MetroModeler Version History

• Added BuildingCore14 function.
• Added Subtowers2 function
• Fixed problem with the File/Close menu command.
• Added additional materials
• Added BuildingCore15 function.
• Added option allowing you to specify that a building used with the Random City Generator can span 4 city blocks.
• Fixed bug in modeling cars that appear in the middle of city streets.

• Added BuildingTop6 function.
• Added option allowing you to specify that a building used with the Random City Generator can span 9 city blocks.
• Added additional materials
• Added "Minimize Polygons" checkbox to Random Building Generator
• Added "Base" options to the Random Building Generator
• Modified BuildingTop functions to accept more options for the nSpireType argument.
• Enchanced Random Building Generator to sometimes make "A - B - A" structures when using BuildingCore8.
• Added additional materials

• Added an "Add to City" button to the main screen
• Added "Bottom Plane" options to the Random BUilding Generator
• Improved the BuildingBase8 function
• Added additional materials
• Added SaucerUnit1 function
• Fixed a bug with using multi-block buildings simultaneously with the "Base" option of the Random City Generator
• Enhanced the Replace dialog so that you can mass replace one material with another without having to type any code.
• Added the "Add Materials to MetroModeler.mtl" dialog

• Fixed a problem using vehicles in cities when the "Base" option was used.
• Added BuildingCore16 function
• Added BuildingBase9 function
• Added additional materials
• Added HShapeZAxis function
• Added "Complex Buildings Only" checkbox to Random Building Generator.
• Added "City Dimensions" area on Random City Generator dialog
• Added support for rivers and seas

• Fixed a problem with the Random Building Generator's use of the BoxWrap5 function
• Added BridgeTop1ZAxis function
• Added BridgeTop2ZAxis function
• Added BridgeTop1XAxis function
• Added BridgeBottom1ZAxis function
• Added BridgeBottom1XAxis function
• Added additional materials
• Added the Layout subdialog (reachable from the Random City Generator dialog)
• Added BridgeTop2XAxis function
• Added BridgeBottom2ZAxis function
• Added BridgeBottom2XAxis function

• Added BoxWrap13 function
• Enhanced Random Building Generator to sometimes generate mulit-tower building complexes using Building Layout Files (*.blz, *.bly) as guides
• Fixed rare bug in "Recalc City Dimensions" (Loverflow when city dimensions are very large)
• Added display of height, width, depth, and number of vertices to the "View Batch Results" slideshow
• Enhanced Random Building Generator's use of BuildingCore3, BuildingCore4, and BuildingCore5 functions, so that low-polygon models would be produced about half of the time.
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause the Random City Generator to not complete successfully
• Added a "Make Only Variations of Scripts Listed in ReviewList.txt" option to the "Random Building Generator - Batch Options" dialog.

• Added BuildingBase calls to the "Multi-Tower Building Complexes" generated with the Random Building Generator (when .bly files are used)
• Fixed bug that sometimes cropped up with random generation of BuildingCore5 function (nNumFloorsOrSections = 0)
• Fixed bug in BuildingCore1 function -- not using the material specified for the top.
• Made BuildingCore15 more realistic-looking
• Improved handling of buiding tops when the Random Building Generator uses BuildingCore16.
• Added additional building layout files to increase the variety of the Random Building Generator's output.
• Added BuildingCore17 function, and 100 .blf files used by that function
• Reworked the Choose Materials for Random Building Generator dialog to allow unlimited types to be added in future releases.
• Added BuildingCore18 function
• Added BuildingTop7 function
• Added more than 100 additional materials (texture maps)

• Added BuildingBase10 function, and added lots of .bbl files used with that function
• Added BuildingTop8 function, and 70+ .btl files used with that function
• Added additional .blc files
• Added support for saving files in the VRML 1.0 format and VRML 2.0 format
• Fixed bug with Slide Show button on the Random City Generator
• Added Outskirts dialog
• Improved base option (Random City Generator)
• Added MultiLevelStairsZAxis and MultiLevelStairsXAxis
• Added StairMound function
• Added SlopeRing function
• Added Backdrop functionality
• Added BuildingBase11 function
• Fixed bug in "Add from City" button of Random City Generator
• Add BuildingCore19 function
• Added Dock1 function
• Enhanced Random Building Generator's use of BuildingCore6 and BuildingCore16 functions to use building entrances
• Added BuildingBase12 function
• Added 50+ additional materials (texture maps)

• Fixed a bug causing problems for users whose computers were using non-English regional settings

• Added the QuarterCylinderZAxis function
• Added the BuildingTop9 function
• Improved BuildingCore17 and BuildingCore18 to more frequently create side entrances.
• Added the BuildingCore20 function
• Added the HalfCylinderYAxis function
• Added the HalfCylinderZAxis function
• Added 20 additional .blc files
• Added the BuildingCore21 function
• Improved BuildingCore17's use of domes, pyramids, and cones (for example, if the Dome option is used, a flat space at the top of the building may now get a single large dome rather than several small domes)
• Extended BuildingCore17's .blc format to handle characters of a (meaning a height of 10), b (meaning a height of 11), etc. up to z (meaning a height of 36)
• Extended the BuildingCore18 function so that you can supply parenthetical decimal fractions with the sBL1OrBLCOrBTLFileName or sNameOfBLCOrBTLFile arguments (for example, "BuildingLayout115.blc(.5)") to control the relative heights of the 2 or 3 structures that make up the overall structure.
• Corrected problem that would sometimes occur when the BuildingTop3 or SetBackXAxis or SetBackZAxis or Subtowers2 or WrapAround or BoxWrap12 functions were used with the Random City Generator
• Added new functionality to the Outskirts dialog of the Random City Generator, wherein you can put scripts for large buildings into a Script Pool 4. Added 10+ additional "Outskirts Layout Files" (.olf files) to support this new functionality. This makes it easy to create multi-block buildings within city outskirts.
• Corrected problem that materials or textures were horizontally inverted, so that they looked like mirror images of the source image (noticeable only with materials containing text)
• Improved Random Building Generator's handling of buildings using BuildingCore8 (now generates bottom floors with entrances)
• Improved Random Building Generator's handling of BuildingCore19