18, November, 2009

• W8: 3DS Importer: A small bug preventing importing models lacking KeyFramer info and transformations has been fixed. Thanks to Dodd for reporting.

13, November, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.10

• General: FreeImage.dll was uploaded and is available to download from 'mad god's Tiny Hut' site.

• W8: General: LEAD Tools are no longer used by the editor.

• W8: General: All Texture Files are now viewed using Free Image library. Thus it is necessary to download FreeImage.dll and put it near ComsicForge.exe.

• W8: General: All external Texture Files are now automatically converted into TGA format if they are not in TGA format while copied to W8 data folders. This is done using Free Image library. Thus it is necessary to download FreeImage.dll and put it near ComsicForge.exe.

10, November, 2009

• W8: 3D Model Importer Dialog: Added ability to modify materials prior to importing data to W8 models. Selecting a Material highlights the Faces that using it.

09, November, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.09

• W8: 3DS Importer: Now imports 3DS models correctly. Allows import of animated models.

06, November, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.08

• W8: Main Dialog: Menu command "Find Unused Items' Texture Files..." has been added to the "Tools" menu. Determines the unused Item Models' Textures and proposes to delete them.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Undo & Redo now restore the Face selection that was on the moment of action.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Returned ability to alter Meshes' Vertices & Faces using positioning/rotation controls (scaling always affects the whole Mesh for now). See W8Tutorial.rtf for brief description.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Layout has been slightly changed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: It is now possible to directly import 3DS model as a Mesh. Hopefully soon after that I would be able to improve 3DS importer.

• W8: 3DS Importing dialog has been slightly changed, but functionality has remained the same (crappy).

• W8: Some more small tweaks here & there.

02, November, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.07

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Added ability to create a new Terrain Mesh from 3D Model stored in OBJ (Wavefront) file. It is under 'Add Terrain Mesh' menu item in the context menu in the mesh list.

• W8: Added ability to import 3D Models stored in OBJ (Wavefront) file. It is under Main Window's 'Tools' menu.

• W8: Location Editor: DDS images cannot be converted by LEAD Tools, so the Editor does not try to convert them to TGA automatically anymore. You have to convert them manually either before or after importing a model.

30, October, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.06

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Texture Controls work differently now and renamed into 'Texture Adjustment'. Instead of implicitly calling 'Generate TCs' finctionality they now simply alter Texture placement on the selected Faces.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Contraction & Rotation Texture Controls are temporarily (I hope so) removed, only shifting & mirroring controls left.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: 'U Mirror' and 'V Mirror' buttons are now under 'Texture Adjustment' tab and subsequent Texture adjustments do not reset that mirroring.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: 'Retexturing Landscape' dialog now has texture preview control.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Wall Tab: Command 'Custom Selection'->'Select all Faces having parameters as per selected Face' now works properly.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed slight discrepancy in the Toolbar.

• W8: Location Editor: Items Tab: Fixed minor bug occuring on Items addition.

05, October, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.05

• W8: Location Editor: "Retexture Landscape (Surface) Mesh" menu command has been introduced for Meshes (in the list view). See W8Tutorials.rtf for details.

14, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.04

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a new crash bug preventing Location cloning.

11, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.03

• W8: 3D Window: A new command 'Outline Selected Entity Through Others' has been added. Toggles outlining to be visible/invisible from behind other objects. Hot key is 'U'. Default is TRUE (as it was before).

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug that was causing the game to crash if there are no Particle Systems in a Location.

• W8: Location Editor: Saving Location changes is now more robust: whenever the crash occurs during saving (which is unlikely anyway) the data will remain intact.

09, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.02

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed bug with selecting Light Sources to clone.

• W8: Location Editor: Sun Light is now not being deleted during Clearing Location.

• W8: Location Editor: Monsters Tab: Fixed Monster Group insertion bug.

08, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.01.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed small bug occuring during promotion of an orpahned Terrain Mesh.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed crash bug occuring when trying to add Physical Faces from a Terrain Mesh while there is currently no Physical Faces exist at all.

07, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 3.00.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug related to Monsters & Monster Groups. Could cause crash during Monster Groups deletion.

07, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.99.

• W8: Location Editor: The 'Clear Location' command now has option to spare Materials (do not delete them).

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug during saving Locations. Occasionally could corrupt the Location data otherwise just corrupted Automap Info.

04, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.98.

• W8: Location Editor: Nasty bug occuring during addition of Terrain Meshes is fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Context menu to add new Terrain Meshes pops up when you right-click Mesh list at no particular Mesh. Before nothing popped up.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: In one of the previous versions ability to specify 'Height Map' while creating a surface-based mesh has been introduced. See W8Tutorials.rtf for details.

03, September, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.97.

