Fixes in this installer for 3D Topicscape Pro 2.5:

• Self-running demo problems fixed:
  -     Both 3D and 2D “How Multi-parent topics work” no longer stop working part way through.
  -     “How Multi-parent topics work” 2D only: Placement errors fixed.
  -     2D flight demo: Speed problems tuned.
  -     2D operations demo: Import: The contents list and Halo Help now appear. “Cone” corrected to ”bar”.
• Minimization and restore preview in Topic Center with some customization settings fixed.
• Some references in 2D to “‘Scape” corrected to say “Map”.
• Occurrence context menu in Topic Center – lost items re-instated.
• Some customization settings made persistent again.
• “Orphans included” checkbox fixed. Occasional problems with colors appearing in Topicscape Orphans corrected.

Click for information about the Beta.

Click for the regularly-updated page about known issues in the Beta (most have now been fixed) but Beta Users can add their reports.

After logging in, Beta Users can download here.

Apply here to be a Beta User.

Roy

For those trying out new 2D/3D Topicscape Beta, we just added a note to the wiki about importing PersonalBrain files when using the Beta.

In brief:

If you can run the current live version of Topicscape (licensed or still in trial), import with that, then open the imported Topicscape in Beta v.2.5.

If you don’t use Tags, Labels and Types in PB, import as usual in the Beta.

If your live version trial has expired, and you do use Tags, Labels and Types in PB, download and install the Extended PB Import Installer.

More on the PB import help page.

Roy

3D-Scape is pleased to announce the availability of a Beta version of Topicscape Pro that adds a 2D option to Topicscape for occasions when smaller, simpler bodies of information are to be organized.

Unique?  Well Topicscape was already that, but now it’s even further ahead of the pack of software that organizes information visually.

Just about all of the functions of Topicscape in 3D are accessible in the new 2D view – with the exception of the broad view of the landscape, and the “sense of place” that tells you where you are instantly.  On a small or simple Topicscape, we know it’s not always necessary to have that broad view.

Version 2.5 of Topicscape Pro lets you flip between 2D and 3D as you wish, see contents of topics pop up in the Map or ‘Scape views, and see previews there as well.

• 2D Map option. Flying is like Cooliris®
• 2D maps are customizable, and individual modified appearances can be tied to a particular Topicscape.
• In 2D select one of your own images for the background.
• Flip backwards and forwards from 2D to 3D as you wish with Ctrl+w.
• Optional new Google® Earth-style controls to fly and zoom in 3D.
• See contents of topics anywhere; from contents list, open occurrences;
• See previews of occurrences wherever an occurrence item can be seen (where Windows makes one available to Topicscape).
• Topic name plates can have black lettering on a white background or the reverse.
• Tunnel viewing improved.
• Alt+Home provides a new Home position view.

Download
Purchasers and past Beta Users, please log in first.  Then you can download the Beta installer.

If you have no login information, please give us some information about your PC via the application for Beta User form (to help us support you better), and if your computer looks as if it will run Topicscape we will issue you a login account.

License

The Beta version will work without a license, whether you have previously installed Topicscape or not, until December 15th. We plan to release the live 3D Topicscape Pro 2.5 or a new Beta before that date.

Beta 2.5 will co-exist with any live version of Topicscape you have on your computer. It does not change the format of your Topicscape data from version 2.15 and you can run any live version of Topicscape you may have installed on your PC at any time.

For purchasers of Topicscape Pro 2, version 2.5 will be a free upgrade when released to live. Purchasers of Topicscape Pro 1 will need to purchase an upgrade license to take advantage of the new capabilities of v.2.5.

Much more about what’s new

Details of Beta 2.5 are in the picture-rich What’s New document.

Your feedback

We’re keen to hear what you think, whether you find any problems, and what suggestions you have. You can contact us at beta [at] topicscape [dot] com for help and direct feedback, or use Topicscape’s Google Group.

We hope you enjoy the new version.

Roy

Admin stuff

Purchaser or past Beta User with no login details?
Please enter your email address on the Forgot password page here: http://www.topicscape.com/beta/forgetPwd.php
Please use the email address from which you previously applied to be a Beta user (or if you bought Topicscape, the email used for that).

Log in here:
http://www.topicscape.com/beta/login.php

Download the Beta installer here:
http://www.topicscape.com/beta/download2.php

Checking for new Beta installers:
When you first run Topicscape, if you accept its suggestion that it check for new versions one run in each 24 hours, you will be able to keep up with all fixes in this beta version.