VTP Development Log, 2007

07.12.30

• all: moved up to libMini 8.61
• VTBuilder: fixed build to allow building without libMini present

07.12.27

• vtdata/vtlib: moved style properties out of vtFeatureSet and up to vtAbstractLayer, a better place for it
• vtlib: re-enabled the 'Visible' property of abstract layers

07.12.22

• vtui: Instance dialog: fixed logic in OnBrowseModelFile which failed for absolute paths

(07.12.01 - 07.12.20 out of office)

07.11.30

• vtlib: fixed a TiledGeom elevation LOD issue by not calling setfastinit

07.11.29

• Enviro: when a field value is edited in the feature info dialog, update a point feature's label.
• Enviro: prevent user from making inside-out buildings by checking and correcting clockwisdom

07.11.24

• Enviro: restored ability to popup properties for a selected plant
• Enviro: fixed illumination of cloud layer at night

07.11.23

• vtosg: fixed save of images with OSG to convert UTF-8 filepaths (was reported in Enviro with 'Save animpath to images')

07.11.22

• vtlib: fix hiding of structures in vtStructureArray3d::SetEnabled
• vtlib: support absolute path in name of structure file
• vtlib: fix crash on delete of structure layers with extended structures
• mfcSimple: use global data path, increase Yon

07.11.19

• vtlib: added terrain SetWaterLayer
• vtlib: small changes to fog and skydome, to support dynamic ephemeris
• Enviro: added StoreTerrainParameters, Save Terrain State command
• Enviro: implementation of Ephemeris dialog

07.11.18

• vtdata: fixed vtSaveDataPath to handle non-ANSI characters and always remember the last save location

<released 071111>

07.11.10

• VTBuilder: fixed OmitFlatTiles option in generating optimized elevation tilesets

07.11.08

• vtlib: refactored globe creation and materials
• VTBuilder: support 8 and 32-bit images in Process Dymaxion Texture
• VTBuilder: ask for output folder in in Process Dymaxion Texture
• Enviro: added OverlayGlobe
• Enviro: menu commands to add Cloud overlay globe from file or URL

07.11.06

• all: moved up to libMini 8.56
• Enviro and VTBuilder: link settings to look for libMini-vc7.lib when built with vc7.1

07.11.06

• vtdata: fixed ShadowCastDib to handle a problem case seen with negative elevation

07.11.03

• vtlib: support for using OpenThreads for threading, instead of pthreads
• vtlib: fixed the shading of RGB materials for abstract layer line geometry
• vtdata: improved DxfParser to read layer colors
• VTBuilder: added 'import Raw from DXF' command

07.11.01

• Enviro: support transparent terrain textures in Overview
• VTBuilder: option to treat black pixels as transparent on image sampling
• VTBuilder: improved ability to do tileset processing without UI interaction

07.10.31

• Enviro: In Layer dialog, show selected raw features with color and text
• Enviro: control key extends selection of points
• Enviro: added popup-delete for abstract features
• Enviro: delete key shortcut for delete-selected
• all: moved up to libMini 8.54
• vtlib: support alpha in vtOverlappedTiledImage, used in terrain 4x4 texture

07.10.30

• Enviro: added View:Toolbar options to reduce size of toolbar
• Enviro: 'select box' mode which can select abstract point features

07.10.29

• VTBuilder: extend import-points dialog to support 3D points
• VTBuilder: implemented command and dialog "Generate Grid from 3D Points", which involves using some additional methods from QuikGrid

07.10.28

• VTBuilder: added import of 2D Points from CSV

07.10.19

• mfcEnviro: brought datapath handling up to date with wxEnviro
• vtdata: fixed speed bottleneck in vtElevationGrid::ParseNTF5 by reducing calls to progress_callback
• VTBuilder: faster NTF elevation import (~3x faster)
• VTBuilder: added preferences option to set maximum megapixels for image layers

07.10.17

• VTBuilder: added support for import of road networks from OpenStreetMap

07.10.16

• vtdata: added vtTin::RemoveUnusedVertices, fixed potential bug in RemoveTrianglesBySegment
• vtosg: added two new args to vtLogNativeGraph, hacked at ApplyVertexRotation
• vtlib: added 'extend' mechanism on structures, to support terrain-specific or app-specific extension of functionality
• vtlib: added vtSceneBase::TargetRemoved and vtStructureExtension
• vtlib: made shading a bit stronger for untextured TINs

07.10.11

• vtlib: disabled support for draping structures on structures (they will still drape on roads. but structure-structure draping as the default can get into problems with some intersecting buildings stacking.)
• vtlib: Don't set structure instance filename to absolute path on load.

