Changelog

Build [400]

[New Features]

• Mesh Painter (xmodels/prefabs) with per object settings, random size, angles, weight etc.
• Effect Browser with preview and drag & drop support
• Materials can now be reloaded (individually) without restarting radiant ( texture window context-menu)
• Guizmo can now be toggled between World & Local mode (camera toolbar or menubar > selection)
• Radiant now tracks the total time spent per map & prefab and displays it within the menubar and discord rpc
• Preview sky materials in the texture window
• Ability to create patches instead of brushes when dragging the left mouse button on the grid window (menubar > grid > new-patch-dragging)

[General]

• map snapshots are now enabled by default (first ever use of radiant)
• filter window is now integrated into the toolbox (can be toggled off)
• added a “group” submenu to grid and camera context menus to quickly create, select and destroy brush groups (func_group / brushmodel)
• filedialog: added shortcuts to most used folders
• CreateFX generation now includes fx_origins found within prefabs
• entity properties: added select by kvp (drop-down menu next to kvp)
• vertex edit: add random alpha mode to noise generator
• the “invalid hwnd assert” now displays a hint that modtools might not be installed correctly

[d3dbsp]

• added option to disable auto bsp-view after compilation is done
• added option to auto generate CreateFX files after compilation is done (will add files to suitable folders in /raw/)

[Bug Fixes]

• guizmo: fixed various issues (activation / unwanted translations etc.)
• guizmo: gets disabled when holding either alt / ctrl or shift to not interfere with default radiant behaviour
• texture window: using 'show all' or 'all in use' disables favourite list
• model browser: fix preview for models using the flag shader
• effects editor: gui fixes (imgui ID collisions)
• fixed numpad enter key getting stuck
• disabled ability to compile bsp when inside a prefab
• preferences: clamp fov range to prevent values above 180 or below 0

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[Known Issues]

• active effects / physx objects might look like they “sink” into near-by geometry (based on camera distance)
• effects in the effects browser will be culled based on radiants camera position (only when bsp-view is active)

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Build [377]

[New Features]

• in-radiant player movement (loosely based on cod4's movement) using physx for collision detection / handling
• movement can be enabled from the camera toolbar or by using the hotkey (F3 by default) and disabled by pressing ESC or dragging the right mouse button

[General]

• added a searchbox / filter to the prefab browser
• slight fx-editor gui overhaul and fixes
• texture window overhaul (right-click context menu)
• changed default material from $default to caulk
• pressing CTRL, ALT or SHIFT now hides the camera guizmo to not interfere with radiant functionalities (object placement, selecting vertices etc.)

[Bug Fixes]

• fixed an issue with physx to misc_model conversion that created alot of brushes when using undo / redo
• fixed broken spotlight preview
• disable switching toolbox tabs with TAB when cursor is inside a textbox (KVP)
• fixed several issues in the entity preferences dialog that could result in poor performance
• fixed an issue that added origin/angles key-value pairs to the worldspawn entity
• debug drawings (debug lines / portal debugging etc) no longer show up in reflections generated when compiling bsp within radiant
• alot of fixes related to fx-editor curves (proper allocations and freeing)
• playing effects using the outdoor sampler no longer crash radiant

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Build [372]

[New Features]

• Nvidia PhysX integration with support for physics-enabled effect-models (can be turned into misc_models at any point) and dynamic prefabs

[General]

• added tutorials for using PhysX
• pressing TAB while hovering the toolbox window now toggles between childs
• drag-drop support from model browser to fx-editor visuals
• invalid / non-material materials should no longer crash radiant upon loading (mtlRaw->info.sortKey .. MTL_SORT_PRIMARY_SORT_KEY_BITS .. not in [x, x] assert)

[Bug Fixes]

• fixed debug rendering (model names / portal debugging etc) causing an assert when generating reflections
• fixed a freeze that could occur on startup if a new release is available that has no downloadable content
• surface inspector: fixed sample size and general ranges
• toggling bsp view no longer resets gameview
• fixed prefab browser drag-drop logic
• property editor with worldspawn settings no longer cripples fps
• fixed a crash when creating curve patches using the toolbox
• using a filter within the filedialog no longer crashes radiant when re-opening the filedialog
• fixed a crash when turning off bsp view while an omni light effect is active
• alot of small gui fixes and refactoring

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Build [369]

[Breaking Changes]

• renamed and moved all config files from 'bin' to 'bin/IW3xRadiant'
  • to keep your settings rename and move the following files:
    -> iw3r_czwnd_imgui.ini to imgui.ini
    -> iw3r_dvars.cfg to dvars.cfg
    -> iw3r_hotkeys.ini to hotkeys.ini
    -> iw3r_toolbar.ini to toolbar.ini

[New Features]

• toolbox featuring all related functions for brushes / patches (surface inspector / entity properties can be integrated (default))
  • option to integrate the camera toolbar into the toolbox sidebar
• prefab browser with thumbnail generation and drag to scene support (similar to model browser)
• layer dialog with proper hide and freeze controls
• toast notifications
• custom texture favourite lists that can be created from within radiant (add/remove selected texture to/from the list)
  • re-worked texture toolbar (no longer overlapping the texture window)

