Made the source compile in GCC/mingw/dev-c++ (everything's open source now)

Fixed Bug: Need to click on 'Install Theme' multiple times to make it work.

UNFIXED Bug: Texture file handles left open. I mention that since I reported it fixed elsewhere. I had to revoke that as it crashed the importer (which it shouldn't, I have no ***** idea why -.- ) Note: Should be fixed by the updates in v1.2/v1.2.1

Reorganized several windows, mostly to make it look nicer and to show more text

Added an option (Fix Orientation) to the Create Scenery OVL dialog. If you check that the importer will fix the weired axis reorganization in RCT3. That means you can forget those rotations before you export the object, just model your object on the default x/y-plane with z up. Important: This influences the effect stuff explained below, if you need it checked be sure to do so before playing with that.

Made adding effect points easier. See rct3imp.txt for long explanation.

One of the open source things I did was replacing the closed source ATI texture compression library with devIL, an open source image library. Currently this means that you can use most common image formats as an icon texture (transparency will probably still only work with PNG =) ).

Fixed some Bugs (disappeared checkbox in the mesh dialog)

The lightcolor effect point is automatically added for custom light color lightstart points.

Removed lightcolor effect point as it's not necessary. (Should have been lightcolour anyways :P )

Rearranged open/save sid buttons

Create Scenery OVL: Double clicks on texture, mesh and effect point lists now open the respective edit dialog.

Create Scenery OVL, Texture options: Texture name auto-generated from file name if not set before (spaces are ok, I tested it).

Create Scenery OVL, Textures: Now devIL is used to read textures, so you can use many image formats as input (in fact more than listed in the open file box, but I didn't want to clutter the file extension box). The image is automatically converted to 8bit indexed or grayscale for alpha. No special handling yet for recolorable textures, they still should be 8bit bmps with the special palette, if not results are likely to be random and unexpected =)

Fixed orientation bugs.

Fixed palette conversion bug.

Image info button for texture bitmaps.

More info on light effect point radius.

Most lists now act on double clicks.

Scenery Options: Location now is an editable combo box where you can select other locations from the theme.

Scenery Options: Show which sid was loaded.

Text editor: you can now copy name to text and vice versa.

Icon textures: Name auto-generated from texture filename if not entered.

Image info button for icon texture bitmaps.

Scenery Creator: Mesh list entries are now colored (gray: disabled, light green: single vertex mesh, red: missing data).

First implementation of an easier recolorable texture implementation.

Make the first color shades of red, the second shades of green and the third shades of blue. Colors should be clean (eg no green in red). The darkest color should be still slightly colored, not completely black (eg RGB 1,0,0 for red is enough). The brightest color should be the full color (eg RGB 255,0,0), not the lightened color like in the original Blue/Magenta/Yellow scheme. See here for a brief how-to. Important: These textures need to be truecolor, indexed images will be used as-is and need to use the old Blue/Magenta/Yellow palette. Also the RGB textures are saved with the old palette, so don't be surprised if they look Blue/Magenta/Yellow in the RCT3 dumper =)

Bugfix for the Location combobox

Text editor: The text from Text is automatically copied to Name if you leave that empty and click Ok. Also the entry focus is on the Text edit box so just type and press enter to add a new string =)

Text editor: Ok grayed if Text and Name are empty.

Icon Editor: Ok grayed if no texture selected

Icon Manager: Auto generates 64x64 entries for all icon textures. Note that the numbering differs from the Icon Number setting in the icon editor. It starts with “1” and goes like western writing, ie left to right first and then downwards. Seemed more intuitive to me =)

Main Window: Simple Prefix support. It will be prepended to the Theme Name on Install and to the proposed OVL name in Create Scenery OVL. Note that no further letter or symbol (like “-” or “_”) is added in between, if you want that, add it to the entered prefix.

Restored functionality to test texture OVLs. The editable combo-box was butchered like the bug I fixed in 1.3.1. I have a test running regarding this. If it turns out to work, I'll explain how I did it =)

Fixed the Fix Orientation flag to do what I now think is right (see The_Cook's post). I'm afraid that this introduces a slight incompatibility if you used this flag before. Your objects will turn up rotated 90 degrees. For most objects this probably won't matter, but if you used the wall positioning flag (and similar non-origin centered flags) you will now have to place them on the -y side of the x/z plane.

Related to the last I also changed the way Fix Orientation is applied to effect points. It no longer matters if you check it before or after editing them. This also means that you can manually enter effect points as measured in your modeler. It also means that you probably need to reset effect points if you used one-vertex meshes with fix orientation in earlier versions.

Bugfix: One letter missing from theme directory if no prefix is used.

Bugfix: Problem with truecolor textures with less than 256 colors.

Bugfix: Image info not really showing something useful.

Create Scenery OVL: If you open a scn file and the importer can't find the ase file, you now can manually select it.