07.10.09

• vtlib: abstract feature work, introduced a mapping from 2D to 3D features to allow tracking for deleting individual 3D features
• Enviro: delete highlighted features from feature-info dialog

07.10.08

• Enviro: support multiple feature table dialogs, one for each raw layer
• vtlib: refactored vtAbstractLayer to allow constructing individual feature labels
• all: began code rework to support deleting and recreating visuals for individual abstract features

07.10.04

• Enviro/vtlib/vtdata: moved datapath from vtlib down to vtdata, so that more modules can easily access it; store the datapaths in a new file 'vtp.xml'

07.09.22 - 07.09.30

• FOSS4G 2007 in Victoria, BC, Canada

07.09.18

• vtb: fixed import of MapSource files which use Geo instead of UTM coords

07.09.17

• vtlib: show progress on loading (uncompressed) VTST files
• vtlib: check in AddToQueue if the structure is already queued, solves issue with artificially high queue count
• Enviro: catch and display message when a save-layer operation fails
• VTBuilder: correctly treat TINs as having floating-point vertical precision in ScanElevationLayers

07.09.15

• vtdata: added progress callback on reprojection in vtFeatureSet classes
• vtdata: in vtFeatureSetLineString::LoadGeomFromSHP, support for multiple parts
•  VTBuilder: display progress on reprojecting Raw layers
•  VTBuilder: fixed sampling of overlapping image layers
• Enviro: fixed abstract layer text label height

07.09.14

• VTBuilder: fixed SHP reader to ignore degenerate polygons which were causing problems (although potential problems remain with shapefiles that contain multi-primitive features)

07.09.13

• vtdata: added polygon IsConvex methods

07.09.12

• vtosg: changed vtImage to use osg::Image by containment, not inheritance, which is slightly less efficient but removes the ugly hack that used to be in Read()
• Enviro: allocate font only once, and fix tiny memleak with HUD

07.09.11

• vtui: progress indication on showing large numbers of records, added GetFeatureSet
• Enviro: added TableShown(), fixed problem with deleting a shown table

07.09.05

• VTBuilder: call SetupTriangleBins in SampleElevationToTilePyramids for much faster sampling of TINs to tilesets

07.09.03

• VTBuilder: for flexibility, split ImageLayer and vtImage into separate classes
• VTBuilder: moved options from frame to Options.h
• VTBuilder: implemented multisampled image reprojection
• VTBuilder: display RGB value under cursor
• VTBuilder: image replace RGB command
• VTBuilder: moved core feature dialog into vtui as new module FeatureTableDlg
• Enviro: created FeatureTableDlg3d to expose feature table in Enviro, opened from new button in Layer dialog

07.09.02

• VTBuilder: support multi-sampling of images (in 'resample images' and 'optimized resample to tileset') with option in preferences dialog

07.08.31

• VTBuilder: for image layers, allow datum change, give warning on any other reprojection
• VTBuilder: code option to use libMini for writing tiles
• VTBuilder: improved SampleImageryToTilePyramids to only call GetFilteredColor for image layers which overlap the tile being sampled
• VTBuilder: fixed texture seams (in all LODs) in SampleImageryToTilePyramids

07.08.30

• vtlib: added progress callback on vtTiledGeom loading its first full frame
• Enviro: added more colors to LOD dialog, and a prettier legend that doesn't need translating
• Enviro: improvements to fly-in for a smoother Space2Face
• Enviro: improved appearance and response of 3D cursor in earth view
• vtdata: fixed shading of bitmaps larger than their heightmap

