## Revision History

The current version of NIFF Editor is not the final version. Development will continue in order to expand the functions of the system even further. Information will be added to the manual as well as to this Revision History page every time the version is updated, providing the user smooth access to the new functions. At the same time, new versions will continue to be put out in order to provide the user with essential functions and a user-friendly environment. Please review this page every time a new version is released.

This Revision History describes all functions added and bugs fixed up to the time of the release of the current version of NIFF Editor.

Version | Date | Changes
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1.32 | 1998/8/28 | - | Support for Quick Preview
- | Divided installer into NIFF Editor and N64 Previewer, and enabled specification of the install directory for each.
- | Check for presence of file when file in opened.
1.31 | 1998/7/16 | - | Implimented convkit version 1.3.1. NIFF Editor itself is no different from ver. 1.30B except in version number.
1.30B | 1998/7/3 | - | Fixed the bug that caused the items mat_color_type0, mat_color_type1 mat_alpha_type0, and mat_alpha_type1 all to be checked despite MAT_CC_NIFF_NONE when the "Use NIFF color combiner" box was checked in the "Type" tag in the "Material Node Properties" dialog. Also fixed bug that MAT_CC_NIFF_NONE was not set even when all the items were unchecked.
- | Fixed the bug that MAT_CC_NIFF_NONE was not set even when the "Use NINTENDO64 color combiner" box was checked in the "Type" tag in the "Material Node Properties" dialog, even when "None" was set for the color combiner.
1.30A | 1998/7/2 | - | Fixed bug that caused system to reference local_light_index link destintations even when MAT_SHADE_LIGHT_LOCAL was set in mat_shade_type in the Mat node.
- | Changed it so that now when a NIFF file with a wrong Name area size is read, the size is automatically recalculated without first displaying a warning messages and prompting whether it is OK to recalculate. Acordingly, this warning message has been deleted form the manual.
- | Changed it so now when a link cannot be found, an error message is displayed and read process continues, whereas before it was treated as an error and the read was interrupted.
1.30 | 1998/6/30 | - | Implimented niffkit version 1.3.0
1.23 | 1998/6/29 | - | Fixed bug so now a Part node can be correctly pasted into a Shape node.
- | Added help for the Collision node.
| - | Since list displays in the left-side pane of NIFF Editor and in the "LOD" tab of the LOD Node Properties dialog cannot be sorted, the collumn headers of these lists now cannot be clicked.
- | The position of the tool bar can now be saved.
- | When you click on Browse in the Option dialog, the Open File dialog now displays the files in the directory that was input in the Option dialog.
1.22 | 1998/4/1 | - | Corrected inability to save NIFF files containing Collision data.
- | Help is now displayed when the F1 key is input, whereas before a Windows Help error was displayed.
1.21 | 1998/3/17 | - | Added a FAQ to Help
- | Established an online support address for the Ebglish version of NIFF Editor.
- | Added a Light Type tab to the Light Node Properties dialog.
- | Added tabs for Animatton Type and Frame Rate to the Animation Node Properties dialog.
- | Fixed bug so that now when a node is deleted the child nodes can also be deleted.
1.20 | 1998/3/10 | - | Added support for Cut & Paste and Drag & Drop of nodes between NIFF Editors.
- | Object node LOD levels are now displayed under the LOD node, and those LOD values can be edited.
- | Unlinked nodes are displayed under Free Nodes.
- | Same child nodes cannot link to parent node.
- | When a NIFF file with an incorrect Name area size is read, a warning message is displayed asking whether size should be recalculated.
- | Corrected problem that prevented right-click selection of nodes other than the currently selected node in Tree View.
- | Fixed bug that caused an error to ocur when an attempt was made to read a nonexistent file, and and exception error to occur when an second attempt was made.
- | When a read failure occurs for a NIFF file, a new file document is prepared, but no redrawing is performed at that time.
- | An error is displayed when a NIFF file is read but a linked node does not exist.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.2.6
1.11 | 1997/12/25 | - | Changed icons. However, large icons are just small icons enlarged, and these planned to be changed later.
- | Added Convert and Preview buttons to the Tool Bar.
- | Corrected problem of sometimes protruding past the desktop when Maximized.
1.10 | 1997/12/19 | - | Fixed bug so that now when Object node links are changed, the new node index is stored in obj_parent_link of the CObj area.
- | Fixed bug that allowed selection of Property even when nothing is dispalyed in the right-side window.
- | Removed IS-VIEWER64 NLOAD.EXE, which is used at preview time, from the Setup file and changed NIFFPREV.BAT so that it references the NLOAD.EXE already set in the user's environment.
- | Updated Help
- | Changed Menu characters.
- | Support for "Change Node Name" in the Pop-Up Menu.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.1.0
1.05 | 1997/12/8 | - | Support for the Properties "Help" button.
- | Added a Set Loop Number item to the Animation Node Properties dialog.
- | NIFF Editor starts up when a file with the .nif extension is clicked in Explorer.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.0.4c
1.04 | 1997/12/1 | - | Added function to check size of each node when a NIFF file is read.
- | Fixed bug that caused window to be displayed in the default size at startup, but resized every time after that.
- | Added functions to save abd restore the location of the divider bar and the List View style.
- | Added Help. But cannot be used for Properties help and situation-dependent help.
- | Added Environment Node, Camera Node and Light Node properties. Also changed the messages for some of the other properties.
- | Fixed bug that caused incorrect display of Material primitive colors and other "float"-type data.
- | Fixed bug so that now input numeric values are correctly reflected in the Property data.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.0.4
1.03 | 1997/11/18 | - | Fixed bug so now Highlight and Reflect can be deleted together in the Material property settings.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.0.4
1.02 | 1997/11/17 | - | Changed the Preview's work file settings dialog.
- | Fixed the bug that caused program runaway when something from some other Drag & Drop application was dropped into NIFF Editor.
- | The NIFF file's update status is displayed in the Status Bar.
- | A message box is displayed when a NIFF file is updated and when the New, Save and Save As commands are executed from the File menu.
- | Fixed problem of program runaway caused by use of the IntelliMouse wheel with NIFF Editor running under the Windows 95 environment. The current version does not support the IntelliMouse.
- | Added function to add and delete node names.
- | Check node name character input range.
- | Check numeric input range for primitive colors in the material properties.
- | Corrected problem so now the NIFF Editor window is redrawn at time of Convert and Preview.
- | Deleted the Preview File specification from the Preview Options, as data transfers to IS-VIEWER64 for preview have been made seperate process.
- | Added functions to save and restore window positions and tool options.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.0.3b
1.01 | 1997/10/9 | - | Added an Options command to the Tool Menu, enabling file settings for Convert and Preview.
- | Added functions to check version and tags when NIFF file is read.
- | Added function to create a new NIFF file. However, there is no support for Drag & Drop from other NIFF files, so you cannot edit from the new file into a NIFF file being used.
- | Countered the problem of the screen image remaining after a file read failure, such as an attempt to open a nonexistent file.
- | Implimented convkit version 1.0.3
1.00A | 1997/10/6 | - | Changed the default directory for preview files to c:\nintendo\n64kit\niff\n64prev
- | Added niffconv.bat and niffprev.bat to c:\nintendo\n64kit\niff\n64prev
1.00 | 1997/10/6 | - | Release version.