- Terrain stamps save/load to JSON: reuse terrain features across zones
and sessions. Save/Load buttons in Sculpt > Stamp/Clone panel
- WCP Inspect now shows full file breakdown: terrain/model/building/
texture/data counts with total size. Powered by readInfo file list
parsing with auto-categorization by extension
- stats.json now includes chunk count, triangle count, tile count, and
editor version alongside existing object/NPC/quest/texture counts
- Fix unprotected std::stoi in custom zone WOT filename parser
- Flatten Ground: flattens terrain to object height with smooth falloff
around placed buildings/structures (undoable). Button in object panel
- Scatter auto-align: checkbox enables terrain snapping + slope alignment
for scattered objects (trees snap to ground and lean with hillsides)
- Batch convert now falls back to asset manifest when filesystem dir is
empty — converts M2/WMO from game data without filesystem extraction
- Public terrain editor wrappers: beginGeneratorUndo, endGeneratorUndo,
markDirty, stitchChunkEdges, getChunkVertexWorldPos
New features:
- Align to Slope: rotates objects to match terrain surface normal at
their position (trees on hillsides lean naturally). Works with
multi-select. Available in object panel and right-click context menu
- Batch Convert Assets: File menu option to recursively convert all
M2→WOM and WMO→WOB files in a data directory to open format
- Import & Load: one-click WCP unpack + auto-open the imported zone
- sampleTerrainNormal() for slope detection via height differencing
- Zone load error toasts for missing/corrupt files
- ObjectPlacer::loadFromFile() now resets uniqueIdCounter_ and clears
selectedIndices_ to prevent ID collisions on repeated loads
- Zone rename validates against path traversal and special characters
(rejects slashes, dots, colons, control chars, empty strings)
- UI shows error toast for invalid zone names
Bug fixes:
- ObjectPlacer::clearAll() now resets uniqueIdCounter_ to 1
- NpcSpawner::clearAll() added with idCounter_ reset (was manual clear)
- clearAllObjects() uses NpcSpawner::clearAll() instead of manual clear
- Quest panel has terrain-loaded guard (prevents crash before loading)
Features:
- Zone rename: editable map name field in Info panel (press Enter)
- Load objects/creatures/quests from both output/ and custom_zones/
directories (WOT zones from custom_zones now get their NPCs loaded)
Bug fixes:
- Fix README.txt version from v0.8.0 to v1.0.0
- Reset NPC idCounter_ on loadFromFile to prevent ID collisions
- WCP content pack uses project author/description if loaded instead
of hardcoded "Kelsi Davis"
New features:
- Select by Type: context menu items for "Select All M2 Models" and
"Select All WMO Buildings" for batch type-based selection
- selectByType(PlaceableType) added to ObjectPlacer
- Export summary toast now shows object/NPC/quest counts alongside
file count and open format score (5s duration)
- Auto-save toast notification when auto-save fires
- Edit > Auto-Save Settings: enable/disable toggle, interval slider
(60-900s), countdown timer display
- Zone manifest now scans output directory for all exported ADT tiles
and includes them in zone.json (adjacent tiles no longer orphaned)
- Auto-save interval and enabled state exposed via EditorApp accessors
- Adjacent tile export now stitches border heights from current tile
for seamless edges, exports both ADT and WOT/WHM open format
- Escape key now clears NPC selection and path capture state in
addition to object selection and gizmo mode
- Ctrl+A selects all placed objects, context menu has Select All item
- selectAll() added to ObjectPlacer, works with multi-select transforms
- Recent Zones submenu in File menu (last 8 loaded zones, deduplicated)
- Minimap: selected objects shown as white dots with gold ring outline
vs yellow dots for unselected objects
- Help panel updated with Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+Click documentation
- Multi-select: Ctrl+Shift+Click adds objects to selection, transforms
(move/rotate/scale/delete) operate on all selected objects at once
- Time-of-day slider (0-24h) with automatic sun angle, light color,
ambient, fog, and sky color transitions (dawn/day/dusk/night)
- View > Sky/Lighting menu: color pickers for light/ambient/fog, fog
distance sliders, preset buttons (Dawn/Noon/Dusk/Night)
- loadADT prefers WOT/WHM open format from custom_zones/output dirs
- Selection count display when multiple objects selected
- setSkyPreset now delegates to setTimeOfDay for consistency
- Show active texture name in info panel when in paint mode
- Display terrain height range (min/max/avg) in properties panel
- Document Alt+Click eyedropper shortcut in help panel
- Texture eyedropper: pickTextureAt() samples dominant texture at world
position by reading chunk alpha maps. Alt+Click in paint mode or
click the Eyedropper button to activate
- loadADT now checks custom_zones/ and output/ for WOT/WHM open format
files first, falling back to ADT binary only if not found
- Fix unused variable warning in scatterPatches
- Document Alt+Click in help panel
- River/road tool now shows translucent blue path preview ribbon with
edge lines between start and end points before applying
- Preview follows cursor when waiting for end point, locks when set
- Undo support for all remaining operations: rotateTerrain90, mirrorX,
mirrorY, scaleHeights, offsetHeights, invertHeights, smoothBeaches
- Every terrain-modifying operation in the editor is now undoable
- All terrain generators now undoable: crater, mesa, hill, voronoi,
