Change Log

True-Terrain  v5.0.0.57

Blender 4.1 ONLY

NEW FEATURES

• Auto Render Icon for materials: you no longer need to setup, render, and set an icon manually for custom installed materials. True-Terrain will now automatically render and set the icon for you. Click the camera button next to a texture's icon in the preferences. Batch rendering is also supported located in the textures menu in the preferences.
• New Anti-Tiling settings for better blending between tiles.
• New Preset System:
  • Shader layers and settings, masks and settings, filters and settings, filter masks and settings, and anit-tile
  • Float and Vector Curve Presets
  • Terrain grid, layers and settings, masks and settings, and modifiers and settings
  • Scatter layers and settings, masks and settings, modifiers and settings, rotation modifiers and settings, and scatter objects
  • You can edit the common basic settings in the addon preferences
  • Importing of preset packs is also supported
• Scatter Traverse Layer through Groups
• Add all selected TT assets in asset browser by pressing a button in the header
• Clear Cache options for hopeful fixes of random bugs
• Thaw Frozen Terrain Layers menu option
• Allow for disabling descriptions to help with crashing. Toggle found in Addon Preferences

CHANGES

• Stop terrain layer transformation values from being animated until matrix sockets are implemented
• Allow for setting a shader layer's asset when none has been set
• Better Water Mesh boundary creation and erosion on mesh
• Move to Group into the better Traversal function
• Remove presets button when there isn't a material on the active object. Will add back to a creation popup in future release
• Set Terrain Blending settings enable `Use Math` and math then set to `Smooth Maximum` by default
• Display reloading addon message on completion of pack importing
• Allow setting no object for scatter layer when presets try and use an object that isn't installed
• Have descriptions turned off by default for speed and stability

FIXES

• Don't save assets json when just changing asset path and not moving
• Patch Mask - Various links not correctly connected
• Ensure 'Use Voronoi' accurately represents its node input
• formatting size on disk bad argument error when exporting packs
• Error on cancelation of importing a pack
• Procedural setting name fixes
• Make sure to use each type's way of getting the easing type
• Various fixes to ensure copying/saving easing and ramp data is correct
• Ensure Color sockets show up as Color setting props
• Remove problematic animation settings from filters
• Show no items message for filter masks instead of errorring
• Shader Attribute Mask easing custom curve not showing up
• Scatter Cam Cull not working
• Ensure Geo easing nodes are made unique
• ZEB wasn't copy/pasting randomize falloff data
• handle when frozen_layer_path points to deleted layer
• Remap Values terrain modifiers use index switch
• Better reporting with removing files when importing from previous
• Ensure Panel header bool label display correctly when pin is enabled
• Scatter modifiers on groups weren't working
• Copy wasn't working when the dict keys weren't strings
• Terrain group traversal wasn't working
• Copy active scatter layer wasn't showing
• Don't allow applying presets at root layer of tt sections, nor adding or edit multi-item presets when there aren't any items to use as the source
• Ensure the scatter around layer exists before trying to apply the dict to it
• Better Terrain layer cache clearing to fix modifiers not being added correctly
• Ensure modifier caches are being cleared on scatter layer cache clearing too
• Erosion caused scatter to be disconnected
• Add in Scatter Objects menu and copy/paste functions and use it instead of the Scatter Layers menu
• Apply rotations to normal maps when using anti-tile
• Unify json writing with error handling and debugging
• Better handling of no layers in Terrain Layer Menu
• Ensure ZEB Mask values are cleared when clearing the cache

True-Terrain  v5.0.0.56

Blender 4.1 ONLY

NEW FEATURES

• Import/Export Objects
• Calc and show file sizes for all assets types in the prefs
• Terrain Camera Culling
• Bake any object to height map
• Add in new Modifiers section for Scatter section
• Scatter `Snap To` Rotation Setting
• Asset Browser Integration
• Adds buttons and menus to the asset browser to filter and add assets and presets to the object's True-Terrain data. Ex: Drag and drop objects to scatter or materials to add a new shader layer.
  • Adds button to make installed True-Terrain assets and presets available in the asset browser and able to filter by True-Terrain asset types.
  • Allows for adding non-TT materials in as shader layers
  • Once setup importing new packs will update the asset browser
• Import texture(s) from directory: Installs new texture asset(s) from a directory and all subdirectories recursively. Uses the following keywords for each texture type:
  • Color: diffuse, diff, albedo, base, col, color
  • Roughness: roughness, rough, rgh, gloss
  • Normal: normal, nor, nrm, nrml, norm
  • Height:  displacement, displace, disp, dsp, height, heightmap, bmp, bump
  • Metallic:  metallic, metalness, mtl
  • Specular:  specularity, specular, spec, spc
  • Opacity:  opacity, alpha, transparent
  • AO: ao, occlusion
  • Emit: emis, emit
  • Preview: preview, icon
• Update Checker: Checks for updates to True-Terrain upon opening Blender and notifies the user if there are updates available