• W8: Location Editor: Crash bug during creation of new Location is fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Added 'From MS3D (MilkShape) File...' command under 'Add Terrain Mesh' menu for Terrain Meshes.

• W7: Map Editor: For ANSI version fixed saving of map names. Thanks to Jan for reporting it and making me fix it. I wander if anyone using CF still has Win95 or Win95..?

27, August, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.96.

• W8: Location Editor: Materials Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Lights Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Items Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Monster Generators Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Cubes Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Named Position Points Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Camera Routes Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Way Points Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Monsters Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Halos Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Triggers Tab: Undo/Redo functionality implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: A lot of changes have been introduced into the code. Undo functionality have some chance to be buggy. Please edit with care before you are sure that it works all right. Please send me any information asap if something is dodgy.

14, July, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.95.

• W8: Location Editor: Introduced Undo/Redo functionality. Only for Terrain & Physical Walls Tabs at the moment.

• W8: Location Editor Dialog: Layout has been changed slightly. Apply/Discard buttons have been removed (remained in the menu). Undo/Redo buttons have been placed instead.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Layout has been changed slightly.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Detect and Delete Redundant Regions' command has been removed due to redundancy. Sorry for the pun. :)

• W8: Location Editor: 'Delete Redundant Terrain Vertices' command has been removed. This would be performed every time during 'Rebuild OCTree' or 'Fix OCTree'.

• W8: Location Editor: Regions Tab has been removed due to redundancy and complication. You should not be bothered about Regions anymore since they all generated automatically when you execute 'Rebuild Octree' command and updated in the background. 'Create Region' command for a Mesh has been spared as a quick fix for a Mesh visibility problem when you don't want to wait for a 'Rebuild Octree' to finish.

• W8: Location Editor: General Tab: RLK Optimization flag has been removed whatsoever. Since that version RLK Optimization will be disabled as soon as any changes to Location is introduced (terrain or object related).

• W8: Location Editor: Object picking in 3D Window is now somewhat faster.

16, June, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.91.

• W8: 3D Window: Mouse wheel is now can be used to move camera back/forth. 5x times faster if Shift key is pressed at the moment.

• W8: Item Editor: A crash bug has been fixed (when an item is selected whose 3D model is missing).

• W8: Particle Systems icon has been changed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Page layout has been changed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Some operations on Meshes now performed swiftly, though saving the Location afterwards will take longer time.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: It is now prohibited to move/rotate/scale separate Terrain Mesh Vertices or Faces - only the whole Terrain Mesh could be altered. Per-Vertex and per-Face alteration will be re-introduced later.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Rotation of Terrain Meshes have become more reliable - it is now always possible to return a Mesh to no-rotation state and Meshes will never be deformed during the rotation due to the float rounding errors.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Scaling of Terrain Meshes have become more reliable - it is now always possible to return a Mesh to scale 1 and the axes to scale a Mesh are now being figured out in a kind of 'smart' way so scaling is performed correctly in most cases. For custom cases the functionality to manually define 'OX' axis of the Mesh via two Mesh's vertices is available.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Faces Tab: Page layout has been changed.

• W8: W8Tutorials.rtf has been updated to reflect the changes.

• W7: Incident Editor: The meaning of script command 'Play sound' has been discovered (by Jean-Francois Beaulieu) and implemented.

• W6/W7: Added 'Clear All Data' command under the 'Tools' menu. Guess what it does...

28, May, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.90.

• W8: 3D Model Editor: Fixed a crash bug appearing when editing a model with at least one Light Source or Particle System.

• W8: Modify Animated 3D Model Dialog: Fixed a bug preventing updates (and sometimes probably cancelling them) when a Model is being changed (Frames are being added/deleted, Faces are being added/deleted/modified, etc).

• W8: 3DWindow: Added functionality to Focus Selected Entity by pushing button 'V'.

• W8: 3DWindow: 3D Menu now shows the hot keys for all operations.

• W8: 3DWindow: Animated textures are now played using the 'Texture Change Frequency' parameter found in the Material, so some Textures will show slow animation and some - fast.

• W8: 3DWindow: Particle systems are now showed very close to how they will look like in the game. I got round to them at last...

• W8: Location Editor: Halos: Halos are now rotated to always face the camera. Just like in Game.

• W8: Location Editor: View Distance will now be set to 100 if it is less than 100 (during the dialog startup)).

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects & Halos: When saving a location Editor now automatically adds a fake Halo so you don't have to worry about adding a fake Halo yourself. You won't see that fake Halo in the editor, also warning about the bug is removed from Dynamic Objects & Halos tabs. Reminder: fake halo is required because the last object is not shown in the game (Game bug).

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems: When saving a location Editor now automatically adds a fake Particle System so you don't have to worry about adding a fake Particle System yourself. You won't see that fake Particle System in the editor, also warning about the bug is removed from Particle System tab. Reminder: fake Particle System is required because the last Particle System is not shown in the game (Game bug).

