RMS Twilac Edition #TwilacsNowIn3D_08

This one comes equiped with

• A new TGA reader
• Material and amimation info on Geoset overview
• Incomplete fbx animation support
• Proper camera loading
• Some Camera target editing in the 3D viewports
• A crude Camera View frustum and Look-At-line
• Actions made undoable: Make model HD, Make model SD, Recalculate tangents
• Exposed setting for Lights
• Copied model parts keeping their animation data
• Pasted model parts keeping animation data if a matching animation exists (Name and Lenght)
• KeyframeCopyPanel now copies ALL keyframes in the selected interval (including events)

Known issues

• Keybindings not working in the UV editor until it has been docked to the main window

Notes

Tecnical details

• added an alternative TGA reader
• added a AnimFlag text editor
• rewrote some ValuePanel stuff
• refactored the TimeLinePopup into it's own class and made the node list scrollable
• KeyframeCopyPanel now copies ALL keyframes in the selected interval
• Very messy AssetImporter scene parser
• Made RenderNode into an abstract class
• Made MakeModelHD and MakeModelSD undoable
• Added Material and GeosetAnim to GeosetOverviewPanel
• Made RecalculateTangents undoable
• Added AddFaceEffectAction and DeleteFaceEffectAction
• Fixed ViewportTransferHandler not copying animation data
• ViewportTransferHandler will now also paste FaceEffects and Material
• Fixed AnimFlag#equals
• Added RenderNodeCamera and CameraNode to handle camera rendering and editing.
• made ModelView, SelectionBundle and more operate on CameraNodes instead of Cameras
• Fixed camera Target animation getting lost during loading
• Cleaned up some ThemeLoading stuff
• Added MdlxTimeline#getEntryAt to hopefully be able to clean up some code in AnimFlag
• Extracted and collected some MirrorActions
• Made TVertexEditor use same selection buttons as the main editor
• Started working on EditUVsView
• Cleaned up UVPanel
• Added UVPanelToolBar
• Fixed SplitVertexAction
• Added keystroke fo ActionFunctions action
• Cleaned up some stuff
• Cleaned up some stuff in the browsers. Also extracted the UnitEditorTreeBrowser popup to it's own class and made some options disabled when unavailable.
• Cleaned up and removed some code duplication in the Import-ActionFunctions and OpenInternal-ActionFunctions
• Moved vetoParticles to RenderModel
• Cleaned up ComponentsPanel
• Fixed ComponentLightPanel
• Cleaned up some ModelDependentViews
• Fixed and cleaned up some UndoActions
• Added SearchableList
• Cleaned up BoneAttachmentPanel, BonePanel, BoneChooser, IdObjectChooser, ParentChooser and GeosetChooser

notes form older versions

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_07:

• A Camera Preview. Found under Window -> Views
• A port of Reteras Skin Splice Mesh. Should work for both SD and HD models and is undo-able.
• An update to the ParticleEmitter2 editor; most of the sliders now adjust their endpoints when dragging them to max/min. Also fixed some bugs. Note: it might be possible to enter values outside of the games allowed range
• A fix to not being able to view materials of SD models with version 1000
• Smaller headers for collapsible panels
• A fix to keyframes being added to the wrong time when toggling geoset visibility
• An option to not load the Unit Browser and the Data Browser at the right at startup. Edit -> Preference Window -> Open Browsers On Startup You can still easily open Internal models through File -> Open Internal -> Object Editor
• Some type-in Transform-tools. Found in the edit-tab in the sub-window labeled "Modeling". Try switching to "Rotate" and see what happens
• A kludge to maybe handle editing interpolated rotations better; now uses the interpolated value at +/- 25% towards the neighbouring keyframes for inTan/outTan instead of a wrongly calculated value.
• Bridge Edges found under Twilac's Beta Tools. Use this to get faces between two selected lines of vertices. Generated faces might need to be flipped.

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_06:

• Two new popups to open internal files: Doodad Browser and Destructible Browser. Found under File -> Open Internal
• More rewriting of the ImportPanel; The visibility tab is not properly implemented, Camera and Event animations isn't fully handled, Animation renaming isn't implemented and some lists render a bit weird (but I have successfully imported an HD geoset onto an other HD model)
• Hotkey options for setting front/side/top in viewports (Edit -> Preferences Window -> Hotkeys)
• Better updating of the timeline when selecting nodes
• Working hotkey timeline navigation with exposed settings (Edit -> Preferences Window -> Hotkeys -> Edit Keybindings)

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_05:

• Some buttons to toggle stuff per view in the quad view: textured, wire-frame, vertices and normals (Only "Render Particles" in the view menu is still working)
• The top bar menu "Twilac's Beta Tools" which replaces "Twilac's ToolPanel"
• Some experimental tools found under "Twilac's Beta Tools"
• Expand selection now does exactly that: expands the selection. The previous behavior is now called "Select Linked Geometry" and had the default keybinding [CTRL] + [L]
• A delete button on the geoset panels in the model-tab
• A bit more information on the camera panels in the model tab
• Scripts -> Remove Lods is now a bit more user friendly
• Probably a still bunch of bugs relating to showing/updating model-components (stemming from code changes to separate the UI from the data)
• Fixed Texture list updating after adding/removing texture(s)
• Fixed an issue with copy and paste for some HD-models
• Fixed a bug that threw an error when trying to import bone-chain-animation
• Fixed Some bug

