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cajomi
23.March2008, 09:40
Happy eastern!

This is a typical "improvements" and bug fixes update.
First I have to add for Build 28: all selections were changed from 8bit to 16bit quality.

General improvement - not visible:
I have started to code a translation tool with a new structure for the language files. The new structure is implemented for the filter names, filtercontrol names and selection names. This tool will make translations for the GUI much more comfortable and easyer and I hope, that in future the GUI will be available in many languages, for example francese or chinese (after the USA the most visitors of the GeoControl pages are from china, followed by germany and france!).

All filter names are now always the same, also the selectors names, no matter how old the preset is, that is loaded. This was really getting a problem in the last builds. Depending on the presets, the name of the filters or selections did change for the same filtertyp.

GUI improvement:
All selection controls are now changed to a colored text field. If you click into the field, left beside the panel a window pops up, with all available selections.
The color of the text field shows at once, whether a selection is used or not.
This applies also to the shader, but there the coloring is more decent.

Changing a filter now works properly. The numbering is no more confusing, so now permanently increasing numbers if you switch between two filters. If you change a erosion type and the flowmap was used for shading or anywhere as selection, the new filter takes the place of the old and also the selections are automatically changed to the new erosion type. So there is no more increasing of selections, when you change a filter. This also works if you change for example from vector to river and lakes.

Filterpresets:
Completed the presets for the erosion filters (not the invers one) and also added some typical presets for GeoControl2.


Bug fixes:

Fixed some nasty behavior with the filtercurve if it was used for a selection.
Change filter could lead to a mismatch of filters.
The new last two pwfilter controls did not actualize.
A new filtercurve was not accepted the first try in some situations.
Soft fluvial wide was linked to wrong erosion.
If river and lakes was first filter in the postwork section, previous and next level switches could cause distorted terrains.

Improved:
Height adjustments in the "general" terrain panel: If height is changed, now all! values which are affected by a height change are autoadjusted new, according to the relative change of the height.
Changing a filter now also removes the selections or change them.
Numbering of filters or selections now looks for "free" numbers and uses this ones.
Adjustment of noise for old filters did not always work correct.
The colors of the level controls and the filter controls change now, if a filter is disabled.


This build will be the base for the demo of the pre-release of GeoControl2.
Please report all bugs with the error message, so that the demo will be mostly stable.

Download link for build 29 (you'll need the GC1 licence key to run it):
www.cajomi.de/Download/GeoControl_pre-release_Build29_Setup.exe

Have fun
Johannes Rosenberg
-cajomi-

monks
23.March2008, 10:16
Fantastique!
A Happy Easter to all.

monks

monks
23.March2008, 10:27
After installing and launching I type in my license name and reg code. I get the following error message:

"13961 0This testversion is older then 30 days and is disabled!"

GC then shuts down.

monks

alexcoppo
23.March2008, 10:38
After installing and launching I type in my license name and reg code. I get the following error message:

"13961 0This testversion is older then 30 days and is disabled!"

GC then shuts down.

monks

Confirm the "easter egg"... just that this is not of chocolate, but a rotten one (on our faces).

monks
23.March2008, 10:51
:) It looked so delicious in the box too!


monks

jazzcrab
23.March2008, 11:15
I am having the same problem here. Now what???

xen
23.March2008, 11:16
Same here. Have you updated the expiration time?

lindans
23.March2008, 11:29
Me too LOL!!

Fenring
23.March2008, 11:41
Same problem here :(

Apophis
23.March2008, 12:01
The same at me.

Christina
23.March2008, 12:19
Happy Easter to all of you and please, don't freak out. I'm sure that this will be fixed very soon but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen today. It's Easter! :)

cajomi
23.March2008, 12:23
Problem with the installer tool. I am just solving it.

tigme
23.March2008, 12:30
Same here :p

Gweledva
23.March2008, 12:40
Same problem here today, I can't run the latest build. It says my version is older than 30 days, and it is not though! Happy Easter!

cajomi
23.March2008, 12:47
I did not forget to update the time, but I forget to change the datadir. So GeoControl did try to read datas in my "testing" surrounding and could not find it.

I have fixed that and updated the setup.exe. Additional I find, that the setup software did not integrate the last new datas, presets and langauage. Have that fixed also.

Just download it again, same link and then it should work.

jazzcrab
23.March2008, 13:27
Now it works! Thanks for the good job! Well done! Happy Easter to all! :)

Christina
23.March2008, 13:31
It works now like a charm! You're a gem! :D

digitalis
23.March2008, 13:53
Thanks for the Easter present.
Will post bugs, if any.
Kind regards.

calico
23.March2008, 13:54
Cool! Thanks for your diligence. I can't wait to try this.

