VTP Development Log, 2008

08.12.26

• fixes for several gcc compiler warnings

<release 081224, SVN revision 7094>

08.12.19

• Enviro: fix initial visibility of abstract layers without a Visible tag
• VTBuilder: in vegetation generation, fix handling of empty areas in density layers, and display total number of plants generated

08.12.15

• VTBuilder: added command Raw: Generate TIN from 3D Points

08.12.13

• VTBuilder: added import of raw 3d points from XYZ

08.12.12

• VTBuilder: added export of elevationgrid to XYZ, improved handling of numeric precision in import from XYZ

08.12.11

• VTBuilder: export grid to TIN, convert grid to TIN
• VTBuilder: moved LoadLayer from frame to builder, solved problem with SaveAs if the path is not valid
• VTBuilder: support drag-n-drop of native formats inside zip files
• unzip: fixed handling of utf8 paths

08.12.09

• vtlib: change vtTerrain::PaintDib to allow changing the derived texture color map at runtime

08.12.03

• vtdata: fix vertex order on import of TIN from GMS

08.11.30

• Enviro: exposed more shadow setting on ephemeris dialog
• vtlib: added debug-mode-only wireframe boxes to help shadow debug
• vtlib: added helper class vtDynBoundBox

08.11.25

• all: small fixes for the vc71 build
• BxtractorE: made IPL optional, default is USE_IPL=0

08.11.23

• vtlib: added vtTin::FindAltitudeAtPoint, and changed vtTin3d::FindAltitudeAtPoint to use it, because it's faster
• vtlib: prevent TIN terrain from trying to cast a giant shadow

08.11.17

• Enviro: in plant dialog, limit numerics to 2 decimals (cm) for easier entry

08.11.14

• VTBuilder: added safety check to overview sampling (SR)

08.11.12

• vtdata: fix LoadFromIGC to handle western hemisphere
• VTBuilder: allow zoom to a single point by using a slightly larger area
• VTBuilder: fix import from IGC using layer:import:raw
• all: added vc9 files (sln/vcproj) for all projects

08.11.10

• VTBuilder: fix image sampling to not try to sample from overviews that don't exist

08.11.09

• vtlib: avoid re-loading in vtSkyDome::SetTexture unless the texture has actually changed

08.10.27

• vtlib: enabled felkel roofs on building footprints with holes (RJ)

08.10.05

• vtosg: when linking with OSG before OSG 2.6, assume that OSG was built with float matrices

08.09.25

• vtui: added export of profile values to CSV

08.09.20

• VTBuilder: added command "Clean Footprints" which removes degenerate and overlapping points from building footprints

08.09.19

• VTBuilder: also look for World Map on standard vtp datapath
• VTBuilder: fixed 'set unknown areas' to work with area tool not set
• Enviro: added menu command to reset camera to initial location
• vtdata: improved ASC (Arc Ascii Grid) reader to support xdim/ydim in header instead of cellsize
• vtdata: added vtTin::ReadGMS (a LIDAR format)
• vtdata: added heightfield support to WriteFootprintsToCanoma3DV
• vtui: in profile dialog, avoid doing any data sampling if start and end are the same point
• vtosg: allow OSG to be built with either single or double matrices.  This requires OSG 2.6, because OSG 2.0 and 2.4 doesn't expose whether it was built with OSG_USE_FLOAT_MATRIX or not.

<release 080909, SVN revision 6992>

08.09.08

• vtdata: added PathLevelUp
• vtui: added LaunchAppDocumentation
• VTBuilder: expose ".ecw" a file extension for imagery, although it is only supported if the underlying GDAL was built with ECW support
• vtdata: added WriteFootprintsToCanoma3DV (BobMaX)
• VTBuilder: added command "Export footprints to Canoma3DV" (BobMaX)

08.09.07

• vtlib: change terrain/terrainscene to group the terrain engines so they are always evaluated before the global engines, including the height constrain engine; this solves some unusual cases in which the camera could go under the ground