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems: Several new parameters have been discovered.

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems: It is now possible to create new Particle Systems by cloning Particle Systems from Monsters/Spells/Missiles 3D Models.

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems: You can select a Particle System in the 3D Window by clicking on a particle belonging to that system or very close to it.

• W8: Location Editor: Light Sources: 'Sun' Light Sources are now modifiable. You can change the Sun's position and then recalculate Sun Light over Terrain thus creating different shadowing at a Location.

• W8: Item Editor: Initiative/To Hit/AC are now editable up to -50, Regeneration values are now editable up to -20.

• W8: Monster Editor: Initiative/HP Regen/Resistances/Attack Rating/Attributes/Casting Power/Poison Strength are now editable up to 255; Attacks & Swings are now editable up to 50; AC are now editable up to -99;

• W8: Monster Editor: XP for the monster is now ediatable up to 20 millions (instead of 8 millions).

• W8: Monster/Missile/Spell Editor: 3D Model is reloaded when it is modified from those dialogs using 'Modify Animated 3D Model' dialog.

• W8: Monster/Missile/Spell Editor: The list of 3D Models (in combobox) is refreshed if the script file has been altered.

• W6/W7: Monsters' AC is now editable up to -99, Monsters' Poison Strength is now editable up to 255

• W8: W8Tutorials.rtf has been updated.

• W8: Some new bugs could have been introduced. Please report me about them.

15, April, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.84.

• General: Tried to make Apply/Discard buttons placement consistent throughout the application.

• General: A couple of small tweaks.

• W8: RGB controls have been replaced by a Color Picker control.

• W8: Location: Camera Routes: It is now possible to create a new camera based on the existing camera in on of the Locations.

• W6/W7: It is now possible to assing new names to the Maps.

26, February, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.83.

• W7: It is now possible to edit Races' Resistance Modifiers.

• W7: It is now possible to edit Classes' Skill Points Allotments.

• W7: As soon as you modify anything in Game Information there will be no more favourite Skills for classes. Not a big deal, I believe - you can now distribute points as you wish.

• General: A couple of small tweaks.

29, January, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.82.

• W8: Monster Editor Dialog: Layout has been slightly changed. Search controls has been introduced.

• W8: Added a menu item '3D Settings...' under the Setup menu in the main window. Allows to modify few 3D settings.

20, January, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.81.

• W8: MS3D Model Import: Fixed small bug that caused imported monster models to have a tiny physical bounding box.

• W8: Modify Animated 3D Model Dialog: Fixed small bug exhibiting itself during Frame insertion.

• W8: Modify Animated 3D Model Dialog: Added positioning & rotation controls to help fine-tune imported models. Could be used to fine-tune existing monster/missiles/spells models as well.

• W8: Item Editor: Some edits with spins have been made editable so the required value could be directly entered instead of spinning the spin control.

18, January, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.80.

• W8: Main Dialog: 'MS3D (Milkshape) Model Importer...' menu has been added under the 'Tools' menu.

• W8: 3D Model Import: 'MS3D (Milkshape) Model Importer' dialog is introduced. It is capable to convert animated 3D models into W8 Monsters', Missiles' and Spells' models.

• W8: 3D Model Import: 3D Model Importers now has better Texture searching algorithm (since very often textures do not reside in the same folder where model is or even have another extension).

• W8: 3D Model Import: Textures are now being copied into the appropriate folders during 3D Model Import.

• W8: 3D Model Import: Textures are now being converted into tga format (W8 can use only *.tga format) automatically if you download and install 'LEAD Image Command Line Converter' program. It is small and free. You can get it here.

• W8: Tutorials: I have added a new tutorial "MLS (Monster Model Script) File Information". It is not complete, but anyway.

9, January, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.72.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Additional options (usage of Faces for Vertex projection) have been added to the new functionality of automatic Texture placement.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: 'Mirror Terrain Mesh' command has been introduced.

• W8: Monsters', Spells', Missiles' and Location Dynamic Objects' 3D Model Editor Page: 'Mirror' button has been introduced.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Tab layout has been modified.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: 'RLK Optimization' checkbox has been removed to the 'General Parameters' Tab.

5, January, 2009

• General: Version has been changed to 2.71.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: It is now possible to add new Faces to the selected Terrain Mesh using specified vertices (similar to the Physical Face addition). You can pick up vertices from different Meshes.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Terrain Tab layout has been slightly redesigned.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: The management of Textures placement has been changed. See Tutorials for explanation in case the interface is not clear enough.

31, December, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.70.

