Pfhorte 2.0 Change History

(Current Version: 2.0a14)

Changes Since 2.0a13

• Fixed up the drawing of the gadget to switch from a scroller to an edit text field.
• Made the "Play Level" viewer show secondary textures properly. Also shows the floor and ceiling offsets. You can change the floor and ceiling offsets using the arrow keys. The floor and ceiling height with the '-' and '=' keys.
• Can no longer click on hidden points.
• There is now an option to change the poly number of the selected poly to the first or last poly. Only the very best map makers will use this. :)
• The poly index in the inspector now starts at 1 as it should.
• Maps now have a unique ID that will make save games work better, I hope.\
• Some new artwork.

Changes Since 2.0a12

• Landscape popup now selectes the correct landscape texture. Was selecting one greater somehow.
• Changing the texture set now fixes up the control panels a bit, still needs user to fix.
• Making a default object no longer renders the flags menu inoperative.
• Centering map centers it on the grid.
• Sometimes the wand tool would crash when messing with sides and default sides. May be fixed.
• Default object remembers the flags too.
• Secondary texture show up in 3D view now. Does not align vertically correctly though.
• New draw modes to display various info as a number in the poly.

Changes Since 2.0a11

• Fixed the deleting of sides bug, sorry.
• Fixed the multi level duplication of PNTS and other chunks.

Changes Since 2.0a10

• The landscape textures are now selected with a popup menu like the normal textures.
• You can now select non standard texture sets in the mission info. Don't do it unless you have made your own texture set and know what you are doing.
• The landscape texture set no longer gets reset to 0.
• Changing the landscape set fixes all the landscape textures in your level.
• The popup texture chooser now has a single landscape selection to avoid confusion.
• Landscape textures should work in the defaults now.
• Pfhorte supports up to 34 textures in a texture set for those making custom sets.
• The floor and ceiling lighting draw mode now works correctly.
• The points now hide too.
• Unused sides get deleted when the level is opened.
• Deleting a poly no longer messes up control panel platform switches.
• The magic wand now works with almost all defaults and has new settings.
• The poly index is now shown in the inspector for those making terminal teleporters.
• The phase of lights can be set.
• Dragging notes and objects off the map no longer crashes Pfhorte.
• Making a new light/media/ambient sound/random sound will copy the settings of the current on shown in the dialog.
• You can now use a light as a volume controller for a sound object.

Changes Since 2.0a9

• Added option for sliders to switch from slider to edit text. Saved in prefs when save settings chosen.
• Preserves 'term' resources in map file. Does not allow editing of them yet though.
• Adjusted the size of the 'minf' chunk. Multi level maps should work better now.
• Now allows 2048 polys per level and 256 platforms although 64 is the limit.
• Layer info for polys changed. You will need to regroup your polys back into layers.
• Can now adjust the floor and ceiling texture offsets for polys.
• Made inspector wider for new fields.
• Option no longer switches to the eyedropper tool.
• Added ability to show floor and ceiling heights as brightness levels of the polys.
• Now preserves data in the resource fork of map files. Not well tested.
• Hiding polys or layers hides the objects in the polys and the lines but NOT the points (too slow).

Changes since 2.0a8:

• Fixed crashing bug when opening a map window.
• Copyright = 1996.
• Ceiling/floor in poly inspector need swapping.
• Allow negative numbers for sound object volumes.
• Save defaults to prefs.
• Add sound distance circles, of 10240 units.
• Frequency for ibjects can go up to 65536 now.
• Numbers for the scrollers.
• Light switches can be set properly.
• When zooming, hiliting doesnt get left all over the place.
• A different looking tool palette.
• The grabber becomes active when pressing space now instead of cmd-space.
• Holding down: cmd - arrow tool, option - eyedropper, space - grabber, cmd-space - mag glass, cmd-option-space minus-mag-glass.
• With selected polys, you can rotate +-90 degrees and flip horz/vert using the edit menu, or rotate +-5 degrees with "," and "."
• Fixed magic wand problem with poly types and platforms. Could have made the map and platforms unusable, yuck.

Changes since 2.0a7:

• fixed up the line tool a bit. Sometimes made bad polys.
• Deleteing a poly deletes its lines, unless you hold option down.
• Option clicking the line tool continues a line (try it).
• Added sliders and other nifty controls to stuff that had numbers that were not useful.
• Fixed prefs bug, again.
• Can not delete a line that is attached to a poly.
• In the 3d view you can alter the floor and ceiling heights of selected polys with the arrow keys.
• Nasty bug with the line tool and the hammer tool.
• Now fixes problems with the level on opening. Will fix bugs caused by line tool bug.

Changes Since 2.0a6

• Inspector is now wider.
• Side inspector shows all texture types now.
• show # objects in object plac dialog.
• Multi level map saving bug fixed.
• Prefs was crashing.
• Add a None texture to the texture popups.
• Could not click on notes.
• Gave the windows back their zoom buttons
• Clicking on the first point closes the polygon.
• Clicking new points on existing points, shows the new point in the point color.
• Removed useless info from media dialog.
• Changing texture sets fixes up media too.
• Re-done defaults for polys and sides. Now can inspect the default poly and side.
• Disabled the script menu.
• Hammer tool: Adding a new point.
• Hammer tool: Deleting an old point.
• Hammer tool: Connecting and disconnecting a point by dragging it.
• Can now copy and paste levels, Buggy?.
• Line tool. Use it to draw lines. Auto makes polys if it can.
• Can now set the light controlled by a light switch?
• Can now set the tag controlled by a destroyable tag switch.
• Can now set the tag controlled by an uplink chip switch.
• Selecting platform switch, now DOES hilite the platform.
• Deleting polys no longer hoses platforms.
• Most platform settings could be set but NOT unset, now fixed.
• Allowed more characters in most edit fields, including media height.
• Converted platforms no longer have door flag set. Set it yourself if needed.
• Converted mission info has the landscape texture set to 0.
• You can now click on polys with a landscaped texture on it.
• Due to a bug in the shapes file (I think) the 4th landscape texture was not being loaded.
• Now a slider to set relative poly height (Ugly).
• The plain poly color now works properly.
• The show poly lighting draw mode works, sort of.
• Fixed bug when trying to save a newly created map file more than once.
• Center map command.
• Zooming in too far no long crashes.
• Can have landscaped textures in defaults.
• z coord for objects. Distance from ceiling if hanging flag set.
• Snap to grid works when creating polys or lines.

Changes since 2.0a5:

• Now includes the map "Water Cannon", which I am still working on.
• Fixed saving bug.
• All directions and angles are in degrees. 0 = east, 90 = north etc.
• Fixed up the poly type popup.
• Texture draw mode for sides was not working.
• Fix some light type editing bugs.
• New polys should default to media type of NONE now.
• No allows sides on all lines. To set a texture to NONE, option click in the texture popup.
• Plain poly draw mode.
• Object orientation should not go past 360 anymore.
• Fixed wierd hilighting of strange lines.
• Poly and wall draw modes now work.
• Poly line selection more accurate.
• 1 more zoom in/out level.
• Changing texture set should now refresh screen.
• Dim out secondary if there is no need for secondary texture.
• Object plac stuff was (still is a bit) flakey.
• Real object plac editor dialog in edit menu.
• Change grouping to layering, you can now assign polys to layers and show/ hide layers.
• Prefs for all the new things, your old prefs will get messed up.
• Backdrops, ie other texture sets for landscape, Be VERY careful.
• Saving now marks the file as not needing to be saved.

Changes since 2.0a4