08.09.03

• all: changed UNIX to VTUNIX to avoid reported issue with "UNIX" on some platform
• VTBuilder: fixed Distribute Vegetation dialog to catch values in TransferDataFromWindow that are not caught in OnOK

08.08.22

• VTBuilder: check for duplicate points in ComputeDisplayedLinkWidth to avoid extraneous drawn lines on degenerate roads

08.08.20

• all: explicitly include <memory> in all files that use auto_ptr, for strict gcc compatibility
• added glext.h to SVN in 'deps' folder to not rely on copy in libmini

08.08.11

• all: added minidata library to the vc8 solutions that need it as a dependency

08.08.10

• VTBuilder: implemented sticky flag for layers, changed elevation cache code to use it, so that a layer needed for the current sampling operation is never unloaded
• VTBuilder: added min/max column to TilingOptions
• vtdata: fixed utf-8 filename support in saving to .bt.gz by calling vtGZOpen in SaveToBT

08.08.09

• all: change over to use new 'minidata' library

08.08.05

• mfcEnviro: fixed flicker on resize with OnEraseBkgnd (José Manuel Rubio)

08.08.04

• VTBuilder: more work on JPEG tileset support

08.07.31

• vtlib: preserve highlight when re-building tree geometry

08.07.30

• vtdata: a little more error checking and logging in the case of reading or importing degenerate SHP such as polygons with only 1 vertex

08.07.28

• vtlib: explicitly release the highlight geometry when deleting a struct-instance or building (Robert Schuldt)
• vtb: added menu command Area Tool: Clear

08.07.26

• vtlib: in SpaceNav code, don't assume Windows has getRawInputData (to support older OS like Win2k) (RJ)

08.07.25

• Enviro: added layer dialog button to refresh (reload) an abstract layer from its source SHP
• vtdata: chg UTF8ToLocal to use wstring2::mb_str (and hence wcstombs) instead of the less-reliable wcsrtombs
•  vtosg: call UTF8ToLocal in vtNode::LoadModel so that OSG can support more charsets in filename
• libs: added a few standard headers to make gcc 4.3 happy (Robert Hauck)

08.07.20

• vtui: small fixes to Elevation Profile dialog, particularly for 'apply curvature'
• VTBuilder: added "Filled N unknown heixels in output tiles" on tileset generation
• VTBuilder: inform the user if some layers could not be loaded, when opening a project
• all: added "mini/" to libMini includes, to match that library's new standard distribution structure
• VTBuilder: added iMinRow/iMaxRow to TilingOptions, to optionally limit which tiles are output, during tileset creation

08.07.18

• VTBuilder: changed from ElevMaxLoadGrid to ElevMaxMemGrid (number of MB, not number of grids)
• vtdata: fixed vtCreateDir to treat the directory name as utf-8

08.07.17

• VTBuilder: exposed options for delayed load of elevation grids (elevation MRU)

08.07.15

• VTBuilder: began work on elevation MRU
• VTBuilder: support older .vtb files with non-utf-8 paths in them
• VTBuilder: support writing image tilesets as JPEG
• VTBuilder: ResampleDlg: fix to update of sizex/sizey fields with tileset selected
• vtdata: added MiniDatabuf::savedataJPEG and Format value in tileset .ini
• vtlib: began support for reading image tilesets from JPEG

08.07.11

• vtui: Helper: changed encoding to UTF-8 so that degree symbol works in FormatCoord
• vtui: BuildingDlg: change degrees sign to (degree sign) and use i18n pox to convert it to the correct symbol
• Enviro, VTBuilder: always load .mo translation file, even for ENGLISH_US

08.07.10

• vtui: started trying solutions to degree sign problem

08.07.01

• vtlib: look for terrain-specific HUD image on data path

08.06.30

• vtlib: added Set/GetStereoFusionDistance
• Enviro: exposed stereo fusion distance in camera dialog

