crowd:it Changelog

All changes and releases over the past years are listed here.

crowd:it Version 2.30.2          24.04.2024

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused the path overview to crash if there was an empty path
crowd:it Version 2.30.1          22.04.2024

Fixes

  • Display correct member ID in path popup
crowd:it Version 2.30.0          22.04.2024

Features

  • Allow editing paths and pathsnippets in a new view that is integrated into the main window
  • Added separate menu item to run integrity checks at any time
  • Added integrity check that ensures origins are contained in a path
  • Added integrity check that ensures simulation objects are not completely inside obstacles
  • Made screenshot and video export dialogs resizable

Fixes

  • Evasion settings for origins are applied now
  • Limit initial estimate for max heap size in simulations to 100GB
  • Remove background image from project when a floor is deleted
crowd:it Version 2.29.2          08.04.2024

Fixes

  • Correctly start walking when one origin contains another origin
crowd:it Version 2.29.1          21.03.2024

Fixes

  • Evaluate distance correctly when agents spawn inside the part of a stair that resides on the connected floor
crowd:it Version 2.29.0          20.03.2024

Features

  • It is now possible to add a contour to simulation objects
  • Added new tool to identify critical areas automatically

Fixes

  • Adjusted file format to prevent the kernel from crashing
  • Prevent a rare edge-case where agents got stuck in walls
crowd:it Version 2.28.1          08.03.2024

Fixes

  • Improved performance when assigning a type to many simulation objects simultaneously
crowd:it Version 2.28.0          20.02.2024

Features

  • Added a new tool to simplify the geometry of floors
  • New setting "walking time" for distance selection mode
  • Refined settings for evasion in origins and waitingzones

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where axis in charts were always on autorange
crowd:it Version 2.27.2          01.02.2024

Fixes

  • Allow adding members to a pathsnippet when simulation objects overlap
crowd:it Version 2.27.1          31.01.2024

Fixes

  • Show correct context menu options when creating new paths or pathsnippets
  • Prevented a crash in very specific situations with sorted queues
  • Prevent agents from overstepping portal and queue lines when they are not allowed
crowd:it Version 2.27.0          30.01.2024

Features

  • New setting "projection" for distance selection mode
  • Paths and Pathsnippets are directly accessible via the toolbar now for better usability
  • Allow copy/paste of simulation objects and walls
  • Quickly edit the geometry of simulation objects, by clicking on them with the middle mouse button
  • Show transitive references for paths, sets and pathsnippets in the info table

Fixes

  • Don't crash when exporting social distance heatmaps with the german version of crowd:it
  • Proper axis scaling: Now, all chart axis are initially scaled optimally for data to be displayed to avoid manual adjustments
  • Naming of data series for pre-defined charts is now aligned with naming of data series in all other charts
  • Ensure agents are always able to enter escalators
crowd:it Version 2.26.3          12.12.2023

Fixes

  • Don't crash in certain situations when opening a project on mac
  • Prevent a crash when inserting invalid values into the log normal distribution
  • Improved readability of text in the quickintro
  • Fixed a bug where statistic runs were disabled
crowd:it Version 2.26.2          23.11.2023

Features

  • Sort data providers in the charting window by name
  • Only select stairs and escalators when clicking on the visible treads

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when the crowd:it-file contained comments
crowd:it Version 2.26.0          29.09.2023

Features

  • Allow drawing and editing walls
  • Also make it possible to create an empty floor without the need for a .dxf file
  • Allow to select whether waiting agents make room for passing agents or stay in position
  • The number of agents per origin can be shown as a label
  • Added log-normal distribution as option for waiting and premovement times
  • Waiting agents are only allowed to move if the option is selected

Fixes

  • Removed weird camera movement after drawing a new simulation object
  • Removed legacy setting "directed navigation field"
  • Don't crash the simulation when agents enter a floor that is almost empty
crowd:it Version 2.25.0          08.08.2023

