Version 1.1.0

New features

Atlas:

• Added georeferenced terrain to work on every place on earth.
• Added NASA Blue Marble world map as background atlas cartography.

Waterbodies:

• River meshes can now follow the terrain (was previously flat).

Bug fixes

General:

• Fixed crash when drag and dropping a sun direction item onto itself.
• Fixed crash when drag and dropping some scenes in the viewport.
• Fixed crash when changing the working directory.
• Fixed sun direction calculation issues.
• Fixed a crash in shared resources management when exiting NDunes.
• Fixed a bug in ASC parser that was causing misalignment of values on some ASCII character combinations not properly recognized.
• Fixed bug where decal items don't reappear after undoing the deletion of a group in the scene tree view.
• Fixed bug where atlas items don't reappear in the scene tree view after undoing their deletion.
• Fixed not reloaded scene after downloading missing documents.

Biome:

• Fixed a biome error message when a plant has no prism and the biome is dropped in the current scene.

Blueprint:

• Fixed wrong QGIS class mix when loading multiple files.

City:

• Fixed crash during city calculations.
• Fixed bug with building having a duplicate start / stop point.
• Fixed an error case in city ground calculations.
• Added missing pillar check box on / off.

Decals:

• Fixed bug where adding a point at the beginning or end of a curve could not be undone.
• Fixed random freeze when adding points to a decal area.

Geometries:

• Fixed crash when deactivating a geometry.
• Fixed a landscape parallax error when sampling geometry ground maps.
• Fixed disappearing animated geometries when duplicating.

Render setup:

• Fixed bug where cancelling a panorama rendering during a batch broke the next batches.
• Fixed bug where locations of inactive tasks are opened after rendering a batch.
• Fixed wrong panorama rendering of animated geometries and plants.
• Fixed timescale bug after rendering a panorama.
• Fixed undetected camera in the render setup after drag'n drop.

Scenes:

• Fixed a bug with scene GI that could not be properly enabled.

Waterbodies:

• Fixed a crash in waterbody mesh management.

Quality of life

General:

• Brush toolbar is now hidden by default.
• Updated grid position to match the center of a blueprint scene.
• Removed obsolete sample data and startup video from the startup panel.
• Improved archive cache save dialog.

Blueprint:

• Removed sidewalk and parking spots generation from the blueprint.

Cameras:

• Removed camera translation when moving group.

Geometries:

• Removed geometry cache system.

Render setup:

• Added preview of camera render in the render batch window.
• Renamed exported render images to include the camera name.
• Adjusted safe frames to the resolution during a camera preview.
• Blocked user input during a rendering.

Performance

General:

• Faster document creation.
• Removed VRAM peak after reloading downloaded documents.
• Removed VRAM peak after reloading imported archive.

Decals:

• Improved loading time of scenes containing a lot of decal areas.

City:

• Reduced building deletion time.
• Optimized city ground update calculation step.

Geometries:

• Improved performance of inactive animated geometries.
• Reduced scene loading time if we have many instances of geometries.

Plants:

• Removed plants textures from CPU RAM.

Terrain:

• Reduced memory footprint by sharing soil textures in the landscape rendering system.

Migrating from v 1.0.6 to v 1.1.0.

Since scenes are now geo-referenced all over earth, some changes are to be taken into consideration when using this new version with projects generated using 1.0.6 or earlier versions:

• Existing scenes can still be opened. They do not change. They're not at the right position on earth, but they work "as is". Cities can be recalculated, they won't move. Decals, waterbodies and all objects can be manipulated as usual. The only difference is that before version 1.1 they were not generated at their real GPS coordinates.
• It's however not possible to regenerate scenes from existing blueprints before version 1.1. On regenerating the scene from the old blueprint, it'll be automatically relocated to the real GPS coordinates of the project, so changes that were made (for instance adding objects to the scene, defining cameras,...) won't follow and remain at the original position before version 1.1.
• Furthermore, the selection of ASC files is no longer available from the blueprint. ASC files are now integrated into the atlas document. Also, it's worth noting that many atlases are directly available from the store (for instance all departments of France), saving a lot of time in the setup of the landscape for new projects.

Version 1.0.6