08.06.29

• Enviro/vtlib: exposed support for stereo fusion distance

08.06.25

• vtdata: added Scale and VertOffset to vtTin, VertOffset and LoadBTData to vtElevationGrid
• VTBuilder: added menu command: offset elevation vertically

08.06.21

• VTBuilder: restored previous functionality of MainFrame::SetProjection

08.06.06

• VTBuilder: added popup menu layer properties
• VTBuilder: more menu commands for creating overviews
• VTBuilder: new vtImage/bitmap architecture to track each available bitmap, in memory and on disk
• VTBuilder: added popup menus to create overviews in memory or on disk

08.06.04

• vtosg: fixed GetEnabled to only check high bit

08.06.02

• VTBuilder: added support for variable-resolution sampling, so lower resolutions are sampled from GDAL overviews (if present)
• VTBuilder: fixed color-value clipping in ImportFromDB
• VTBuilder: show info about overviews in image layer properties
• VTBuilder: added menu command Imagery: Create Overviews

08.05.25

• vtdata: made vtBitmapBase::BlitTo 32-bit aware

08.05.23

• VTBuilder: added support of "Hemisphere, Degrees, Minutes" format to point import from DBF/CSV
• VTBuilder: added import field option to table import dialog
• vtdata: minimal, experimental SaveToKML

08.05.22

• VTBuilder/vtdata: improve LoadFromASC to allow upper-case text in .asc files
• VTBuilder: exposed new algorithm for filling gaps in elevation via partial derivatives
• vtdata: added vtElevationGrid::FillGapsByRegionGrowing (adapted from Stefan Roettger's libMini)

08.05.21

• vtlib: added control of shadow darkness
• Enviro: exposed shadow darkness (0-1) in ephemeris dialog
• VTBuilder: added 'BuilderTest' example program which shows how to use BuilderLib
• VTBuilder: make sure CheckOptionBounds is always called, even if there is no VTBuilder.xml

08.05.20

• VTBuilder: added logging and better error checking for create dymaxion map
• vtui: moved SizeDlg from enviro, made it general-purpose
• first wave of changes for new shadow support, added osgShadow to MSVC link settings, put OLD_OSG_SHADOWS around the previous shadows

08.05.18

• vtlib: added support in vtContourConverter for tileset terrain (Robert Hauck)

08.05.16

• VTBuilder: added command "Special: Create Dymaxion Map"

08.05.09

• began work on making use of OSG 2.x's osgShadow

08.05.08

• vtdata: in ConvertProjection, use 50 points along each edge, instead of just the corners, to estimate projected extents
• VTBuilder: replace unnecessary inclusion of Frame.h with the simpler Builder.h
• VTBuilder: added display option to draw Raw layers Simplified for speed

<release 080506, SVN revision 6807>

08.05.05

• vtlib: added safety check on node lookup of plants that are not on the terrain

08.05.04

• Enviro: fix toggle of linear structure visibility
• vtlib: fix vtStructureArray3d::SetEnabled to do linears also
• Enviro: added safety check to prevent detail texture with non-grids

<pre-release 080502, SVN revision 6793>

08.05.02

• VTBuilder: exposed option for Mask Unknown Areas in tiling dialog

08.05.01

• Enviro: made Ocean Plane Level dynamic on text entry in Ephemeris dialog

08.04.30

• moved all projects up to OSG 2.4, but still compatible with previous OSG versions

08.04.29

• vtlib: exposed some additional values for structure paging
• Enviro: display current structure count and maximum in LOD dialog
• Enviro: added CarveTerrainToFitNode (experimental)

08.04.28

• Enviro: fixed Mac implementation of continuous rendering (RJ)
• vtlib: changed default texture compression from DXT1 to DXT3 (RJ)

08.04.27

• VTBuilder: call Dirtied as needed in CleanLinkPoints
• vtdata: fix unusual case in PointInTriangle, which affected TIN sampling

08.04.25

• VTBuilder: fix VRML output to always use decimal point (x.xx not x,xx) even with European locale
• VTBuilder: fixed import from OSM (OpenStreetMap) with European locale

