15

• vtlib: renamed some methods to be more OSG-like
• vtlib: avoid repeated calls to vtImageRead for structure materials
• vtlib: more refcounting and better containers to reduce manual deletion
• vtlib: removed almost all the storage overhead in vtMesh so it is now just a set of convenience methods on osg::Geometry
• vtlib: renamed CustomTerrain to BruteTerrain, removed older unused modules
• vtlib: support 3d polyline abstract layers with a different CRS than the terrain.
• Enviro: terrain parameter dialog: fixed abstracts/images to expand with window.
• Enviro: terrain parameter dialog: allow abstract features from anywhere, not just data path.
• VTBuilder: fix display of materials in Linear Structures dialog

11.05.14

• vtlib: fix buildings to sit on scaled terrain height
• vtlib: began some very extensive cleanup of the interface between vtlib and OSG, and other cleanup:
  • changed vtMaterial, vtMesh, vtTextMesh, vtImage to use osg's simple reference counting instead of the older "Release()" mechanism
  • removed support for scene graph libraries other than OSG
  • removed "Base" classes
  • replaced usage of vtFont with osgText::Font

11.05.14 - 11.06.08

• Migrated from using wxDesigner for the GUIs (.wdr files) to the more free wxFormBuilder (.fbp files)
• Significant simplification/reorganization of vtlib: removed all ports except OSG, removed most of the abstraction layer between vtlib and OSG
• Many improvements to the CMake build system.

 11.05.07

• vtlib: avoid libMini tileset crashes with osgViewer changes, by enforcing "single" threaded OSG

11.04.11

• vtlib: allow elevation path to be a URL (for the new experimental 'external' terrain support)

11.04.03

• Enviro: add -elev=file command-line argument to allow Enviro to function as a simple TIN viewer.
• vtlib: allow absolute elevation paths in vtTerrain.

11.03.29

• vtosg: Change TextureUnitManager to use its own osg::GraphicsContext (RJ)

11.03.27

• vtlib: fix SpaceNav logging (on Windows) to not falsely claim it found a device
• vtlib: fix small memleak (no engines were deleted because root pointer was getting wiped)

11.03.24

• vtosg: Merged GraphicsWindowWX.cpp into GraphicsWindowWX.h and removed GraphicsWindow.cpp, updated wxSimple and GLUTSimple to work with osgViewer (RJ)

11.03.20

• VTBuilder: made 'Generate Grid from 3D Points' a cancellable operation
• VTBuilder/vtdata: add support for WMS servers which need SERVICE=WMS to clarify what to serve

11.03.16

• VTBuilder/vtdata: Improve.tin reader (vtTin::ReadGMS) to handle more variations of the "GMS" (now Aquaveo) TIN format

11.02.21

• vtdata: add 2D picking of closest point on a 3D polyline
• VTBuilder: clarify RawLayer "scale" command to scale horizontally
• VTBuilder: add commands to scale and offset vertically (for 3D raw layers)

11.02.15

• VTBuilder/vtdata: improve raw point import from CSV to support CR as end of line (in addition to LF and CR-LF)

11.02.02

• vtlib: RJ external-surface-work-in-progress branch revisions 7319 to 7352 back in trunk; not quite ready for use yet

11.01.28

• VTBuilder: Fix support for compressed image tilesets with alpha values (Stefan: explicitly nailed internal texture compression format down to dxt1, otherwise we may end up with DXT3 internal format that is not supported by libmini)

11.01.23

• VTBuilder: improve WMS dialog to accept server URLs that already have "GetCapabilities" in them

<release 110123, SVN revision 7338>

11.01.22

• VTBuilder: avoid making all elevation sticky during a single sampling
• VTBuilder: always free triangle bins when a TIN's data is cleared
• VTBuilder: added 'batch conversion of elevation' to Special menu
• VTBuilder: fixed significant memleak in creating TIN from 3d points.

