- 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
- Exports 129x129 grayscale PNG showing terrain elevation
- Auto-normalizes to 0-255 based on actual height range
- Useful for zone documentation, thumbnails, and previews
- Auto-exported alongside WOT/WHM/normals on every save
