Shiva Changelog

What's new in Shiva 1.7.0

• Live preview for Particles, Trails, Materials and HUDs
• XML API
• Layers and cameras management in SceneViewer
• Full lightmapping control : import, export and use provided uv2 for ShiVa lightmap computation
• New texture format for optimized streaming : DDZ
• Particles collision and rotation
• Fresnel driven opacity and color ( backlight )
• Generalized effect intensity factor
• Scene merge ( ADVANCED only )
• Global GUI Improvements ( stability, usability and graphics )
• AIModelEditor
• AIVariable dialog now have 6 decimals instead of 3
• Up/down in tables and hashtable variable creation/edition
• Search in all script
• Fix some issues in design view of variables
• Compile all AIs
• Boolean and table override was broken
• Ambience Editor
• Emissive not taken in account by calculations
• Use of provided lightmap UVs
• Ambient occlusion computation with distance attenuation was buggy
• Ambient occlusion now uses subsampling like diffuse lighting
• Prelight compiler now have a cancel button
• Ambient occlusion compiler now shows a more friendly progress
• Ambient occlusion amount parameter
• Light flags now correctly handled in prelight computations
• Fixed some crashes at lightmap compilation time
• AnimBank Editor
• Multiple drag'n drop of AnimClip in AnimBanks
• AnimClip Editor
• Multiselection support on 'remove channels'
• magnetic slider
• Lot of other bug fixes and improvements
• Fix issues on fit and scrolling curves
• Fix somes issues for track operations
• Scale keys can now be set in percent
• Attributes Editor
• Now possible to directly remove and add particles and/or trails
• Sensors can now be removed separately
• Dynamics controller shape parameters are now inside the rollup instead of inside a popup dialog
• The 'use dynamics' option is now checked by default
• The light 'affect terrain' option was not working properly
• AIModels can now be added by DND
• Sensor shape parameters ar now inside the rollup instead of inside a popup dialog
• Fit box sensor to bounding box at creation
• Translation and rotation are now disabled in model mode
• Shear is now saved
• Dynamics : fit shape to the mesh boundingbox
• DataExplorer
• Enable Post Render Effects option was not working (inverted) in export options
• DDS textures import ( scene, model )
• Handling of .. in the synchronizer on XP 64 bits
• Mobile export fixes when a texture is too large
• New thumbnail system, more stable and fast, with antialiasing, and compatible with Parallels
• Recent use : scrollbar fixed
• You can now auto tag objects while importing as scene
• Import model does not import anymore camera, light and other unwanted helpers ...
• Create > Model > Billboard
• Export standalone option : EULA
• Export standalone option : custom script
• Engine
• HUD ZOrder problems fixed
• HUD clicks are now fully compliant with ellipsoid shapes
• Input keys handling : numbers
• Local planar texgen
• Handling of UV2 + Color in DirectX
• Optimisations HashTables
• Musics are now correcly stopped when changing scene
• Optimisations of the environment saving
• Bug in sensor bounding box computation (box sensors with offset, and rotated)
• Sensor engine optimizations
• Particles facing up option (for water splashes or spells)
• Improved raycast on colliders and terrain
• Option 'die on collision' for particules
• Audio recording normalization
• cache for timeout resources
• DDZ texture support
• Removed limitation of max 65535 keyframes in AnimClips
• Scene size optimizations
• TRS update bug when the camera is child of a group with other child objects : only the camera TRS was updated
• onActivate now cannot be called before onInit
• Corrected an hardware occlusion bug in a particular case
• Saturation and Levels PRE were giving incorrect colors on Direct3D codepath
• Lower memory consumption of the engine on iPhone
• Repeat and until keywords are now not considered as errors anymore
• RenderMaps are now not updated if the linked camera is hidden with object.setVisible
• Warning for textures with a with or height less than 8 (nvidia drivers do not like them)
• Corrected a rendering bug with Trails in UV wrap mode
• Latest ODE release
• Fixed a problem with particle bounding box updates when using object transform
• Fixed a bug in the boundig box update of in-group sensors when using local offset
• Fixed a bug with height fog on some nVidia cards/drivers
• fixed bug in navigation.enableNodesInBox
• Corrected a bug of BB update when 'Inherit Parent Scale' is checked and not 'Translation influenced by parent XXX'
• Bspheres are draw with a different color than bboxes
• Movie playback progress gives a correct value when end of the stream reached.
• Screenshot now works correctly in DirectX
• GameEditor
• Fixes in environment variable creation
• General
• Better look of the project list
• In the about dialog, the key was 4x4 instead of 5x4
• ShiVa was having 1H difference comparing to the system
• DefaultFont is now looking better
• ComboBoxes were having focus problems
• Some resources were shown multiple times in the save resources dialog box
• Corrected a huge bug with play/pause toolbar buttons
• Reduced combobox flickering
• Reduced rotation approximation errors (89.933 instead of 90.000)
• Close All in All modules
• A warning is now displayed if a file could not be written.