• W6/W7: Text Editor: Fixed dialog's layout.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: New Mesh Splitting algorithm has been added: using 'foreign' vertices. Read Tutorials for futher info.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Tiny bug has been fixed: You couldn't move/rotate/etc a single selected Mesh's Face (except when you selected its all 3 vertices).

25, December, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.69.

• W7: Patches: A new patch 'Learning Spells from Spellbooks' is available. It makes so your characters receive mana when learning spells from spellbooks. The amount of mana is twice the spell cost. For example learning the 1st level 'Directions' spell will add 6 mana into the Earth Sphere. Learning it normally you would get 3+ mana.

• W7: Game Information: It is now possible to unlock Personal Skills for Classes. Amount of Personal Skill Points received will depend on Personality and Karma as soon as you modify Game Information for the first time.

• W6/W7: Text Editor: Fixed a bug in the Optimization algorithm.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Editor: It is possible to create a new Terrain Mesh in the form of a geometrical figure. 6 different figures are now supported.

8, December, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.68.

• W8: Item Editor: The way to change Item's 'Appearance ID' has been changed.

• W8: General: Texture Selection Dialog has been redesigned.

• W7: Game Information: Generation-Time HP & Miss Chance modification algorithms are now versatile.

• W7: Game Information: It is now possible to edit Mana Regeneration values and Starting Spell Picks for classes. Yes, your thief can now learn some basic spells during the creation phase...

• W7: Game Information: It is now possible to edit LevelUp Miss Chance Reduction for all classes.

• W7: Game Information: It is now possible to edit LevelUp HP for all classes.

• W7: Game Information: The changes made by previous version of the editor will not be read by this version. You need to return original *.ovr files for W7 DOS and wizard.exe file for W7 Gold. Note that if you applied some patches you probably need to reapply them as well.

• W7: Game Information: A bug was fixed related to Item Image Skill change.

23, November, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.67.

• W8: Location Editor: Added 'Rebuild Octree' command to the 'Tools' menu. See Tutorials.rtf

• W8: Location Editor: Added 'Clear Location...' command to the 'Tools' menu. See Tutorials.rtf

• W7: Fixed a small bug that showed 'Hands&Feet' skill for the items that have 'Throwing' skill.

• W7: Game Information: Fixed a bug corrupting a game file during the save. As a result you could not create a ranger, monk or ninja.

19, November, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.66.

• W8: Fixed few Language Issues.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: The list control has been made bigger.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: 'Select all Faces having specific Flag(s) set...' command introduced. It does what it says.

• W8: Location Editor: Sky: It is now possible to add new Sky Objects & Celestial Bodies.

• W6/W7: Game Information: A bug was fixed (slightly incorrect game info writing).

• W6/W7: Game Information: It is now possible to modify classes' starting items. Same for Faerie race in W7. In W7Gold to some starting slots of some classes you can only specify items with ID less or equal 127.

• W6/W7: Game Information: It is now possible to modify classes' starting HP and Miss Chance Reductions.

• W7: Item Editor: It is now possible to modify item's Skill. Note though that Skill is determined by item's image, not by the item itself, so when you change Skill of an item you change Skill of all items with the same image.

07, November, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.65.

• W8: Location Editor: The World Box does not limit your Terrain anymore. Now you can have your Terrain out of the World Box. Read W8Tutorials for info.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Check & fix OCTree' command has been renovated. The progress and output is displayed on the 'General' page.

• W8: Location Editor: For several commands under the 'Tools' menu the progress output has been implemented.

• W8: Location Editor: Removed annoying message abount Unseen objects that popped up when you save a Location. Instead you can see info about Unseen objects in the Progress Output for 'Check & fix OCTree' command.

• W7: Game Information: Added support of yet another version of W7 binaries.

03, November, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.64.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: When deleting a Terrain Mesh or some of its Faces after you agreed to delete Physical Faces corresponding to the Terrain Faces, a dialog pops up requesting a value that will be used to evaluate if a Physical Face corresponds to a Terrain Face. This value is compared with the distance between a Mesh Vertex and a Phisical Vertex: if the distance is less than this value then those two vertices are counted as matching. The value is remebered by the editor until the Terrain Editor dialog is closed.

• W6/W7: Game Information: Added ability to edit attributes, resistances, skills and experience values for a character class. Sidenote: you can activate personal skills for a class, BUT you get no points to distribute for personal skills until you activate a personal skill using normal way.

• W6/W7: Game Information: Added ability to edit attributes for a character race.

• W7: Incident Editor: Fixed small bug that had always set the Picture Group to 4 if it was less than 4. This had had been happening with two commands related to Pictures.

19, August, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.63.

• W6/W7: Text Editor: Added 'Optimize Taxt DB' button which will try to free some Message Headers.

• W6/W7: Added "Change 'Resting' Algorithm" command under Patches->Mild 'Cheats' menu. Greatly improves resting. See "Patch Info for W6 and W7.txt" file for details.