CHANGES

• Use tabs instead of dropdowns for `Asset Data` editing in the prefs
• Display icon when no scatter object was set
• Set the shader transform panel to be open by default
• Allow changing quality level with menu scatter object UI list
• Switch from using density to letting users put in a target amount for scattering
• Make Shader Anti-Tile Cell Size relative to the layer's scale
• Move more commonly messed with settings up and others down into dropdowns (now open by default)
• Create Terrain button same height now as other tabs' Add buttons
• Pin Object by Default
• Path Mask drawing confirm on release
• Updated the prefs setting to match new Scatter Viewport Limit
• Put Preferences Settings section in a box to help separate
• Don't show geometry subpanels if terrain is not active
• Move Shader `Mask` and `Filter` to main settings tabs
• Moved Clumping to new Modifiers section of Scatter
• Make Scatter Clumping a Scatter Modifier
• Add Z offset value to Flatten Area modifer with option of using an object to set offset height
• Change the "Bake" naming for exporting heightmaps, to "Export Heightmap"
• Offset Maximum is relative to the Offset setting. So if Offset is 0.5, and Offset Maximum is 0.6, instances will be offset randomly between 0.5 and 1.1
• Scatter Clumping point to top of parent asset instead of going all the way to the floor
• Turn Clump Parent Amount into an integer target instead of percentage
• Add option to install exported height map to Export [Terrain] as Height Map

FIXES

• Scale values were added between groups and children instead of multiply
• Display rotations as degrees instead of radians
• Automatically select all objects in a quality level if trying to scatter it but no items were selected to scatter
• Don't try and freeze on main_tabs change if blend file is not saved
• Set main group node's attribute prefix so they can be referenced
• Convert Mesh with Scatter to use TT Terrain now actually converts
• Better Attribute Painting
• Cam Cull Mask RayCast wasn't working
• Scatter Cam Culling Backfacing Culling not working
• Don't try and freeze/thaw terrain unless blend file is saved
• Material adding on non-geo nodes meshes
• Ensure erosion and cam culling don't show up in geometry section if active mesh is not a geo nodes mesh

True-Terrain v5.0.0.55

Blender 4.1 ONLY

NEW FEATURES

• Show Objects as Bounds. Display the bounding box of the layer's objects instead for roughly 1fps speedup. Toggle is located between the `Likelihood` and `Visibility` setting in the `Scatter Objects` list
• Scatter Groups have relative control over children layers
• Terrain Layer Caching. Ability to cache or freeze layers either automatically or manually. Scatter will get this as well once the bake node is fixed to not remove materials from instances
• Add in Icons for the main tabs
• Known Attribute Menu. A Menu now appears next to attribute inputs that allows you to select from a list of known True-Terrain attributes
• Random phrases when no items exist yet (just for fun)
• Add `Use Active Camera` to shader distance mask
• Add icons to ZEB shape enum
• Display Object Layer Materials
• Install Selected as Object Asset. Right Click Menu in outliner
• Scatter Selected Objects viewport/outliner. Right Click Menu in viewport or outliner. Scatter selected objects
• Implement Scatter Scene Objects
• Optimize scatter object blends
• Object Assets data setup
• Multi-Objects per Scatter Layer. Now a single scatter layer can have multiple objects so that they won't be scattered on top of each other. Amount is controlled by the `Likelihood` setting

CHANGES

• Remove Musgrave since merge with Noise
• Allow for importing from previous only certain asset types
• Set whole line red if map path does not exist
• Grey out Terrain Detail Map settings if not map is set
• Update minimum Blender version to 4.1
• Bake Terrain set file name by default and change extension in file browser when changing extension menu
• FROM TT4.x: Scatter Around Mask - Scatter Around Mask may only scatter around the layers that came before it
• Move terrain and shader (and scatter) main settings out of box in UI
• Set `Noise` terrain layer not `Texture` layer to be a height of 5 by default

FIXES

• In Blender 4.1 material displacement mode is now directly inside the material id object instead of mat.cycles
• blf.size 4.0 changes
• Save data after height map file path is set
• Error thrown for height map detail map when it doesn't exist
• object loading in TTAssetSettings
• object loading in TTAssetSettings
• texture ID assignment in BPY_Texture class
• subcategory check in TT_SubCategory class
• Poorly converted sockets causing WARN's in terminal
• Move main tabs to window_manager data area to prevent triggering geometry nodes recalculations when changing the tabs

True-Terrain v5.0.0.54

NEW FEATURES

• Set max asset icon Resolution: Change the icon resolution in the prefs
• Color map (texture Albedo) as icon option when choosing icons for textures (Preferences)
• Create curve button added in the curve modifier (geometry): Will put you into curve draw mode, ESC or Right-click willl exit, ENTER will complete
• Paint Shader Attribute: Now paint on your terrain under the attribute mask