[General / Gui]

• missing materials are now using a proper invalid_texture material and are no longer invisible
• disabled 'guizmo brush mode' functionality + toggle button
• bsp compile settings are now saved
• added material name and texture dimensions to surface inspector
• general under the hood gui improvements

[Bug Fixes]

• fixed an issue with brush extruding (ALT+Right Click) that could result in broken brushes
• fixed a hotkey collision between brush extruding and brush texture offsetting (holding down alt and right mouse button)
• filer dialog: fixed scrolling issues

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Build [360]

[New Features]

• d3dbsp loading and bsp/light compilation from within radiant
  • logic to quickly toggle between radiant/bsp 'worlds'
  • bsp and light compiling options
  • menubar: show compile progress, spinner and kill process option
  • automatically reload bsp after compilation
  • fx lights/spotlights visible with loaded bsp
• generate reflections within radiant (happens automatically when compiling a map (d3dbsp)
• terrain patch thickening
• stamp prefab (context menus and menubar)
• create prefab from selection (context menus and menubar)
• extrude selected brush to other brush face (ALT + Right Mouse)
• center camera on selection (menubar > view)
• help menu with links to tutorials (explaining new features etc)

[General]

• increased hunkmemory from 200 to 600mb (space thats available for materials / xmodels etc)
• dropping models from the previewer into the scene no longer opens the misc_model file dialog
• added better version control
• reload specific or all xmodels (modelpreviewer options / menubar > renderer)
• undo's / redo's create a console print informing about the undo stack size
• general refactoring

[Guizmo]

• capped max delta movement and fixed guizmo jiggle
• disabled camera mouse interactions when guizmo is hovered to fix unwanted selections / deselections
• guizmo now shows up when selecting something from within the grid window

[Gui]

• fixed jellow'y behaviour of the camera / texture toolbars upon resizing the window
• the effects editor is now using the new filedialogs
• filedialog: added buttons that link to the desktop and the default path
• hotkey editor: added a filter/searchbox
• new curve and terrain patch dialogs
• added a button to collapse the texture window toolbar
• entity prefs: 'modelscale' and 'bouncefraction' are now registered as dragfloats

[Grid]

• disable drawing of grid coordinates (both edge and block) when zoomed out too far
• add dvar grid_draw_edge_coordinates to generally disable coordinate drawing (includes edges and block coordinates)
• add above to menubar and preferences
• add menu 'Select' to context menu (can be turned off in preferences)

[Renderer]

• fake sun shader: added support for scrolling textures

[Effects]

• draw fx lights/spotlights when a bsp is loaded
• FX ElemList bugfixes and makeover with menubar / toolbar + duplicate segement feature, renaming of segments and proper save-as

[Addons]

• added bo3 tool textures (unpack bo3-tool-textures.zip and place .iwi's into bin\IW3xRadiant\images)

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Build [352]

[Gui]

• toolbar button "open" now uses the new filedialog aswell
• the open-filedialog now has a file-filter/searchbar
• save/load the zero drop height option (toolbar option, probably an oversight by OG radiant devs)
• add menubar menu tools
• add rope and noise generator to tools ^

[Rope Generator]

• tool to generate a curve patch (rope/cable) between 2 info_null entities with options for slack, subdivision and thickness

[Model Previewer]

• set default rendering technique to "fake sun"
• added model-planting buttons
• added LOD/ vertcount / surface information for the selected model

[Renderer]

• added logic to visualize the sun direction (can be enabled and tweaked from the menubar > renderer > Light/Sun Preview > Debug Sundirection)

[Renderer]

• disabled selection box when using the guizmo to translate vertices to fix deselection of vertices after translation

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Build [350]

[General]

• iw3xradiant now checks for newer releases upon starting and will display a message within the menubar (instead of About) with links to the latest changelog, the github release and a direct download link
• fixed a bug that let the mouse stay invisible when using Alt + Tab whilst moving the camera
• removed default binding for the ToggleZ and ToggleCamera hotkeys
• dragging models from the model previewer into the scene now automatically calls the model planting function
• entity property editor: added a dropdown menu button next to the add new key-value-pair button with kvp templates
• radiant can now load xmodels with more then [32704] indices (now uses the same limit as iw3 [1048576])
• added dvar parse_debug to print entity and brush info while parsing a map file (off by default) to aid with parsing errors (can be toggled within preferences > developer)
• added a filter for fx_origins called FX to other filters
• added command center_camera_on_selection with default hotkey "END" (hotkey to center the camera was changed to "CTRL + END")

[Gui]

• refactored alot of the underlying gui code
• all file dialogs are now done using a heavily modified version of Limeoats file dialog for Dear ImGui (https://github.com/Limeoats/L2DFileDialog)
• added an option to use the original file dialogs (preferences > gui)
• the empty entity that would normally stay when canceling the file dialogs to spawn misc_models / misc_prefabs will now be deleted automatically
• selecting models in the file dialog to spawn misc_models now previews them in the model previewer (if it is open)
• text-log within the console can now be highlighted and copied (per line only)
• removed option to render either the grid or the camera window as mainframe backgrounds
• removed the floating toolbar option

