CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

This is a high-level changelog for each released versions of the plugin. For a more detailed list of past and incoming changes, see the commit history.

1.7.3 (dev)

• Added more explicit image format check before update_collider is called
• Used absolute path in shader #includes, so forking doesn't fail to find them by default
• Added HTerrainData.reload function to allow reloading a terrain while the game is running (after saving in the editor)
• Update properties in the inspector when a custom shader is modified
• Added support for importing and exporting 32-bit raw files
• Allow to set brush size and opacity size with spinboxes (thanks to Vercix)
• Exposed specular parameter in ground shaders
• Save terrain data immediately when assigning a new data_directory (attempt to workaround random saving issue #232)
• Updated name detection in the texture import dialog to work better with AmbientCG and PolyHaven (thanks to GustJc)
• Optimized HTerrainDetailLayer process function by updating chunks when needed and spreading calculations over time
• Fixed brush cursor looked off-center at close range when using tiny brush sizes
• Fixed error when trying to change TextureSet mode while it has textures in it
• Fixed shader parameters not displaying the right value in the inspector until they are set by the user at least once
• Fixed lod_scale property getter was always returning 2 instead of the last set value
• Fixed LOD chunks sometimes overlapping when the heightmap is modified (issue #411)
• Fixed detail layers were rendering repeating instances outside the terrain when map_scale is not 1.0
• Fixed detail layers were not rendering correctly when terrain is in centered mode
• Fixed texture import dialog was opening a very tall window (issue #423)
• Fixed detail layers "lines" showing on top of grass quads when MSAA is enabled
• Fixed detail layer chunks disappearing unexpectedly when map_scale is very large
• Fixed wrong density map when redoing the addition of a density map (undo/redo)
• Fixed Image.load warnings in the editor (thanks to GustJc)
• Fixed detail layers rendering one chunk beyond positive edges of the terrain

1.7.2

• Fixed error when removing a texture from a TextureSet

1.7.1

• Fixed terrain loading incorrectly in release (non-debug) exports

1.7

This version requires Godot 4.1.

• Ported the plugin to Godot 4.1
• Heightmaps now use 32-bit floats instead of 16-bit floats
• Changed some APIs to use Vector2i
• Added cast_shadow setting to HTerrain
• Added cast_shadow setting to HTerrainDetailLayer
• Added slope limit slider to detail density painting
• Exposed roughness in detail layer shader (but reflections may be off due to the normals hack)
• Allow decimal values in min_height and max_height when importing a heightmap
• Changed shape list in brush settings so it can be used as a regular palette when cycling is off
• Fixed terrain not functional when using a 32-bit version of Godot (The GDNative library is only maintained for 64-bit)
• Fixed TextureSet editor logging errors when selecting slots with textures using color codes instead of image files
• Fixed texture list becoming empty when selecting another terrain sharing the same TextureSet

1.6.1

• Fixed static typing error in terrain importer dialog (thanks to McSpider)

1.6

• Added island modifier to the terrain generator
• Added option to add the current heightmap to the generated one in the generator
• Added render_layers property to expose the same as VisualInstance.layers
• Added anisotropic parameter to packed texture importers
• Added support for loading terrain maps imported as Image, allowing modification in game
• Added basic support for pen pressure (tablets)
• Added random brush rotation
• Added brush multi-shape randomization
• Added brush spacing based on time and distance
• Added support for importing .xyz files as heightmap
• Added rotation and centering support
• Increased brush size slider maximum to 500, and allow up to 4000 if typed in (expensive, use at your own risk)
• Ported quad tree code to GDNative for a bit of speedup on Windows and Linux (thanks to tinmanjuggernaut)
• Prefixed ALL internal classes of the plugin to prevent clashes with class_name (see issue #313)
• Added workarounds to allow the plugin to initialize even if assets are not imported yet (The UI might still have issues, in this case you need to restart Godot)
• Dropped support for Godot 3.1 and 3.2 due to engine crashes.
• Fixed grass chunks not updating properly when the terrain is moved
• Fixed invalid index error that can happen in some cases in the TextureArray importer mode
• Fixed loading an existing texture array when the current texture set is empty
• Fixed BaseButton.focus_mode warning printed when the plugin is enabled
• Fixed some dialogs going outside window if editor font is larger (buttons outside windows did nothing)
• Fixed flatten brush not allowing to set decimal heights
• Fixed wrong shading in multisplat16 shaders

1.5.2

• Fixed globalmap baker not working with terrain sizes below 513
• Fixed texture file dialog not including .packed_tex files

1.5.1

• Fixed undo not working correctly when painting textures while using MultiSplat16
• Fixed grass painting not working