CHANGES

• Move Update Node Groups and Find Missing to NEW True-Terrain menu in the View 3D area (CHANGE/NEW)
• Move Import From Previous to be in the Asset Data area
• Split Information area up into 2 new areas for Assets and Addon information
• Set terrain layer list to match side buttons
• Arrange shader layer list side buttons to match the other lists side buttons
• Set shader layer list default height to match side buttons

FIXES

• Quality Level enum not updating when new level is added
• Fix geo mod curve randomness. Add in smoothing for randomness values (FIX/NEW)
• Move import pack progress bar up to where button is at top of prefs
• Shader Mods move highlight down after removing
• Shader Mods set highlight to last after adding
• Correct op argument keyword
• Filters not copying correctly
• Only allow local shader previewing of masks
• Previewing shader layer sometimes didn't work
• Un-highlight shader mod preview buttons when previewing shader layers and vice-versa
• Ensure preview is undone when removing shader layer or modifier
• Ensure correct output is linked when previewing shader layer while currently previewing shader modifier
• Reset Asset Path erroring out due to default folder having assets in it
• Show preview shader modifier outside of dev extras
• Allow for directory creation when reseting asset path to default
• Return the directory path that is actually checked

True-Terrain v5.0.0.53

NEW FEATURES

• Add Category Settings Edit section in preferences
• Terrain Modifier - Curve: Use a curve to modify the terrain for rivers, valleys, roads, mountains, etc.

CHANGES

• Convert DevOps to Junction link so it'll be synced
• Combine Move Asset Path with Change Path (No Move)
• Display error icon if file is missing in prefs
• Shader Slope mask match algorithm used for Geometry
• Set Shading Offset to 0.2 when creating a TT object mesh
• Put Icons in the Addon Prefs for each asset type header
• Move Import Pack to a better place in the prefs
• Add icons to the 3 operators next to the information section in the Addon Preferences

FIXES

• Duplicate correct layer after adding new one
• Image Extension not being copied
• Don't build asset lists per subcategory. Use existing lists
• Only set default height map amount if it does exist
• Don't show if no preferences item is active
• Print traceback on error when adding a category that doesn't exist
• Import to same pack name if it already exists (for split packs)
• Add json to each split pack when exporting
• Allow assets to not have an icon when importing from previous
• Ensure new pack is used if need to create
• Add back in simple water material to erosion
• After import set imported pack as the active pack in prefs
• Corrected Attribute Mask
• Display correct file path for textures in prefs
• Limit MacOS to 128x128 icon previews
• Slope Mask not inverting correctly

True-Terrain v5.0.0.52.5

FIXES

• Bring in known TVFX height maps from TT4 at 0.5 instead of 0.15 so they're not so flat
• Duplicate correct layer after adding new one
• Image Extension not being copied

True-Terrain v5.0.0.52.3

FIXES

• Scaling on shader layer accidentally set to 0,0,0 by default effectively disabling scaling all together for textures

True-Terrain v5.0.0.52.2

NEW

• Dev Features now exist behind a password

CHANGE

• Add a message concerning scattering in the UI
• Include '5' in the TT5 Panel Header and Addon name in the Prefs

FIXES

• Poorly converted sockets causing warnings in the terminal

True-Terrain v5.0.0.52.1

FIX

• Some default icons were being looked for with the wrong extension. Doesn't seem to have been causing issues but just in case
• Change Asset Path - Don't allow users to choose a folder with items in it. Prevents users from assuming they can import files just by pointing the asset path to it. Change Asset Path is only for moving existing files or for choose a (empty) folder to install assets to.
• Change Path (No Move) - Don't allow users to choose a TT4 directory. Change Path (No Move) only allows to point to an existing True-Terrain 5 asset directory.
• Remove broken terrain materials from terrain_gen.blend. Causing issues with shaders when imported first

True-Terrain v5.0.0.52

CHANGES

• Change message for some progress bar areas once they are complete
• Different heart icons for quickly adding textures to Favorites category
• Using Early Access now instead of Alpha

FIXES

• Better handling of 1 channel images to icons for height maps
• Some layers rotate the wrong way when using the rotate gizmo

True-Terrain v5.0.0.51

NEW FEATURES

• Shader Filters now have all have icons in the add menu and in the layer list

CHANGES

• Hide selection toggles for exporting packs if export button is not visible
• Better clean up of folders after moving assets

FIXES

• Only remove height map icon if it is relative to the asset_path
• Make local all icons including optimized ones
• Ensure height map directory has been created before moving files to it
• Move all optimized texture icon files
• Standardize moving icons
• Ensure only icons relative to the asset path are removed