08.04.19

• Enviro: exposed Allow Roll option in terrain parameters, applies to both mouse and SpaceNav
• vtlib: support transparency (alpha) when rendering image tilesets; this requires at least libMini 8.66
• all: moved up to libMini 8.75

08.04.18

• vtlib: changed spacenav to be a vtEngine, improved Roll handling
• Enviro: base spacenav speed on mouse speed

08.04.17

• vtlib: fixed display of paged linear structures

08.04.02

• Enviro/vtui: fixed instance dialog to permit 3d models in case of no content file
• all: moved up to GDAL 1.5.1, no code changes needed

08.03.29

• VTBuilder: fixed saving raw layers to DBF with international filenames

08.03.27

• CManager: fixed datapath issue by using the standard vtGetDataPath

08.03.26

• Enviro, vtlib: added preliminary support for SpaceNavigator (WIN32 only), exposed it in wxSimple and Enviro

08.03.18

• vtdata: added support for 32-bit images in ColorDibFromElevation and ShadeQuick
• VTBuilder: began adding support for MaskUnknownAreas on tileset creation
• VTBuilder: add import of imagery .db files

08.03.16

• VTBuilder: added MatchTilingToResolution, changed MatchDlg to use it

08.03.15

• vtui: color map dialog: default to existing directory on Save-As
• vtdata: change vtElevationGrid::ReplaceValue to return the number of heixels changed
• VTBuilder: added SetPreferGZip and preference option to default all BT to gzipped
• VTBuilder: change LoadProject to allow relative paths to layer files

08.03.14

• VTBuilder: fixed Crossing Selection toolbar button and menu item to synch

08.03.13

• vtlib: call FindMatIndex at the top of AddFenceMeshes to ensure that materials are available in all possible cases
• VTBuilder: show hidden layers in tree view in italic, to make it easier to see what's visible
• VTBuilder/vtdata: brought MiniDatabuf class up to date to preserve ability to set USE_LIBMINI_DATABUF=0

08.03.10

• VTBuilder: restored tile display in OnImageExportTiles

08.03.09

• vtlib: create any route geometry that was added to the terrain before the terrain is built
• Simple apps: fixed to call terrain LoadParams(), fixed up some inter-project dependencies

08.03.08

• VTBuilder: added iNoDataFilled to TilingOptions, changed default value for ImportDataFromFile arguments
• VTBuilder: added preference option to write TIFF compressed (DEFLATE)

08.03.03

• VTBuilder: fix RemoveElevRange to recognize when the area tool is not set

08.02.28

• VTBuilder: changed default "resolution" of TINs, for the purposes of estimating tileset depth, from 1m to .001m
• VTBuilder: added drag import of elevation .db tiles

08.02.27

• vtlib: improve _ReadTIF to handle the case of an alpha band tagged 'undefined', which is how PhotoShop writes an alpha channel
• Enviro: added View: High-resolution Snapshot command
• Enviro: fix "inside" canvas size global option to give a more exact pixel size
• Enviro: moved all of Enviro's dialog modules to a new static library called envdlg

08.02.26

• Enviro: reordered toolbar button MOVE to be more logical

08.02.25

• vtdata: fix ColorDibFromTable and ShadeDibFromElevation to use the exact same sampling, so that the colors and shading match precisely
• VTBuilder: fixed ZoomIn/ZoomOut problem, moved USE_DIBSECTIONS to vtBitmap.h to avoid issue with inconsistent preprocessor setting across projects
• VTBuilder: added vtMiniDatabuf::SetBounds to support setting LL corners for every tile

08.02.24

• VTBuilder/vtdata: support restricting the fill-gaps methods to a given area

08.02.22

• VTBuilder: added BuilderLib project to VTBuilder, changed VTBuilder app to use it as a dependency

08.02.20

• vtui: removed unused heightfield from BuildingDlg
• VTBuilder: began code re-organization to separate the frame GUI from the rest of the application functionality

