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Changelog

This is a high-level changelog for each released versions of the plugin. For a more detailed list of past and incoming changes, see the commit history.

1.7.3 (dev)

  • Added more explicit image format check before update_collider is called
  • Used absolute path in shader #includes, so forking doesn't fail to find them by default
  • Added HTerrainData.reload function to allow reloading a terrain while the game is running (after saving in the editor)
  • Update properties in the inspector when a custom shader is modified
  • Added support for importing and exporting 32-bit raw files
  • Allow to set brush size and opacity size with spinboxes (thanks to Vercix)
  • Exposed specular parameter in ground shaders
  • Save terrain data immediately when assigning a new data_directory (attempt to workaround random saving issue #232)
  • Updated name detection in the texture import dialog to work better with AmbientCG and PolyHaven (thanks to GustJc)
  • Optimized HTerrainDetailLayer process function by updating chunks when needed and spreading calculations over time
  • Fixed brush cursor looked off-center at close range when using tiny brush sizes
  • Fixed error when trying to change TextureSet mode while it has textures in it
  • Fixed shader parameters not displaying the right value in the inspector until they are set by the user at least once
  • Fixed lod_scale property getter was always returning 2 instead of the last set value
  • Fixed LOD chunks sometimes overlapping when the heightmap is modified (issue #411)
  • Fixed detail layers were rendering repeating instances outside the terrain when map_scale is not 1.0
  • Fixed detail layers were not rendering correctly when terrain is in centered mode
  • Fixed texture import dialog was opening a very tall window (issue #423)
  • Fixed detail layers "lines" showing on top of grass quads when MSAA is enabled
  • Fixed detail layer chunks disappearing unexpectedly when map_scale is very large
  • Fixed wrong density map when redoing the addition of a density map (undo/redo)
  • Fixed Image.load warnings in the editor (thanks to GustJc)
  • Fixed detail layers rendering one chunk beyond positive edges of the terrain

1.7.2

  • Fixed error when removing a texture from a TextureSet

1.7.1

  • Fixed terrain loading incorrectly in release (non-debug) exports

1.7

This version requires Godot 4.1.

  • Ported the plugin to Godot 4.1
  • Heightmaps now use 32-bit floats instead of 16-bit floats
  • Changed some APIs to use Vector2i
  • Added cast_shadow setting to HTerrain
  • Added cast_shadow setting to HTerrainDetailLayer
  • Added slope limit slider to detail density painting
  • Exposed roughness in detail layer shader (but reflections may be off due to the normals hack)
  • Allow decimal values in min_height and max_height when importing a heightmap
  • Changed shape list in brush settings so it can be used as a regular palette when cycling is off
  • Fixed terrain not functional when using a 32-bit version of Godot (The GDNative library is only maintained for 64-bit)
  • Fixed TextureSet editor logging errors when selecting slots with textures using color codes instead of image files
  • Fixed texture list becoming empty when selecting another terrain sharing the same TextureSet

1.6.1

  • Fixed static typing error in terrain importer dialog (thanks to McSpider)

1.6

  • Added island modifier to the terrain generator
  • Added option to add the current heightmap to the generated one in the generator
  • Added render_layers property to expose the same as VisualInstance.layers
  • Added anisotropic parameter to packed texture importers
  • Added support for loading terrain maps imported as Image, allowing modification in game
  • Added basic support for pen pressure (tablets)
  • Added random brush rotation
  • Added brush multi-shape randomization
  • Added brush spacing based on time and distance
  • Added support for importing .xyz files as heightmap
  • Added rotation and centering support
  • Increased brush size slider maximum to 500, and allow up to 4000 if typed in (expensive, use at your own risk)
  • Ported quad tree code to GDNative for a bit of speedup on Windows and Linux (thanks to tinmanjuggernaut)
  • Prefixed ALL internal classes of the plugin to prevent clashes with class_name (see issue #313)
  • Added workarounds to allow the plugin to initialize even if assets are not imported yet (The UI might still have issues, in this case you need to restart Godot)
  • Dropped support for Godot 3.1 and 3.2 due to engine crashes.
  • Fixed grass chunks not updating properly when the terrain is moved
  • Fixed invalid index error that can happen in some cases in the TextureArray importer mode
  • Fixed loading an existing texture array when the current texture set is empty
  • Fixed BaseButton.focus_mode warning printed when the plugin is enabled
  • Fixed some dialogs going outside window if editor font is larger (buttons outside windows did nothing)
  • Fixed flatten brush not allowing to set decimal heights
  • Fixed wrong shading in multisplat16 shaders

1.5.2

  • Fixed globalmap baker not working with terrain sizes below 513
  • Fixed texture file dialog not including .packed_tex files

1.5.1

  • Fixed undo not working correctly when painting textures while using MultiSplat16
  • Fixed grass painting not working