[Gui - Grid Context Menu]

• sub-group entities within the create entity list (similar to how og. radiant did it)
• fixed a bug that let both the old and the new context menu appear at the same time
• added ungroup entity option
• slight visual tweaks

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Build [340]

[Gui]

• update Dear ImGui to v1.88+ (now comes with an event queue which should help with low fps situations)
• improvements to text-input (window can be out of focus while typing)

[Gui - Camera Context Menu]

• ported camera context menu to imgui
• holding the CTRL key whilst selecting brushes/patches by their material, will keep the context menu open (to select multiple)
• prefabs / models (any entity) will display either its name or the classname of the entity instead of $opaque
• add texture fit / lmap if a single patch is selected
• add increase / decrease subdivision if a single curve patch is selected
• add enter / leave prefab
  • right click a prefab with or without selecting it will present an option to enter it
  • context menu will always work and display "leave prefab", no matter what and where you click, if inside a prefab

[Gui - Grid Context Menu]

• ported grid context menu to imgui (can be toggled within preferences > gui)
• removed worldspawn from context menu
• only show options valid for the current selection
• context menu will always work and display "leave prefab" if inside a prefab

[Gui - Vertex Edit Dialog]

• ported vertex edit dialog to imgui
  • made hotkey open the imgui variant by default
  • add old/new toggle to preferences > gui
• add feature: add noise to selected vertices
  • select vertices you want to apply noise to
  • set noise scales to whatever you like (scale = units) and hit the "add noise" button

[Misc]

• modelpreview: add button to refresh xmodel list
• single character hotkeys are working properly now
• revert changed hotkey for overbrightshift up/down (curve patch subdivision) to the original hotkey
• add missing effects editor toolbar image
• general clean-up and refactoring
• changed imgui window-switching hotkey from CTRL+TAB to SHIFT+TAB so it does not interfere with the grid window
• fix camera selection rectangle getting stuck when dragged out of the camera window
• camera guizmo now translates selected vertices when in vertex select mode (patches)

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Build [331]

[Effects]

Hotfix - the function effects::fx_origin_frame was accessing edit_entity each frame. This is unsave because it can point to junk memory when transitioning into and out of prefabs.

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Build [330]

[Effects]

• complete effects editor ( -- physics, light and decals )
• fix distortion effects
• radiant can now draw effect xmodels
• handle sound elements
• better play, pause, retrigger logic
• add edit-effect toolbar button
• add "effects" menu-entry
• register effect dvars
• debug plume support (text in space)
• fix nullptr assert in fx_origin frame when entering/leaving prefabs
• fix random rotation around forward axis for fx_runner elements

[General]

• re-implement sunpreview shadows (default off - menu > renderer > light preview > enable sun shadows)
• ability to only draw shadows within a certain radius, increasing frames per second (similar to cubic clipping)
• discord rich presence displaying current loaded map or prefab (can be disabled within preferences)
• automatically load custom project file at startup

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Build [325]

[Effects]

• add effects framework (from effectsEd)
• add fx_origin entity via custom project and def file

current functionality

• load .efx files (effectsEd files)
• convert and display effects within radiant
• play, play-repeat, pause and stop effects
• adjust effect timescale
• draw debug triangles for effect meshes

current limitations

• can not edit effects (like effectsEd)
• can not play multiple .efx's at once (multiple fx entities)
• physics are not supported
• decals (mark meshes) are not supported

using effects

• place an fx_origin entity
• change the default effect by using the "open file dialog" button within entity properties (behind effect name)
• use camera toolbar or main toolbar buttons (later invisible by default) to start / stop / pause effects
• use the effects settings window to adjust timescale or toggle debug tris drawing

createfx generator logic (menubar > file > generate file > createfx)

• generate createfx / loadfx files for all fx_origin entities on the currently loaded map
• exports files to bin/IW3xRadiant/createfx

[Entity Properties]

• model keyvalue pair is now a droptarget (drag models from modelselector into the textbox)
• add "open file dialog" button behind model keyvalue pair, replacing the delete button
• add "open file dialog" button behind fx keyvalue pair
• add fx_origin logic

[General]

• IW3xRadiant now creates and loads its own registry keys and no longer uses the stock ones
• minimizing radiant and closing it from the taskbar will no longer result in an assert on the next startup
• fix unwanted guizmo transformations when selecting multiple brushes/entities (no guizmo activation till initial left click is released)
• fix an assertion when docking the edit colors window
• add play, repeat, pause, stop and effect settings to the camera toolbar
• add new/missing commands to the main toolbar (invisible by default)
• add new/missing commands to the hotkey list so that they can be bound
• merge fakesun/postfx and effects settings windows
• more visually pleasing tooltips (camera toolbar)
• make normal-based fake lighting the default
• rename menubar > file > misc to Generate File ..