01, August, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.62.

• W8: 3D Window: A tiny button has been added to the left hand upper corner which invokes 3D Window menu.

• W8: Location Editor: Monster Generators: The respawn probability & frequency parameters has been discovered. Thanks to Enigmatic2000.

24, July, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.61.

• W8: Location Editor: Minor Bug preventing some entities to be displayed in 3D window has been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Mesh Merging is a bit smarter now - matching vertices from both meshes are merged.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Two Vertices Merging functionality is now available from Vertices List.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: A bug has been fixed when during the Mesh positioning the Face Normals had not been updated and as a result in Game some Mesh's faces could disappear from certain view points. If you have such 'ill' Mesh you can 'cure' it by selecting all its Faces and activating 'Reverse Selected Face(s)' command two times.

• W8: Monster Editor: A warning has been added to the dialog about 1000 Monsters.

• W8: Fact Editor: A warning has been added to the dialog about 1000 Facts.

• W8: 3DS Importer: Has been somewhat improved.

• W7 GOLD: Added support for GOLD versions of MAINSCRN.VGA, PCVWSCRN.VGA, TIT1SCRN.VGA and TIT2SCRN.VGA. Before that DOS versions (that aren't used in GOLD) of those files were modifyable.

• W8: Tutorials: Has been updated.

15, July, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.60.

• W7: Item Editor: During the Two Items' Swapping references from Incidents, Incident Scripts and Map Events to these Items are updated. Note that references from Loots aren't updated for the purpose.

• W7: DOS: Monster Editor: Since it was reported that SND files have some import/export problems, the restriction on input WAV format was removed.

• W7: DOS: Monster Editor: VANISH behaviour flag has been discovered by Dark Savant.

• W8: 3D Model Manager: Fixed crash bug during model saving process.

• W8: 3D Model Manager: Added functionality for correct copying of IFL (Image File List) files.

• W8: 3D Model Manager: Added Particle Systems support for MON models (Monsters, Missiles, Spells). Wanna Fire Crabs? Easy. As a bonus they get automatically roasted when you kill them. ;)

• W8: 3D Model Manager: Added Light Sources support for MON models (Monsters, Missiles, Spells).

• W8: 3D Model Manager: It is now possible to modify Item Models.

• W8: 3D Model Manager: It is now possible to save MON models (Monsters, Missiles, Spells) under new names thus automatically creating new models while retaining the old ones.

• W8: Location Editor: Visual: Fixed Minor bug with disappearing Path Nodes.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to delete location entities from 3D Window by pressing Del button when an entity is selected without going to the entity list control and invoking the menu.

• W8: Monster/Spell/Missile Editors: 3D Model Modification Dialog is now available directly from the editors. Before it was accessible only from 3D Model Manager Dialog.

• W8: Item Editor: It is now possible to modify Item Models. 3D Model Modification Dialog is now available directly from the editor.

• W8: Location Editor: Serious STS-corrupting bug has been fixed. Could be encountered after Location Monster modification. Thanks to Dodd for finding it.

• W8: 3D Model Importer is introduced. Right now it is possible to create Item Models from objects taken from 3DS files. After that Item Models could be used to create new Location Dynamic Objects and subsequently to create new Terrain Meshes.

• W8: NPC Editor: RPC Tab: Fixed tiny bug preventing some rare STIs from drawing. Thanks to Dodd for finding it.

• W8: Tutorials: A few new articles and updates.

30, June, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.53.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Meshes Adjoining: Fixed a bug prohibiting from selecting meshes' last vertices. Thanks to Enigmatic2000 for quick report.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Find unused Texture Files' command has been fixed - it now considers other Locations in this Location's folder. Thanks to Dodd for quick report.

• W8: W8Tutorials:

27, June, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.52.

• W8: General: 'Recreate From' option has been added for Encounter Tables, Loots and Missiles.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Generate AutoMap Nodes' command has been added under the Tools menu.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Find unused Texture Files' command has been added under the Tools menu.

• W8: Location Editor: Triggers: Fixed issue with moving the Sound Triggers.

• W8: Location Editor: Small tweaks here and there.

• W8: Location Editor: Now 'unseen' entities are specified in the warning message box while saving the Location data.

• W8: Location Editor: Check for meeting the conditions of the bug described below is added while saving the Location data (and warning message box as well).

• W8: GAME: A bug has been discovered: if a Location has no Path Conditions and at least one Dynamic Objects is collidable (blocks path) then the Game crashes.

• W7: Map Editor: Fixed crash bug on 'Action Fork' event creation. Thanks to Dark Savant for reporting it.

• W8: W8Tutorials: A new chapter has been added: 'Known Game Bugs'.