True-Terrain v5.0.0.50

NEW FEATURES

• Plateaus Layer: Scatter Plateaus across your terrain -- DOCS
• Terracing Modifier: Create terraces (steps) on your terrain -- DOCS
• Flatten Area Modifier: Flatten a specific area of your terrain -- DOCS

FIXES

• Fix for copy, paste, and duplication of terrain modifiers

True-Terrain v5.0.0.49.1

CHANGES

• Erosion outputs all attributes to both the terrain and water meshes for use in shaders.
• Example: Darken textures near the water to look wet
• Example: Muddy up your water based upon the sediment attribute

FIXES

• Adding a Terrain Blending Texture mask resulted in an error

True-Terrain v5.0.0.49

NEW FEATURES

• Erosion disable/enable button. Don't take up resources without removing erosion completely. Placed in the header of the erosion panel.
• Displace via normals. In the Blending tab for Geo Terrain stuff there's a new option to switch between displacing along the z-axis or using the normals from the previous layers. Only visible when the Use Math toggle is enabled
• Texture Terrain layer:
• Use the common texture nodes in Blender to displace terrain.
• Simpler to use than just the noise node and more textures to choose from.

CHANGES

• Minimum set to Blender 4.0 in addon prefs
• Move erosion add/remove to panel header
• More rearranging and relabeling of erosion settings for better UX
• In the Blending settings the Switch toggle has been moved from next to the Use Math to next to the math Operation drop down

FIXES

• Side panel shows correct alpha version
• Geo Masks height, normal, and slope inverting weren't working properly
• Bug when showing non-group node input settings (like in remap masks)
• Handle erosion UI when no TT terrain is selected

True-Terrain v5.0.0.48.1

CHANGES

Rearranged some erosion UI settings

• Added new water section with Initial Water, Rain Rate, and Evaporation Rate
• Erosion Rate correctly labeled and moved down to be with Deposition Rate
• Hardness is now split into Texture and Softening
• Hardness Texture includes (Hardness) Seed and Blur Amount
• Hardness Softening includes (Softening) Rate and (Softening) Minimum (both move from hydraulic)

FIXES

• Enabling Import Error Fix
• Hardness Seed now works

True-Terrain v5.0.0.48

NEW FEATURES

• Store UVs for terrain in attribute
• Erosion
• New subpanel for adding and editing erosion
• Can only be applied at the end of the terrain generation, ie no layers can be applied after erosion
• Settings are at defaults that have consistently given good yet reasonable fast (depending upon terrain resolution) results right out of the gate regardless of the terrain
• All settings should have descriptions. If you still don't understand what something does, play around with it and see what happens. If you still don't understand, ask in the Discord and I'll probably tell you that I don't really know either :laugh:
• Attributes are exported for use in shaders
• TT Sediment Amount: The amount of sediment that has been deposited at each vertex. Good for creating scree like effects
• TT Water Level: The height of the water at each vertex. Only when Water Mesh is generated and only stored on the water mesh for the assigned water material
• TT Water Velocity: The velocity of the water at each vertex. Only when Water Mesh is generated and only stored on the water mesh for the assigned water material
• Erosion Demo Video

• Shader Attribute Mask
• Choose an attribute to use as a mask for the shader

CHANGES

• Ensure height map icon is greyscale when converting from the height map
• New buttons for more easily choosing non-installed height maps on the height map terrain layers

FIXES

• Updates for Blender 4.0. BLENDER 4.0 IS REQUIRED FOR THIS UPDATE
• Group Transversal wasn't renaming layers and would paste in reverse
• Switch back to using Blender's normal map node as it has been fixed
• Terrain Detail Map Strength should work now
• Deprecated file path method when adding a single height map
• Load height map icon after converting from file

True-Terrain v5.0.0.47.2

FIXES

• Shader Height Mask: enable its randomize descriptions which caused an error to be thrown when added

True-Terrain v5.0.0.47.1

FIXES

• Non-Path Shader Masks: enable their randomize descriptions which caused an error to be thrown when added

True-Terrain v5.0.0.47

NEW FEATURES

• Shader Path Mask - create a mask for a shader layer or group that follows a curve. Also comes with a new noise mode that randomizes the path along the curve's normal
• Draw Curve - create a curve and enter edit mode with the draw tool active. If a curve is already set then that curve is what is used to enter edit mode.
• Material settings now should show descriptions instead of Default Value and Input value used for unconnected socket.