Features

  • Added new tool to measure distances
  • Screenshots can be created without simulation results
  • Allow to run a simple assessment where agents choose the closest destination

Fixes

  • Check correct floor when evaluating if an agent already reached their next target
crowd:it Version 2.24.5          14.07.2023

Fixes

  • Fixed misplaced bounding box when exporting screenshots/videos of certain scenarios.
  • Skip duplicate coordinates when parsing walls
crowd:it Version 2.24.4          28.06.2023

Fixes

  • Geometry which has been edited won't be transformed back when importing the dxf once again.
  • When pedestrians want to leave queues, their queue mode is validated correctly now.
  • Check correct floor when using "willChose" shortcut.
crowd:it Version 2.24.3          22.06.2023

Features

  • Improved rotation: snap to 45 degrees while pressing ctrl
  • Allow entering numbers to rotate by a precise angle
  • Reports can now be duplicated and renamed

Fixes

  • Prevent moving points too close together, since this makes simulation objects invalid
  • Allow deleting assigned simulation objects when editing their geometry
  • Lowered the minimum scale factor for scaled areas to 0.01
  • Automatically hide unassigned simulation objects when simulation results are present
  • Allow to enable and disable the automatic usage of floor connectors
  • Made distance calculation via automatic floor connections more precise
  • Adjusted repulsion of portals
crowd:it Version 2.24.2          02.06.2023

Fixes

  • Show splash screen on startup
  • Correctly delete points via the keyboard when editing simulation objects
  • Correct integrity checker for origin and destination sets
  • Use command instead of control for keyboard shortcuts on mac
  • Made automatic floor connections work when the next destination is a set on another floor
  • Prevent agents from overlapping when crossing portals in tight spaces
crowd:it Version 2.24.0          23.05.2023

Features

  • Save current agent coloring as project-specific gui setting
  • Allow rotating the isometric view in the screenshot and video export
  • It is now possible to rotate simulation objects
  • Agents now automatically search for a floor connector, when their next destination is on a different floor

Fixes

  • Fixed the calculation of the isometric perspective
  • Adjust direction of portal when moving its endpoints
  • Fixed misplaced error label in screenshot dialog
  • Allow to set a custom kernel, even when no project is loaded
  • Agents can now queue back towards the queue line without breaking the sorted queue behavior
crowd:it Version 2.23.0          30.03.2023

Features

  • Allow to edit the geometry of simulation objects and create new ones
  • Added a toolbar to provide quick access to common functionality
  • If a queue precedes an elevator, agents now wait in the queue instead of directly at the elevator

Fixes

  • Correctly evaluate threshold filters when all members exceed the threshold
crowd:it Version 2.22.1          10.03.2023

Fixes

  • Assign a random seed when executing statistic runs
crowd:it Version 2.22.0          09.03.2023

Features

  • Reworked theme of the entire application
  • Merged single simulation configuration with statistical runs into a combined dialog

Fixes

  • Correct calculation of heatmap timespan when a starttime is set
  • Correctly display dragpoints when setting up a background image
crowd:it Version 2.21.1          17.02.2023

Features

  • Slightly reworked the appearance of titles in some dialogs

Fixes

  • Correctly evaluate the best selection mode when allowing to return multiple members
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to export a floor as dxf
crowd:it Version 2.21.0          02.02.2023

Features

  • Screenshots and videos can be exported in isometric perspective
  • When exporting more than one floor as a screenshot/video, one can decide to export them in separated files or stacked in one file
  • Only save screenshots and videos in a separate folder, when they are saved as report
  • Reworked the layout of the info panel

Fixes

  • Correctly navigate towards a waiting spot when a stair blocks the way inside a waitingzone
  • Torso size of each persona must be at least 0.3
  • Skip 3D meshes when importing polylines in dxf, since these are currently not supported
  • Correctly read the sliding window from saved reports that contain a heatmap
crowd:it Version 2.20.2          24.01.2023

