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SLADE - It's a Doom editor -- -- SLADE 3 It's a Doom editor News About Downloads Change Log Wiki GitHub Contact 3.2.0 Beta 2 Thu, Jul 09 2020 The second beta release of 3.2.0 is up, with a bunch of fixes, minor improvements and a fairly major UI change. The entry list will now display in a tree structure for archives that support directories. There are likely to be a few issues with it (it's beta after all) but it works nicely for the most part. I'm interested to see if people think it's an improvement over the flat list in previous versions - if enough don't like it I can add an option to restore the flat list behaviour easily enough. Anyway, the full changelog is below: General Added an 'All Files' option to the open dialog Fixes for various possible crashes (thanks @jengelh) Various minor improvements and fixes Resource Editor The entry list is now displayed as a tree for archives that support directories Mp3 playback is now possible without needing windows media player installed (on windows), and should work better overall Fixed copy+paste function not clearing previously copied entries Fixed MIDI playback via Timidity not working Fixed files duplicating in the file browser tab of the archive manager (with the drawback that it now shows all files instead of only archives) Texture Editor Fixed patch list icons disappearing with large icon sizes Fixed most patch functions not working correctly with multiple TEXTUREx entries Fixed possible crash when creating new TEXTUREx/PNAMES entries Various minor fixes and improvements Text Editor Fixed wrong comment colouring if a block comment opening is within a quoted string Map Editor Fixed an issue where certain UDMF properties could be removed when saving Fixed possible crash after deleting a sector First v3.2.0 Beta Released Wed, Jun 03 2020 As promised last post, the first beta release of SLADE v3.2.0 is up. As with most major SLADE releases, it's been a long time coming :P A majority of the changes in this release are under the hood, with a major refactor and cleanup of the codebase. This should hopefully result in improved performance and stability (though as a beta release, stability isn't necessarily guaranteed just yet). One of the most noticeable changes this release is the reworked UI, including a new default icon set that scales to larger sizes properly. For full details see the full changes list below. The scripting system has also seen many changes and additions, including a new (and 'final') API. Any scripts for 3.1.X will need to be changed to work with 3.2.0. The biggest change is to capitalization of functions, which are now in PascalCase instead of camelCase. The documentation has also been moved to an external site ( https://slade.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ), which will allow for versioned documentation in the future, and automatically keeps up to date with the latest in the SLADE git repository. A full list of changes is below: General Major under-the-hood improvements to modernise and clean up the codebase, with increased stability and performance in mind UI Refresh 3.2.0 includes a 'refresh' of various parts of the UI: A new default icon set, built from SVGs to allow it to scale to larger sizes without being blurred Toolbars have received a bunch of updates: Can now be laid out vertically Groups can now be added to the opposite end of the toolbar No longer expand to multiple rows (was causing too many weird layout issues) When groups don't fit, they are instead added to a menu under an extra 'overflow' button at the end of the toolbar Buttons now correctly darken when clicked Various other minor things Creating a new archive is now done via a single 'New Archive' action, which pops up a dialog to select the archive type. Now also allows Quake PAK archives to be created Moved a bunch of toolbar buttons from the main toolbar to down next to the entry list. This should hopefully make it more clear that they affect the selected entries in some way Entry action tool buttons are now disabled if no entry is selected The group box around the current EntryPanel now shows the entry name in it's label instead of 'Entry Contents' The EntryPanel-surrounding group box is now hidden if the entry is opened in a standalone tab, which saves a bit of screen real-estate Entry list filter controls can now be toggled on/off Entry list icon size and padding is now configurable Added an option to condense the translation dialog a bit vertically at the cost of a smaller image preview frame Rearranged toolbars for palette, gfx and texturex/pnames editors Bookmarks improvements Bookmark action now toggles the bookmark on the entry Bookmarked entries are shown with bold text in the entry list Added a bookmarks toolbar button with a dropdown menu to switch between bookmarks Added keyboard shortcut for the bookmark action (Ctrl+B) The zoom slider in the gfx and texture editors has been replaced with a more compact control, with +/- zoom buttons and a combobox to set the zoom % Resource Editor Support for Ion Fury (thanks @mykola-ambar) Added palette Support Ion Fury .art files Multi-image selector for gfx entries replaced with a spinbox (thanks @mykola-ambar) Added Exhumed (Powerslave) palette (thanks @mykola-ambar) Added .VOX -> .KVX voxel model conversion (thanks @mykola-ambar) Map Editor Added toggleable point light previews in 2d things mode Vertex info overlay improvements Display position as float if fractional Show floor/ceiling height if set (UDMF) Scripting Updated/'finalised' API Scripts written for 3.1.X will need to be updated to work with the new API, but from now there should be no further breaking changes to it, just additions Updated documentaion, has moved to https://slade.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ By moving it here it's much easier for me to update, and also allows for versioned scripting documentation (eg. docs for 3.1.12, 3.2.0, latest git build, etc.) Expanded scripting capabilities: Graphics manipulation including palettes and translations Composite textures (TEXTUREx/PNAMES) The final release of 3.2.0 is still a ways off, with a fair few things I'd like to get done for it, including: Replace the entry list with a tree for archives that support directories Basic 3d floors support in the map editor 3d mode Finish and enhance the Script Manager window to also handle things like ZScript and ACS, show compiler output and just generally keep all scripting related things in one place, kind of like a simple IDE Extend the SLADE scripting further to allow for more things to be done, map architecture modification in particular Improve the map editor UI, mainly to expose functionality that is currently only accessible via keybinds (which ends up getting missed by users) Fix/implement as many minor issues from GitHub as possible Now with most of the codebase refactoring and cleanup out of the way, things should move faster, so expect some of the above to show up in upcoming beta releases 'soon'. SLADE v3.1.12 Released, v3.2.0 Beta Soon Tue, May 26 2020 And here we are, SLADE v3.1.12 is released. Another version mostly focusing on minor fixes and improvements, which are listed below: General 'Run Archive' and 'Run Map' configurations have been separated, so they should now make more sense for each context Fixed an issue where clicking a toolbar and pressing enter would show/hide the 2nd group in the toolbar (this is what was causing some people to randomly lose the zoom slider in the gfx editor, for example) Added SRB2 .dta as a valid wad file extension Resource Editor Fixed adjusted offsets not being saved after cropping an image Fixed wrong files being deleted in some situations when saving a directory Fixed an issue where removing a bookmark would always remove the first in the list Fixed 'Open map in DB2' not working for maps in zip/directory archives Text Editor When the text editor is focused, undo/redo should only process changes made within the text editor (and not eg. entry list changes) Ma...