07.08.29

• vtlib: avoid finding structures in hidden structure layers
• Enviro/vtlib: added vtScene::SetPostDrawEngine, used it to solve problem with PlayToDiskEngine capturing blank window snapshots

<released 070728>

07.08.28

• vtlib: call setfastinit for tilesets, cut default prange in half
• VTBuilder: show message to the user in case of loading unsupported SHP type
• VTBuilder: option to promote elevation grids to floating-point on reprojection, also exposed in preferences dialog
• VTBuilder: don't draw world map polygons that are entirely outside the currently projected view
• VTBuilder: re-did options system, all options are now stored to VTBuilder.xml
• VTBuilder: check and warn if a grid reprojection fails for lack of memory or CRS problems
• Enviro: exposed structure paging properly in TParams and GUI

07.08.27

• vtlib: support for paging of multiple simultaneous structure layers
• vtlib: support deleting structure layers even when they are being paged

07.08.26

• moved all projects up to OSG 2.0
• vtlib: improved shadow code, added ComputeShadows and IsShadowVisibleNode
• Enviro: fixed shadow toggle in Layer dialog
• VTBuilder/vtdata: exposed Gamma option for dot-product shading
• Enviro: improved ScenarioParamsDialog with the ability to use layers created at runtime, not just those in the terrain params

07.08.23

• VTBuilder: added 'Layer Down' command and toolbar button
• VTBuilder: preserve selected layer better in RefreshTreeItems
• VTBuilder: exposed Ambient value for dot-product shading option
• VTBuilder: Popup menu in tree view to show/hide all layers of a type
• vtdata: chg ShadeDibFromElevation to use central differences and gamma (Stefan Roettger)
• vtdata: added GetInterpolatedElevation, changed GetFilteredValue to use it

07.08.22

• vtlib: added ShadowSphere code to support shadows for paged structure layers

07.08.21

• Enviro: Layer Dialog: warn on trying to view too many structures
• Enviro/vtlib: enforce page-out distance always greater than structure LOD distance
• Enviro: Added slider to LOD dialog for page-out distance

07.08.18

• Enviro/vtlib: Layer improvements: menus for Load and Create layers, Toggle and Remove for Global layers in Layers dialog

07.08.17

• Enviro: changed the text buttons to a toolbar in the Layer Dialog
• Enviro: implemented loading of (structure and abstract) layers at runtime
• vtlib: permit structure layer to toggle visibility during paging

07.08.08

• xmlhelper: fixed check for gz files in readXML progress indication (RJ)

07.08.07

• vtui: added 'Set EPSG' button to Projection dialog

07.08.06

• Enviro: Improved behavior of text controls in Camera, Location and LOD dialogs
• VTBuilder: small fixes to WMS dialog, remember settings when re-opening dialog

07.08.02

• VTBuilder: fixed OnUpdateWorldMap

07.08.01

• vtui: don't update string value in wxNumericValidator unless numeric value has changed (catches some UI issues) (RJ)
• vtui: fixed text input in Linear Structures dialog

07.07.31

• small fixes for 64-bit Linux and OSG 2.0 (Randall Hopper)

07.07.30

• VTBuilder: allow multi-select in Layer Open dialog (RJ)

07.07.28

• vtdata: made equality operators const as they should be
• vtlib: much more implementation of structure paging
• Enviro: added structure paging tab to LOD dialog

07.07.26

• vtlib: added hack to allow the terrain surface texture to be transparently blended with surface objects
• vtosg: support 32-bit TIF in vtImage::_ReadTIF()
• vtosg: fixed vtMaterial::GetTransparent
• vtlib: added Pitch argument to ZoomToSphere

07.07.23

• vtdata: added version of Triangulate::Process() which returns an array of indices instead of the points themselves
• vtlib: support for QUADS in SetNormalsFromPrimitives
• vtlib: improved vtStructInstance3d::UpdateTransform to avoid doing height testing for instances with absolute height
• vtlib: implemented gradual structure paging for smoother interaction
• xmlhelper: fix progress callback for massive files by avoiding integer overflow