• HudEditor
• Handling of carriage return in text field
• When changing the timer tick the menu Save was not enabled
• Import
• Maya animation import improvements (again)
• Blender import improvements
• STE import was not overwriting scenes
• Auto tag objects features with prefix
• Automatic normals generation if none provided
• Better animation frame times import
• If a texture is in the ambient slot, it will be imported as effect map 1, with a modulate effect
• Convert textures from 8bits to 24 bits
• Resize textures less than 8x8 px
• Convert to 24bits the 32bits textures with an alpha equal to 255
• Material Editor
• Batch processing : new 'advanced effect' added for back light and fresnel opacity (ADVANCED only)
• NavMeshEditor
• Copy/Paste from one scene to another
• Navmesh computation on terrain chunks works now even if we are far from the chunk
• Fixed a bug in NavMesh generation (when using multiple levels)
• Particle editor
• It is now possible to open multiple particle systems
• Polygon trail editor
• It is now possible to open multiple trails
• Scene Explorer
• Up and down arrows fixes
• Optimized for huge scenes
• Shift clic on a filter icon : select only the filter and remove other ones
• SceneViewer
• Multiselection optimizations
• Multi selection friendly Material assignment (by drang and drop)
• Ctrl A now do not select active camera and hidden objects
• Corrected an overwrite problem with 'save as model'
• Screenshoter : high definition support
• Editor helpers now hidden during screenshot generation
• In model mode, the camera moves use the model as reference
• When Left and right mouse buttons are pressed, it now acts as if the Middle button were pressed.
• Runtime view mode, without edition tools
• Now you can dnd Animclips and sounds on selected objects to create AnimBank or SoundBank.
• Create AnimBank / AIModel / etc. when no AnimBank / AIModel / etc. is bound
• Laptop key bindings for camera control (ALT + Z, E or R)
• Gravity tool fixed
• Animation was not played in Gouraud and Wireframe modes
• Post render effects are now disabled in Gouraud and Wireframe modes
• Paint : more small brush size
• Toolbar for quick access
• ScriptEditor
• Precompiler was reading code inside big comments
• Line numbers are now correct when a compilation error is detected
• Comments in system handlers
• Scripting
• hud.enableListMouseWheelHandling
• hud.getComponentScreenSpaceCenter, hud.getComponentScreenSpaceTopLeftCorner, hud.getComponentScreenSpaceTopRightCorner
• hud.getComponentScreenSpaceBottomLeftCorner, hud.getComponentScreenSpaceBottomRightCorner
• hud.getComponentAt, hud.getActionAt, hud.getTimerAt
• hud.setComponentShapeRoundRectangleCornerRadius
• hud.setComponentBackgroundImageUVOffset & hud.setComponentBackgroundImageUVScale & hud.setComponentBackgroundImageAddressingMode
• hud.kAddressingModeClamp & hud.kAddressingModeRepeat
• hud.setListTextLeftMargin and hud.setListTextRightMargin were not working
• hud.getComponentAtPoint
• hud.enableListSingleSelectionToggling
• hud.setComponentIgnoredByMouse
• scene.setTerrainVegetationLayerMaxVisibleInstances et scene.setTerrainLODSwitchThreshold
• scene.getFirstHitColliderWithID
• scene.setBackgroundTextureUVOffset, scene.setBackgroundTextureUVScale, scene.setBackgroundTextureAddressingMode
• scene.sendEventToAllUsers
• sound.getName
• object.getHashCode
• object.enableDistanceClipping, object.setDistanceClippingThresholds and object.setDistanceClippingFadeTime
• shape.getMeshName, shape.getMeshTriangleCount, shape.getMeshVertexCount and shape.getSkeletonName
• shape.setMeshSubsetMaterialEffectMap0AdditionalUVRotation and shape.setMeshSubsetMaterialEffectMap1AdditionalUVRotation
• shape.overrideMeshSubsetMaterialEffectIntensity
• shape.getMeshSubsetMaterialName
• input.kKeyDelete, input.kKeyBackspace, input.kKeyLAlt, and input.kKeyRAlt
• animation.matchPlaybackCursor
• animation.setPlaybackIgnoreNotAnimatedChannels
• microphone.setRecordingQuality ( 0..1 )
• math.gaussianRandom
• math.trunc, math.roundToNearestInteger, math.roundToNearestPowerOfTwo
• application.saveCurrentUserScreenAsTexture
• application.getCurrentUserViewportWidth and application.getCurrentUserViewportHeight
• application.getCurrentUserSceneTaggedObject
• application.getName
• application.setCurrentUserEnvironmentURL, application.getCurrentUserEnvironmentURL
• cache.getFileSendStatus
• system.getOSVersion, system.getDeviceModel, system.getDeviceUniqueIdentifier, system.getDeviceName
• system.getOSLanguage
• camera.isSphereInFrustum
• hashtable.getKeyAt and hashtable.getAt
• dynamics.destroyJoint
• table.reserve
• network.setCurrentServer can now handle IP
• Terrain Editor
• Fonctions to remove all textures/lightmap
• Vegetation randomness was per layer, resulting in repeating effect
• It is now possible to choose the production textures resolution
• New integrated UI
• Road width
• Export streamable textures
• Optimized generations when using roads
• Minimap
• Misc
• Automatic particle BBox (using random sampling points, and smoothed BBox changes)
• Multithreaded particles