VTP Development Log, 2005

05.12.28

• VTBuilder: fixed loose visual alignment on elevation layers with zoom factor>1, though the fix only works for layers w/o masking (note: this was actually fixed in Oct. 2003, but the fix was never applied!)
• vtdata: changed data order in Surfer DSRB reader to match what Global Mapper writes

05.12.27

• Enviro: applied road widening improvement to vtlib roads
• vtlib: reduced Road mem usage by removing m_left and m_right
• vtlib: Road work, greatly improved intersection geometry

05.12.26

• VTBuilder: reduced memory usage of drawing roads with width, better highlighting of selected roads with width

05.12.25

• VTBuilder: improved algorithm for displayed road edge lines, to avoid squeezing corners
• VTBuilder: allow Offset operation to affect only selected parts of a road layer

05.12.22

• VTBuilder: updated French translation
• Enviro: updated Chinese translation
• vtdata: fixed small error in reading LWPOLYLINE with DxfParser

05.12.19

• VTBuilder: moved ProjectionDlg to vtui
• VTBuilder: display Datums in projection dialog in sorted order
• vtui: exposed Ellipsoid field separately in ProjectionDlg

05.12.18

• VTBuilder: implemented ReadPNGFromMemory for USE_DIBSECTIONS
• VTBuilder: disable WMS/WFS menus if no area selected
• VTBuilder: finished major improvements to WMS dialog so that it actually now works usefully

05.12.17

• vtdata: changed from using libwww to libcurl for HTTP functionality
• Enviro: fixed bug in tparamsdlg with non-ascii chars in structure filenames
• VTBuilder: a large amount of WMS dialog work, implemented pull of image layer from WMS PNG

05.12.15

• vtdata: send vtLog wide strings also to stdout, for Linux developers

<released 051213>

05.12.13

• fixes to wxSimple and fltkSimple so that they build and run on Linux
• Enviro: Terrain Params Dialog: fixed removal of animpaths
• Enviro: Terrain Manager: avoid full refresh on path or terrain removal, update global data path correctly

05.12.12

• many improvements to Linux support, including many tweaks to make gcc 4.02 happy

05.12.10

• moved all projects up to OSG 1.0

05.12.9

• VTBuilder: copy of current elevation layer to clipboard (in Leveller format)

05.12.08

• VTBuilder: improved State Plane dialog to allow only valid datums
• VTBuilder: exposed support for Hotine Oblique Mercator, for Alaska Zone 1

05.12.02

• VTBuilder: improved XYZ import to look at first values to guess if the elevation data is floating point or integer
• VTBuilder: fixed layer selection in tree view which was failing for some layer types
• VTBuilder: fixed problem with default colomap for elevation layers which showed sealevel sometimes as cyan

05.12.01

• VTBuilder: added progress indication on VTST load

05.11.30

• VTBuilder: added support for bzip2 compressed files (at first, only for HGT; more formats in the future)

05.11.27

• VTBuilder: added import from and export to 3TX format for elevation
• VTBuilder: don't leave .hgt files open if name is incorrect
• VTBuilder: fixed crash on right-click in Layers view
• VTBuilder: added progress display and reduced memory usage in creating Dymaxion Textures

(05.11.19 - 05.12.08 rate of development is adversely affected by a major hard drive failure)

05.11.18

• VTBuilder: write world file (.jpw) when saving JPEGs
• VTBuilder: check and warn about non-2^n+1 size elevation before writing .chu

05.11.13

• Enviro:  incorporated very simple freehand building creation (Jam Ch'in)

05.11.11

• Enviro: added Overview option which shows location in small map
• vtlib: added vtImageSprite::SetImage, chg to not use Release()
• vtlib: added vtTerrain::GetTextureImage

05.11.10

• Enviro: fixed plant dialog when there are no plants available
• VTBuilder: fixed DEM reader to allow up to 10000 rows
• vtlib: changed vtImage::Modified to vtMaterial::TextureModified to fix OSG issue

05.11.09

• vtdata: chg DPolygon2::ContainsPoint to do test against each ring individually - this fixes e.g. VTBuilder's vegetation distribution with polygons with holes
• vtlib: added LocaleWrapping everywhere GetValueFloat might be called

05.11.08

• vtlib: fixed small memleak with text labels floating on terrain
• VTBuilder: display message on 'set elevation range', fixed close box on biotypes dialog

05.11.07

• Enviro: exposed option to retain texture in memory for faster re-lighting
• vtdata: added vtOverlappedTiledBitmap
• vtosg: added vtOverlappedTiledImage and vtImageInfo
• vtlib: added Texture_Retain parameter to tell vtTerrain to hold an original copy of the texture in memory for faster re-lighting