07.07.21

• vtui: allow .dds as file extension for building facades

07.07.16

• VTBuilder/vtdata: In PGM reader, allow "BOX" to indicate DEM header and allow 65535 to indicate 16-bit unsigned data

<released 070713>

07.07.13

• vtlib: chg CreateRectangularMesh to create horizontal, not vertical strips (slight mem saving for spheres)
• vtlib: force OSG to use alpha in AddMultiTexture in case of DECAL (RJ)
• Enviro: fixed support JPEG and other non-TIF formats for draped decal texture layers

07.07.12

• vtlib: abstract layers: fixed bug with redundant lines in point feature geometry, switch to tetrahedra for better performance when number of features is big (>10000)
• vtlib: added CreateTetrahedron

07.07.11

• VTBuilder/vtdata: worked on FillGaps methods with speed and smoothness improvements and progress indication
• VTBuilder: give user choice between fast and slow-smooth gap-filling algorithm (under 'preferences'), show gap-filling progress during tileset creation, allow cancel during tileset gap-filling
• vtb: fixed problem in resample to derived tileset, was compressed when user asked for uncompressed
• Enviro: fixed construction of abstract layer 3D polylines on tileset terrain

07.07.10

• xmlhelper: implemented real 0-100 progress indication in the case of uncompressed input

07.07.08

• vtdata: added vtTin::RemoveTrianglesBySegment
• vtdata: added vtTin::SetupTriangleBins to greatly speed up height testing
• VTBuilder: added "Trim TIN" command for interactively removing triangles from a TIN
• VTBuilder: allow Merge/Resample of TINs to a grid
• VTBuilder: allow optimized-resample from TINs, support relative colormaps for derived image tilesets
• vtosg: added support for POLYGON prims in SetNormalsFromPrimitives

07.07.05

• VTBuilder: fixed derived tile output and enabled compression options for ElevMergeResample, refactored tileset code a little
• Enviro: added many new styles for abstract layers: spheres for point and line features, lines for point features, separate color fields for points and lines, more

07.07.04

• vtlib: renamed vtLodGrid to vtSimpleLodGrid
• Enviro: finished first pass at structure paging implementation

07.07.02

• small Linux build fixes
• vtui: chg int to long int, in pointer cast, to help build on 64-bit Linux

07.07.01

• VTBuilder (vtdata,vtui): minor projection fixes/improvements for LCC1SP, 'NTF Paris' datum

07.06.30

• vtdata: changed FT_Integer field width from 11 to 10 so that subsequent storage in a DBF with Shapelib won't misinterpret it as a FT_Double
• Enviro: fixed two progress messages during animation recording (Geep999)

07.06.29

• VTBuilder: fix potential problem in derived texture tilesets with tilesize<=64 (RJ)
• VTBuilder/vtdata: support for reading TIN from ESRI ADF (ArcInfo TIN)
• VTBuilder: added Fixed Height option to vegetation import
• Enviro: improve ToggleFoundations to not rebuild unchanged structures
• Enviro: exposed paging range (prange) value in LOD dialog
• Enviro/vtlib: fixed raycasting onto tilesets which have no 0,0 tile
• Enviro/vtlib: made default prange much smaller (should give performance boost to paging of heavily textured tilesets)
• moved up to libMini 8.14

07.06.28

• vtui: fixed Yield logic again in DoubleProgDlg for Linux
• Enviro: even better way of avoiding showing GLCanvas (RJ)
• minor checkins for Linux: put SQUISH=0 in Make.defs, added /usr/lib to PROJ.4 search path

07.06.26

• Enviro: fix the Elevation Legend color in the case of absolute colormaps

07.06.25

• vtui: in profile dialog, use culture height for ground visibility test
• Enviro: re-enabled 'Move' mode in addition to select and move

07.06.24

• Enviro: adjust vertical offset of structures using Alt+drag
• Enviro: added 'Log' button to scene graph dialog, to help debugging
• vtui: in profile dialog, implemented intersection of line of sight with culture
• vtosg: added added SetLoadModelCallback
• vtlib: added OffsetSelectedStructuresVertical