Xpleet
23.March2008, 14:51
Oh very nice!

I love the new Presets!

blueman
23.March2008, 15:02
Thank you Cajomi.

May i wish you a Happy Easter!

johnyf
23.March2008, 15:25
Many thanks Johannes!

tigme
23.March2008, 15:53
Yes it's working now...

Gweledva
23.March2008, 18:22
Thank you very much, Johannes,
Everything's working fine now, and you've done a great job: Geo Control surpasses any other terrain editor I 'd tried so far. It's simply a jewel !
Happy Easter and I'm grateful for your recent advice,
Jean-Luc:)

CarlS
24.March2008, 02:54
Thanks Johannes, happy Easter to you and everyone else here as well.

The PresetBrowser looks very nice indeed :)

--Carl

chromecity
24.March2008, 06:29
Thank you very much for making this fine update available, cajomi!

As a Cinema 4D user, the OBJ support wasn't really getting very good results for me and the 16-bit grayscale support you've just added makes all the difference for me. Now it's very usable as a deformation map without the pronounced stepping from the previous 8-bit grayscale limit.

And the preset browser is looking quite nice also. Do you plan to eventually make the preset browser a sizable window? That would be nice.

Thanks again for the great Easter present.

cajomi
24.March2008, 07:12
Should be done of course, but actual the are other points in the todo list more urgent.

Xpleet
25.March2008, 23:23
I think with the new Presets Cajomi shows everyone how powerful in variety GC² really is.

mauronen
26.March2008, 08:15
Hi Johannes.
Back now to holidays, so only now i saw this fantastic news.
Go to test build 29!
Thanks a lot for your efforts to improve GC2.

myklgrant
26.March2008, 15:28
Hello

I am still having the problem of the beta saying it is expired and it won't run. I tried the link http://www.cajomi.de/Download/GeoCon...ld29_Setup.exe just last night, installed the beta, entered my GC1 serial number and still got the error when I started it. Could someone please point me to the correct version.
Thank-you.

Michael

cajomi
26.March2008, 16:37
Was your system time up to date?
The link is allright.

myklgrant
26.March2008, 16:51
cajomi,

I am currently running GC1 which I purchased on 02/20/08. It runs fine. This is the first time I've downloaded a GC2 beta, if that has any bearing on the problem. Do I need to download the older version (28) and then upgrade to 29? I would like to see what all the enthusiasm about GC2 is about, but GC1 is doing great as far as I am concerned.
Thanks for your reply.

Michael.

cajomi
26.March2008, 18:02
You should definitly take a look at GeoControl2.

Well, did you install GeoControl2 into a different directory than it was suggested by the installer?
May be, simply download it again, the same link and try it again.

Are you running XP or Vista?

myklgrant
26.March2008, 19:33
cajomi,

I just let the installer run on the defaults BUT...
I think I've figured it out. I'm running Vista and it installs GC2 as the Administrator. I run it as a user. Probably another case of "UAC Crap". I'll try it tonight installing differently.

Michael

alexcoppo
26.March2008, 22:41
On Vue forums there have been many notifications about having to reactivate Vue EVERY time on Vista; in all cases things have been fixed buy running Vue as Administrator.

Bye!!!

P.S.: "fixed" in the above sentence should be translated into: workaround to stop Vista telling you that the program is violating security rules and accessing files in locations and modes which it should not, rules which were already layed out and documented since Windows NT times but not strictly enforced by the OS and totally disregarded by programmers and users...

cajomi
27.March2008, 06:07
If you install and run with different rights/users, GeoControl can not find the installed presets and so on, because that are different folders.

myklgrant
27.March2008, 15:28
Yup,

UAC was the culprit. I was too lazy to figure out how to really solve the problem so I just run GC2 as admin. I didn't have that problem when installing GC1 and I hope it is just a problem for the beta release.
Because... I can't wait to acquire the final release. GC2 is an amazing program. Cleaner UI, better rendering, amazing functions, isolines (!!). When I first started playing with it last night (randomly selecting functions and presets drawing isolines ) all I could think was WOW!. So much power. Great work. Can't wait.

Michael

DigitalDream
19.July2008, 12:11
Hi,

i am new to GeoControl and have try to install the GeoControl 2 Beta but with no success
always i get a error massage

older then 30 Days usw....

Please help .

DigitalDream
19.July2008, 12:12
the same by me

"13961 0This testversion is older then 30 days and is disabled!"

please help :(

dballesg
19.July2008, 18:49
I think we need to wait until Cajomi publish a new build.

David