Wings0.98.18 is OUT!


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Release Name: 0.98.18

Notes:

  • The various Preferences commands in the Edit menu have been combined to one
    Edit|Preferences command (and one dialog box).
  • Eliminated several problems with edges: either that edges disappeared
    (on Riva TNT-2) or that all faces were shown triangulated
    (on Mac G5 with an ATI Radeon card).
    (Technical note: Wings no longer use the glEdgeFlag() function
    because it is broken in many OpenGL implementations, and broken in
    different ways!)
  • Corrected a start-up crash with some OpenGL cards.
    (Problem reported by Tenny and bhartshorn.)
  • New command: View|Camera Settings.
  • Some updates to the material editor: There are now value sliders for the colors
    in the material editor (works the same as the V slider in the color chooser).
    Textures can now be deleted. In the Yafray settings, modulators can now be
    created and deleted without exiting the material editor.
  • Fixed the irritating grey-out when marquee selecting in AutoUV.
    (Problem reported by Mr Braun and PC.)
  • Proxy mode would crash if a face had a texture material and not all
    vertices had UV coordinates.
  • Corrected loading of auto-saved files. It was possible to Undo back to
    the previous model. (Problem reported by tsuru9.)
    For developers. Dialog changes by Raimo:
    • In the source code for the dialog handler (wings_ask.erl),
      the input format for a dialog is now described in a comment.
    • For a further example, see plugins_src/wpc_test_ask.erl.
    • Overlay frames implemented with styles buttons or menu.
      Cleaned up dialog query interface to wings_ask:
    • Removed {alt,{Var,Def},Prompt,Val}, use {alt,Def,Prompt,Val} instead.
      Use {key_alt,{Var,Def},Prompt,Val} if you need a keyed return value.
    • Removed {hradio,Qs,Var,Def} and {hradio,Qs,Var,Def,Flags} and the
      same for vradio. Use {hradio,Qs,Def} instead, or {hradio,Qs,Def,Flags}
      with key flag as above.
      Previously cleaned up, missed in release notes:
    • Removed {menu,Menu,{Var,Def}} and {menu,Menu,{Var,Def},Flags}, use
      {menu,Menu,Def} or {menu,Menu,Def,Flags} instead.
      Vast rewrites has been done, so borderline semantics may have changed, and
      some obvious change may have been missed here. Beware.
  • Dialogs can now be dynamic. For an example, see wpc_yafray.erl.

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