07.06.20

• moved up to PROJ4 4.5.0 to solve problem with Czech projection JTSK
• VTBuilder: cleaned up ReadEnviroPaths with default of ../Data/
• Enviro: close progress on terrain load error, to avoid stuck dialog
• all: refactored all the GDAL/OGR finding and checking code, with the shared functionality now in vtdata, with a new high-level function CheckForGDALAndWarn in vtui, called from both Enviro and VTBuilder

07.06.19

• VTBuilder: fix to not try to look for PROJ4 DLL on Windows, made TestPROJ4 separate
• vtui: fix projection dialog for Krovak

07.06.18

• VTBuilder/vtdata: added support for Krovak projection
• vtlib: added rotation to vtImageSprite::SetPosition
• Enviro: implemented Compass feature
• vtdata: added DistanceLineToLine and DistanceSegmentToSegment

07.06.15

• VTBuilder: check and warn on elevation grid allocation failure (RJ)
• vtdata: small fix for highest color in ColorMap::GenerateColors
• vtdata: improvements to NTF import in AddBuildingsFromOGR (RJ)
• vtosg: made FindNativeNode virtual (RJ)

07.06.14

• Enviro: added experimental new "fly in from space" option (still a bit rough on the transition)
• Enviro: put RJ's change to mouse capture handling back in

07.06.03 - 07.06.11

• out of office for ISDE5

07.06.02

• vtdata: fix facade in vtEdge copy constructor (RJ)
• vtui: Building Dialog: small fixes to updating of fields

07.06.01

• vtdata: fix potential memory leak on badly-formed input data in CubicSpline

07.05.31

• vtlib: began work on experimental structure paging
• VTBuilder: added Windows-only, debug-only display of used memory in About dialog

07.05.26

• moved up to libMini 8.03 for its new io locking feature

07.05.25

• VTBuilder: give user choice of texture compression: none, OpenGL, Squish fast, or Squish slow

07.05.24

• Enviro: improved mouse capture logic (don't release capture if some button still down)
• removed Enviro.xml from source control

07.05.18

• Moved up to GDAL 1.4.1, no API changes, so no code changes
• Enviro: on Windows, look for Enviro.xml in AppData, and allow {appdata} and {appdatacommon} symbols to stand for AppData location in data paths
• vtdata: added vtString::Replace for strings

07.05.16

• VTBuilder: fixed logic that suggests floating-point elevation resample (RJ)

07.05.15

• Enviro: delete PaintDC right away, to avoid event-yield hanging problem with the new Double Progress Dialog
• Enviro/vtlib: fixed structure shadows on tileset terrain
• VTBuilder: if an imported image has three undefined bands, attempt to load them as R,G,B

07.05.10

• VTBuilder: fixed file-open in process billboard command

07.05.07-10

• moved the codebase over from CVS to SVN on Google Code

07.05.01

• VTBuilder: fixed half-pixel error in world files written for JPEG files (RJ)
• vtdata: added a wrapper for QuikGrid, so that multiple callers can use it
• vtui: Profile dialog: option to export a top-down trace to a DXF file

07.04.29

• moved up to libMini 8.0
• vtlib: improved SRTerrain to use fewer statics
• vtlib: add dynamic terrain support for SRTerrain (vtDynTerrain::SetElevation)
• vtdata: added heightfield convenience methods EarthToGrid and WorldToGrid

07.04.23

• vtui: fixed AddFilenamesToComboBox/AddFilenamesToChoice to not return lower-case filenames
• vtdata: allow overriding of CONFIG values by predefining them in the build process
• applied several fixes for Mac OS X port (NW)

07.04.22

• VTBuilder: look on some default paths for GDAL/PROJ data, to avoid hard dependency on environment variables (NW)
• vtui: Profile dialog: option to export the 2D profile to a DXF file

07.04.21

• applied several fixes for OpenSG port

07.04.15

• vtui: small fixes and layout improvements to Profile Dialog
• Enviro: support for i18n of text in the Status Bar and Progress Dialog
• VTBuilder: fixed problem in Resample dialog with OK button being disabled incorrectly

