OpenZone 4.8

[Windcatcher]

(whew!) This was a hell of a lot of work in the making, but here it is to enjoy:

1. In the ground editor you can right-click on a ground tile to cause it to be hidden (or right-click on it again to enable it again). Tiles that are hidden will have a red "X" drawn over them. This by itself isn't all that useful a feature, but it's necessary for what follows.

2. Added a menu option called Object...Split with ground mesh. This allows you to take dungeons made with Dungeon Builder (or conceivably any mesh you import) and integrate them with an outdoor OpenZone ground mesh. You use it by placing your dungeons such that the entrance(s) poke through the ground. Then select all of the entrance objects (using shift-click or control-click) and then click Object...Split with ground mesh. Affected ground tiles will be hidden and OpenZone will create objects in their place that look like them but have holes for the entrances (such objects will always begin with "split"). It will also try to chop off those parts of your dungeon entrances that poke above the ground so they are flush with the ground surface. If there are any leftover polygons (which generally shouldn't happen) you can use the feature below to get rid of them.

3. When in fly mode and you click on an object, if the object is a mesh that you imported (such as something from Dungeon Builder) OpenZone will also highlight the particular polygon you clicked on in green. You can delete this polygon by then clicking Edit...Delete polygon from mesh.

4. If you click on a mesh polygon you can change some of its properties by clicking Edit...Change polygon properties.

5. Added a 3D viewer to the ground editor below the mesh list so you can see the mesh object you want to place.

6. Made some fixes to the OpenGL rendering to perfect rendering of transparent objects.

7. Rendering speed was getting really slow so I reduced the far clipping plane by half and put in some optimizations to try to speed up rendering.

8. Added the texture picker popup window from Dungeon Builder and added "Choose..." buttons to many popup windows wherever there is a texture drop-down.

9. Added a View...Jump to object location menu item that, when in fly mode, will take you instantly to the first selected object.

10. In the ground options (at the right of the main window), added a "Show zonelines" option. Zonelines will be shown with transparent polygons with a slight purplish cast.

11. Zone bounds that you place in the ground editor will no longer extend below the ground if you are using an OpenZone ground mesh. This is necessary so they won't block any underground dungeons or tunnels you place.

12. When importing a .3DS file, OpenZone will look for any objects named "oz_water", "oz_lava", or "oz_pvp" (case doesn't matter). This lets you define water, lava, or PvP areas in your mesh instead of having to do it from within OpenZone. Such objects MUST be rectangular objects (e.g. cubes) that are aligned along the X, Y, and Z axes, because OpenZone will only look at their maximum and minimum X, Y, and Z values for determining their extent. For water and lava areas, OpenZone will use the first texture it sees as the texture to use (so you only have to texture one of the faces). The objects you define won't actually be created in the zone since they are really just defining volumes, but OpenZone will create top surface polygons for water or lava areas like it always does.

13. Fixed a TON of bugs.

It can be downloaded here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=34673

WC