08.02.19

• vtdata: fix vtDIB::WriteTIF to process utf8 filenames before passing to GDAL
• vtosg: changed default OSG compression from USE_ARB_COMPRESSION to USE_S3TC_DXT1_COMPRESSION to make OSG's getCompressedSize happy
• VTBuilder: changed logic in RefreshTreeItems again for better highlighting of the selected item

08.02.17

• vtlib/vtui: changed the default data folder name for procedural building facade textures from BuildingModels to Facade

08.02.15

• Enviro: postpone loading the species list until it is needed, for faster startup
• Enviro: added a separate Select-Move mode to allow Select to select things without moving them

08.02.13

• vtdata: fixed vtPlantInstanceArray::WriteVF to handle more than 32k plants of the same species

08.02.09

• vtdata: check for sufficient memory in LoadFromCDF
• VTBuilder: added preference option for elevation layer's maximum render size

08.02.06

• VTBuilder: fixed a case where upper-case .BT was not recognized
• VTBuilder: added LayerToTop/LayerToBottom context menus
• VTBuilder/vtdata: exposed option for NODATA color when rendering elevation to bitmap
• VTBuilder: fix ExportBitmap to set image extents half-cell wider than elevation extents
• VTBuilder: changed layer view refreshing to make it more likely the active layer stays visible, for a better user experience
• vtdata: fixed Unix implementation of directory state methods
• vtdata: safety check for null polygons in vtFeatureSetPolygon::IsInsideRect

08.02.05

• Enviro: added GetArial, re-enabled displayed date in Nevada
• vtosg: fix vtImage::Read to assign or copy image data from OSG, which re-enables support for reading into an existing image

08.02.04

• Enviro: improved 'Save Terrain State As..' to default to the existing folder, and let the user set the name of the new terrain
• Enviro: show current terrain name in Title bar
• VTBuilder: show number of unknown heixels in elevation layer properties

08.02.03

• Enviro: added safety checks, don't crash if there are no plants available

08.01.29

• vtdata: added RemoveDegeneratePoints
• vtlib: in Building3d, avoid problem with Triangle and redundant vertices

08.01.27

• Enviro: added progress indication on add/remove foundations

08.01.18

• Enviro: Plant dialog: sort the Common Name field, to make it easier to use

<released 080114>

08.01.13

• vtdata: Triangulate: support complex holes by calling Triangle on them to find interior point

08.01.11

• vtlib: reduced 'res' parameter by 100x for libMini 8.6.2
• vtdata: fixed an issue in GetEdgePlane to handle holes

08.01.09

• VTBuilder: draw selected structures in a second pass, making it easier to see their edges
• VTBuilder/Enviro: finished first pass of building footprint hole support
• all: moved up to wx 2.8.7 (no code changes)
• all: moved up to mini 8.6.2

08.01.07

• vtdata: added a second triangulation method (call 'Triangle' library)
• vtdata: support for storing building (level) footprints as DPolygon2 (supports holes)
• vtdata/vtlib: more work on footprint holes: created FPolygon3, changed local building footprint to a FPolygon3

08.01.05

• vtdata: write outer/inner rings to VTST for level footprints
• vtdata: added DPolygon2ToOGR and DPolygon2::ReverseOrder

08.01.04

• VTBuilder: fixed a case in which import dialog could get wrong roof type
• vtdata: more work towards using OGRPolygon for building footprints, added SHPToDPolygon2
• VTBuilder: more work towards using OGRPolygon for building footprints, removed unused things in ImportStructDlgOGR

08.01.03

• all: used sed scripts to clean up whitespace across whole source tree
• vtlib: changed vtAnimPath::Read to empty the animpath before reading
• scripts: fixed EOL to make cygwin happy
• vtocx: cleaned up TODOs, and added it to SVN as TerrainApps/vtocx

08.01.02

• vtlib: brought OpenSG port up to date with recent vtlib changes
• vtlib: added CreateBlockGeom and AddLineMesh, small compiler warning fixes
• vtlib: renamed Visual to vtVisual to avoid clash with old X-Windows