11.01.21

• VTBuilder: support for paging TINs at sample time
• vtdata: version 2 of ITF format adds extents (backwards compatible)
• Enviro/vtlib: safety check to keep contour generation from overrunning memory on very large terrain e.g. tilesets

11.01.18

• VTBuilder: Speed up vtElevationGrid::FillGaps significantly by filling both horizontally and vertically
• VTBuilder: Mark TINs as modified when their CRS changes
• VTBuilder: New drawing option to draw TINs simplified (just their outline)
• VTBuilder: Show size in memory for TIN layer properties
• vtdata: Allow ITF files to load even if they lack a CRS

11.01.16

• VTBuilder: add error checking on paging in BT files
• VTBuilder: fix case of bitmap being unnecessarily allocated for out-of-core elevation layers
• VTBuilder: improve cancel logic in SampleElevationToTilePyramids
• VTBuilder: increase open file limit to 2048 on Windows
• vtConvert: add options to convert a whole directory
• vtdata: add -32767 as a NODATA value on GDAL elevation import
• Moved up to libpng 1.5.0

11.01.02

• VTBuilder: assume MapInfo files of unknown type should be loaded as Raw

10.11.13

• vtosg: More work on the experimental OSG Viewer support.
• Upated to use the non-deprecated version of wxGLCanvas (support for the old one is going in the next version of wxWidgets).

10.07.23

• vtosg: began adding experimental support for the osgViewer class (USE_OSG_VIEWER)

10.07.23

• Enviro: initial integration of NVPerfSDK

10.06.20

• vtdata: improve compatibility with libpng 1.4

10.06.06

• build: Updates and bug fixes to the CMake build files to allow building on Unix like systems.

10.05.21

• build: improve Makefiles: enable separate include dirs and libs for squish and quikgrid, remove unnecessary linkage. on MacOS X: fix linkage with quikgrid when enabled.

10.03.30

• VTBuilder: support ".enzi" as alternate name for .xyz files
• VTBuilder: support drag-n-drop of xyz/enzi files

10.03.13

• VTBuilder: Avoid problem with European decimal punctuation in WMS queries
• default SUPPORT_CURL to 1

10.01.18

• numerous tweaks to improve compilation with gcc, including reducing warnings

10.01.11

• vtlib: support 3dconnexion SpaceNav with x64 windows

09.12.19

• vtosg: more explicit cleanup in vtScene::Shutdown, to support the case of vtScene being used multiple times

09.11.04

• vtui: added Load Path button to distance dialog

09.09.06

• vtdata: solve an observed numeric precision issue with CallTriangle/Centroid by adding Centroid2 and changing how CallTriangle uses it
• VTBuilder: when generating a TIN from raw polygons, ask which field has height
• Enviro/vtlib: support a water TIN which has different extents than the base terrain

09.09.03

• vtlib: extended the contour converter to also create polyline features
• Enviro: added contour dialog, menu command Terrain: Add Contour

09.09.01

• Enviro: fix route dialog to start new route, not fence

09.08.26

• vtlib: fixed one of the circumstances where Felkel generated a bad roof (RJ)

<release 090826, SVN revision 7223>

09.08.25

• vtdata: fix issue in LoadFromGRD with reading 4 bytes into a short
• linux: add MINIDATA to Makefile link paths

09.08.24

• vtdata: allow 4th 'locked' value on vertices in vtTin::ReadGMS()

09.08.23

• vtlib: support for saving shadow state to VTST
• Enviro: restored Layer Dialog control of structure shadows

09.08.22

• vtlib: in vtTiledGeom, enable true ortho culling in DoRender() by setting fpu=0
• vtlib: in vtTiledGeom, support querying normals in FindAltitudeAtPoint()

09.08.18

• vtlib: Call makecurrent in vtTiledGeom::DoRender which fixes behavior when switching between multiple tileset terrains (KG)

09.08.15

• vtlib: fix typo that prevented GenerateContours() from working
• vtlib: fix another case to prevent building highlight spheres from casting a shadow

09.08.12

• Enviro: fix fog distance in runtime ephemeris dialog (KG)