• W8: W8Tutorials: A new article has been added: 'Modifying AutoMap Layers for a Location'.

23, June, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.51.

• W8: Location Editor: !!! Pathfinding Database generation now works fine in release versions.

• W8: Location Editor: Path nodes are now viewable in release version for modders pleasure. Their output is optimized as well though in huge Locations it proves to be inappropriate (Nodes disappears from view).

20, June, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.5.

• W6/W7: Monster Editor: Fixed bug in modification Behaviour Flags. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for reporting it.

• W7: Item Editor: Fixed bug 'Cannot Remove resistance effect from item'. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for reporting it.

• W6/W7: Loot Editor: Fixed bug 'Cannot Rename Loot, does not save'. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for reporting it.

• W6/W7: Monster Editor: Fixed bug 'Some monsters have 0/0/0/0/0 on hit locations which cause CFE to think < 100 = Error'. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for reporting it.

• W6/W7: Map Editor: 'Large Map' option has been added to view the enlarged map.

• W6/W7: Map Editor: Several Parameters have been discovered in the 'Manage Portcullis' Event. Thanks to 'Dark Savant'.

• W6/W7: Map Editor: Sound Parameter has been discovered in the 'Negative Effect' Event. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for help with test.

• W6/W7: Map Editor: Sound Parameter has been discovered in the 'Item Usage' Event. Thanks to 'Dark Savant' for help with test.

• W6/W7: Map Editor: 'Skip Encounter Music' flag has been discovered in the 'Incident' Event. Thanks to 'Dark Savant'.

• W6/W7: Monster Editor: Sound Files now can be played back using DOS version as well. No support for W6 though. Thanks to 'wierd_w' for research and pointing out on how this can be done.

• W8: RPC Scripts & PC Quotes: Added names for some RPC Scripts and PC Quotes.

• W8: NPC Editor: Ability to add new script blocks has been added to script tabs.

• W8: NPC Editor: Scripts: Have found and introduced on the interface 'Show Quotes at the Bottom of the Screen' flag for Script Blocks.

• W8: NPC Editor: Scripts: Have found a bug that may be invoked during scripts modification. Use command 'Tools'->'Check And Fix Inconsistent Data' in the main dialog to fix the consequences of the bug. Enough to do it once. This and subsequent versions behave correctly.

• W8: Location Editor: !!! Pathfinding Database has been resolved thus allowing creation of completely new locations restricted only by the World Box boundaries. So plan the layout of the Location ahead.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: 'Merge Two Vertices of the selected Mesh' command has been added. See Tutorials for details.

• W8: Location Editor: PhysWalls: 'Generate Pathfinding Database' Physical Face's flag is introduced.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Generate Pathfinding Database' command is available under the Tools menu. See Tutorials for details.

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects: Objects can now be marked to generate or not generate Path Conditions. See Tutorials for details.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

20, May, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.23.

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects: Footsteps Sound parameters have been found for Dynamic Objects. Thanks to Dodd who noticed the true nature of the parameter!

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Meshes Adjoining has been improved. New methods are introduced. See Tutorials for details.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

15, May, 2008

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: A command 'Merge Mesh into another Mesh...' is introduced.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

12, May, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.22.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Fixed crash bug during promotion of an orphaned non-base mesh.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Fix Octree' command now fixes mismatches between Base Meshes and Regions and lists all truly orphaned Base Meshes.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Fix Octree' command hang bug has been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: All Location Entities that are created via cloning existing ones are now not placed at the camera position - they remain at the position of the source entity.

• W8: Location Editor: Sky: The Firmament, Sky Objects and Celestial Bodies are now shown almost exactly as in the Game. See Tutorials for details.

• W8: Location Editor: Sky: 'Full control' over the Sky is introduced. See Tutorials for details. Note: Add New Objects commands are still not implemented regardless of what Tutorials are saying.

• W8: Spell Editor: 'Recreate From...' button has been added to the interface. Does not copy spell description.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

29, April, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.21.

• W8: General: Fixed bug that could lead to crash when deleting W8 data files (especially locations' files) w/o restarting the editor.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: It is now possible to delete Base Mesh even if it has a Child Mesh. Though the Editor will ask your confirmation in this case.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: 'Detect and Delete Redundant Regions' Command is introduced. It is located under the menu 'Tools'.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: Fixed bug when Physical World Box did not get recalculated after addition of new Physical Faces.

• W8: Location Editor: Regions: The Tab has been returned. For viewing purposes only. Each Region corresponds to a Base Mesh.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

25, April, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.20.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Full Mesh support it introduced. You can create/modify/delete all Meshes. Read about Meshes in the Tutorials first!