1.5

• Added multisplat16 shader, allowing to use 16 ground textures
• Added HTerrainTextureSet resource to store and re-use sets of ground textures
• Added an import tool for ground textures
• Added generic importers for packed textures (as backend for the ground texture import tool)
• Added About Dialog, including version, links and donors list
• Added slope limiter to texture painter
• The brush system was rewritten to use shaders, for better performance
• Added erosion brush
• Brush size slider allows to pick small sizes more precisely
• The minimap now uses the globalmap to display color (uses white if there isn't a globalmap)
• Fixed brush jitter at small sizes
• New docs website: https://hterrain-plugin.readthedocs.io/en/latest

1.4

• Added properties to set collision layer and mask
• Added a parameter in Classic4 shaders to reduce texture tiling
• Added a scale parameter to the default grass shader
• Added lookdev mode to visualise terrain maps with debug colors
• Added height picking to the flatten tool
• Adding and removing detail maps is now undoable
• Detail layer nodes no longer auto-select their index
• Breaking change: normal maps of ground textures now use OpenGL convention like Godot, instead of DirectX convention
• Fixed removal of detail maps not being saved properly
• Fixed GDNative library being registered with the wrong name on Linux
• Fixed error when selecting a detail layer node having an index out of range
• Fixed detail layers with a custom mesh disappearing when their density is left to default value

1.3.4

• GDNative acceleration now has a prebuilt binary on Linux
• Fixed collider being offset by half a cell
• Fixed default 1x1 shape data causing an assertion in Bullet since Godot 3.2.3, using 2x2 instead
• Fixed script syntax error to workaround Godot 3.1 limitation
• Fixed cast issue of integer ID from JSON when loading terrain data

1.3.3

• Fixed error when using an orthogonal camera
• Fixed error when detail layer view distance is set to different values than default
• Fixed detail layers not painting properly when selecting one above 0

1.3.2

• Fixed error when finishing a paint gesture while not having painted anything
• Fixed small inaccuracy between the heightmap pixels and visual position of vertices (#183)
• Fixed errors when setting map_scale to 0.01 and below
• Fixed error when saving a terrain with map_scale different than its default value

1.3.1

• Fixed new terrain maps saving with wrong import settings

1.3

• Added new Array shader allowing up to 256 ground textures, and new docs about this workflow
• Added shaded view to the minimap with a camera icon, quadtree view is optional
• Added simple "low-poly" shader without textures
• Added per-texture color factor and UV scale to the main Classic4 shader (thanks Tinmanjuggernaut)
• Added ability to specify a custom detail mesh, and bundled a few in models/ folder
• Added an option to choose endianess when importing a raw heightmap
• Added EXR to heightmap import options
• Reworked ground texture selector to display packed and array textures correctly
• The default shader is now CLASSIC4_LITE, the other one needs extra setup
• Fixed rare terrain chunk popping due to vertical size wrongly rounded
• Fixed undo not working correctly with more than one detail layer
• Fixed texture editor allowing to load textures from outside the project (which doesn't work)
• Fixed texture editor not allowing to choose JPG images
• Fixed global translation not being taken into account (local was used as global)
• Fixed Godot crashing or running out of memory after lots of edits

1.2.1

• Optimized doc images to shorten download from assetlib (thanks to Calinou)
• Improved LOD in orthogonal projection where the camera is very far away
• Allow to choose lower terrain resolutions
• Optimized raycast when painting from large distances
• Limited detail layer max distance in the inspector, for performance reasons
• Fixed detail painting could not be erased
• Fixed import of splatmap and color map
• Fixed brush not working in orthogonal view
• Fixed grass chunks disappearing when their global density is changed
• Fixed error in exported game due to an editor-specific class being present in a script
• Fixed u_terrain_normal_basis parameter which should not appear in detail layer inspector
• Fixed lower brush not working

1.2 - a4d0a55493994bcf10b668ff1272ca1655c2ab32

• Added GDNative component to accelerate some parts of the plugin (Windows only, more platforms to come).
• Platforms where GDNative doesn't run will fallback on GDScript
• Larger brush sizes can be used on platforms where the GDNative component is supported
• Added proper "smooth" brush, old smooth is now called "level".
• Added EXR format to terrain exporter
• Improved UI for high-DPI displays
• Using the generator can be undone
• More type hints in the codebase
• The plugin no longer prints debug logs, unless Godot is executed in verbose mode
• Fix terrain not hiding if its parent node is hidden
• Fix z-fighting artifacts when the terrain is hidden and shown back
• Fix offset brush when the 3D viewport is in half-resolution mode
• Fix 8-bit PNG heightmap export

1.1.1

• Added configuration warning if the terrain node has no data assigned
• Grey out menu items if conditions for them to work aren't fulfilled.
• Increased maximum chunk size to 64 to help performance tuning. Default is now 32.
• Fixed map_scale not working
• Fixed inspector becoming blank when shader type is set to "custom" while no shader was assigned yet
• Fixed tiny imprecision when importing raw heightmaps
• Fixed version check causing the collider to be offset in Godot 3.1.2

