SceneNavi Update Page

Current Version

Release Notes

v1.0 Beta 9b ("Hotfix Redux?")

• Fixed generated GLSL shader code somewhat; should fix float conversion error during shader compilation
• Changed combiner emulation initialization; should now only try to initialize a combiner type when selected by user, not all on every startup

v1.0 Beta 9a ("My First Hotfix")

• Added additional sanity checks to prevent potential EntryPointNotFoundException and NullReferenceException, especially on lower-end hardware
• Changed versioning code to allow for hotfixes

v1.0 Beta 9 ("You've Got Shaders In My Fixed Functions!")

• Added new GLSL-based combiner emulation, still missing certain rendering details (ex. automatic texture-coordinate generation for reflections)
• Added support for anti-aliasing and mipmapping in renderer; can be toggled from menu
• Changed application configuration to use Nini library instead of .NET Properties.Settings
• Fixed various bugs; combiner inaccuracies, display list caching, Scene TreeView generation, mesh header types, etc.
• Added experimental help system, displays help string in status bar when hovering over menu items; still needs work
• Various other OpenGL-related changes and additions (ex. extension checks)
• Various minor GUI changes (ex. status bar appearance, Options menu arrangement)

v1.0 Beta 8 ("Fresh Water Laced With Bugfixes")

• Added waterbox support; allows changing of waterbox position, size, room number and other properties
• Added saving support for individual scene and room files; still requires a ROM to be loaded beforehand, but saves changes to the separate files
• Fixed loading of individual scene and room files; the changes to the treeview in Beta 7 broke header selection
• Fixed SFX and reverb options under Scene Metadata being disabled; slight GUI changes broke this feature
• Fixed ROM information window cutting off text prematurely if null byte is encountered in the ROM header's game title or ID
• Fixed and improved the actor editing GUI and underlying actor definition reader code slightly
• Fixed actor rotation rendering; the order in which rotation was applied during drawing was wrong before
• Added additional sanity checks to prevent unfixed "Stalfos Middle Room" (#120, syotes) from causing an exception on selecting its room
• Improved update and version checking functionality; now displays release notes from remote RTF file
• Added (temporary) program icon

v1.0 Beta 7 ("It's Not Dead!")

• Fixed conversion of I4 and I8 type textures; finally fixes missing alpha channels on ex. Hyrule Field pathways, certain cobwebs, etc.
• Added support for custom maps generated by Hylian Toolbox; problem was related to polygon type definition offsets
• Changed scene and room selection tree; headers now condensed into stages, similar to Map Select screen
• Area title card can now be exported for editing and reimported
• Added stubs for a few other features (ex. loading and editing of environment settings); not fully implemented yet

v1.0 Beta 6

• Finally added Scene Metadata tab, so far contains a few sound-related settings (daytime BGM, nighttime SFX, reverb); more settings to come
• Actor definition format changed; actor number now part of definition, definition can be set as default for certain actor types unless overridden by specific definition
• Changes to transition actor handling; added drop-down lists for rooms to transition actor editing, renamed some options for clarity
• Actor definitions now also support the properties "DisplayModel", "PickModel" and "FrontOffset", which are currently used mainly with transition actors (documentation forthcoming)
• Added mouse-based selection of rooms in static objects mode; only works when collision rendering is disabled; selects collision polygons as usual when enabled
• Added mouse-based selection of room model triangles and vertices; allows editing of vertex colors and alpha
• Fixes to Ucode interpreter to not reset certain parameters on display list calls (DL, BRANCH_Z); fixes missing textures on ex. Death Mountain
• Added texture loading macro workaround to Ucode interpreter, now also tries to load textures on SetCombine command; fixes a few missing textures, ex. walls in Water Temple's first room
• Fixes to texture loading macro implementation, potentially did not correctly apply palettes to CI-type textures; fixes incorrect textures on certain custom maps
• Fixed offset detection error with polygon type definitions on some custom maps; now correctly loads polygon types
• Removed some unnecessary OpenGL function calls; gives notable FPS increase in many cases, such as certain temples
• Added more fallbacks for lower-end hardware, added detection of Intel graphics hardware to disable combiner emulation regardless of the hardware's reported capabilities
• Fixed room display list caching; now no longer re-renders rooms on every scene change, even if a room has been cached before with the same settings (i.e. textures en-/disabled)
• Some refactoring to the program's internal data storage (i.e. which scene header is active and what it contains, which room header is active, etc)
• A few object picking bugfixes; ex. some erratic behavior when selecting things via middle-click
• More status messages, ex. for ROM loading and saving
• Rearranged Options menu