05.11.03

• VTBuilder: fixed initial PROJ4 testing to avoid Locale trouble

<released 051025>

05.10.25

• moved all projects up to wxWidgets 2.6.2

05.10.23

• Enviro: several fixes for Linux, including switching to refresh-on-idle for greatly more reliable rendering
• Enviro: support for building in Unicode mode with wxGTK 2.6.x (Linux)

05.10.20

• Enviro: added LOD dialog to help with LOD development

05.10.18

• VTBuilder: implemented paste elevation from clipboard using Leveller's heightfield format

05.10.17

• vtlib: vtTiledGeom: implemented LRU aspect of cache
• Enviro: exposed UI for tile cache size
• VTBuilder: added dedicated toolbar buttons for merge/resample elevation and imagery
• VTBuilder: added highlighting of current image layer

05.10.16

• Enviro: fixed line draping to work on vtTiledGeom
• VTBuilder: changed image-tileset sampling to produce corner-centric (PixelIsPoint) images with duplicate edges, which is what libMini is expecting

05.10.13

• VTBuilder: merge-resample imagery to tileset or new layer

05.10.12

• all: removed useless Unicode MSVC configurations for vtdata, vtlib, and xmlhelper libraries (affects .vcproj and .sln files)

05.10.06-05.10.12

• heavy implementation work on vtTiledGeom

05.10.06

• VTBuilder: added visual feedback of tiling and tiling progress when writing tilesets

05.10.05

• VTBuilder: fixed small discrepancy of drawn elevation extents
  VTBuilder: improved highlight for selected elevation layers
  VTBuilder: added check at startup for PROJ capability, warn user if not found
  VTBuilder: fixed distance tool to be remembered and redrawn correctly
• library documentation cleanup

05.10.04

• all: moved up to GDAL 1.3.1

05.10.03

• vtdata: fixed memleak with CPL logging by moving error handler to GDALWrapper

05.10.02

• all: moved up to GDAL 1.3.1 a2, confirmed that memleaks are gone once we call CPLCleanupTLS

05.10.01

• Enviro: dropped support for old .ini terrain files

05.09.30

• VTBuilder: export of tilesets is now mostly functional

05.09.24

• VTBuilder: changed to handle NTF elevation as integer

05.09.23

• VTBuilder: added JPEG option for image export on resample (Andrew Huang)
• vtlib: change VtxColor methods to allow alpha
• vtlib: added vtScene::ComputeViewMatrix

05.09.20

• vtosg: added vtNativeNode::FindParentVTNode
• VTBuilder: added Fresnel and other fields to Profile dialog (Mike Nix)

05.09.19

• Enviro: exposed stereo eye separation in Camera dialog
• Enviro: to avoid trouble with include file paths, renamed wx/frame.cpp/.h to wx/EnviroFrame.cpp/.h
• Enviro: prevent multi-select across structure sets (RJ)
• vtlib: close polygon loops in abstract feature geometry (RJ)

05.09.15

• VTBuilder: chg Vegetation import from SHP to allow doubles for species (RJ)
• vtui: added controls to Profile Dialog to prepare for RF features
• BExtractor: improved shortcut keys, fixed issue with leaving footprint mode, added progress indication during 24-bit TIF loading

05.09.06

• VTBuilder: added progress dialog to loading and saving images

05.09.03

• VTBuilder: added import of image layers from PPM

05.09.01

• VTBuilder: improved PGM support

05.08.25

• VTBuilder: added export of elevation to 16-bit PNG

<released 050824>

05.08.24

• vtlib: moved up to libMini 6.0

05.08.23

• VTBuilder: added Visibility button to Profile dialog
• VTBuilder: added toolbar button for View Options
• Enviro: removed "Set Active" button from Layers dialog, changed behavior to always activate layers when clicking on them

05.08.22

• Enviro: exposed stereo support in Options dialog (anaglyphic and quadbuffer)
• vtlib: added stereo args to Scene::Init()
• moved all projects up to GDAL 1.3.0

05.08.21

• VTBuilder: added export of elevation to ChunkLOD (.chu) files, with a dialog for control of geometric error and quadtree depth

05.08.19

• vtui: changed wxString2 to support wxUSE_STD_STRING (avoids problem seen on Linux)
• vtlib: moved up to libMini 5.9

05.08.15

• Enviro: implemented display of anim path points in Locations dialog, and to delete them

05.08.10

• vtlib: Fix to make vtMesh::SetLineWidth work (Tie Fang)

05.08.08

• Enviro: deletion of animpaths with 'delete' key
• Enviro: fixed unicode support in RJ's scenario stuff
• Enviro: added French translation

05.07.31

• vtlib: moved up to libMini 5.81

05.07.30

• Enviro: New feature to pick directly with 3D cursor
• Enviro: Enable selection of multiple structures with Ctrl key
• Enviro: RJ: 'Scenarios' for turning groups of structure on and off