FIXES

• Geo Terrain Viewport Amount affecting render due to poor implementation of limiting to a minimum of 2

True-Terrain v5.0.0.46

NEW FEATURES

• Height Maps now use categories and subcategories and a new pop up panel appears when choosing a height map on a terrain image layer
• Remap Values Terrain Modifier. Modify the heights of an individual layer using a range or easing curves

CHANGES

• Only show Paint mask for shaders if mesh isn't TT geo nodes based
• BAKE:
• Pop up message once completed
• Open image location after finished baking
• Can now change extension of exported height map
• Allow options to set min/max values of exported height map
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• Update base version to 3.6 in the addon prefs
• Easier duplication of terrain masks/modifiers. No change for users

FIXES

• Poll function was checking for non-existent things when no geo terrain existed
• Polling issue if object isn't a terrain
• Forgot to put a button for the height map baker in the UI
• Larger, more consistent thickness for the blue rotate gizmo
• Don't export blend# files greater than 10
• Do not ensure 'assets' at end of Asset Path. Was causing duplication of assets when changing asset path without moving
• Ensure category 'All' is always first
• Don't show register experimental icon picker that doesn't work

True-Terrain v5.0.0.45

NEW FEATURES

• Copy/Paste Terrain Layers. Found in the menu between the add/remove buttons and the move buttons next to the layer list
• Copy Layer: Copy the active/highlighted item regardless of selection
• Copy Selected: Copy the items that have their checkbox enabled. Hold Alt while clicking to keep the items selected after copying
• Paste Settings to Layer: Replace all settings with the ones copied
• Paste Layers/Paste as New: Paste the item(s) copied as new item(s)
• Duplicate Layer

• Copy/Paste Terrain Layer Masks/Modifiers. Found in the menu between the add/remove buttons and the move buttons next to the masks/modifiers list
• Copy Active: Copy the active/highlighted item regardless of selection
• Copy Selected: Copy the items that have their checkbox enabled. Hold Alt while clicking to keep the items selected after copying
• Paste Settings: Replace all settings with the ones copied
• Paste Modifiers/Paste as New: Paste the item(s) copied as new item(s)
• Duplicate Layer

• Remove All terrain layers/masks/modifiers in the visible group
• Remove Selected terrain layers/masks/modifiers in the visible group
• Traverse Groups move selected layers (or active layer if none are selected) to a different group. Opens a panel for you to select any group that exists on the object to move the layer(s) to. Hold Alt to move the active layer regardless of selection. Found between the move up and and down arrows.

CHANGES

• Terrain Image layer icon is now an image icon instead of displacement
• Move layers now moves affects selected layers. If no layers are selected it will move the active layer. Hold Alt to move the active layer regardless of selection

FIXES

• Incorrectly handled Color Input sockets when creating descriptions
• If the active object is None gizmos would not appear in the viewport after creating a new terrain object
• In the nodes the layer type wasn't always connecting to the transform data
• Ensure bpy.ops funcs use the correct object when pinned and not selected
• Handle when a height map's normal map node is not found
• Groups within groups were not transforming correctly

True-Terrain v5.0.0.44

CHANGES

• New report in the terminal when TT5 is fully loaded into Blender to help reduce confusion with other addons reporting after TT5 is loaded
• Trying out a new title style for the header of the TT5 panel in the sidebar

FIXES

• ZEB is not using the new transform system and errors out when adding

True-Terrain v5.0.0.43

NEW FEATURES

• Option to disable layer transform for ZEB mask. This allows you to keep the mask in the same position regardless of the layer transform or let it follow the layer transform.
• Global Terrain Height range, offset, and anchor settings. This allows the user to ensure their terrain is always within a certain height range or always starts or ends at certain places
• Adaptive Subdivision Presets. Now you can easily set our recommended settings for adaptive subdivision based upon the level of detail you'd like. To see the settings you'll need to have a subdivision modifier on your object with adaptive subdivision enabled.
• Transform Gizmo for Group Node
• Bake out height map. Now you can bake out the height map of your terrain to a texture. This is useful for exporting to other applications or for use in your own shaders. Currently only supports exporting at the same resolution as the terrain is in the viewport (that includes the viewport amount setting and any Blender modifiers)
• Terrain Layer Transform Operations
• Reset to Origin: Sets the layer to origin of the terrain object and resets the layer transform to default numbers regardless of parents' transforms
• Reset to Parent: Sets the layer to the parent's origin and resets the layer transform to default numbers

CHANGES

• Warning about possible problems in the subdivision subpanel and the active object is a TT5 terrain object.
• Removed the noise scale of the main section of the noise layer. Too confusing and basically acted as another seed setting
• More generic Reset To Default name and description
• Don't convert selected object to geo terrain. Only add in a new object
• Complete reworking of how layers are transformed and parented. This should fix a lot of issues with the layer transform and parenting.