Create Scenery OVL: Visual Options. These allows to mimic the placement effects and swaying of the in-game 3D trees. Please press the 'Notes' button for more details.

(Internal: Switched from Dev-C++/wxDev-C++ to Code::Blocks before being tempted to throw things around =) )

The last point made me take a look at the compiler flags which led to reduced sizes of the importer and some of the dlls. It shouldn't matter, but to be on the safe side overwrite them all.

Static compile. You can delete all old dlls. The only one you still need is libovl and you have to use the one that comes with this version.

Bugfix: Crash if RCT3 Install Directory couldn't be read from the registry. Asks for an directory to install to.

Icon Manager: Auto Button moved. Added query on which textures auto should be applied to.

Preliminary support for real texture ovls. How-to:

You cannot save SCN files yet, sorry (I DID say it was preliminary =p ). I will add that as soon as a few people report it works for them as well as for me.

You can now save texture OVL SCNs

Bugfix: Texture OVLs with more than one texture didn't work

Bugfix: Random stuff in texture OVL

I created a small test suite for this & future releases. That doesn't mean there won't be buggy releases anymore, but at least the basics should work =)

Bugfix: Create Scenery OVL: Mesh list colors not updated if Apply To All Meshes was checked.

Create Scenery OVL: Shift-Doubleclick on a mesh entry singles it out (activates it and deactivates all others). Useful if you tend to place several objects into one ASE file (like me).

Scenery Settings: Shows the number of the currently edited scenery item in the title. Helps assigning icons references cretead with the Auto button.

Scenery Settings: Cost & Refund default to 0, Supports Type to None.

Limited automation for texture OVLs:

The exe now comes in two flavours, RCT3 Importer.exe defaults to Fix Orientation checked, RCT3 Importer NoFixOrient.exe defaults to unchecked (like in the old versions).

Massive internal changes. You probably won't see much of them =)

The old “fix orientation” code as well as the effect point matrix has been replaced by a matrix transformation stack editor. Advantages:

The importer can now load MS3D files directly.

Limited configuration. You can save a default transformation matrix (Menu in Create Scenery OVL) and a default prefix (Main Menu). Note: the default matrix saved will be the result of the transformation matrix stack of the currently edited scenery item. Obviously this means I stop creating two binaries =)

All across the Create Scenery OVL dialog sub-dialogs you can now load settings from other SCN files

Texture name cache. Fancy name for a simple thing =) It stores texture names of texture ovls so you have them available in the texture dropdown in the mesh settings. The cache is filled when you save a texture ovl or load a texture ovl scn via the special menu item. It is cleared when you start a new theme or clear it via the respective menu item.

Tab-order cleanups

Bugfix: Create Scenery OVL: Doubleclick on Mesh list works again.

Bugfix: The model transformation was applied to the normals in a wrong way.

Bugfix: A palette bug prevented alpha textures to work if you used a truecolor image as “normal” texture.

Bugfix: Stability enhanced

I started to convert the whole importer to wxWidgets, a C++ UI toolkit. I'm not finished and the first bug forced me to release this earlier than I originally intended. This (hopefully) doesn't mean instability or errors (except for the warning below).

Support for Stalls and Special Attractions. See stalls.html for details of the settings for all the stock frontier stalls. The last 3 are the 3 special attractions (ATM, toilet, first aid). Also, right now, you are limited to only making shops that sell nothing at all (i.e. generic shops). You will probobly need the most recent patches to make use of this.

If you have the stall or special attraction dialogs open, you can still activate the dialogs below. Don't do it, it could corrupt your theme.

A change to the way that the importer displays items in the list of scenery items, it now displays a (hopefully) better name.

Renamed the Flowers checkbox to Disable Shadows

Some code changes by Belgabor (splitting up the wxWidgets dialog resource file to make it easier to work with for example, nothing that would affect the use of the program though)

The beginnings of a big cleanup of libovl that will (when complete) make it easier to work with (e.g. add new data types)

The Create Scenery OVL dialog was converted to wxWidgets. This means too many changes to list all here, I'll try list the most important ones.

Jonwil and I (hopefully) fixed all libovl related bugs.

Resizing the shop and special attraction windows should now work.

If you have the stall or special attraction dialogs open, you can still activate the dialogs below. Dont do it, it could corrupt your theme. This also somewhat applies to the create scenery ovl dialog, but it shouldn't hurt your theme. (Better don't do it nevertheless)

Made the create ovl button in the scenery settings more useful (like in the olden times :p )

FIX1: A few bugs regarding the Visual Options

FIX1: Open in Edit Model Settings not working

FIX1: Memory holes

FIX2: Some confusion in the stored OVL name led to broken scenery OVLs, fixed

FIX3: Crashes if you press Delete in the theme management dialogs when nothing is selected.

FIX3: Deleting a texture frame could cause a crash.

