New game: Nightmare Creatures (characters, levels and animations), Scene tree and Select tool, Gran Turismo and RE2 fixes

Nightmare Creatures

New game: Nightmare Creatures added to the library!

• Characters, with animations: Nadia and Ignatius, Adam Crowley and his beast form, monsters like Werewolf, Zombie, Gargoyle and Hellhound, and the bosses, like Snowman and Sewer Snake.
• Levels: London by night, e.g. Hampstead Heath, The Roofs, Bloomsbury, Westminster, Highgate Cemetery, Chelsea.
  • Click Game Lighting (next to 3D) to show in-game light and fog (Fog is not enabled by default).
  • Check Creatures in Show to place the in-game monsters.
  • Flames are animated, lamp halos and flames face the camera.
• Props: doors, gates and tombs, potions, fountains, lamps, signs.
• Effects: fire, blood, smoke, splashes.

Final Fantasy VII

• Light arrows: in In game view, click the arrows next to the Light select to go to the previous or next scenario light, e.g. Cloud.
• Light on split view: so you can compare characters with different lights. Click a side, then pick its light, e.g. Cloud with the Torture Room light on one side.
• Fix: NPCs in fields stopped moving after a Story change, and some animations did not play. Fixed, e.g. Upper Junon.

Resident Evil 2

• New models: weapon pickups, like Magnum, Remington shotgun and Spark Shot, and room objects: corpse, trap door, cabin door, ceiling fan.
• Fix: room objects. Some rooms showed ammo boxes or the wrong object in place of story objects. Fixed, with story objects back in rooms, e.g. S.T.A.R.S. Office, West Office, Treasure Vault, Weapon Storage.
• RPD 2F Library with objects in place: bookcases, switch panel, planter, shutters.
• Sherry Birkin handgun.

Gran Turismo fixes

• Inverted faces and normals fixed on wheels and on car bodies, affected every single car, e.g. Dodge Viper GTS, Toyota Supra.

New on the website

• Scene tree: on a model page, click Scene tree to list what is inside the model: variations, objects and parts of segmented models (like segmented limbs), e.g. Cloud.
  • Click the eye of a row to hide or show it. Shift + click the eye to show only that row.
  • Double click a row to move the camera to it.
• Select tool: click Select (or press V), then click a part, object or variation in the 3D view. Shift + click to select more. UVs of a selected part are shown in the UV views too.
• Hide the selection: press H to hide what is selected, Shift + H to show only the selection.
• UV Select as a standalone tool, next to Select (Shift + U). Click a UV island in the UV view or in the 3D view to select it, Shift + click to add to the selection, e.g. Lara Croft.
• Focus and re-center: F moves the camera to the selection, R re-centers, in 3D and UV views. In split view they act on the view under the mouse.
• Zoom up to 60x, and further out too.

New shortcuts

The full list is in Shortcuts. Some keys changed:

• V: Select tool on or off.
• Shift + U: UV Select on or off (was V).
• Shift + V: variations side by side (was V).
• F: camera to the selection. R: re-center (was F).
• H: hide the selection. Shift + H: show only the selection.
• O / Shift + O: next or previous background (was H).
• 4: Vertex colors (Shift + V no longer does it).
• Home / End: first or last step of an animation in the sprite animator.

Website fixes

• Wireframe with variations side by side: pressing Z after Side by side drew every wireframe in the middle. Fixed.

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