05.07.29

• vtlib: added get method for node BoundingBox
• vtlib: added GetPrimCounts to return primitive info
• CManager: added model info with extents and primcounts
• VTBuilder: implemented RAW/INF export to MS Flight Simulator

05.07.27

• VTBuilder: fixed offset problem on initial view

05.07.26

• Enviro: fixed display problem with terrain params dialog by making the whole thing resizable
• Enviro: fixed exit crash with single textured terrain
• VTBuilder: fixed memleak per failed image load

05.07.25

• Enviro/vtlib: applied Roger's fix to use OSG environment variables (such as OSG_STEREO)

05.07.20

• Enviro/vtui: removed trailing "|" in wxFileDialog filters

05.07.15

• VTBuilder: chg to use a not deprecated version of toolbar::AddTool

05.07.12

• vtosg: RJ: fix for the transparent ground weirdness caused by the texture resolution being greater than the dimensions of the current viewport

(05.06.29 - 05.07.10 downtime due to wedding)

05.06.28

• VTBuilder: fixed unnecessary refresh when shrinking window
• VTBuilder: added Elevation Profile view to the distance tool

05.06.23

• Some fixed for Unix (PW)

<released 050623>

05.06.22

• Fixed some wx-2.6.1-related issues:  Fixed finding locale catalogs, fixed OnDymaxTexture to not require wxImage, fixed capture of keyboard focus

05.06.21

• Moved all wx-based projects up to wxWidgets 2.6.1

05.06.16

• VTBuilder: improvements to TIGER support: detect TIGER inside dropped-in archives, gave distinctive names to layers from TIGER
• VTBuilder: fixed progress indication during merge-road-nodes with >32k nodes
• VTBuilder: fixed display of roads with width after reprojection
• VTBuilder: fixed reported issue with ./, euro locale trouble in Projection Dialog

05.06.14

• Moved all projects up to OSG 0.9.9
• Enviro: use centroid to place text labels for polygon features

05.06.12

• Enviro: fix removal of items from animation paths list box

05.06.01

• VTBuilder/vtdata: fixed to load GTOPO30/SRTM30 even if .dem is supplied in place of .hdr
• vtdata: fixed USGS-DEM reader detection of non-USGS files
• vtdata: implementation of progress callback during unzip
• Enviro: fixed support for 4x4 tiling of 8-bit textures

(05.05.10 - 05.05.31 downtime due to relocation from New York City to Hawai'i)

05.05.09

• VTBuilder: fixed problem with NTF elevation import, improved XYZ point importing

(05.04.15 - 05.04.25 gone on vacation)

05.04.07

• VTBuilder/vtdata: extended support for Surfer Grid with DSAA, DSRB headers (Tie Fang)

05.04.03

• data: changed standard utility structure models from Z up to Y up
• vtlib: increased size of artificial horizon to fill possible gaps with skydome

05.04.02

• vtdata: allow array-like access to FPoint3 components
• vtlib: added vtScene::WorldToScreen, extended CreateRectangle and CreatePlaneGeom to work with any axes

05.03.31

• vtlib: change back to assuming .OBJ files have Y up, not Z up

05.03.27

• vtdata: added more plane intersection methods

05.03.25

• all projects: moved up to libMini 5.5

05.03.24

• VTBuilder: set modified flag on elev layers when transforming coords
• Enviro: added global options for window startup position, size, inside-flag

05.03.21

• VTBuilder: added dragging of whole area tool by clicking inside the tool

05.03.18

• vtdata: improved VTST reader to make placeholders for unknown materials (fixes a runtime crash in some usage of buildings)
• Enviro: added Progress Dialog on recalculate terrain shading

05.03.17

• moved all projects up to GDAL 1.2.6

05.03.14

• vtlib: added Gravity support back to the navigation engines

05.03.11

• many improvements to the doxygen documentation across all the libraries

05.03.09

• BExtractor: fixed resizing of buildings to affect all layers
• Enviro: fixed display of very tiny terrain in earth view

05.03.08

• VTBuilder: added support for space-delimited XYZ point elevation import (in addition to comma-delimited)
• VTBuilder: added .xyz as another expected file extension
• VTBuilder: look for DefaultStructures.vtst on the data path (RJ)
• Improvements to building dialog: added "set roof type" button, preserve color dialog settings between buildings

05.03.07

• VTBuilder: fixed to recompute meter extents and redraw if needed when projection changes horizontal units

05.03.05

• VTBuilder: added geocoding (only for specific address input files) with three options: geocoder.us online, GNS data, Gazetteer data
• vtdata: greatly extended ability to get progress callbacks on feature operations
• vtdata: created LoadDataFromCSV (for FeatureSet fields)

