DarkRadiant 3.7.0 released

[greebo]

DarkRadiant 3.7.0 is ready for download.

What's new:

• Feature: Skin Editor
• Improvement: Script Window usability improvements
• Fixed: Hitting escape while autosaving crashes to desktop
• Fixed: Def parsing problem in tdm_playertools_lockpicks.def
• Fixed: DR hangs if selecting a lot of entities with entity list open
• Fixed: Float Property Editor's entry box is sticking around after selecting a float key
• Fixed: Spline entities without model spawnarg are unselectable
• Fixed: Entity window resets interior sizing forcing resize each time it is opened
• Fixed: Spline curves should not be created with a model spawnarg
• Fixed: Newly appended curve control vertices aren't shown at first
• Fixed: Light entities are zoomed out in preview window
• Fixed: Entity inspector spawnarg fields not always updated by UI windows such as Model Chooser

Feature: Skin Editor (see video)

Windows and Mac Downloads are available on Github: https://github.com/codereader/DarkRadiant/releases/tag/3.7.0 and of course linked from the website https://www.darkradiant.net

Thanks to all the awesome people who keep using DarkRadiant to create Fan Missions - they are the main reason for me to keep going.

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.

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

Keep on mapping!

[New Horizon]

Incredible!!!  Awesome work, as always!

[Dragofer]

Thanks as always! Just jotting some down feedback on the skin editor as I go:

• I like how easy it is to add all materials used by the model to the skin editor with a single button, and that it only adds them to the skinDef if they're changed by the mapper.
  • Some models have a lot of materials though and I suppose mappers usually only want to change one or a handful of them, so maybe it should ask you which materials you want to add?
• In the material replacements tab there's an asterisk icon, presumably to make it easy to replace all materials at once. Maybe it should be renamed "All materials" in the "Material Replacements" tab to make it more obvious what it does?
• It'd be nice to have a way of quickly toggling all material replacements so you can see the unskinned model, maybe via a right-click on the material checkboxes or a button next to "Remove Remapping".
• Selecting a replacement material (instruction: "Click to edit") seems to work the same way as when editing a filter, via a double-click (one to select, another when it's selected), which then makes the button to select a new material from the media browser show up. This would probably be a bit easier to use if the media browser button were always visible for each material.

[jonri]

Flatpak is updated and should show up on Flathub in a bit.

[Goldwell]

Damn that skin editor is seriously awesome and will save me so much time!!

 

Thank you Greebo!

[AluminumHaste]

It's working on AMD again!

Selecting brushes now has the red outline again!

[greebo]

54 minutes ago, AluminumHaste said:

Selecting brushes now has the red outline again!

Fascinating, because I don't recall touching anything related to outlines. Can you confirm it's still broken in 3.6.0? Have any driver updates been applied in the meantime?

[AluminumHaste]

Dammit, you're right. I went back to DR3.2.0 where I first reported this issue, and the red outline on brushes is working there also.

AMD fixed broke and fixed something accidentally.

[MirceaKitsune]

Cheers! I only run DR from Git as there's no appimage for Linux and flatpak requires configuring an external repository over a simple "download and run" approach, I should however be on the Git commit of the 3.7.0 release.

I only noticed one obvious issue: When trying to add new windows to the new interface, DR will often crash and close on itself. Going to Windows and trying to open the Light Inspector for instance always crashes for me. Same as View - New XY view / New camera view, instant crash if I touch those.

I like the new window setup otherwise! For example it's easier to permanently put the Surface Inspector on the Properties bar instead of having a new window pop up when you press S then having to close it. I got used to having all 3 2D views open at once, but using just one with Control + Tab to switch is actually better... though considering how often we have to do that I'd consider making the default shortcut just Tab if possible.

Edited November 25, 2022 by MirceaKitsune

[AluminumHaste]

@greeboDid you see my thread about the ortho views resetting every time I run DR?

[datiswous]

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Edited January 13, 2023 by datiswous
didn't sound right