v1.0 Beta 5

• Texturing support and faking of PrimColor-based colorization for lower-end hardware
• Some bugfixes (glClearDepthf entry point, Control key IndexOutOfRangeException)

v1.0 Beta 4

• Changed mouse behavior to have three different modes:
  • Camera mode: Camera movement only
  • Moveable objects mode: Select and move things considered "moveable" by the program (actors, waypoints)
  • Static objects mode: Select immobile, static things (collision polygons)
  Modes can be selected via menu or can be cycled through by clicking the mode label on the status bar
  
  
• Implemented mouse-based actor and waypoint movement:
  • Left click: move object left, right, up and down (or X and Y axes with neutral camera)
  • Middle click OR left click and Ctrl key: move object forward or backward (or Z axis with neutral camera)
  • Right click: opens context menu that allows rotating the object in both directions on any supported axis
  
  
• Limited collision editing enabled; collision polygons' polygon type association, and polygon types' ground type and raw 64-bit definition can be edited
  (more separate options for ex. exit triggers, damage, etc. to come)
  
  
• Added preliminary support for editing of individual scene and room files
  • Note: does not yet support saving, highly WIP
  
  
• Improved overall collision overlay performance
  • Might incur slight stuttering when rapid changes are done to the collision, such as changing a polygon's ground type
  
  
• Added ROM byte order detection and automatic byteswapping functions
  • If an incompatible byte order is detected, the program will ask if the user wants the ROM to be converted or, if the user does not want this, cancel loading
  
  
• Added update checking functionality, can be manually accessed via the menu
  • Checks online for newer version of the program and can direct the user to a download if one is found
  
  
• Actual functionality for the window's status bar implemented; now shown are:
  • Current mouse mode
  • Information about the currently loaded scene and room and/or general status messages
  • Current camera coordinates
  
  
• Added VSync option for FPS limiting, can be toggled from the menu
  
  
• Improved OpenGL-side housekeeping functions for GL extensions, texturing and combiner emulation
  • Should hopefully improve usability with lower end graphics cards

v1.0 Beta 3

• Support for ROMs with z64tables hack
• ROM loader error handling changed; now allows access to exception details for reporting
• Human-readable actor names now read from ActorNames.xml instead of individual actor definitions
• XML data files rearranged; removed AddressTranslations.xml and address translator class, added more versatile hashtable reader class, also used by actor names
• Object names are now version-independant, using the hashtable reader class mentioned above
• Added collsion rendering with two different highlighting modes (all white, or approximately by ground type)
• Actor definitions changed to use hexadecimal values for rotation

v1.0 Beta 2

• Some renderer bugfixes and improvements; blending error fixed, Texgen support added
• Added path waypoint support; waypoints can be edited and saved, their rendering, and them being linked by lines, can toggled from the menu
• Changed the tab order according to your suggestions (new Scene Metadata tab is still empty and hidden)
• Fixed - or rather worked around - a bug with multi-header scenes; caused room actor changes to not be saved, unless they were done from the last scene header
• New actor definition for the Kakariko carpenters
• Texturing and combiner emulation can now be toggled from the menu

v1.0 Beta 1

• Improved Ucode interpreter and renderer (texturing, color combiner)
• Room objects and special scene objects editing
• Now scans for and reads more data tables (actor, object and exit tables)
• Data table editing (exit and scene tables, within limits)
• Improved address translation support (now works for scene, room and object names)
• More XML actor definitions and address translations
• Preliminary mouse-based actor editing (so far only selecting actors via right-click)

v0.9 WIP

• Initial public release