Wings 2.2.5

[dgud]

Made a new release

There have been a lot of changes in the build setup so I leave it as dev release
until confirmed that it works, so please test.

Changes include:

- Added wings_convert script for batch conversion of models. [dgud]

- Linux installer now accept an optional Install-Dir argument [dgud]

- When exporting ".gltf/.glb" swap_y_z and scale options was ignored. [dgud]

- Fixed importing non-square 'dds' textures with mipmaps
which caused an eternal loop. Thanks Simon Griffiths. [dgud]

- Fixed crash when trying to edit area ligth properties
and not selecting an area ligth. Thanks Lars Thorsen. [dgud]

- Fix ttf text plugin error handling. Thanks Hank. [dgud]

- Add more search dirs for fonts. [dgud]

- Rewrote "Text" primitive, it can now handle more truetype
formats, collection files (.ttc) and opentype (.otf) files. [dgud]

- Fix lost text focus in dialogs. [dgud]

- Allow image drag'n'drop from outliner to autouv to change
background image in autouv. [dgud]

- Fixed updating mipmaps when updating dds files. Thanks Vershner. [dgud]

- Fixed rendering bug when editing materials with vertex colors. Thanks Hank. [dgud]

- The option "File->Save Selected" was saving images not used by the
selected object(s); Thanks Hank [Micheus Vieira]

- Added an exporter to OpenJSCAD file format (.jscad); [micheus]

- Added a minimal warp mouse camera workaround see 'Options/Misc/' tickbox.
Enable it and test again if you have problems.

[micheus]

Thanks dgud for all these fixes.

[sandman]

I can confirm ttf support is working, thanks! Kerning support is probably too much to ask (this is not for writing essays, after all) so I will need to do some manual work. But that is easy enough, and I think the average user is unlikely to use fonts that require kerning anyway.

[3dbb]

dgud,
Wings3d-2.2.5 for linux, using the .run, only runs on buster and newer.
is this intentional?
I think this is due to wx-1.8.9.

[dgud]

I don't know what buster is :-)

We use the default wxWidgets on Ubuntu-18.04 (i.e. 3.0.4) same version as before.

I build erlang/otp from scratch and use the latest release always, 22.1 now
next release will be on 22.2, I have added functionality in that which will be needed
in next wings. But that is included in the wings*.run package, strange.

[dgud]

If someone owns a (wacom) tablet he/she could try this version with the new
Preferences/Misc/Camer moves .. not working option.
And possibly the "are jumpy" option as well.

I suspect that might work better than before.

[3dbb]

dgud,
Ok thanks for that info.
I'll load up Ubuntu 18.04 and check that out. I tried it on ubuntu 16.04 xenial based on debian 9 stretch / sid and it didn't work, I forgot that you are building on 18.04 bionic beaver. It is based on debian 10 buster / sid.
I tried it on mx linux 18.10. but it didn't work. mx 18.10 is based on debian 9 stretch.
mx 19 is based on debian 10 buster, and it worked on that.
This makes sense ubuntu 18.04 debian 10 buster, mx-linux 19 debian 10 buster.

thanks for the info and the great update.

[micheus]

If someone owns a (wacom) tablet he/she could try this version with the new
Preferences/Misc/Camer moves .. not working option.

This one worked to me (not a wacom tablet).