1.5

  • Added multisplat16 shader, allowing to use 16 ground textures
  • Added HTerrainTextureSet resource to store and re-use sets of ground textures
  • Added an import tool for ground textures
  • Added generic importers for packed textures (as backend for the ground texture import tool)
  • Added About Dialog, including version, links and donors list
  • Added slope limiter to texture painter
  • The brush system was rewritten to use shaders, for better performance
  • Added erosion brush
  • Brush size slider allows to pick small sizes more precisely
  • The minimap now uses the globalmap to display color (uses white if there isn't a globalmap)
  • Fixed brush jitter at small sizes
  • New docs website: https://hterrain-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest

1.4

  • Added properties to set collision layer and mask
  • Added a parameter in Classic4 shaders to reduce texture tiling
  • Added a scale parameter to the default grass shader
  • Added lookdev mode to visualise terrain maps with debug colors
  • Added height picking to the flatten tool
  • Adding and removing detail maps is now undoable
  • Detail layer nodes no longer auto-select their index
  • Breaking change: normal maps of ground textures now use OpenGL convention like Godot, instead of DirectX convention
  • Fixed removal of detail maps not being saved properly
  • Fixed GDNative library being registered with the wrong name on Linux
  • Fixed error when selecting a detail layer node having an index out of range
  • Fixed detail layers with a custom mesh disappearing when their density is left to default value

1.3.4

  • GDNative acceleration now has a prebuilt binary on Linux
  • Fixed collider being offset by half a cell
  • Fixed default 1x1 shape data causing an assertion in Bullet since Godot 3.2.3, using 2x2 instead
  • Fixed script syntax error to workaround Godot 3.1 limitation
  • Fixed cast issue of integer ID from JSON when loading terrain data

1.3.3

  • Fixed error when using an orthogonal camera
  • Fixed error when detail layer view distance is set to different values than default
  • Fixed detail layers not painting properly when selecting one above 0

1.3.2

  • Fixed error when finishing a paint gesture while not having painted anything
  • Fixed small inaccuracy between the heightmap pixels and visual position of vertices (#183)
  • Fixed errors when setting map_scale to 0.01 and below
  • Fixed error when saving a terrain with map_scale different than its default value

1.3.1

  • Fixed new terrain maps saving with wrong import settings

1.3

  • Added new Array shader allowing up to 256 ground textures, and new docs about this workflow
  • Added shaded view to the minimap with a camera icon, quadtree view is optional
  • Added simple "low-poly" shader without textures
  • Added per-texture color factor and UV scale to the main Classic4 shader (thanks Tinmanjuggernaut)
  • Added ability to specify a custom detail mesh, and bundled a few in models/ folder
  • Added an option to choose endianess when importing a raw heightmap
  • Added EXR to heightmap import options
  • Reworked ground texture selector to display packed and array textures correctly
  • The default shader is now CLASSIC4_LITE, the other one needs extra setup
  • Fixed rare terrain chunk popping due to vertical size wrongly rounded
  • Fixed undo not working correctly with more than one detail layer
  • Fixed texture editor allowing to load textures from outside the project (which doesn't work)
  • Fixed texture editor not allowing to choose JPG images
  • Fixed global translation not being taken into account (local was used as global)
  • Fixed Godot crashing or running out of memory after lots of edits

1.2.1

  • Optimized doc images to shorten download from assetlib (thanks to Calinou)
  • Improved LOD in orthogonal projection where the camera is very far away
  • Allow to choose lower terrain resolutions
  • Optimized raycast when painting from large distances
  • Limited detail layer max distance in the inspector, for performance reasons
  • Fixed detail painting could not be erased
  • Fixed import of splatmap and color map
  • Fixed brush not working in orthogonal view
  • Fixed grass chunks disappearing when their global density is changed
  • Fixed error in exported game due to an editor-specific class being present in a script
  • Fixed u_terrain_normal_basis parameter which should not appear in detail layer inspector
  • Fixed lower brush not working

1.2 - a4d0a55493994bcf10b668ff1272ca1655c2ab32

  • Added GDNative component to accelerate some parts of the plugin (Windows only, more platforms to come).
  • Platforms where GDNative doesn't run will fallback on GDScript
  • Larger brush sizes can be used on platforms where the GDNative component is supported
  • Added proper "smooth" brush, old smooth is now called "level".
  • Added EXR format to terrain exporter
  • Improved UI for high-DPI displays
  • Using the generator can be undone
  • More type hints in the codebase
  • The plugin no longer prints debug logs, unless Godot is executed in verbose mode
  • Fix terrain not hiding if its parent node is hidden
  • Fix z-fighting artifacts when the terrain is hidden and shown back
  • Fix offset brush when the 3D viewport is in half-resolution mode
  • Fix 8-bit PNG heightmap export

1.1.1

  • Added configuration warning if the terrain node has no data assigned
  • Grey out menu items if conditions for them to work aren't fulfilled.
  • Increased maximum chunk size to 64 to help performance tuning. Default is now 32.
  • Fixed map_scale not working
  • Fixed inspector becoming blank when shader type is set to "custom" while no shader was assigned yet
  • Fixed tiny imprecision when importing raw heightmaps
  • Fixed version check causing the collider to be offset in Godot 3.1.2

