phototiler

📋 Release Notes

phototiler v2.4.0

• Add data sources in scene file
• Add layer visibility toggle
• Add move to top and move to bottom layer options
• Fix potential invalid index bounds for point geometry
• Fix rendering issues with resolution leading to fractional split of tiles
• Improve performance with dynamic tile resolution scaling to keep consistent framerate
• Improve thread safety when building tiles
• Remove support for automatic updates in favor for manual updates

phototiler v2.3.1

• Fix windows build crash at startup

phototiler v2.3.0

• Add support for extra height to polygon builder
• Add support for fixed height to polygon builder
• Fix invalid viewport display on resolution change
• Fix an issue with duplicating layers when only one layer is present
• Set macOS minimum version to prevent user from running on older versions

phototiler v2.2.1

• Fix scene not listening to edit changes when dragged and dropped
• Fix potential crash when unlocking pro features on macOS
• Fix crash when deleting all layers
• Fix degenerate geometry due to potential NaN values in line builder
• Fix potential race condition when generating a scene
• Fix pause/play support
• Improve framebuffer and render target lifecycle
• Improve error reporting on update failure

phototiler v2.2.0

• Add support for terrain with DEM data sources
• Improve task scheduling to optimize tile generation for faster scene creation

phototiler v2.1.0

• Add support for undo/redo
• Fix potential fireflies in path tracer

phototiler v2.0.1

• Fix a bug where the popup size was incorrectly bound
• Fix a potential uninitialized value in updater code on Linux
• Fix crash when creating a matcher without a selected type

phototiler v2.0.0

• Improve UX by consolidating user interface in a single view
• Improve UX by loading some tiles at startup
• Add sky model and remove HDR textures to reduce application size and give more visual control
• Add scene file drag-and-drop support
• Add serialization support for render and camera settings
• Add tile region selection in the map view
• Add map selection serialization as part of the scene file
• Add support for automatic application updates
• Tie map region selection to geographic coordinates instead of screen space coordinates
• Improve hot-reloading performance by canceling obsolete building tasks
• Adjust camera movement to be constant relative to the field of view
• Adjust camera constraints to prevent seeing underneath the ground plane
• Fix flickering when switching between fast and slow render modes
• Fix a tile bounds issue preventing to download a single tile
• Pack all assets within executable to make a standalone application

phototiler v1.0.1

• Fix an issue with file dialog saves on macOS
• Fix hot-reloading sometimes not picking up latest changes
• Fix hot-reloading not being triggered on layer name changes

phototiler v1.0.0

• Update UI with various improvements including a new docking-based layout
• Add support for GLTF model export
• Add support for saving and loading scene files
• Add support for render resolution modification
• Add support for live scene edits on layer modifications
• Add data configurable parsing zoom to select level of detail
• Add HTTP error handling and reporting
• Add support for data pre-fill in matcher UI for simpler selection of data types
• Add layer duplication option
• Add menu item shortcut support
• Fix camera settings and placement on scene re-generation
• Fix data caching for MVT tiles
• Fix empty image export before the denoising step

phototiler v0.5.1-beta

• Fix windows build

phototiler v0.5.0-beta

• Add support for MVT for faster tile processing and increased data resolution
• Blur HDR environment maps
• Clip tile at map region selection boundaries
• Better handling of incorrect Http requests on Linux and macOS
• Remove duktape dependency from 3rd party license

phototiler v0.4.4-beta

• Add support for multithreading when downloading and building tiles for faster scene creation
• Reduce GPU memory footprint of materials
• Fix environment map rendering artifacts in preview mode
• Optimize rendering and shader instructions by removing extraneous instance transform
• Remove dependency with TinyObjLoader library

phototiler v0.4.3-beta

• Various improvements to the renderer
• Fix potential data corruption on scene serialization

phototiler v0.4.2-beta

• Add default user agent string to fix http nextzen requests

phototiler v0.4.1-beta

• Fix a bug where deleting a filter resulted in an exception
• Fix a bug where creating a new layer without assigning a material crashed
• Fix a bug where layer order wasn't preserved after deleting a layer
• Fix material UI not filtering the material properties specific to the type
• Disable extraneous UI translation gizmo

phototiler v0.4.0-beta

• Redesign interface to simplify UX flow by creating two main modes: render & design
• Improve map region by inverting selection colors to better highlight selected area
• Fix some missing framebuffer clear on first frames, leading to incorrect rendering on first run
• Fix UI picking bug while selecting color overlapping with the viewport

phototiler v0.3.0-beta

• Add Windows support
• Fix incorrect focus on map while dragging map region
• Fix map region size on window resize

phototiler v0.2.0-beta

• Add Linux support
• Improve region selection UX by using a draggable and resizable quad
• Add multiplatform file dialog support to choose location of image export
• Fix camera wheel zoom when using macbook trackpad, for more intuitive camera behaviors

phototiler v0.1.1-beta

• Prevent crash at startup by using TBB source libraries on macOS instead of locally installed ones
• Reduce size of binary application by removing a few HDR files

phototiler v0.1.0-beta

• First public version