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Stephan (Lenny) Alt, 2012-2015, alt.stephan@web.de
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Welcome to FVD++, a next generation FVD tool inspired by newton2 (by Keith (Entropy) Cohn). It is mainly aimed for coaster enthusiasts creating sophisticated force and geometry based coasters. That said the tool is still development and I take no warranty of its usefulness in its current state (see License information below).
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v0.78:
- fixed export of straight sections with non zero roll transitions
- fixed camera stuttering
- fixed distance based forced sections
- first 64bit Release
v0.77 (open Source release):
- fixed export of individual sections
- fixed force based sections not saving constant speed
- changed to Qt 5.2.1, qcustomplot 1.2.1 and glm 0.9.5.1-1
v0.76 Beta:
- fixed tozero transitions to only work on the first section properly
- fixed velocity problems on some section types
- fixed NL2 exporter exporting non rotated sections (when exporting a subset of FVD sections)
v0.75 Beta:
- double spine track style
- new exporter type: NL2 exporter
- NL2 style friction parameters
- EXPERIMENTAL: export coaster to .3ds file format
- EXPERIMENTAL: "roll back to zero" transition type for force and geometric time based sections
v0.7b Beta:
- fixed having no control over the camera in OpenGL 2 mode
- FVD now loads a double-clicked project on startup if the .fvd file format is asociated with the FVD++ executable
- fixed camera having gimbal lock related issues
v0.7a Beta:
- fixed unsufficient mesh update in combination with smoothing
- fixed spine and rails disappearing at the end of the track on rare occasions
v0.7 Beta:
- added fully rendered tracks as well as several track styles
- improved drag and speed calculations
- new keybindings during fly mode (change POV position by pressing the arrow keys, B toggles the NoLimits 1 building border, F goes into fullscreen)
- several graphics options
- straight segments are now exported as one NoLimits 1 segment (please tell me if you really need the old system back)
- performance increase in track generation
- imported NoLimits 1 tracks have now simulated physics
- transition editor with mutliple y-axes
v0.6 Beta:
- added a rollspeed smoothing tool
- improved both tangent and spline exporter by a significant margin
- improved coaster physics (you can load 0.5x .fvd files but your track may be misshapen due to the new physics engine)
v0.51 Beta:
- fixed two bugs leading to crashes on most Mac and some Windows systems
- minor bug fix in the options menu and section list
v0.5 Beta:
- all new GUI
- project tab lets you manage multiple tracks in one project
- each track has its own management tab
- improved graph window with tons more options
- import tracks from other FVD++ projects
- import from *.nltrack format (for now FVD++ assumes a closed track and calculates no physics)
- customizable background and track colors
- customizable ground texture (only viewable in OpenGL 3 mode)
- additional anchor point options
- improved track flexion visualization
v0.31 Beta:
- better Mac compatibility (enabled earlier OpenGL versions and removed some external dependencies)
- fixed issue with symmetric functions
v0.3 Beta:
- improved visuals for non legacy OpenGL (improved shadows and selected subsection gets a green highlight)
- added undo / redo support
- added options window
- added conversion panel window
- added roll orientation option
- added function argument option
- fixed spinning camera bug which occured on some systems
- reworked tangent exporter (new standard exporter for now)
- new Mac version (now also with OpenGL 3 support)
v0.14a Alpha:
- fixed floor in PoV mode (legacy OpenGL only)
v0.14 Alpha:
- trackwork now invariant under position and rotation changes of the anchor point
- improved visuals for non legacy OpenGL (underground track distinguishable)
- Anchor Node represents now the anchor of the track rather than the anchor of the Heartline
v0.12 Alpha:
- Mac version (64 bit only)
- new exporter option (export as spline or export with preserving tangents)
- fixed a slight bug in straight sections using non zero roll functions (section didn't preserve length of heartline)
v0.11 Alpha:
- new exporter option (threshold angle at which the exporter decides to switch to RelRoll option)
- Compatibility with OpenGL version 3.0 and lower. Visualizations will automatically be disabled! Check *.log file which OpenGL context could be created on your machine
- Fixed a bug on functions the train will never be able to reach
v0.1 Alpha:
- introduction of 4 different section types (straight, curved, force based, geometry based)
- introduction of 6 different transition types (with 12 different flavors)
- timewarping of all transition types
- Exporter to the *.nlelem format with per section exporting and variable segment lengths
- save to and load from a lightweight data format (.fvd files) with autosaves to a (.bak) file each time an export is performed.
- OpenGL shaders visualising important data (like forces, roll speed and track flexion).
- PoV mode enabling the ability to check the track inside FVD++
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- The visualizations use OpenGL 3.1 shader technology, make sure your graphics card / drivers support OpenGL 3.1
- read through the official documentation, this document should explain nearly every feature of FVD++
- Visit the FVD++ Thread on NoLimitsExchange (http://forum.nolimits-exchange.com/)
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Please let me know if you found a bug / crash either by posting in the NLE forum or by mailing me (alt.stephan@web.de). Please include as much information as possible, try to save the track that bugged out and send me the saved .fvd file. If the program crashed try to recreate the crash scenario and describe how you got the program to crash in a detailed way.
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- Lucas van den Bosch for creating the official documentation and youtube tutorial channel
- Ercan "geforcefan" Akyürek for deploying and testing the tool on Mac systems
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FVD++, an advanced coaster design tool for NoLimits and NoLimits2 Copyright (C) 2012-2015, Stephan "Lenny" Alt alt.stephan@web.de
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.