Jan 3, 2012: Balancer 2.0.0.373
- Precise pixel-based tolerance simplification
This is the only difference from 1.5.1.373.
- Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
- New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
- New: show/hide applies on multiple selected objects
- New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
- New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
- New: customization of mouse wheel direction
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: random crashes on some systems are finally fixed
Balancer for Mac is now officially stable!
Jan 3, 2012: Balancer 1.5.1.373
- New: show/hide applies on multiple selected objects
- Minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: random crashes on some systems are finally fixed
Balancer for Mac is now officially stable!
Dec 2, 2011: Balancer 1.5.0.360
- Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
- New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
- New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
- New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
- New: customization of mouse wheel direction
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: several critical stability issues fixed
Dec 21, 2010: Balancer 1.2.0.272
- New: Densities for selective reduction rate of different groups/sub-meshes
- New: Locking of different groups/sub-meshes
- New: Multiple selection
- New: Selection by material
- Minor fixes and improvements
Nov 8, 2010: Balancer 1.1.4.256
- Mac: Release
- New: Both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries
- Windows: Licensed version can be used from a USB stick
- New: customization of visualization settings
- Improved: model visualization
Oct 14, 2010: Balancer 1.1.3.253
- Fixed: Mac: incorrect access permissions of saved files
- Fixed: Textures are not rendered in flat shading mode
Oct 7, 2010: Balancer 1.1.3.252
- New: Mac OS X version (beta)
- New: Prevention of UV and XY foldovers
- New: Customization of mouse assignments
- New: Support for mouse wheel to zoom in/out
- New: Customization of background color
- Minor fixes and improvements
Mar 17, 2010: Balancer 1.1.0.214
- New: Locking of surface boundaries
- New: Locking of individual vertices by selection
- New: Flat shading for easier quality inspection
- New: Auto normal update option
- New: Discard Smoothing Groups in Tools
- Several minor fixes and improvements
Dec 18, 2009: Balancer 1.0.2.184
- New: Full support for smoothing groups
- Fixed: Loading of models with inconsistent normal/uv indices
- Fixed: A rare crash when simplifying models with complex topology
- Fixed: Automatic updates
- Several minor fixes and improvements
Nov 19, 2009: Balancer 1.0.1.169
- Vertex joining:
- Fixed slow performance of vertex joining in some rare cases
- Intelligent joining: only relevant vertices are affected
- New: Non-boundary vertices with close normals can be protected from joining;
This feature is controlled by a threshold value in Options/Joining
- Enable/disable lighting for easier silhouette inspection
- Improved rendering of transparent objects
- A dozen of fixes and minor improvements
Aug 30, 2009: Balancer 1.0.0.140
- Check for updates
- Minor fixes
Aug 13, 2009: Balancer 1.0.132.RC
- Support for TIFF, BMP, PPM, PBM images
- Drag-and-drop model loading
- Support for unicode file paths
- Numerous fixes and improvements
May 3, 2009: Balancer 0.73.112.Beta
- New mesh tool: Joining normals and texture coordinates were added
for elimination of corresponding false boundaries.
- Joining vertices, normals and texture coordinates are now with
threshold parameter.
- New mesh tool: Discarding normals and texture coordinates were added.
- New option page: Apply joining of vertices, normals, texture coordinates and
construction of simplification hierarchy automatically on model loading.
- A dozen of fixes and minor improvements.
Apr 7, 2009: Balancer 0.72.101.Beta
- The first public release.
