<div dir="ltr">Hopefully the last update before declaring 1.6.4 the new stable release. What does this mean? Not much, just that we'll start a 1.6.5 line soon and look through all the bugs and feature requests to decide what we should try to tackle.<div>
<br></div><div>You'll notice that the website is already updated suggesting that this 1.6.4 build is final. That's because we had some web changes pending that we needed to update.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130922.zip">https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130922.zip</a></div>
<div><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-i686-20130922.tar.gz">https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-i686-20130922.tar.gz</a></div><div><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-x86_64-20130922.tar.gz">https://s3.amazonaws.com/gtkradiant/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-x86_64-20130922.tar.gz</a><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">CHANGES:</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Surface inspector (shortcut S) was simplified and cleaned up further. We removed several buttons and generally confusing functionality.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- Quake2World support now works on Windows.</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Linux/Mac can monitor BSP process over stdin/stdout directly now (an alternative to using the TCP loopback for compilation monitoring - not available on Windows at present)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- Fixed several memory allocation/free errors.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Build updated:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130824.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130824.zip</a><br>
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CHANGES:</div><div>- Return To Castle Wolfenstein support added - merlin1991 is officially in charge of support for this</div><div>- Binaries are compatible with Windows XP again<br></div><div>- More fixes to the floating entity/texture/console dialog in 4-view layout</div>
<div><div>- Switched to a dedicated build machine to produce new builds, should be easier and less error prone to iterate on making new builds</div></div><div><br></div><div>TTimo</div></div><div class=""><div class="h5">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Getting the Linux build systems back online, we have some 1.6.4 Linux binaries too now:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-x86_64-20130806.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-x86_64-20130806.tar.gz</a><br>
</div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-i686-20130806.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-Linux-i686-20130806.tar.gz</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>TTimo</div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Coming to you from QuakeCon 2013 BYOC floor!<br>
</div><div><br></div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130802.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130802.zip</a><br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We lapsed a bit updating the builds, but a lot of progress was made:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">CHANGES:</div><div class="gmail_extra">
- Continued MacOS X work. If you compile GtkRadiant on MacOS X from source, it should be very functional. We are still figuring out the binary distribution.</div><div class="gmail_extra">- The idTech2 (Quake 2) surface inspector was updated, better functionality, less confusing etc. - similar changes to the idTech3 surface inspector should happen soon</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- Added -exportents option to q3map2 and q3map2_urt: some idTech3 games can load entities from a separate file than the .bsp</div><div class="gmail_extra">- Fixes to STVEF support</div><div class="gmail_extra">
- A bug due to the bump in texture directories that was causing all shaders to load has been fixed</div><div class="gmail_extra">- There is a new button in the toolbar that lets you create detail brushes by default</div>
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- There is a new preference that creates all brushes with the caulk texture by default (default on)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">TTimo</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
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On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">New build:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130707.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130707.zip</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>CHANGES:</div><div>- Improved GL font rendering on Windows</div><div>- A lot of code cleanups and more work towards Quake2World support (@jdolan)</div><div>- Improvements to the clipboard support</div>
<div>- Fix texture window not redrawing when group dialog comes up (in 4-view layout)</div><div>- Esc, T and N keys will hide the group dialog back after showing it</div><div>- Bumped the number of texture directories to 1024 from 128 .. we have the memory!</div>
<div>- Esc key will hide back the Quake3 Surface Inspector (shortcut 'S' to bring up)</div><div>- Cleanup the Surface Inspector a bit. More work is needed on the surface inspector, see <a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/195" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/195</a></div>
<div>- The ASE export configuration was broken in previous build, and was fixed</div><div><br></div><div>TTimo</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Updated GtkRadiant 1.6.4 build:<div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130630.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130630.zip</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CHANGES:</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Quake2World and vanilla Quake2 support from jdolan (see </span><a href="http://quetoo.org/" target="_blank">http://quetoo.org/</a>)</div>
<div>- Star Trek Voyage: Elite Force game pack from GSIO01</div><div>- Jedi Academy gamepack is included</div><div>- bspc.exe is included in the build again</div><div>- added a missing dll that prevented the x64 version of q3map2 from starting</div>
<div>- support selecting and dragging multiple vertexes in vertex edit mode</div><div>- add *.ogg and *.* options to the sound selection</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The inclusion of all those gamepaks has bumped the size of the zip to 90M. I think that's still reasonable and doesn't warrant per-game packages or download on demand stuff.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MacOS X version:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks to jdolan we also have a MacOS X build in the works. It's rather experimental, and some documentation is needed, but you can try it out <a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/90" target="_blank">on the github issue</a>.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cheers,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">TTimo</font></div></div><div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130615.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130615.zip</a><br><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">CHANGES:</div><div class="gmail_extra">- You can now select 32 or 64 bit q3map2 from the preferences menu. A restart of GtkRadiant is required.</div><div class="gmail_extra">- The BSP menu for Quake3 and QuakeLive has been updated with more up to date and relevant options (see <a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/167" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/167</a>, QL testing is needed)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">- The Quake2World game pack is included, but still WIP (see <a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/165" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/165</a>)</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you have a bit of coding time, the next few weeks are definitely the right time to pickup a few of the issues reported on github and have a shot at them.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you need inspiration, have a look at those:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/121" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/121</a> - Feature Request: Structural/Detail Toggle Button<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/122" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/122</a> - [BUG] Vertex Mode - selection of multiple vertices<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Another (larger, but fairly important one):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/11" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/11</a> - Migrate GTKradiant 1.5 Texture Browser<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Some of the other things we hope to land in this release, are inclusion of the JAPack, and maybe a MacOS X release.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">TTimo</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Timothee Besset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ttimo@ttimo.net" target="_blank">ttimo@ttimo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Alright, there is a first Windows build of what should eventually turn into the new 1.6.4 GtkRadiant release line:<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130609.zip" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/GtkRadiant-1.6.4-20130609.zip</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>You may need to install the Visual Studio 2012 runtime if you're having problems running:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vcredist_x86.exe" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vcredist_x86.exe</a><br>
</div><div><div><a href="http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vcredist_x64.exe" target="_blank">http://gtkradiant.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/vcredist_x64.exe</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>You will only need the x64 redist if you intend to run the 64 bit version of q3map2.</div>
<div><br></div><div>CHANGES:</div><div><br></div><div>There are not many user visible changes at this point.</div><div>- The supporting libraries: gtk, jpeg, libxml were all updated to the latest on Windows.</div>
<div>- Project files were upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 (Express is supported)</div><div>- A 64 bit version of q3map2 is included</div><div><br></div><div>The 64 bit q3map2 binary is included, but there is no easy support for using it from GtkRadiant yet. That will come in a later build. For now in order to use it, you would need to manually edit the project template, and rename all occurences of 'q3map2' to 'x64/q3map2'. See <a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/116" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues/116</a> for details.</div>
<div><br></div><div>TODO:</div><div><br></div><div>There is a list of items that I'd like to consider for the 1.6.4 release on github:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues?direction=desc&milestone=2&sort=updated&state=open" target="_blank">https://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant/issues?direction=desc&milestone=2&sort=updated&state=open</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>As usual, contributors and patches are most welcome. If there are other important issues that you think should be considered for 1.6.4 please bring them up here.</div><div><br></div>
<div>TTimo</div></div></div>
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