09.08.05

• vtlib: fix tiny leak in vtIntersectionEngine
• vtlib: fix tracking of vtImage objects by vtMaterial by using an osg::ref_ptr
• vtlib: in AddMultiTextureOverlay, fix support for image layers on tilesets with non-meter-unit CRS (KG)

09.08.04

• vtdata: added handy string fns vtConcatArray and vtExtractArray
• VTBuilder: implemented MRU menus (saved to the options .xml file) for projects, layers, and imports

09.08.03

• Enviro/vtlib: added support for a TIN water surface, exposed in GUI
• vtdata: added vtTin::SetSurfaceType

09.08.01

• VTBuilder: fix status bar (GetHeightFromTerrain) to always report height of top (most visible) elevation
• VTBuilder: extend 'generate TIN from Raw' to handle regular polygons with height from a field
• VTBuilder: set modified on 'Merge shared TIN vertices'

09.07.31

• VTBuilder: mark layers as modified when they are reprojected
• VTBuilder: add progress reporting on load of large SHP files
• VTBuilder: use double-progress for elevation layer rendering, to reduce excessive dialog open/close on modern, fast computers
• vtdata: avoid using sscanf into a bool in ColorMap::Load (seems to fix obscure release-only stack corruption)
• vtui: added SetProgressDialogParent
• vtosg: to avoid some issues with memory usage, added USE_IMAGE_CACHE which defaults to 0 to disable vtosg's cache

09.07.26

• VTBuilder: added command "Select structure by index"
• Enviro: added command "Write Elevation to BT"

09.07.21

• VTBuilder: fix issue with 8-bit TIF images w/o a colortable
• VTBuilder: fix display of RGB under cursor for image layers
• VTBuilder: fix sampling of elevation to not exclude exact edge case

09.07.20

• fixes for OSX build (Stefan)

<release 090505, SVN revision 7174>

09.04.25

• vtdata: put check in FillGapsSmooth to exit if no gaps are filled on a pass
• vtlib: added vtRoute::_DeleteStruct

09.03.29

• VTBuilder: fix LoadFromGDAL to not accept Local CRS, because later operations depends on it
• VTBuilder: disable "Create Overviews in Memory" unless LOD 0 is in memory
• vtosg: fix support for angled roofs on buildings with footprint holes (RJ)
• vtosg: added module LightSpacePerspectiveShadowTechnique to projects

09.03.27

• vtdata: fix support for non-square grids in SaveToXYZ
• all: moved up to OSG 2.8.0, which support recent improvements to vtosg's shadow code

09.03.18

• vtlib: created an unshadowed group on each terrain for things that should not be affected at all by shadows, and moved abstract layers into it, solving the problem that they were sometimes affected

09.03.15

• vtdata: added datum equivalency for RT90
• vtdata: RMF: fix potential stack corruption with bad 'shortSize' by using a temp variable

09.03.13

• experimental CMake build support files added (RJ)
• fixes for stack corruption where %d was being used to read into a short (RJ)
• VTBuilder: fix boundary condition when sampling from an image layer (Stefan)

09.03.11

• VTBuilder: fix case where an elevation tile with invalid size 2 is exported (Stefan)

09.02.25

• prSimple: fixed build by adding minidata project to solutions

09.02.19

• vtdata: added vtFindString

09.02.17

• vtlib: avoid shadows cast from structure highlights
• vtlib: avoid creating a vtGeom for every tree, instead one per appearance using multiple-parenting under each transform, reduces memory per tree by ~38%

09.02.11

• VTBuilder: remove redundant "Show Toolbar" from Options dialog
• VTBuilder: fix bug in SampleImagery which was producing no output (red pixels) in a common case

09.01.29

• Enviro: add default locations for GDAL_DATA and PROJ_LIB, to permit running the Windows binaries on a new machine without doing an install
• Enviro: expose 'texture LOD factor' in the terrain parameters, which is a better name for 'prange' which used to be only exposed at runtime

09.01.22

• vtosg: abstract layers should not cast shadows

09.01.16

• Fix for building against OSG double matrices (RJ)

09.01.13

• added quikgrid to svn deps folder from gcode as an svn:external

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