1.1

  • Added tool to export heightmap data to a raw file or image
  • Add ability to change base density of grass
  • Collision hits now report collider as the terrain node instead of null
  • Most of function signatures in the API now use typed GDScript
  • Fixed whitespace at the end of plugin.gd seen as an error in Godot 3.2
  • Fixed collider vertically offset due to a change in the Bullet module
  • Fixed inspector not updating properties when the shader is changed
  • Fixed terrain not saving if the scene is saved just after a non-undoable action (using a workaround)
  • Fixed terrain areas becoming black if resized bigger

1.0.2

  • Fix grass shader, it wasn't handling vertical map scale correctly
  • Fix smooth brush behaving like raise/lower in opacity lower than max
  • Fix terrain not saving changes made from the generator

1.0.1

  • Remove obsolete Save and Load menus, they don't work anymore

1.0 - Move to Godot 3.1 - a696ee41503ff41798d4fd401bf03b97c1177521

  • Saving a scene now saves terrains properly
  • Grass layers are now nodes for ease of use
  • Customizable grass shaders
  • Customizable grass distance
  • New documentation
  • Fixed resize causing artifacts on heightmap and brushes (engine side)
  • Fixed pickable collider causing a huge slowdown (raycasting is still slow but needs a fix in Bullet Physics)

0.10 - e4f3d560e6eabe6ae1d68bf80734737ce849cb2e

  • Added morphologic erosion to terrain generator
  • Added global map baking
  • Added ground shader parameter to blend towards global map over distance
  • Added properties to tint grass using the global map
  • Added property to tweak shading at the bottom of grass
  • Speed up sculpting by moving normals baking to GPU
  • Slightly improved LOD performance
  • Increased default file dialog size when selecting grass texture
  • Fixed issue with grass shading based on ground normals
  • Fixed grass preview lighting (was too dark)

0.9.1

  • Reduce checkbox size in generator tool
  • Make zoom slower in generator tool
  • Fixed brush decal not showing up at certain angles
  • Fixed script error in some of the tools
  • Fixed terrain inspector not allowing to set shader textures

0.9

  • Bring back configurable brush shapes
  • Improved terrain generator UI with 3D preview, baseline and draggable offset
  • Added tool to generate a full mesh of the terrain so Godot can bake a navmesh
  • The strength of sculpting tools is now proportional to brush size
  • Terrain resources generate a greyscale thumbnail
  • Resizing can be done by cropping or expanding in a given direction (Terrain menu)
  • Fixed potential cleanup error when the editor closes
  • Fixed custom types not cleaned up when the plugin is disabled
  • Fixed LOD to take height into account on tall mountains
  • Fixed terrain textures being lossy-compressed when reopening the project
  • Fixed grass painting being available when there are no detail layers

0.8.1

  • Heightmaps are now saved as .res so they are included in export
  • Fixed cursor decal not showing when creating a terrain from scratch
  • Fixed editor nodes not cleaned up when the plugin is disabled
  • Select grass tool after adding a new grass type

0.8

  • Custom ground shaders
  • Added a variant of the default shader which uses less texture samplers
  • Collision is active by default
  • Collision works in editor so other tools can use it (update is manual)
  • Compatibility breakage: packed bump and roughness were swapped in ground shader API
  • Fixed a few culling bugs
  • Fixed error when adding a detail layer while looking far away
  • Fixed normals not updating when generating a terrain over an existing one
  • Fixed terrain LOD updating around the game's camera instead of the editor's camera

0.7

  • Added basic ambient wind (waving grass)
  • Improved import of heightmaps, splatmaps and colormaps
  • Option to double chunk size (better quality and less draw calls but more vertices)
  • LOD scale can be changed (better quality but more draw calls)

0.6.1

  • Collisions are now working with Godot 3.0.4 and later
  • Fix errors when clicking while the terrain has no data

0.6

  • Terrain can be scaled using special map_scale property
  • Improved icons
  • Grass can be erased properly
  • Saving only saves what's needed
  • Fixed grass culling

0.5: port to Godot 3.0.2

  • Added level of detail
  • Added grass painting
  • Added generator
  • Changed collision to use Bullet (on Godot master branch only)
  • Improved texture paint to use a splatmap
  • More shading features
  • Various other changes in UI and API

0.4

  • Added texture paint through vertex colors
  • Added HumanSheeple's shader to support up to 18 textures
  • Added jump to the demo, I guess
  • Fix Modo navigation conflict

0.3

  • Added collisions
  • Improved demo with a simple character controller
  • New icon

0.2

  • Added flatten brush mode
  • Fix terrain having no default size

0.1.1

  • Fix bottom panel editor conflict

0.1: Initial release in Godot 2.1

  • Heightmap edition with undo/redo
  • Small demo with simple texture-less shader