• W8: Location Editor: Items: Found a flag that controls if placed item rotates or not. Don't know if it is of any use except for trying to trick the player: place several meshes and an item between them. :)

• W8: General: Removed internal editor's restriction of 2047 symbols in several texts including Items' Descriptions.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

18, April, 2008

• W8: Location Editor: A nasty bug connected with OCT & PVL saving is fixed.

16, April, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.12.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain modification algorithms have been improved.

• W8: Location Editor: When deleting Terrain Mesh Face(s) you may select to automatically delete all Physical Faces corresponding to the selected Terrain Faces.

• W8: Location Editor: When deleting a Terrain Mesh you may select to automatically delete all Physical Faces corresponding to the selected Terrain Mesh's Faces.

• W8: Location Editor: Creation of a new Dynamic Object from Terrain Faces no longer moves the Object to the camera.

• W8: Location Editor: Crash bug occuring during the last Physical Face deletion has been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Menu command 'Check & Fix Octree' has been added under the 'Tools' menu item. It is recommended to use it from time to time to fix old and possible new discrepancies. Always check in game after each fix that nothing has been broken. Note that this command takes considerable time to execute. Use it whenever you want to drink a cup of coffee/tea. :)

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Meshes in Mesh List are now named by their Index only (without 'Terrain Mesh' phrase). Thus you can select any Mesh if you know its Index by quckly typing it.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: For non-base Meshes redundant vertices are deleted during Faces deletion. For base Meshes vertices are retained for now, though it would not be so in 2.13 when it would be possible to create new base Meshes.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: World Bounding Box can now be seen. In the future it could be possible to expand it. Right now just make sure that nothing is outside it.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

1, April, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.11.

• W8: Fixed Monster List crash.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Fixed Terrain Mesh creation issue when new Meshes could not be sunlit correctly afterward.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: 'Bad' column is added to the Physical Faces List. 'Find All Bad Faces' button now works.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: It is now possible to move selected Physical Faces or vertices of a single Physical Face to camera.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: It is now possible to rotate Selected Physical Faces or the Selected Vertices of a single Physical Face.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: It is now possible to change the size of Selected Physical Faces or the Selected Vertices of a single Physical Face.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain & Objects: It is now possible to create an Object based on Missile & Spell models. Conversion from some models is not supported at the moment.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain & Objects: It is now possible to create a Terrain Mesh from a Dynamic Object.

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects & Halos: 'Recreate' menu command has been returned.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: It is now possible to create a physical rectangular parallelepiped around a set of Terrain Faces. An alternative to creation of Physical Faces from Terrain Faces. Takes less disc space, memory and reduces calculation load. Very useful for such Terrain pieces as barrels and the like to make them impassable.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: Mesh adjoining functionality has been added. See Tutorials file for details.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain: A couple of bugs occuring during Meshes altering have been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain & 3D Model Editors: It is now possible to reset Texture Coordinates for a Face. Could be useful, I thought.

• W8: The Tutorials file has been updated. New information is highlightened by red colour.

7, March, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.10.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to create new Terrain Meshes from the set of Terrain Faces. Cross-location creation is supported as well.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to delete Terrain Meshes. Avoid deleting original Meshes though. Use this command only to delete Meshes created by you.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: Face Buffer is now capable to hold Faces from another Location. In other words Face Buffer is not cleared when you load another Location. Thus you can pick necessary Faces from one Location, then select another Location and create an Object or a Terrain Mesh using Faces from the first Location.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Tab: It is now impossible to add a Face more than once to Face Buffer, so you can add Faces with no fear to have Objects or Terrain Meshes with duplicated Faces.

• W8: Location Editor: Light Sources Tab: 'Relight Terrain' button has been removed.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Tools' submenu has been added to the dialog. It contains Relight commands.

• W8: Location Editor: New NPPs, Items, Monger Groups and Monster Generators are now created at camera position.

• W8: Location Editor: Monster Tab: fixed crash bug upon addition of the new Monster Group based on a Group at the same Location.

• W8: The Tutorials file have been updated. New information is highlightened by the red colour.

4, March, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.09.

• W8: Several minor bugs have been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Terrain Faces Texture Mapping controls have been moved onto the Terrain Tab.

• W8: Fixed bug preventing Light Sources from modification.

• W8: Location Editor: 'General Parameters' page has been added with Fog Options and 'underwater' flag.

• W8: Location Editor: Location Editor dialog now remebers the last selected tab upon closing and selects it whenever opened again.

• W8: 3D Editors: TGA Textures are now viewable throughout the interface. All native W8 TGA files are supported but it is possible that a new TGA file won't be - mail it to me then.

• W8: NPC Editor: 'Recreate this NPC from another...' option has been added on the 'General Page'.

• W8: NPC Editor: Several unknown parameters are available for modification on the 'General Tab'.

