Technology Preview 2 : - Finalize terrain editor. => Add a generation dialog for base noise (overwriting changes). => Implement chunks merging (with max size control). - Get rid of noise dialogs, for simpler settings. - Finalize lighting/clouds refactoring => Restore cloud lighting => Improve cloud rendering precision (and beware of precision discontinuity when rendering clouds in front of ground (shorter distance)). - Finish texture refactoring. => Push displaced polygons, but keep undisplaced coordinates for second pass. => Add detail texture. => Displacement on 3d explorer and previews. => Optimize ray marching (for tracing and shadows), using base terrain and displacement power. - Fix rendering when inside a cloud layer, with other upper or lower layers. - Translations. Technlogy Preview 3 : - Improve terrain 3D editor: => Add a map preview with edit area highlighted. => Allow zooming and simplified camera control. - Better time selection widget for atmosphere. - Clouds should keep distance to ground. - Find a proper model for night sky (maybe Shirley). - Create a StandardPreviewClass in C-lib (with renderer, updateData, changeView, getColor, choices and toggles). - Fully move layer management from BaseForm to BaseFormLayer. - Start vegetation system. - Allow render saving in HDR compatible format. - Add clouds to explorer with 3d textures. - Add fresnel effect to specular lighting. - Add "hardness to light" and shadow control ("minimum lighting") to material. - Start using OpenCL to optimize rendering. - Fully restore render progress (with first pass). - Rethink the quality settings and detail smoothing in the distance. => When quality setting is set to 10, add boost options => Add detail boost (adds granularity) => Add step boost (for marching algorithms) - Add logarithmic sliders for some float values. - Improve previews. => Add user markers on OSD. => Add areas marking. - Add a noise automatic filler. - Lock some previews together (eg: terrain height and colored preview). - Find a new licence. Technology Preview 4 : - Implement Sub Surface Scattering for water, textures and clouds. - Implement earth curvature. - Use bicubic interpolation for antialiasing. - Allow for larger renders/antialias (will need several two-pass chunks). - Add a progress indicator on previews. - Multi threaded first pass. - Mark modified tabs and ask for losing modifications (idem for layers). - Fix potential holes in land rendering. - Progressive final render (increasing resolution, for second pass only). - Water and terrain LOD moves with the camera, fix it like in the wanderer. - Improve 3d explorer => Restore LOD and intelligent poly count (and raise max tessellation) => Better handling of high altitude => Interrupt chunk rendering when quitting dialog => Don't display the water if it's below all ground => Try to overcome the near frustum cutting => Add toggles (for water...) => Max texture size should depend on GPU memory available - Interrupt preview chunk renderings that will be discarded at commit, or that are no more visible. Release Candidate : - Polish all features and UI. - More translations.