HVRC LOD Tool Release Notes
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These notes describe changes since the 1.0 (IFE internal) release.


New Features
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The following features are new in release 1.1:

* Platform specific tweaks to improve "the experience"
  - no mneumonics for Mac OS X
  - host system's keyboard modifier for keyboard shortcuts
  - Quit rather than Exit for Mac OS X in File menu
  - host system's look and feel is enforced
  - Mac OS X uses AWT file dialogs


Change Summary
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The following modifications have been made since 1.1.2:

* Upgraded Java 3D VRML97 loader

The following modifications have been made since 1.1.1:

* Upgraded Java 3D VRML97 loader
* Updated bundled Java version to 1.6 with Java 3D 1.5.1
* Uses Chisel 2.1.2 as model processing library

The following modifications have been made since 1.1:

* Revised menu item labels
* Revised Read Me file (removed references to 3rd party software not used)
* Updated to latest versions of supporting libraries
* Reduced size of installer and application (removed unused libraries)
* Adjusted startup parameters for Windows to prevent GUI flickering with
  some graphics cards
* Pale blue stripes in table on Mac OS X
* Windows and Linux installers bundle Java 5 (J2SE 1.5)

The following modifications have been made since 1.0.2 (internal release):

* Reworked menu code
* Added code to configure platform-specific menu features
* Fixed startup code threading issue
* Reduced default number of auto-generated reductions to 3 (from 5)
* Increased distance relative to 1m used for setting default values
* Replaced splash-screen image
* New readme and license files
* Added native (AWT) file dialogs for Mac OS X
* Improved synchronisation of the two 3D views


Known Issues
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* The Chisel library sometimes generates corrupt VRML (always work with
  a copy of your VRML file)
* No X3D support
* Synchronisation of the two views could be better
* Wireframe view option would be useful
* When automatically suggesting level distance, the distances suggested
  do not take into account whether the top-level transform in the VRML
  file contains a scale operation
* No user documentation...
* Exporting the LOD file to a location other than that of the original
  only places the LOD file at the chosen location. You need to 
  copy the reduced files from their original location to the same
   directory as the exported LOD file manually...