FLAtlas - Savegame Editor 0.9.2

Important Bugfix Release:

version 0.9.1 could add empty strings to the savegame which resulted in the game to crash when opening the inventory. 0.9.2 will repair existing savegames.

Highlights

• Improved ship preview rendering with physical pixel resolution, corrected CMP part rotations, and preserved small high-poly triangles.
• Repaired empty equipment rows more reliably before save operations and improved open-savegame editor behavior.
• Fixed Ship Browser hardpoint counts, class names, and stat readability.
• Added startup diagnostics and self-cleaning diagnostic logs to make failures easier to troubleshoot.
• Included the legacy updater alias FLEditorUpdater.exe in release packages for updater compatibility.

This beta release focuses on safer ship editing, clearer item selection, better public-facing polish, and lower resource usage on weaker systems.

Highlights

• Added a buyable-ship dropdown and a dedicated Ship Browser with 3D preview and explicit "Use ship" selection.
• Made ship equipment handling more robust when hardpoints change, including automatic light/effect defaults and clearer equipment/cargo separation.
• Improved cargo editing with visible drag targets and display names for more equipment and commodity types.
• Improved theme coverage, window frame colors, button styling, starfield visibility, and small-window Ship Browser layout.
• Added Low-Spec mode to reduce animation, background, and 3D activity while keeping static ship previews available.
• Fixed save reload behavior after Freelancer path changes and tightened Crossfire compatibility handling.

First v0.9.x [BETA] build. It clears the issue tracker opened after v0.8.8 —

ship model rendering, the savegame loader, reputation, equipment and

core-component editing — and lands the core-component save fix reported

afterwards.

New

• Ship archetype is now a searchable field: type to filter the game-data ship
  list instead of scrolling a long dropdown (#28).
• Reputation templates gained a "Neutral" preset that sets every house to
  neutral in one step (#27).

Fixed

• Multi-mesh 3D ship models now resolve the correct VMeshData, and the viewport
  renders through a depth-buffered rasterizer so dense hulls (e.g. the Liberty
  Dreadnought) occlude correctly instead of showing through (#25).
• Core-component edits are kept when another tab is changed before saving; the
  equipment list is now the single source of truth, so the edit can no longer be
  silently reverted.
• Equipment mounted on a hardpoint the selected ship does not have is now
  flagged, so it can be reassigned after switching ships (#30).
• The savegame loader shows uniform-width entries and no longer hides the count
  behind the scrollbar; floating popups are opaque so window content no longer
  bleeds through (#26).
• Equipment entries are sorted by hardpoint name and new rows default to a count
  of 1 (#29).
• The core-component count field is no longer clipped (#31).

Changed

• Bumped to v0.9.0 and switched the release channel to BETA.
• Continued the architecture split (main window view model and XAML, native
  model loading) and added a dev-start launcher script.

This release continues the v0.8.x architecture hardening work and includes the issue-driven splits merged after v0.8.7.

Changed

• Split the main window view model state and main window XAML into smaller, focused pieces.
• Split native model loading, model decoding, ship preview rasterization, and ship model viewport rendering into clearer components.
• Further separated savegame write, backup, INI text codec, player section parsing, equipment entry parsing, universe indexing, update check, space theme, and code-behind behavior.
• Expanded test coverage around game data indexing, ship inventory, native model loading, and affected editor flows.
• Kept release executable aliases compatible with previous v0.8.x launcher/update names.