DeleD Community Edition

[Paul-Jan]

DeleD 2.42 Beta Released

Both the installer and the update executable of the upcoming DeleD 2.42 have been released (changelog below). This new version will be released in a week, on February 15. You'll find the files here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/deled/files/beta


Testers needed

The plan is to take DeleD into a 3-week release cycle. This means there will be a new beta every 3 weeks. What we need is brave people willing to give these betas a spin, making the world a safer place for those who prefer to wait for the main release. You might want to save your work just a little more often in the process, but in general the betas should be perfectly safe, and you'll enjoy the privilege of working on the bleeding edge of progress.

I you are willing to help us test the new version, simply download the beta from the location mentioned above, and keep your eyes open for stuff that might go wrong... especially with the recent changes mentioned in the changelog.


Changelog

Added functionality
- Added link to Wiki to the Info menu. (Nocturn)
- Implemented specific move dialog for polygons. The old dialog didn't make much sense and resulted in errors when used on polygons. (Fik)
- The 3D view now offers so-called turn-table rotation, rotating the view around the center point of the selected primitive. See here (link to doc in wiki needed!) for documentation. (Paul Nicholls)
- A Path primitive has been added. This type of primitive is especially powerful when combined with the Lathe tool (Cool screenshot needed!). (Paul Nicholls).

Fixes
- Screenshot resolution no longer always defaults to window dimensions. (Chronozphere)
- Merging polygons no longer results in an occasional Access Violation / Driver Error. (Chronozphere)
- Merging polygons now removes any redundant (colinear) vertices. (Chronozphere)
- Moving multiple selected faces (i.e. sets of UV coordinates) in Face Mode now actually moves all the faces and not just the first selected (Fik).
- Merging primitives will maintain their UV coordinates (in stead of regenerating them). (Chronozphere)
- Using the polygon inset tool will maintain UV coordinates (in stead of regenerating them). (Chronozphere)
- The loading progress indicator no longer blocks the application after closing, when DeleD is build on some recent Delphi versions. This fix should only affect developers. (Chronozphere)

Changes
- The dialog confirming the location where screenshots were saved has been removed.

[Grandmaster B]

Nice! Im testing...

How can i enable turn-table viewport rotation?

[Paul-Jan]

Great, and good question!

[chronozphere]

Nice, I will give it a try when I have some time.

@Testers:
Please test the Merge and Inset tools thoroughly as they had a bit of a face-lift.

@Paul-Jan:
I see you have comitted my latest refactor patch. It removed the TPrimitiveScalePolygonByDeltaVectorFunction which was actually still used by the inset tool. After my inset patch, this dependancy is removed.
I hope this didn't cause troubles while compiling..

To test whether the refactor patch didn't break anything, please try the face rotate and scale tools.

[moraldi]

I am using DeleD as my world editor in my current project. I am downloading right now.
BTW: The most interesting is the turn-table rotation functionality

EDIT: I can't find information in WIKI on how to use the turn-table rotation functionality. Where should I post the bug(s) I may find;

[Paul-Jan]

@Chronozphere: Your comment at the patch already made that perfectly clear, didn't take me long to figure out the combo with your other patch was a nice working solution. Well done and no worries!

@Moraldi: Thanks for testing! The wiki documentation will be updated between now and the actual release. You can even do it yourself if you feel like it, that's why we use a Wiki...

Any test results you have can be posted in this thread or in a seperate thread if you think that might be more appropriate (for example, when you expect to start a discussion ). We (i.e. the developers and other contributors) will inventory things together and prioritize based on error reports.

[moraldi]

Thanks Paul-Jan,
This is not actually a bug (but it could lead to a new one):
1. Create a cube.
2. In the 3D view, select the 'Move' command from the Geometry toolbox.
4. Select the cube object you've created in step one.
5. Move it along one of the 3 axes using the 3D gizmo.
6. With the gizmo visible try to make a rectangular selection having the Shift button pressed.
Continued in your monitor...

[adr]

http://www.delgine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4107

but I seem to still have problems using the Extract tool. Its random ish, but its still crashing out the drivers and deled when the error happens.

[Grandmaster B]

I want to give feedback on the turn-table rotation.

It works nice, but its restricted to Y-axis only, i hope its get extended

However, i find it awkward to press the the right Alt- and Ctrl-keys plus the right mouse button to use this feature. Are there any plans to improve the mouse and keyboard layout? Or make it customizable? I would set the middle mouse button for turn-table for instance.

[moraldi]

[chronozphere]

[chronozphere]

I did some last-minute testing and it appeared that not all redundant vertices are removed when merging. aargh

1. Create grid
2. Select haf the grid (polygons)
3. Move them up or down
4. Select all polygons and merge

I allready tried some things, but I was unable to come up with a quick fix. This needs some thought...

Also, I noticed that the UV's after an inset-operation weren't always right (They are in 95% of all cases). Couldn't reproduce the error. I guess I'll leave it, until someone finds a reproduction path.

[Dragonsbrethren]

I'm getting an AV/driver crash when using the extrude tool with this version, similar to the ones I had been getting with Extract and Merge:

Insert a cube
Flip all of the polygons in the cube (not sure if this is nesssary)
Select a polygon, extrude it.
Cancel selection.
Select that polygon again.

[paul_nicholls]

[chronozphere]