DarkRadiant 2.12.0 released

[greebo]

DarkRadiant 2.12.0 is ready for download.

Feature highlights include a new customisable GUI and the first iteration of the Material Editor GUI.

  Windows and Mac Downloads are available on Github: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/tag/2.12.0 and of course linked from the website https://www.darkradiant.net

Thanks go out to all who helped testing this release!

Please report any bugs or feature requests here in these forums, following these guidelines:

• Bugs (including steps for reproduction) can go directly on the tracker. When unsure about a bug/issue, feel free to ask.
• If you run into a crash, please record a crashdump: Crashdump Instructions
• Feature requests should be suggested (and possibly discussed) here in these forums before they may be added to the tracker.

Changes since 2.11.0

• Feature: Customisable GUI layout
• Feature: Extended MaterialManager scripting interfaces by manipulation methods
• Feature: Material Editor GUI
• Feature: Same origin / duplicate detection script
• Feature: 3D grid feature
• Feature: Show light_radius on 'other' entities
• Feature: Show attached (light) entities
• Improvement: Better support for stage transform keywords in idTech4 materials
• Improvement: ESC to close dialogs with Cancel
• Improvement: Add portal_sky filter to default filters
• Improvement: Copy model/entity/prefab paths to clipboard (context menu in tree views)
• Fixed: Material stages with alpha test are incorrectly rendered as translucent
• Fixed: ASE importer needs to handle shared vertices with different normals
• Fixed: Ambients don't light sides facing away
• Fixed: Table lookup evaluation is not producing the same results as in the engine
• Fixed: Attached light radii are the wrong colour if "Override light volume colour" is active
• Fixed: Add missing image dimension reads to Quake 3 legacy brush parser
• Fixed: Opening the Create Entity dialog a second time will present an empty tree view
• Fixed: "Toggle 16x16 grid" function in the Particle Editor broken
• Fixed: Use of BITMAP field in ASE differs from TDM
• Fixed: Newly added or imported items don't use the location of previously selected item
• Fixed: Newly drawn brushes don't use height of previous selection with "Show Size Info" switched off
• Fixed: Rotation widget does not re-center on selected object
• Fixed: Duplicating model and moving with Alt-arrow results in pivot on original model when trying to rotate afterwards
• Fixed: Brushes with no visible surface towards orthoview "camera" are invisible in orthoview
• Fixed: Can't select one-sided models in certain 2D views
• Fixed: Twosided models can only be selected from one side

The list of changes can be found on the our bugtracker changelog.

Have fun mapping!

[OGDA]

Absolutely fantastic! 
Especially: Fixed: Ambients don't light sides facing away!

This unfortunately still crashes (btw, does this only crash on my computer?):
https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20815-dark-radiant-crash-on-update-entities-on-every-change/

 

Thank you for your hard work!

 

 

 

[nbohr1more]

Thank you Greebo and Congrats!

[AluminumHaste]

Awesome work man, you are a machine.

[nbohr1more]

That you to Orbweaver as well!

[AluminumHaste]

Yes absolutely.

[IZaRTaX]

Big thanks for this update lord Greebo !

"Feature: 3D grid feature", I know where it come from

[OrbWeaver]

Ubuntu Focal package is up.

[Goldwell]

Thank you once again Greebo!

[datiswous]

Hi thanks for the new edition.

Questions:

How much time is there roughly between releases?

When I build from source (I have no other choice) will this just overwrite the previous installation and settings etc?

[greebo]

2 hours ago, datiswous said:

How much time is there roughly between releases?

That's completely undefined. It usually depends on how much time we have to work on stuff. Since it's not worth creating a release when there's only two or three minor things to ship, I'm usually waiting for one or two large changes and a bunch of bug fixes or smaller improvements. Then it's worth going through all the paperwork necessary to create a publication.

2 hours ago, datiswous said:

When I build from source (I have no other choice) will this just overwrite the previous installation and settings etc?

It depends where your prefix folder is when you install your compiled binaries. If you leave it to the default /usr/local/ then yes, anything that's there will be overwritten. That's speaking of the binaries - your personal settings and preferences are shared between all DR builds, they are always saved to and read from ~/.darkradiant/ IIRC.

Sometime ago we discussed keeping the user preferences in separate folders for each specific DarkRadiant version, like Blender, but this is not implemented yet.

[datiswous]

10 hours ago, greebo said:

your personal settings and preferences are shared between all DR builds, they are always saved to and read from ~/.darkradiant/ IIRC

I think that is ~/.config/darkradiant (in my case). That folder has the following files:

• colours.xml
• darkradiant.language
• filters.xml
• input.xml
• user.xml

Is that the correct folder?

 

I have to remember to make a backup of the main bitmap folder because I made custom icons for use with a dark theme.

[greebo]

That's the folder with your custom settings, yes. Colour themes, filters, keyboard binds, window positions, most recently used files, etc.

[peter_spy]

Not sure if this is still the thing in the next version, but whenever I use RotateSelectionX/Y/Z on an entity, and then I try to move it, this command is issued repeatedly. IIRC that's a new thing that was not present in 2.11.

 

Edit: Huh, that's weird, I can only reproduce it for playerstart now, models and entitydefs work fine

Edited July 6, 2021 by peter_spy

[greebo]

I think it's this one: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5608

To reproduce in 2.12.0, you have to rotate it first, then drag the entity around, iirc.

[peter_spy]

Yup, that's the one. Thanks for fixing it in 2.13

Edited July 6, 2021 by peter_spy