Changelog

0.4.0 2026/4/24

Add Redesigned main menu interface
Displays more history entries with new options to pin or remove them.
Add Direct3D9-style lighting and color calculations, to resolve previous color discrepancies between QuickMapViewer and BVE
Supports Light.Ambient, Light.Diffuse, and Light.Direction statements.
Handles emissive colors in DirectX mesh files.
Add Drag-and-drop and command-line support for loading map files
Add Support for cosine transition curves
Add Extended compatibility for BveEX syntaxes
See the “Known Issues” page for details.
Add Warning for non-power-of-two texture dimensions
Fix Unintended application of sRGB gamma correction causing excessively bright face colors
Fix Infinite loop when Repeater is used with an interval of 0
Fix Crash when executing PutBetween with a missing structure
Fix Crash when loading malformed DDS texture files
Fix Unrecognized Background.Change() statement
Change Updated the return-to-main-menu hotkey to Shift+Esc to prevent accidental triggers
Fix Transform handling on transition curves, to align with BVE behavior
Change Improved clarity of error messages for unparseable Station CSV lines

Add Support for PutBetween structures
Fix Incorrect model placement when doing Put on child tracks
Fix Background behavior was different from BveTs when set to empty
Fix Incorrect line number were shown when reporting errors in a map file
Add Allow manually selecting a rendering backend (However, leaving it at ‘Auto Select’ is recommended)
Change Updated the underlying Bevy game engine to 0.15.1
Add More information is included in crash reports

Fix Program stuck in loading screen if the map file has errors when reloading
Fix Structures with more than one of yaw, pitch or roll transforms were shown with a wrong orientation
Fix Using pow(x, y) function in map file crashes the program
Fix Updated the underlying Bevy game engine to 0.14.0-rc.4, maybe hopefully fixing the issue where a keyboard input cannot be released
Fix Warning popup window sometimes closes immediately without the expected delay
Add Automatic update checking function

Add Support for some AtsEX map syntaxes
(QMV cannot load AtsEX map plugins, but now it will not report them as syntax error)
Change Mouse dragging rotates camera the same way as BVE5
Add Numpad keys supported for camera movement (Same as BVE5’s default settings)
Add Warnings dialog now automatically closes after 5 seconds
(Hover mouse over it to cancel this automatic closing)
Change Holding Ctrl also accelerates X/Y movements
Add Holding Shift decelerates X/Y/Z movements
Change Adjusted default speeds of X/Y/Z movements

Fix Unable to parse map scripts with full-width space
Change Better error message for lexer encountering unexpected character
Fix Tracks disappear (Internal calculations result in infinity) when Gradient.BeginTransition and Gradient.Begin are used at same location
Fix Unable to load station with uppercase P/T
Fix Unable to load station with time without second part
Fix Tracks disappear (Internal calculations result in NaN) on routes without Curve.Gauge
(Default setting should be Curve.Gauge(1067), not Curve.Gauge(1.067))
Change Added a prompt for texture loading errors due to Shift-JIS encoded file name
Add Support loading JPG images