The next TerreSculptor pre-beta release is still a few days away.
In addition to all of the update items mentioned in the previous blog post, a large amount of refactoring has gone into the binary file classes used by many of the file format importers and exporters.
These updates and changes include:
- Increased Data Type support to fully include 8-bit Byte unsigned, 16-bit Short signed and unsigned, 32-bit Integer signed and unsigned, 64-bit Integer signed and unsigned, 32-bit Single-Precision Float signed and unsigned, 64-bit Double-Precision Float signed and unsigned.
- Increased data Type Conversion support including Real (the data is treated as the data type real value), Scaled (the data is scaled from one data type to another by its fixed relational magnitude) and Auto (the data is scanned for its min/max values and automatically scaled to match the data types).
- Combining of the "import: Auto-scale to 16-bit" and "export: Optimized 8-bit" options into the single unified Type Conversion selection.
- The ability to import the "chunk" of binary data from anywhere within a raw binary file, skipping any known or unknown file header or footer data.
What will this mean to you?
An improved file import/export user-interface with more functionality and wider/better file format support, and fewer option controls that are properly grouped.
The main areas where this will be visible at this time is for the BIL and RAW formats.
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