Changelog - Hero Extant

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Development version (unreleased)

• New "profile" PNG export - screenshot.
• Imrpoved heightmap generation method
• New wind & rain simulation model
• New terrain classification rules
• Exposed terrain roughness option in GUI
• Elevations above maximum are now scaled to fit, rather than clamped.
• Temperature band generation improved (better band shapes).
• Now correctly frees parsed configuration files from memory
• Lowered the maximum world size back to 2048.
• Relaxed world map rejection criteria

Release 20100714

• (re-)added solid-shaded PNG export, "terrains.png", for terrain types.
• See "docs/Reading exported PNG data.txt" for colour information.
• hex.20100714.1319.zip

Release 20100711

• Released under GNU GPL v3 license.
• New front-end.
• Worlds can now be as large as 4096x4096.
• Exported binary data is arranged for better potential compression.
• Pre-compresses exported binary data using a difference filter.
• Compresses exported binary data using SR3a.
• hex.20100711.1827.zip

Release 20100530

• Lots of world-gen tweaks.
• World-gen can now export data (as .bin and .png).
• Video, screenshots, discussion and downloads available.

Release 20100520

• Initial release, screenshots at SoCoder.

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