About Leveller 4.3

What's new?

• Built-in filters such as Rotate and Gaussian Blur support previewing.
• Blur tool offers strength and opacity settings.
• Tool settings can be saved as application defaults.
• Brush size can be changed interactively by holding down Esc while moving the mouse horizontally.
• Dig, Raise, Flatten, Blur and Smudge tools create straight lines by holding down Shift before clicking (demo video).
• Formation tools show previews on the 3D scene pane (demo video).
• Windows HighDPI (display scale) setting is globally supported.
• Tooltips available for pane toolbars.
• Brush reticle can be optionally forced visible on the map pane during brush edits.
• Preset brush sizes (on the tool palette) include 125, 150, 175 and 200 px sizes.
• "Local invert" selection mode.
• "File, Reimport" command streamlines repeatedly importing data being modified elsewhere.
• Restore brush tool added, lets elevations be copied interactively from a reference heightfield.
• Golf hole routing shapes (previously exclusive to Landshaper Golf).
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) import added (also works with Inkscape files).
• Raytracer supports viewport tiling options (demo video).
• Dynamic LOD renderer is much faster and supports better tile antialiasing (demo video).
• User-definable Favorite Commands toolbar added; provides quicker access to often-used commands/filters/macros (demo video).

  

• Grab tool added; allows interactive extrusion of heightfield with settings for inner brush size and slope style (demo video).

  

• Vector drape textures are antialiased.
• Higher scene pane quality:

  Colormapping, before and after:
  

  Contour lines, before and after:
  

• Custom brushes:

  

• Custom brushes can be stroked along vector paths.
• New resizable tool palette:

  

• New Properties panel for modeless access to common settings:

  

• Built with the Visual Studio 2022 toolchain, and is 64-bit only. The toolchain update let the source code be upgraded to the newer C/C++ language standards and Standard Library changes, which helped catch some errors. Some processes may also see a small speed improvement.

You may first need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2022 redistributable package. Once installed, the redistributable can be kept up-to-date via Windows Update.

Should I upgrade to Leveller 4.3 from 4.2?

It depends on how old your version of 4.2 is; you may miss out on fixes made between October 2019 and now.

If you've been running Leveller with HighDPI awareness and putting up with control layout artifacts in dialog boxes, these have been fixed in 4.3.

To see the particular fixes and changes you would get, compare your purchase date to the dates in the Change Log.

Upgrades from previous 4.x versions are free; please contact us to obtain.

Leveller 4.3 uses a different licence code protocol, so your licence code will change. You should backup both the installer and its credentials in case you need to reinstall 4.3.

Can I upgrade to the last version of Leveller 4.2?

No, sorry. For simplicity, we only maintain the latest version.

If I upgrade, can I run Leveller 4.3 alongside my current version?

Yes, Leveller 4.3 uses its own installation and user data directories. The document format is also the same as in Leveller 4.2, so documents can be safely roundtripped (unless the document stores golf hole routings, in which case you should upgrade to the most recent version of Leveller 4.3).