FIXES

• Missing Descriptions in the material section of height map layer
• Ensure minimum grid value of 2 when changing Viewport Amount
• Allow for deletion of TT Material the normal way in Blender
• Display correct vertex count in UI now that the lower limit is 2x2 grid
• Better gizmo mouse wrapping
• Tweaks to scale Gizmo for better UX
• Ensure terrain is still visible when adding in an empty group layer

True-Terrain v5.0.0.42

NEW FEATURES

• Import Packs: Can select multiple .tt_pack files for importing (packs to come later)

CHANGES

• Added version info to panel
• Changed icon default extension to be '.webp'. Smaller file sizes and includes alpha channel. Users shouldn't notice anything different.
• When adding icons or importing from previous True-Terrain will now optimize icons to reduce loading times.
• Icon paths are now displayed in the addon preferences
• Author tag in addon now matches the True-VFX standard
• Misc consistency and small quality of life changes in the Preferences
• Various changes to the remove functions in the Preferences to better match the expected default behavior
• Make Local is now multi-threaded and should be much faster
• Load From Previous is now multi-threaded and should be much faster
• Small quality of life changes to progress bars

FIXES

• Accidental overwrite of previews causing ResourceWarning when unregistering
• Display the enum description when adding layers/modifiers
• Images would throw error if resizing was not needed
• Possible speed ups when opening Blender/registering addon
• Ensure name is given when adding new items in the preferences
• Ensure destination folder exists when adding a new icon
• Ensure the correct property when moving the active item up and down in the Preferences
• Heightmap icons being generated from the heightmaps upon import weren't converting correctly

True-Terrain v5.0.0.41

FIXES

• Compatibility stuff with Macs
• Accidentally commented out the stuff that installs updates in Install Updates

True-Terrain v5.0.0.40

NEW FEATURES

• Layer Range Mask: Use the height data from the current layer or the previous layers to blend the current layer with the next layer. This is useful for putting the current layer at specific places while keeping underlying details.
• Previous Layer | Current Layer: Choose to use the height data from the previous layer or the current layer as the source for this mask.
• Clamp: Clamp the values to the To Min and To Max values.
• From Min | From Max: The range of values to use from the source layer.
• Use Min | Use Max: Make the From Min and From Max values relative to the the minimum and maximum values from the source. The From Min and From Max values will then add to the minimum/maximum value. Good for easily getting the whole height range of the source layer into the To values.
• To Min | To Max: The range of values to map the from values to. 0.0 will result in the previous layers values, 1.0 will result in the current layers values.

CHANGES

• The Data terrain settings tab is now called Layer
• The terrain settings tabs now have better descriptions of what they display
• Moved Tweaking  settings and their respective blending options to the new Layer Range mask (see above)
• Only display math options in Blending tab if Use Math is enabled
• Add in missing Invert and Add settings for Zero Edge Border mask
• Set the default values of the Zero Edge Border mask to ones consistent with the default terrain size being 1000m

FIXES

• No more annoying 'WARN' messages on start up
• Added in missing Use Ridges setting in the Valley Mask's presets
• Added in missing descriptions to the Valley Mask's preset settings

True-Terrain v5.0.0.39

NEW FEATURES

• Terrain Noise layers now have a transform gizmo similar to Height Map layers! The only difference is that the gizmo resets to the center of the terrain object instead of staying with the layer. This is so that the gizmo doesn't get lost when you move the layer around as if you go exploring your gizmo may be quite far off the edge of the terrain unlike you would do with a height map layer.
• Terrain Blur Mask Modifier: Blurs values of the masks that came before. Found under the Blending tab.
• Terrain Modifiers: What once was going to be 'Filter's in the Modifiers tab now is just modifiers since 'Masks' are now over in the Blender tab.
• Terrain Blur Modifier: Blurs the terrain geometry. Can switch between blurring just the Z axis or all axes. Found under the Modifiers tab.
• Terrain Inflate/Deflate Modifier: Inflate the terrain geometry to create larger features or switch to 'Deflate' and create sharp features. Found under the Modifiers tab.

CHANGES

• Default tab in the side panel is now the Geometry tab instead of the Shader tab as the workflow should typically start with the Geometry tab.
• Added a warning when attempting to bake out shader maps when a geometry nodes modifier is on the terrain object. Geometry nodes can create geometry that the baker doesn't see and may result in unexpected bakes.
• Moved what was previously called Masks in the Modifiers tab to the Blending tab for terrain layers. This is because the masks have always been used for blending and not for modifying the terrain's position data as might be expected when in the modifiers tab.
• Separate masks from mask modifiers for shading and geometry. Remap Values was the only one moved. Items in the "Mask Modifiers" section modify the mask data that comes from the layer before them. They aren't actually masks themselves.

FIXES

• Masks Texture, Valley, and Remap Values had the wrong icons.

True-Terrain v5.0.0.38

NEW FEATURES

• Added back in height maps as normal maps in the shader. Now when you add in a height map layer it will also add in a normal map if you have a shader on the terrain. Adding a shader to the terrain should add in all height maps currently on the terrain. Normal maps should be masked similarly to their respective height map layers.