dunes, detail noise, thermal erosion, canyon, island, ridge, road,
river, perlin noise — all wrapped with recordGeneratorUndo/commit
- Unsaved changes warning on quit: Save & Quit / Quit / Cancel dialog
- createNewTerrain clears quest editor and path capture state
- recordGeneratorUndo/commitGeneratorUndo helper methods snapshot all
256 chunks before/after any generator operation
- About dialog: shows all 6 format replacements, feature counts, tech
- File menu: "Validate Open Formats" shows live per-format status with
color-coded [OK]/[!!]/[--] indicators and score out of 6
- Status bar: shows quest count alongside objects/NPCs, undo/redo depth
- WHM binary now includes per-chunk alpha map data (alphaSize + data)
so custom zones render with proper texture blending in the client
- WOT exporter rewritten with nlohmann/json (was manual string concat)
- WOT loader rewritten with nlohmann/json (was naive substring parsing)
- Backward compatible: old WHM files without alpha data still load fine
- River/Road tool now uses click-capture mode instead of button-based
cursor position — click terrain directly to set start and end points
- 3-step flow: Click Start → Click End → Apply Path (with preview text)
- Cancel button available at each step
- Path state tracked on EditorUI with setPathPoint()/clearPath()
- Intercepts terrain clicks before mode-specific handling when active
- Extend undo/redo to snapshot alpha maps and texture layers alongside
heights — texture painting operations are now fully undoable
- Bracket paint mode with beginStroke/endStroke like sculpt mode
- Fix stale static char buffer in quest objective loop (showed wrong
objective's description when editing multiple objectives)
- Zero-initialize all quest UI text buffers for null termination safety
- Fix unused variable warnings in terrain_editor.cpp
- Add chain link combo to quest creation (select next quest in chain)
- Add completion text field to quest creation form
- Quest list shows chain arrows (->chain) for linked quests
- Click quest in list to edit title, level, XP inline
- Delete button for individual quests
- Live chain validation with error display (broken refs, circular chains)
- Load Quests button alongside Save Quests
- Quest editor: add loadFromFile() with nlohmann/json, chain validation
with circular reference detection, wire into ADT load and save pipeline
- Project: replace naive substring JSON parsing with nlohmann/json for
both save() and load(), fix shell injection in gitCommit()
- Content pack: replace manual JSON with nlohmann/json, validate binary
format magic numbers (WHM1/WOM1/WOB1), add WOB to openFormatScore
(now scores 0-6), mark invalid files with (!) in summary
- Wire WOB buildings into WMO render pipeline (loads→converts→renders)
- Implement JSON DBC loading in DBCFile::loadJSON() with nlohmann/json
- Wire JSON DBC override into AssetManager (custom_zones/output scan)
- Add WMO→WOB conversion with full geometry (fromWMO)
- Replace placeholder WOB export with real WMO→WOB conversion in editor
- Add --convert-wmo CLI flag for batch WMO→WOB conversion
- Store discovered custom zones on Renderer with getCustomZones() accessor
- Add isCustomZone_ member to TerrainManager
All 6 Blizzard format replacements now fully load in the client:
ADT→WOT/WHM, WDT→zone.json, BLP→PNG, DBC→JSON, M2→WOM, WMO→WOB
200 commits building a complete world editor with novel open file
formats from scratch in a single development session.
Final stats:
- 11,532 lines across 55 files
- 6 editor modes, 30+ terrain tools, 3 noise types
- 5 novel binary formats: WHM1, WOM1, WOB1, WCP1, WOT
- All 6 Blizzard formats replaced with open alternatives
- 4/6 formats fully loading in client (terrain, textures, models, buildings)
- CLI: --help, --version, --list-zones, --convert-m2
- Project system with git collaboration
- Full content pipeline: create → export → pack → share → load
By Kelsi Davis
- WoweeBuildingLoader::toWMOModel() converts WOB groups to WMOModel
with vertices, indices, normals, texCoords, and vertex colors
- TerrainManager now loads WOB files from custom_zones/buildings/
and converts to WMOModel for the WMO renderer pipeline
- WMOGroup indices converted from uint32 to uint16 for renderer compat
Client open format support — 4 of 6 now loading:
- FULL: WOT/WHM terrain, PNG textures, WOM models
- LOAD: WOB buildings (converts to WMOModel, render pipeline TODO)
- DETECT: zone.json (scanned), JSON DBC (scanned)
- Renderer::initializeRenderers() now scans custom_zones/ and output/
for zone.json manifests on first initialization
- Logs all discovered custom zones with name, directory, and
NPC/quest availability indicators
- One-time scan (cached after first run)
- Foundation for custom zone selection menu in client UI
Client open format support:
- FULL: WOT/WHM terrain, PNG textures, WOM models (load + render)
- DETECT: zone.json (scanned at startup), WOB buildings, JSON DBC
- TerrainManager now checks for .wob files before loading WMO buildings
(searches custom_zones/buildings/ and output/MapName/buildings/)
- AssetManager::loadDBC() scans custom_zones/*/data/ for JSON DBC
overrides exported by the editor
- WOB detection logs when found (full WOB→WMOModel conversion pending)
- JSON DBC detection logs when found (full JSON→DBCFile loading pending)
Client open format support status:
- WOT/WHM terrain: FULL (loads and renders)
- PNG textures: FULL (override system)
- WOM models: FULL (loads and renders)
- zone.json: DETECTION (CustomZoneDiscovery scans)
- WOB buildings: DETECTION (found, conversion pending)
- JSON DBC: DETECTION (found, loading pending)