FIX3: Adding references didn't work.

FIX3: If you delete a reference, the edit box will be set to it, so to edit a reference, delete it, edit in in the box and readd

FIX3: A few minor inconsistencies The_Cook noticed

FIX3: Recolorable choices

FIX3: Made adding textures in the create scenery ovl window easier. Here is how it works now:

FIX4: Effect point matrices are now transformed correctly by the model transformation matrix.

FIX4: The importer now rejects non-AscII prefixes, theme names, locations and OVL filenames. This caused problems on systems where the character in question is not available.

FIX4: Better names for “Show texture while placing” options.

FIX4: Added a few checks to make sure an icon texture is valid before you close the add/edit window.

FIX4: Fixed .scn appearing for new scenery items in the Create OVL save dialog

FIX4: Enforce invalid meshes to be disabled

FIX4: Particleend now also asks for the particle name

FIX5: Added possibility to transfer model name and orientation to the c3DLoader interface. Currently affects the MS3D loader which now auto-sets the correct transformation matrix.

FIX5: The model orientation is checked against the current model transformation matrix when opening a new 3D model file in the model settings window.

FIX5: Added warning capabilities to loaders

FIX5: Fool-proofed the ase-loader by try-catch blocks & an ASE check

FIX5: Redesigned the stall window and added a default button for the unknowns.

FIX5: Doubleclick editing now works in the stall and special attraction manager.

FIX5: Create OVL Window: Renamed from “Create Scenery OVL” window.

FIX5: Create OVL Window: Warn when an enabled mesh is invalid on loading a scn file.

FIX5: Create OVL Window: Made the success message of the creating an OVL less annoying. Click anywhere outside to close it.

FIX5: Create OVL Window: SCN file name and ovl name are now shown in the Create OVL window.

FIX5: Create OVL Window: Texture list now shows presence of an alpha texture.

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1598473: Space at the end of the theme name prevents successful install.

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1598664: Visual Options do not work

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1596179: Reference field not being filled in from scenery settings window

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1596228: Typing name into icon window doesn't enable Ok button

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1596408: List boxes reset to the top after editing an item

FIX5: Fixed Bug 1599068: “radius” missing from flexi lights

Uses icons to show whether an input is valid in many cases

New controls for text entry/button combinations (Mostly when file names are involved)

Grid Control for groups/meshes. Usage should be mostly intuitive.

Lots of renaming:

Usually the old names are added in parenthesis to reduce confision

Separator to allow discrimination of other model modification matrices from the one/those that fix the coordinate system. This is needed for correct transformation of effect points.

A bit of explanation: To correctly use effect point matrices for peeps/vendors in modeller space they need to be transformed from in-game space first using the inverse of the fix-up matrix. Older versions of the importer applied the inverse of the complete model transformation matrix, so if you used the model transformation matrix to move around your object in addition to the fix-up, it had no effect on effect points.

Usage: In the stack, put matrices to move/rotate your object first, then a separator and the modeller coordinate system fix-up matrix/matrices last.

The “Unknown” group/mesh setting was discovered to make faces textured single- or double-sided. If you set it to Double-Sided this will also get rid of the x-ray effect.

Create OVL/LODs: Saving issues of unknowns fixed (Fixes Bug #1612254)

Create OVL/LODs: Unknown warning removed

Create OVL: “Set Unknown Flags” renamed to Unknown Flags and the box has a somewhat descriptive tool tip

Create OVL: Texture cache entries are now shown in the texture list in gray

Made the Stall and Special Attractions window more user-friendly.

Implemented support for PNG transparency in object textures. You can now choose between no alpha channel, an internal alpha channel (as in PNGs) and an external alpha channel from a separate file (the classic alpha texture).

The simple texture window now also appears when you edit a texture as long as you don't make any changes that require the advanced view.

Added credits file

The recolorable texture ZIP now also contains a palette file for The Gimp.

Now using Crystal Clear icons (see credits.txt)

Fixed Bug 1606248: Setting the title in the Create OVL window: Doesn't update on save scn/save ovl.

Fixed Bug 1606383: Importer crashes when you try to select a JPEG file

Fixed Bug 1611229: Some controls in Create OVL stay enabled on New

FIX1: Fixed Bug: Internal alpha channel in PNGs flipped upside-down

FIX1: Fixed crash when trying to edit a texture with no frames.

FIX1: You can now select multiple files when adding textures or texture frames.

FIX1: When quick-adding (through the file dialog that comes up when you press add) textures or texture frames, internal alpha channels are automatically detected and activated.

FIX1: Advanced Texture Window: Add multiple frames at once to the animation list.

FIX1: Advanced Texture Window: Multiple consecutive frames are now summed up in the animation list. Note: The delete button will delete all summed up frames (ie the complete selected entry). There is a new spin control to change the number of repetitions.