CHANGES

• 'Install Update' now finishes with a popup that tells you to restart Blender and gives you buttons to close Blender now or wait until later.
• 'Install Update' should install to the correct place now. Also, if Debug is enabled (as it is by default) a bunch of debug info is sent to the terminal window to help out if this still doesn't work.

FIXES

• Switching textures errored out if the "to" texture has less quality levels than the "from" texture and the "from" texture was at the highest quality level.
• Allow multiple terrains to be created in the same scene.
• Zoom out on creation of terrain doesn't happen if object is active but not selected. Now the terrain object ensures it is selected and then zooms out.
• Normal maps 'Strength' was not being calculated correctly.

True-Terrain v5.0.0.37

CHANGES

• Removed unnecessary height map preferences settings leftover from True-Terrain 4.x
• Renamed height map preferences setting 'Amount' to 'Height Multiplier'
• Removed option for importing setting from height map image name (never really used it)
• Option to use parallel importing/converting of directory of height maps. Setting can be found in the sidebar panel (right side) when selecting folder to import
• Removed Paint Mask for terrain layers. There's no good way to "paint" onto geometry created with geometry nodes just yet. Need to wait for Blender to implement attribute painting or something before reinstating this
• Better combining tweak algorithm. (Also previous/current have been flipped in the UI). Now the 'Tweak Current' is the main setting to work with first. Then mess with 'Tweak Previous.' Tweak Previous's "range" is altered by Tweak Current which is why the order has been flipped. If Tweak Previous seems to do nothing, mess with Tweak Current first.
• Zero Edge Border mask shape defaults now all expect the default terrain size of 1000m
• Some of the rounding algorithms for Zero Edge Border mask shapes have been modified for more consistent results.

FIXES

• Converting Height Map EXRs to icons resulted in black icons on import
• Removing the active layer/modifier sometimes didn't work
• Moving terrain layers up/down caused the terrain to disappear from the viewport
• Hiding layers doesn't always show the expected result
• Zero Edge Border mask shape randomize 'amount' was not scaling correctly with the radius and whatnot

True-Terrain v5.0.0.36

NEW FEATURES

• When using `Density` option in `Grid Settings` of `Geometry` there's now an option to set the X and Y sizing separately
• Set the viewport resolution to fraction of the render resolution with `Viewport Amount` in `Grid Settings`
• Display vertex count for grid at the bottom of `Grid Settings`

CHANGES

• Hid options that sometimes appear in the Redo Operator panel (bottom left) after moving, adding, or removing layers/modifiers.

FIXES

• Adding terrain layers broke with last update

True-Terrain v5.0.0.35

NEW FEATURES

• Install Update. This button in the Addon Preferences underneath the assets path will take the same addon zip that Blender's install addon does but it intelligently ignores the stuff Blender freaks out about.

FIXES

• Moving a mask layer then removing it, then adding another layer would grab the removed layer's data
• Settings with descriptions not being able to be animated. (Refactor of the automatic description system)
• ZEB wasn't relative to layer's transform data for position and shape edge types.

True-Terrain v5.0.0.34

CHANGES

• Scene will be setup (clip start and end) and zoomed out when creating a new terrain.2. FIX: Stop trying to connect to non-existent socket for ZEB
• ZEB Shape: hide randomize settings when split is disabled, or hide whole randomize setting when split is enabled
• ZEB randomize settings per edge type and falloff and other fixes/changes to match other masks
• Remove Z value settings in the UI for the settings that don't use it
• Renamed "From Min" and "From Max" to "Tweak Previous" and "Tweak Current" in `Blending` section. If using existing pre v34, tweak values don't have limits. If creating in new file (ie not pulling from old node groups already existing in the file) the tweak values are now "limited" between 0 and 1, start at 0, and somewhat intelligently tweak the values. You can always go above or below 0/1 if needed by typing stuff in
• Refactored how the geo-nodes are setup leading to the following speed ups:
• Normal Mask: ~4.7x faster
• Slope Mask: ~4.2x faster
• Valley Mask: ~13.3x faster

True-Terrain v5.0.0.33

FIXES

• Forgot to fix some filters in v32. Now all filters should show properly in the side panel
• Anti-Tile seed value was being driven by the edge blur setting

True-Terrain v5.0.0.32

FIXES

• Filters weren't showing up in order to add in Shader tab
• UIs for some filters weren't showing up

True-Terrain v5.0.0.31

CHANGES

• Minimum Blender version is now Blender 3.6

FIXES

• Zero Edge Border falloff now works as expected
• First layer of Terrain System now accepts negative values

True-Terrain v5.0.0.30

NEW FEATURES

• Terrain Layer System Update! Added whole system to generate terrain procedurally. You can mix heightmaps with procedural elements too! There's honestly too much new to list everything

True-Terrain v5.0.0.20

NEW FEATURES

• Shader Presets
• Remap Values modifier. Ensure mask values are between specific values (useful for filter input masks)
• Whole material normal map. Add in a normal map for the whole terrain itself (for things like Height Maps)
• Subdivision Panel

