World Creator 2024.1

Released on the 5th of April 2024

New Features

• New Shape Layer: RIVERS (MAJOR FEATURE)

• New Shape Layer: POLYGON

• All Shape Layers can now be rotated.

• Paths and Rivers can be exported to splines.

• Added Spline Import to Path Layers.

• Added ability to set Export folder to custom location.

• Added a toolbox button for quickly accessing the Screenshots folder.

• Added Saturation, Contrast and Brightness controls for Gradient Materials.

• Added Incremental Saves (check documentation).

• Added lates support for Adobe Substance Materials.

• Added Rain and Wind Settings to Hydraulic Sediment Filter which is no longer declared as Experimental.

• Added ability to load HDRI maps to be used for background and lighting.

• Added ability to set min/max values when importing custom heightmaps into a Stamp Layer.

• Added a new Filter: Hexagon

• Added a new Filter: Squeeze

• Added a new Filter: Rocky Layers

• Added a new Effect: Repeat

Improvements

• Improved all Distributions for better performance.

• Improved Path Layers regarding overlapping paths.

• Localization was removed from the Application resources and is now dynamically loaded from the webserver.

• Localization reduced to support English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese languages only.

• Updated all information boxes (specifically for sculpting, paths, now rivers and polygon tools).

• Updated full online documentation.

• Focusing the terrain now addapt to hidden and non-hidden UI.

• NEWS in the Main Menu now links to the websites NEWS page.

• Licensing now happens on the webserver (Network DLL file was removed).

• Unfold a full tree in Hirarchie now with LEFT-ALT and LEFT-CLICK.

• Changed Gradient Button DELETE to CLEAR.

• First Biome in the project is always unfolded when running World Creator.

• Updated to .NET 8 resulting in a general 15% performance improvement.

• Heavily optimized export for much faster execution.

• Added additional Export Information in case that the export might be to heacy for users GPU VRAM.

• Improved Export Naming Convention capabilities specifically for Unreal Engine exports.

Fixes

• Fixed all AMD related issues.

• An issue where the Curve Filter caused a full application crash.

• An issue where the Curve Distribution caused a full application crash.

• An issue where resetting Adobe Substance Materials caused a full application crash.

• An issue where the Sync-Operation caused issues for non-uniform terrains.

• An issue where the Canyon Base selection caused a full application crash.

• An issue where exporting the Normal Map caused a full application crash depending on precision.

• An issue where exporting the Splat Map caused a full application crash depending on precision.

• An issue where the Swirl filter did not work properly.

• An issue where the Flows heatmap did not work properly.

• An issue where the Splat Map export caused wrong results..

• An issue where the Layer Operations did not work properly.

• An issue where the Material Preview did not update when the Material was changed.

• An issue where the Gradient Material Height Range did not work properly.

• An issue with the Color Picker in combination with several Filters causing heavy performance drop-down.

• An issues causing some projects to fail on load.