• W8: Location Editor: Added 'RLK Optimization' option to the Terrain page. See Tutorials file for details.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Faces now shown using different textures. Textures depend on whether the face is walkable and what footstep sound it will produce. Hope it is for the better.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Walls: Added 'Mud' footstep sound. 'Snow' does not work because there are no corresponding sound files. Though I believe it is possible to add those files and to get snow environment...

• W8: Ctrl+Tab now will not list the Main Window among other windows. To access Main Window use Ctrl+M.

• W8: Location Editor: It is possible to delete Terrain Meshes again. Though do it very carefully and thoroughly check location in-game after each considerable batch of faces deletion.

• W8: The Tutorials file have been updated. New information is highlightened by the red colour.

15, February, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.08.

• W8: Location Editor: Full support of Triggers has been added. Now Plane Triggers aren't prohibited from deletion/modification and addition.

• W8: Location Editor: Physical Wall Highlighting algorithm has been changed (for the better, I hope).

• W8: Location Editor: Functionality of the deletion of Terrain Meshes' Faces has been disabled because it has been found that it is rather 'buggy'.

• W8: Location Editor: Reverse Terrain Faces functionality is introduced. This is used to reverse the Face's facing...

• W8: 3D Models: While modifying 3D models (Monsters, Dynamic Objects, etc) Reverse Faces functionality is available.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Underwater' Location Flag has been found and available for modification at the 'Terrain' Tab.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug causing the diffculty in positioning the single Dynamic Object's Frame using Positioning Controls.

• W8: Location Editor: Light Sources are fully implemented now. It is possible to add/modify/delete light sources. Dynamic and Static Light Sources are available.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Flooring' algorithm for Monster Generators, NPPs, Halos, Triggers and Light Sources has been improved (at least I believe so).

• W8: Location Editor: Modification of vertices' parameters has been removed since Light Sources are now supported.

• W8: Location Editor: Editor Light Source 3D model has been changed.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Using Planar Water Triggers' Tutorial has been added.

• W8: The Tutorials file have been updated. New information is highlightened by the red colour.

• W8: A few other bugs have been fixed.

• W8: Tutorials folder is now part of the main archive so no additional archive from now on.

25, January, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.07.

• W8: Location Editor: Trigger Dialog: Added ability to pick a sound file from any folder. The editor will than copy the file to the appropriate game folder.

• W8: Location Editor: 3D Model Editor: Fixed crash bug when adding Frame(s) to certain types of objects (like Monster models).

• W8: Location Editor: Dynamic Objects Tab: Fixed occasional crash after Object's modification during which Frame(s) were added/removed.

• W8: Location Editor: Halos Tab: Fixed crash bug after Modify Halo option is selected.

• W8: Location Editor: Updated Arrow model is included in the package. Using the old one caused crashes while dealing with Camera Routes.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to add physical walls including addition from Terrain Meshes.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to modify physical walls.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to delete Terrain Mesh Faces thus removing unwanted terrain pieces.

• W8: The Tutorials file have been updated. New information is highlightened by the red colour.

• W8: A few other bugs have been fixed.

• W8: Tutorials folder is now part of the main archive so no additional archive from now on.  

11, January, 2008

• General: Version has been changed to 2.06.

• W8: 3D Models: Added ability to delete faces of Dynamic Objects', Monsters', Spells', Missiles' models. Use menu the face list.

• W8: Fact Editor: Amount of facts cannot exceed 1000. The editor does not allow addition of the excess facts.

• W8: Location Editor: 'Unique Name Policy' is imposed upon all Location entity types to provide unique entity names.

• W8: Location Editor: Particle Systems are introduced. You can delete/modify/create new Location Particle Systems. Though you cannot see them in their full glory in the editor - ingame only.

• W8: Location Editor: The rotation algorithm of Rectangular Sound Triggers has been fixed.

• W8: Location Editor: Named Position Points: I discovered that they have orientation. Now it is possible to change it.

• W8: Location Editor: Camera Routes: The whole Camera Route rotation works correctly now allowing to change the direction of camera movement.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to delete physical faces thus allowing access to prohibited areas. No addition or modification yet.

• W8: Location Editor: It is now possible to rotate entities using steps less than 1 degree.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug 'impossible to change cube type'. Thanks to Dodd for reporting it.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug appearing on adding new Dynamic Objects using some monster models (for example. djinn_spell.mon). Thanks to Dodd for reporting it.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug preventing from changing Trigger's sounds to new sound files. Thanks to Dodd for reporting it.

• W8: Location Editor: Fixed a bug preventing from modifying Sky Objects.

• W8: Location Editor: Sky objects and the Firmament are now shown in 3D View regardless of the View Distance.

• W8: The Tutorials file have been updated. New information is highlightened by the red colour.

• W8: A few other bugs have been fixed.

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