Wings 2.2.7

[dgud]

New stuff

- Added "View Settings Window" where camera and light options can
be edited. [dgud]

- Large auto-uv work
-- Added a new uv-unwrapping algorithm unfold for 64b versions (old is kept as slow). [dgud]
-- Added an option to AutoUV to export the UV mesh as .eps/.svg files. [micheus]
-- Added option to scale uniformly the UV to the max U or max V. [micheus]
-- Added Align option to AutoUV in order to make easier to align islands to each other [micheus]
-- Added triplanar and image mix shaders to AutoUV Shader. [micheus]
-- Added preview window for the shaders when generating textures. [micheus]

- A large re-write of the yafray plugin. Thanks David Bluecame [David Bluecame]

- Added missing option for Select menu that allows to lock the current
selected objects. Thanks to tkbd. [micheus]

- Changed Separate command in order to keep all object selected.
Thanks to tkbd for the suggestion [micheus]

- Added a greebles plugin [dgud]

- Added a dialog to STL exporter allowing users to set the scale.
Thanks to dawntreader, imagine and Mert HANCIOGLU(instagram) for provide
us informations about the slicers measures. [Micheus]

- Added new primitive screw thread [Micheus]

- Folder system now shows in bold the folder which owns any selected objects; [micheus]

- Added a warning for Revert command on the main menu File. [micheus]

- Decreased the near clipping value from 0.01 to 0.001;
The ground grid is also now drawn for scales as 0.1, 0.01 and 0.001; [micheus]

- Added MMB option to Material menu item when Geometry window is in Face
selection mode. Thanks Hank for the suggestion. [micheus]

- Do not attach temporary windows when moving them on top of wings. [dgud]

- New splash screen image by the user olve11. [micheus]

Bugs fixed

- WRML plugin was exporting inverted values for ambientIntensity and
Transparency. Thanks to greg. [micheus]

- Fixed outliner hanging on linux, fixed lights nodes not
expanding when redrawing. [dgud]

- Fixed crash when dropping images on geom window, thanks tkbd. [dgud]

- Fixed snap image window crash, thanks tkbd. [dgud]

- Fixed timing related crashes in outliner. Thanks Hank. [dgud]

- Run the Select->Similar command in an empty was causing Wings3D to
display the 'Delete Hotkey' dialog. [micheus]

- Fixed the help windows visibility which were getting hidden when moving
the mouse outside it. Thanks Grumbler. [micheus]

- Fixed the collada importer error caused by NaN values. Thanks to tkbd [micheus]

- Alignment commands not valid for Body or Face mode was causing the AutoUV
window to crash when a repeat command was used in these modes. [micheus]

- Input dialogs to name/rename elements now is a little wider. Thanks tkbd
for the suggestion. [Micheus]

- Fixed missing export parameters for SPPM and Bidirectional. Thanks oort [DavidBluecame]

- Lift command with LMB option was not working properly due the use of the
selection state when it first was used. Thanks Hank for report it. [micheus]

- RMB menus have been rewritten again, should work better and faster on linux/windows
[dgud]

[sandman]

When I attempt to move a face with left click, the program crashes with no apparent crash log. It seems to work fine with right click, though. Does this work for you?

[dgud]

Works for me on windows, what OS?

[sandman]

Windows 10. Is there an application log I can find for you? Like I said, there appears to be no crash log (usually desktop, but I also looked in %appdata%). I can reproduce it consistently with:

RMB | Cube (or any other shape) | LMB
[Select Face] | RMB | Move | LMB -> crash

[micheus]

You can open the Window->Log Window and see if there is any information going to there.

[sandman]

All the Log Window contains is:
"""
wings-2.2.7
Reading preferences from: c:/Users/shane/AppData/Roaming/Wings3D/Preferences.txt
Using OpenCL via gpu:Name NVIDIA CUDA:VSN: OpenCL 3.0 CUDA 11.3.101
"""

And doesn't seem to change as I add primitives or manipulate them.

Interestingly, the mention of a preferences file prompted me to try deleting it. Everything seems to work fine now, so clearly there was something in my preferences that was fine right up until this release. Interesting...

[oort]

dgud,
Thanks for the new release.

In the release notes

A large re-write of the yafray plugin.

it should be listed as YafaRay to be exact.

Not to diminish David Bluecame's work on the re-write, I have to mention that Micheus helped with several bug fixes in the new version of the YafaRay plugin.

For any that might miss SSS (TheBounty) features in the new YafaRay plugin there is an unofficial release of TheBounty plugin by Micheus on my website. Use TheBounty only if you want to play with SSS since YafaRay is preferred (TheBounty is no longer being developed).

Thanks again for the new release,
oort

[tkbd]

Thank you very much .
I'm glad this v2.2.7 Update.
A lot of useful features are added.
Realtime preview of Shader settings, and Setting of Environment mapping Image. and so on.

[micheus]

Interestingly, the mention of a preferences file prompted me to try deleting it. Everything seems to work fine now, so clearly there was something in my preferences that was fine right up until this release. Interesting...

That should not happen. Anyway, I'm glad if fix your problem.


p.s. Any patch available can be found in the Patches/Fixes for Wings3D section.

[tkbd]

Wings3D v2.2.7 overview
These are screenshots that I trying out some new features in Wings3d v2.2.7.

I like the features of Triplanar projection. It is usuful.