05.03.02

• vtdata: store AnimPaths in TParams
• vtlib: store AnimPaths with each Terrain
• Enviro: exposed AnimPath per terrain in Terrain Params Dialog

05.03.01

• several fixes to Makefiles for Linux
• vtdata: code cleanup. Removed old "OriginalElevation" from structures, "Checksum" from heightfields. Added new "Absolute" flag to structures.
• Enviro: fixed reported elevation at cursor even when vertical exaggeration is changed on the fly

05.02.25

• Enviro: earth view: change 3dcursor to stay same screen size
• Enviro: earth view: minimum altitude to keep camera from going to far

05.02.24

• Enviro: fixed issues with switching to space while in top-down view
• Enviro: extended camera dialog to support orthographic cameras
• Enviro: disable top-down command in Earth view

05.02.23

• vtlib: updated to libMini 5.4
• VTBuilder: fixed byte-swapping on Raw elevation import
• Enviro: fixed sprite crash with Nevada

05.02.18

• VTBuilder: support drag-n-drop of jpg files, automatically imported as Image layers
• vtlib: new adaptive detail algo for SRTerrain, even better job of avoiding hysteresis

<released 050216>

05.02.15

• VTBuilder: expanded docs to include Projection dialog
• Enviro: updated docs for updated for Abstract Layers and Overlay Images

05.02.14

• vtdata: fixed small issue with loading of .prj files

05.02.12

• VTBuilder: added export of elevation to VRML ElevationGrid

05.02.11

• vtlib: improved several parts of the code to use vtMeshFactory
• vtlib: fixed memleak in vtMeshFactory

05.02.10

• Enviro: added abstract layer styles for geometry height and tessellation

05.02.08

• vtlib: added support for enabling camera roll in Terrain parameters

05.02.02

• vtlib: use world, not earth distance to determine linear feature post spacing
• vtlib: linear features on now draped on culture (roads and buildings)

05.02.01

• vtlib: added vtIntersect() to expose ray-scene intersection testing

05.01.28

• Enviro/vtlib: added support for PNG (including transparency) as a terrain texture
• vtlib: in vtTerrain, fixed support for 16-bit texture internal, added support for 32-bit texture input

05.01.26

• vtlib: major architectural changes in vtImage: now subclasses directly from osg::Image
• vtlib: added another level of caching for images
• vtlib: chg vtTerrain to use vtImage directly instead of vtDIB; decreases memory peak during startup and gives a small speedup
• vtlib: ability to limit the range of vtTrackball's degrees of freedom (DOF)
• vtlib: fixed bug in vtTransform::GetDirection. Fixing that exposed the fact that vtSkyDome::UpdateSunLight had been tuned to work around the broken GetDirection. Now all fixed.

05.01.25

• VTBuilder: fixed recommended UTM zone with use of Projection dialog
• VTBuilder: fixed filename retrieved by "..." in resample dialog
• VTBuilder: fixed display of world map if turned on after layers are loaded
• VTBuilder: setmodified when adding linear structures

05.01.22

• Enviro: fixed zoom-to for Linear structures

05.01.21

• Enviro: fixed lighting problem when going from space to terrain
• Enviro: fixed bug with missing materials with moving between terrains
• Enviro: fixed bug with picking of 3D instances which have no model
• Enviro: don't jump to stored Location name after first visit to terrain
  (now we store Locations with the terrain, not the GUI)

05.01.20

• Makefiles: lots of work by Pete and Nino to unify the makefiles, so that there is now a single Make.defs file, and platform is automatically detected.
• VTBuilder: added support for Stereo70 variant projection name "Double_Stereographic"
• VTBuilder: warn on unknown projections read from .prj

05.01.19

• VTBuilder: re-enabled road network cleanup "Remove Degenerate Links"
• vtlib: put in safety check for roads too close together

05.01.18

• Major improvements to linear structures.  New types: solid stone walls and hedges, railings.
• vtdata: added several attributes (TwoSided, Ambient, Blended) to make MaterialDescriptors more useful
• Enviro/vtui: expansion of Linear Structure dialog to expose many of the new attributes
• Enviro: fixed to always display true elevation in Status bar
• vtlib: fixed locale problem with terrain vertical exag

05.01.12

• prSimple: a new Simple vtlib example showing how to use it with Producer
• Enviro/vtlib: fixed problem with exceedingly long contour lines (new class vtMeshFactory)

05.01.11

• vtlib: finished first pass over multi-window support, got a two-window FLTK-based demo working
• CManager: fixes to axis size, item renaming, model deletion

05.01.07

• VTBuilder: raised limit on maximum polygon complexity drawn from 12000 to 32000 points
• Enviro: added support for Polygon abstract layers (as outlines)

05.01.05

• vtdata: fixed byte-swapping on writing BT files