07.04.12

• VTBuilder: fixed support for fast shading in Elevation: Render to Bitmap
• VTBuilder: Render dialog: default to first available ColorMap
• vtui: added 'Show Culture Objects' button to Profile dialog

07.04.10

• VTBuilder: fixed a rounding issue with image resampling which had caused unnecessary aliasing in some cases

07.04.09

• VTBuilder: gave the optimized export dialogs more descriptive names
• VTBuilder: change 'derive image tiles' to 'derive and export color-mapped image tiles'
• VTBuilder: added Zoom to Area Tool

07.04.08

• VTBuilder: added Preferences dialog, with options for loading file w/o CRS, and large image loading

07.04.06

• CManager: created Makefile for Unices

07.04.04

• vtlib: preliminary support for dynamic elevation with vtTerrain

07.04.03

• VTBuilder: new command: Area Tool: Match Layer Resolution

07.04.01

• Enviro: fixed keyboard navigation (it broke during move to wx2.8)

<released 070331>

07.03.31

• all: moved up to wx 2.8.3 (no API changes, so this is optional for developers)
• VTBuilder: small fixes for generation of optimized image tilesets

07.03.30

• Enviro: when adding a data path with the terrain manager, create many of the standard sub-directories (RJ)
• vtlib: fix memleak on terrain image layers
• Enviro: switch to new-style wxGLCanvas context handling
• vtdata: change minimum array size from 12 to 4, trading off potential efficiency for potential memory usage
• vtdata: made loading of building footprints more memory efficient
• vtui: convert absolute to relative paths for models on BuildingModels path

07.03.28

• Enviro/vtlib: avoid a case with all-black terrain with a safety check for extents on image overlays
• CManager: fixed font for numbered axes

07.03.27

• Enviro: new option to show progress on terrain creation
• vtlib: enabled progress callbacks for roads, plants, and other terrain steps
• vtui: added 'double' progress dialog class and helper functions

07.03.24

• moved all projects up to GDAL 1.4.0 (no API changes, so this is optional for developers)
• vtlib: moved up to libMini 7.9
• many small Linux/gcc compile fixes

07.03.20

• vtlib: tuned datacloud cache behavior

07.03.18

• Enviro: exposed 'Start with minimal texture tiles and load gradually' option

07.03.17

• vtlib: support libMini's multithreading asynchronous paging (using datacloud and pthreads)
• vtlib: added (optional) dependency on the pthreads library
• VTBuilder: catch and warn on trying to allocate a huge bitmap
• Enviro: expose Tile Threading option to the user, as a terrain parameter
• Enviro: display more tileset paging info in the LOD dialog

07.03.16

• VTBuilder: store a map showing the range of LODs present (LODMap) when writing a tileset

07.03.14

• vtlib: fixed DeleteSelectedPlants to handle multiple plants (Jordi Vicedo)

07.03.10

• vtlib: moved up to libMini 7.83
• Enviro: add display of tileset paging status to the LOD dialog

07.03.08

• Enviro: added call to SetCurrent in vtGLCanvas::OnPaint

07.03.07

• building dialog: improved Facade UI with a choice control (RJ)
• Enviro: fixed OpenGL info (ShowOGLInfo2) for wx2.8 (RJ)

07.03.03

• VTBuilder: fixed toolbar cosmetic issue (RJ)

07.03.01

• VTBuilder: more fixes to import of elevation from TXT

07.02.27

• VTBuilder: fix wxBitmap construction for non-USE_DIBSECTIONS case (non-Win32)

07.02.18

• VTBuilder: display PNG in list of supported formats on import file dialog

07.02.15

• Enviro: fixed size of notebook in scenario dialog for wx 2.8

07.02.13

• all: several fixes for MacOSX build

07.01.27

• Enviro: fixed potential crash on rare 6-lane roads

07.01.20

• VTBuilder: extended XYZ reader to detect and support four components (n x y z)
• Enviro: support 8-bit paletted images for texture overlay layers

07.01.15

• applied i18n-ro updates for Enviro and VTBuilder