CHANGES

• Shader setting tabs (Shader/Modifiers and Mask/Filter) no longer change when you change shader layers
• Paint Mask randomize and falloff changes
• Falloff now always extends into the black area (when previewing) regardless of inverting
• Shader Layer Factor renamed to Opacity

FIXES

• Muting a layer/modifier now correctly shows the layers/modifiers before it
• Random Bake operator fixes

True-Terrain v5.0.0.18

NEW FEATURES

• Details Strength and Details Depth settings now in the `Material Settings` of a shader layer
• If the default material (Principled BSDF connected to the Material Output) is detected on object when adding a material it will automatically remove it
• Texture Mask now has option of using a UV Map instead of position data
• Texture Mask (and Paint Mask) Added search for attributes that finds attributes after modifiers are calculated (evaluated)
• Remove all Assets of type and Remove All Quality Levels options in their respective dropdown menus in the addon prefs
• Import From Previous new option to clear existing assets before importing new ones plus progress bar for removing assets
• Paint Mask  - Replaces Attribute Mask  - Workflow designed around quickly adding a mask that you can paint on  - Allows for painting on Attributes (vertex colors) or and image (or using an existing image)

CHANGES

• Default displacement behavior is Displacement Only
• Option to change displacement from panel as new method is best at Displacement Only and we don't want to advertise anything else
• Remove Active Item (Minus symbol next to asset (textures) list and quality level lists in addon prefs) now removes the data and any local files of that texture by default. ALT Click to remove the texture data from within TT but keep all image files in their folder in the asset directory)
• No longer will TT5 put the assets folder inside the scripts folder by default

FIXES

• Texture Mask now has added scale finesse setting
• Anti-Tile correctly shows when it's enabled after being copied and pasted
• Vector UI elements should no longer be at different indentions than non-Vector UI elements
• Creating a new texture asset in the addon prefs now works
• When moving textures around in the textures list in the addon prefs their new order was not represented in the icon pickers in the 3D Viewport

True-Terrain v5.0.0.17

NEW FEATURES

• In the transform panels of any texture, group, or procedural (that has one) the 3 axes scale has been replaced with just a single float slider for easier scaling. A toggle has been added next to the scale slider to see the Scale Finesse or 3 axes scale version. Scale Finesse is multiplied by the scale factor, so take that into account
• Holding Alt when clicking the Move Selected to Group button will now move the selected layers up a level, ie out of the group layer
• Favorites category. There's now a heart to the right of the shader's name. - Clicking this will automatically put it in the Favorites category (will create if it doesn't exist already) and the heart will now be colored red for that and any other textures in the favorites category. - Clicking the heart when red will remove it from the favorites category. - Alt+Click the heart will make the Favorites category the active category

CHANGES

• Shader Tab will now be the default active tab when opening blender until the other tabs have stuff in them
• Move Selected to Group has its own icon apart from the Add Group Layer button
• Better Previewing UX - Alt+Click Shader Preview toggles between local and global previewing and removes any modifier preview - Group Layers are now dimly colored to show they hold the layer that is being previewed - Previewing a shader inside a group layer actually works now - Previewing a modifier and then previewing another modifier on a different shader layer no longer shows that first modifier is active - When previewing a shader layer and then a modifier the UI no longer shows the shader layer as being previewed. After un-previewing that modifier the shader layer will once again show as being previewed - Previewing a shader layer inside a group and then another layer outside of that group now correctly reattaches the necessary sockets

FIXES

• Reset to defaults no longer errors out if the input is not in a node group
• Sometimes the indices of a layer or modifier would be wrong after pasting

True-Terrain v5.0.0.16

FIXES

• Switching between procedurals and textures when modifiers exist on the shader layer cannot find modifiers after switching
• Shader Speed Up shows off but is on (is inverted)
• Loading from procedural blend during addon startup. Hopeful fix for all the crashing upon opening/enabling
• Changing quality level of last (bottom) shader layer disables modifiers
• Moved addon update check for after everything is loaded

True-Terrain v5.0.0.14

CHANGES

• More lenient Import from Previous functionality for textures

True-Terrain v5.0.0.13

NEW FEATURES

• More intuitive Copy/Paste shader layer system   - Removed the copy paste buttons from the shader layer box dropdown   - The copy now intuitively copies based upon context (active or selected layer(s))   - Paste brings up panel with paste options (Paste as new, paste to selected, paste settings, shader item (texture/procedural shader), etc)

FIXES

• Change texture only changing the active (highlighted) shader layer instead of the one clicked
• Potential fix for bug when change texture categories do not include the active texture
• Texture quality levels are visible on group layers
• Copying the Valley Mask modifier results in bug due to not having a falloff curve node