For the new year we have considerably upgraded Skylines workflow with new editors to make Skyline easier and faster to use and now awaiting your testing prowess. This new version has been increased to V0.6.0 as we have introduced a new friendlier, quicker workflow complete with new editors to make your Skyline project development easier, we hope you think the same. As with all new changes on this scale the potential for new bugs, crashes and issues has increased and with your testing we will get these new features stable ,improved and upgraded.
New Features:
- Fully featured Script Editor integrated into Skylines Scripting workflow.
- Scene Editor Context Menu for easy addition of new scene objects and quick access to many of the built in editors.
- New Preset Manager to organize your preset libraries complete with auto generated thumbnail images. Get full access to all of your scene assets
- Reworked Action editor, now simplified and part of the work flow. Actions can now also be removed.
For more a more detailed view please see the update log below:
Update Log:
- Fixed: On terrain load back the terrain tile size was set to 2048 for a 4096 tile.
- New: Post Fx enables set checked on scene load back
- New: Vegetation Grass can now use Alpha Smooth or Alpha Rejection
- New: Vegetation Grass using Alpha Smooth can use opacity.
- New: Vegetation Grass can be tinted to blend with the terrain texture.
- New: Vegetation Grass Editor Improvements
- Updated: About Page.
- Updated: Config setup header image
- Updated: Translation panel remembers its last opened location on load back
- Updated: Translation panel remembers its last used decimal settings and step size on load back
- New: Context menu system for RMB in scene editor
- New: Context menu on selected scene entities.
- Updated: The toolbar "New Scene" Button now loads a default scene with light+ground
- New: Action Editor accessed via selected object Context menu
- New: New Script from File - accessed from context menu
- New: New Script from Default - accessed from context menu
- New: Script can be removed from the object by using the context menu.
- New: Material editor: opens from the selected objects context menu and opens with the selected objects material.
- Fixed: Material Editor data updated even when the editor is not open, this now fixed.
- New: Scene entity list renaming item in list will rename entity Name Property
- Updated: Terrain Brush Intensity Controls from Height Editing, Painting and grass have been adjusted to feel the same strength through all the controls.
- Splash screen When application is starting up.
- Vegetation Impostors don’t cut the top of the tree off anymore.
- Vegetation Billboards(Grass) can load in textures as well as material file. Textures are generated and stored in the Temp and cleared off when skyline closes.
- Terrain Brush Strength Slider now has multiplier
- New: Material Editor: Can choose the base material types from a drop down as well as load your own custom base material.
- New: Material Editor: Entities with multiple materials can now have different base materials applied.
- New: Material Editor: Edit .material script inside skyline quickly.
- New: Material Editor: Panel now scales and images re-size
- New: Material Editor: Press return after typing in the material name into the text boxes next to the load buttons on the right hand side properties to set the material without any dialog.
- Updated: Terrain Walk Camera is now improved with many less glitches.
- Context Menu:
- Add new Model/Light/Ground and other basic objects ready for customizing.
- Fast access to certain editors
- Fast access to new preset library
- Selected object menu
- Edit material of selected object
- Edit actions of…
- Add new script from file.
- Save selected object to open preset Library
- Import Model directly to scene, just choose file from browser and it will be added to the scene ready to save as a new preset( also from RMB context)
- Import Model sets the new object name to the model name
- Import Model sets the new object Material property to the model material
- Add new Model/Light/Ground and other basic objects ready for customizing.
- New: Action System Editor:
- Simplified workflow to quickly add dynamic actions to any selected scene entity.
- Add any action from the action library to the selected object.
- Lists to display action Library/library content/current attached actions
- Attached actions list to display all attached actions on the selected object
- Remove any existing attached action from the selected object
- Changed selected objects auto updates action editor.
- Properties are now instantly displayed on the selected objects property panel for fast editing with out closing action editor
- Large Panel to display action description and additional information.
- Simplified workflow to quickly add dynamic actions to any selected scene entity.
- New: Script Editor:
- Fully Integrated Skyline styled Lua Script Editor
- Improved scripting workflow from scene editor context menus.
- Script editor opens from scripted objects "Edit" property
- Saving the script auto updates the running in game script.
- Full text editor features such as copy/paste/undo etc
- Removable tool bar
- icon for Fast access to API
- Registry based user settings, remember screen size, pos and other options
- Simple code completion
- Lua Events drop down
- Multi document system, either tabbed or windowed
- New Lua script button
- Word search feature
- line numbers and "goto line" feature
- Replace word feature
- code folding
- Lua highlighting ( intellisense coming soon)
- Text selection
- Text block selection ( ALT+Drag)
- Closing brace highlighting
- Re-sizable text from tool bar icons.
- Fully Integrated Skyline styled Lua Script Editor
- New: Preset Manager:
- Loads all preset libraries found under Skyline SDK or Project Folder loaded.
- Organize your preset libraries with an inbuilt folder structure system.
- Folders auto save on window close down and load back when editor is activated to leave you with the folder structure you left with.
- Add ,Remove and Rename folders in preset library tree.
- Delete preset libraries from list and Hard drive.
- Create blank new preset libraries. These are loaded in after a refresh.
- Refresh button to reload all libraries and folders back in.
- Quick save button to save current library without save dialog.
- Save As button to create a new preset library of current presets.
- Full Icon driven display system to show all presets from the preset library selected.
- Icons are resizable using a slider
- Icon sizes remember what size they are after close down.
- Hit 'F2' or the 'rename preset button' while the preset is selected to rename.
- Click and Drag from the icon display to the scene.
- Click and Drag from the Scene Entity List of the main window to the icon display imports that current scene entity to the selected preset library.
- Click the import from scene button to import the current selected scene entity into the selected preset library.
- message dialog will warn you about leaving the preset library with unsaved changes
- Auto Generation of thumbnails for Model type scene entity (Still under development).
- Manual Thumbnail generation. Quick easy to use and self managed.
- Delete preset from current selected Preset library.
- Editor will open where it last was opened
- Loads all preset libraries found under Skyline SDK or Project Folder loaded.
Downloads:
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.001
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.002
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.003
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.004
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.005
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads ... x86.7z.006
Edit: Important! Skyline V0.6.0 Patch 01. Please make sure you have installed 0.6.0 before installing this patch.
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/downloads123/Skyline_SDK_0_6_0_Patch_Installer_x86.7z
For Changelog of patcs, see these posts:
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=175
http://www.chi-ad.com/Skyline/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=179
Note:
You may experience some new bugs or new bugs appearing in features you have been working with as new workflows and higher features have been developed and added into this release.
Your Skyline Developer Team
Enjoy!
