Version 2.0

New features

Cities:

• Whole new city system.

Animation:

• New timeline window handling animation tracks sequencing.
• Moved geometry animation to the timeline.
• Moved camera curve animation to the timeline.
• Added geometry curve animation tracks.
• Added sun trajectory animation over time.
• Added geometry, plant and group activation tracks.
• Added entity script events to the timeline.
• Synchronized wind with timeline.

Scenes:

• Moved animation curves from camera to the scene. Creation from a new tab in the scene view.

Cameras:

• No more camera specific animation curves: now use scene curves and timeline.
• Added 35mm equivalent focal length.
• Added camera gps coordinates.
• Added camera flat and 360° overlays for photomontage.
• Added geometry and plant masks to the overlay.
• Added keyboard keys to rotate in fly mode: yaw (left and right arrows), pitch (up and down arrow) and roll (Q and E).
• Added camera fly speed in tools options.

Sun:

• The sun no longer moves automatically.
• New sun panel simulation mode: enable or disable real sun trajectory from current place.
• Added sun trajectory tab for animation.

Render:

• Exported geometry and plant masks and 360° masks.
• Exported renormalized environment map overlay.
• Added image format option in render panel.
• Added image size drop down in render panel.
• Removed sun direction from render panel. Replaced with timestamp in timeline.

Node graphs:

• Added UV scaling, rotation and mirror nodes.

Misc:

• Added "ultra fast" render mode to work flowlessly in huge scenes by downgrading rendering quality.
• Added cache saving when exporting a scene with cache files that can be outdated.
• Added working directory settings file with version.

Removed features

• Removed reflection probes.
• Removed HDR environment map export.
• Abandonned NDunes viewer.

Bug fixes

Animation:

• Fixed wrong transform when loading fbx animations.
• Fixed broken camera orientation when consecutive curve orientations are higher than 90°.
• Fixed geometry animation skinning error when bone weight is 0.
• Fixed crash when modifying a cloned animated geometry.

Curves:

• Fixed crash when a decal area contains only 3 aligned points.
• Fixed bugs when scaling curves and points.
• Fixed random crash when deleting curve points.
• Fixed wrong curve point deletion when deleted from the viewport.
• Fixed crash when deleting a waterbody curve in the viewport.

Documents:

• Fixed crash after downloading store asset that was previously in the working dir.
• Fixed issue with cloned-cloned documents where resources are kept from the first source doc.
• Fixed bug where documents can't be saved after the deletion of another document!

Atlases:

• Fixed a blueprint atlas issue if the scene exists already with a store atlas.
• Prevented atlas merge within a store atlas.
• Fixed an atlas tile merge color error.

Blueprint:

• Fixed crash when moving a blueprint doc in a folder.

Decals:

• Fixed crash when drag and dropping decal area between decals.
• Fixed decal area order not loaded properly.
• Fixed wrong decal area hole names after a deletion.
• Fixed crash on some decal ground area bounding rectangles.

Export areas:

• Fixed export area gizmo still displayed after deletion.

Geometries:

• Fixed geometry texture gamma not applied on PBR materials.
• Fixed an error in the rendering of PBR AO.

Plants:

• Fixed bug when renaming a plant loses its resources folder.
• Fixed bug where AO and prisms are lost when cloning a plant.

Scenes:

• Fixed bug when replacing tone mapping and settings in scene.

UI:

• Fixed same entries in last working directory list.
• Replaced the landscape refresh timer with one decoupled from simulation speed.

Misc:

• Automatic texture resize preventing crash when exceeding GPU capabilities.
• Fixed mouse wheel still usable when user actions should be blocked.
• Fixed a cloud atlas texture leak when releasing multiple clouds.
• Added optional log messages.
• Fixed broken north direction when located in space.
• Merged delete and remove commands when hitting del key.

Quality of life

Curves:

• Removed curve points sphere gizmos on all curves except the last selected curves.
• Set fixed screen size for curve points.

Documents:

• Shown warning message if a doc save has failed.
• Updated warning message when importing a scene archive.

Atlases:

• Added a warning panel in case of incorrect atlas map GPS coordinates.

Cameras:

• Initialized camera render size with camera overlay size.

Waterbodies:

• Changed default waterbody shoreline setting so that it's initially visible.

UI:

• Added click on collapsible widget header.
• Added resized thumbnails to the tooltips of tree items and doc selector.
• Sorted store packs alphabetically in the download panel.
• Added skeleton bones count in geometry statistics.
• Testing working directory version when archiving and importing a scene.
• Added scene archive file drag and drop in viewport.

Performance

General:

• Shared geometry, plants and city textures improving GPU memory footprint.
• Improved performance when duplicating large set of objects in the scene.
• Improved curve manipulation responsiveness.
• Reduced frame-time spikes during update cycles.

Decals:

• Changed decals .xml file into binary file speeding up loading.

Geometries:

• Improved geometry animation update performance.
• Improved geometry loading duration.

Migrating from v 1.1.0 to v 2.0.0.

Since the v2.0 is a complete rewrite of several NDunes systems, some documents can't be migrated from earlier version to 2.0:

• older cities
• and camera animation tracks can't be opened anymore.

Changelog

Version 1.1.0