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_04:

• Added a button to access Keybinding-settings in the preferences window under Hotkeys
• Added buttons to toggle editable (E) and visible (V) to the component tree in the Edit tab (I do apologize for the big and unwieldy buttons) Use [SHIFT] to affect children
• Clicking on the name of something in the component tree will select it in the viewport (add/remove modifiers should work on this as well)
• Added an option to open a window with the current model that will stay on that model for ever (Window -> Preview of current model)
• Fixed a bug where zooming would increase the area used for selection to a ridiculous size
• Will now only consider the 4 first bones when reading vertices when importing FBX
• Fixed some preset Keybindings to not overlap. Users will need to reset their keybindings for this to take effect (Edit -Z Prefereces Window -> Hotkeys -> Edit Keybindings -> Reset Full -> Save Keybindings)
• Added Delete-buttons to Nodes in the Model-tab
• Fixed some bugs relating to opening .fbx files. They should now hopefully open fine and correctly bind vertices to their bones (Still no animation thou ^^)
• Fixed some bugs related to Cluster-selection
• Fixed some bugs with saving models
• Fixed some bugs related to reordering animations
• Made the quad view initialize the orthographic views to Front, Side and Top

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_03:

• Better performance!
• Changes to the underlying code for handling animation data! Should make it easier to implement tools for animation-transfering, but for now it mostly just menas broken UI-elements for animation stuff...
• Probably a still bunch of bugs relating to showing/updating model-components (stemming from code changes to separate the UI from the data)

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_02:

• Better camera zooming (now zooms towards center of screen instead of origo)
• Probably a bunch of bugs relating to showing model-components (stemming from code changes to separate the UI from the data)
• A small tool for scaling models (Tools -> Scale model)

From #TwilacsNowIn3D_01:

• 3D editing
• Exposed settings for changing mouse buttons for camera movement, selection and manipulation
• A lot of frustration changing between wireframe/solid and between textured/not textured (sry.. will fix in future versions!)
• Some Exposed settings for keyboard shortcuts (Tools-> Show Twilac's ToolPanel -> Edit Keybindings)
• A button for locking the views disguised as a save-icon in the tool bar

From #HelpTwilacFindBugs_05:

• A Brand New (but not complete) ParticleEmitter2 editor! accessed from any ParticleEmitter2's panel in the model tab
• A dropdown to chose texture for ParticleEmitter2, found in the model tab
• A few changes to the look of Geoset panels in the model tab
• Some exposed flags for nodes (billboarding and don't inhterit x) in the model tab
• (Old but unmentioned) Linked selection and visibillity between the UV-editing window and the 3D view

From #HelpTwilacFindBugs_04:

• A bit of protection from popup-spamming when running into an error
• Bugfix for Sphere and Cylinder CollisionShapes not keeping their radiuses when saving to .mdl
• The ability to add an Attachment from the add-menu

From #HelpTwilacFindBugs_03:

• A summary of the geosets on the "Geosets" root-node in the Model-tab
• A summary of the nodes on the "Nodes" root-node in the Model-tab
• A summary of the sequences on the "Sequences" root-node in the Model-tab
• An alternative and prettier way to choose material for geosets
• Working [shift] and [alt] modifiers when selecting UV-verts
• Working checkboxes for setting Layer-flags
• Buttons to move layers up/down for SD-materials
• A button on the bone-panel that will remove the bone from all matrixes/skins
• The ability to rename a bon/helper and its children with "Rename Bone Chain" found on "Twilac's ToolPanel"
• The ability to select verts skinned to selected bones with "selectNodeGeometry" found on "Twilac's ToolPanel"
• Depending on your setup: the ability to listen to the sound of EventObjects with a play-button in the Model-tab (this runs on hardcoded files atm)

From #HelpTwilacFindBugs_02:

• Access to "Edit Textures" form the "Textures" root-node in the Model-tab
• Some VIP QOL changes to the geoset-panels in the Model-tab (I've started to merge the panels of geoset and geosetAnim to make it clearer what belongs to what)
• A popup asking if key-frames should be cleared when deleting animations from the Model-tab
• "Show Twilac's ToolPanel" under Tools: A very unpolished window with very unpolished tools (I've been dumping buttons for VIP features here)
• Lack of perspective view zoom-reset when pressing any button...

From #HelpTwilacFindBugs_01:

• "Twilac-Style Merge Geosets" (Placeholder name to distinguish from "Oinkerwinker-Style Merge Geosets") lets you merge geosets within the model
• "Twilac-Style SmoothVerts" (Just to continue the naming trend) smooths geometry taking the center of connected verts for all selected verts and averaging the position ((vertPoint+centerPoint)/2)
• Working copy-paste for model-parts (I hope...)
• A badly implemented high-lighting of selected nodes (move the mouse over the list to make it visible)
• A (non-exhaustive) list of hard coded keybord (can be found under "About")