1.1

• Added tool to export heightmap data to a raw file or image
• Add ability to change base density of grass
• Collision hits now report collider as the terrain node instead of null
• Most of function signatures in the API now use typed GDScript
• Fixed whitespace at the end of plugin.gd seen as an error in Godot 3.2
• Fixed collider vertically offset due to a change in the Bullet module
• Fixed inspector not updating properties when the shader is changed
• Fixed terrain not saving if the scene is saved just after a non-undoable action (using a workaround)
• Fixed terrain areas becoming black if resized bigger

1.0.2

• Fix grass shader, it wasn't handling vertical map scale correctly
• Fix smooth brush behaving like raise/lower in opacity lower than max
• Fix terrain not saving changes made from the generator

1.0.1

• Remove obsolete Save and Load menus, they don't work anymore

1.0 - Move to Godot 3.1 - a696ee41503ff41798d4fd401bf03b97c1177521

• Saving a scene now saves terrains properly
• Grass layers are now nodes for ease of use
• Customizable grass shaders
• Customizable grass distance
• New documentation
• Fixed resize causing artifacts on heightmap and brushes (engine side)
• Fixed pickable collider causing a huge slowdown (raycasting is still slow but needs a fix in Bullet Physics)

0.10 - e4f3d560e6eabe6ae1d68bf80734737ce849cb2e

• Added morphologic erosion to terrain generator
• Added global map baking
• Added ground shader parameter to blend towards global map over distance
• Added properties to tint grass using the global map
• Added property to tweak shading at the bottom of grass
• Speed up sculpting by moving normals baking to GPU
• Slightly improved LOD performance
• Increased default file dialog size when selecting grass texture
• Fixed issue with grass shading based on ground normals
• Fixed grass preview lighting (was too dark)

0.9.1

• Reduce checkbox size in generator tool
• Make zoom slower in generator tool
• Fixed brush decal not showing up at certain angles
• Fixed script error in some of the tools
• Fixed terrain inspector not allowing to set shader textures

0.9

• Bring back configurable brush shapes
• Improved terrain generator UI with 3D preview, baseline and draggable offset
• Added tool to generate a full mesh of the terrain so Godot can bake a navmesh
• The strength of sculpting tools is now proportional to brush size
• Terrain resources generate a greyscale thumbnail
• Resizing can be done by cropping or expanding in a given direction (Terrain menu)
• Fixed potential cleanup error when the editor closes
• Fixed custom types not cleaned up when the plugin is disabled
• Fixed LOD to take height into account on tall mountains
• Fixed terrain textures being lossy-compressed when reopening the project
• Fixed grass painting being available when there are no detail layers

0.8.1

• Heightmaps are now saved as .res so they are included in export
• Fixed cursor decal not showing when creating a terrain from scratch
• Fixed editor nodes not cleaned up when the plugin is disabled
• Select grass tool after adding a new grass type

0.8

• Custom ground shaders
• Added a variant of the default shader which uses less texture samplers
• Collision is active by default
• Collision works in editor so other tools can use it (update is manual)
• Compatibility breakage: packed bump and roughness were swapped in ground shader API
• Fixed a few culling bugs
• Fixed error when adding a detail layer while looking far away
• Fixed normals not updating when generating a terrain over an existing one
• Fixed terrain LOD updating around the game's camera instead of the editor's camera

0.7

• Added basic ambient wind (waving grass)
• Improved import of heightmaps, splatmaps and colormaps
• Option to double chunk size (better quality and less draw calls but more vertices)
• LOD scale can be changed (better quality but more draw calls)

0.6.1

• Collisions are now working with Godot 3.0.4 and later
• Fix errors when clicking while the terrain has no data

0.6

• Terrain can be scaled using special map_scale property
• Improved icons
• Grass can be erased properly
• Saving only saves what's needed
• Fixed grass culling

0.5: port to Godot 3.0.2

• Added level of detail
• Added grass painting
• Added generator
• Changed collision to use Bullet (on Godot master branch only)
• Improved texture paint to use a splatmap
• More shading features
• Various other changes in UI and API

0.4

• Added texture paint through vertex colors
• Added HumanSheeple's shader to support up to 18 textures
• Added jump to the demo, I guess
• Fix Modo navigation conflict

0.3

• Added collisions
• Improved demo with a simple character controller
• New icon

0.2

• Added flatten brush mode
• Fix terrain having no default size

0.1.1

• Fix bottom panel editor conflict

0.1: Initial release in Godot 2.1

• Heightmap edition with undo/redo
• Small demo with simple texture-less shader