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where the export has a wrong handling with multiple floors
crowd:it Version 2.20.0          13.01.2023

Features

  • Export heatmaps as csv
  • Added icons to sets and pathsnippets in the tree hierarchy
  • Improved drag behaviour, when moving evaluation polygons
  • Allow to select all simulation objects or pedestrians at once via the ctrl+a keyboard shortcut
  • Added context menu entry to export a floor as dxf

Fixes

  • Fixed crash of crowd:it when a simulation was opened while it was still running
  • Fixed crash of certain charts
  • Added missing translations to german
  • Properly place agents in large, unsorted origins
  • Don't get stuck in queues, if the queue line is too close to a wall
  • When a selection process could not find a valid item, the update was not done correctly
  • Consider all objects in a pathsnippet to check if it should be ignored
  • Fixed too many calculations of the dynamic navigation field
  • Fixed an edge-case, where escalators were added to the wrong floor
crowd:it Version 2.19.3          09.12.2022

Fixes

  • Be less strict when validating floor files, to allow importing old files
crowd:it Version 2.19.2          02.12.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where closed walls were not displayed correctly
crowd:it Version 2.19.1          01.12.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where it was sometimes possible to create invalid heatmap settings
  • Agents now need to walk slower than both the given absolute and relative velocity limit to be considered in congestion
  • Fixed a bug where the charting window crashed in rare cases
  • Fixed a bug where agents always walked to the center of a portal to cross it
crowd:it Version 2.19.0          17.11.2022

Features

  • Reworked default color scheme
  • Keep original values when exporting raw csv data from chart
  • Show the floors of a simulation object in the tree hierarchy

Fixes

  • Ensure paths contain no circular references before simulating
  • Use density to select among waitingzones when applying the less crowded selection process
  • Removed duplicate warnings when checking if elements in a path are reachable
  • Fixed a bug, where an integrity check falsely claimed that elements in a path are not reachable
  • Correctly import dxf files where a UCS is defined
  • Allow paths to start with pathsnippets that start with an origin
  • Agents now cannot get stuck in walls that overlap with elevators
  • Fixed a bug, where items were skipped when a path started with a pathsnippet
crowd:it Version 2.18.1          04.11.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where the probabilities in pathsnippets were not correctly shown in the tree hierarchy
crowd:it Version 2.18.0          04.11.2022

Features

  • Improved evasion in sorted queues
  • It is now always possible to assign probabilities to pathsnippet members - previously this was only possible with the may visit heuristic
  • Replaced pathsnippet heuristic with the new pathsnippet order, which allows to traverse pathsnippets in a random order
  • Added legend for agent color by path
  • Allow creating evaluation objects without simulation results
  • Show the names of a set's selection processes in the tree hierarchy
  • Show the probabilities of a pathsnippet's members in the tree hierarchy

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where unsorted queues did not work with groups
  • Fixed a bug, where agents avoided some regions when walking on a diagonal directed scaled area
  • Fixed a bug, where the name of exported dxf files was sometimes incomprehensible
  • Fixed a bug, where invalid data series were not deleted, even though crowd:it claimed it would delete them
  • Fixed a bug, where crowd:it crashed when pasting clipboard content into the pathsnippet table
  • Fixed a bug, where sometimes a floor was replaced, even though the user canceled the process
  • Stop the tree hierarchy from freezing, when elements are updated
  • Fixed a bug, where the member table in the sets window falsely claimed that the members are not valid
crowd:it Version 2.17.1          13.10.2022

Fixes

  • Added a new summary table that allows to evaluate elevators on a per-floor basis
  • The elevator summary now correctly evaluates agents that evaded outside elevators on intermediate floors
  • Fixed a bug, where the origin-destination summary displayed dubious results when a start time was set
  • Polished the "Create Chart" - Wizard
  • Made wording for elevator summaries more clear
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes agents stuck together in elevators
crowd:it Version 2.17.0          29.09.2022

Features

  • Introduced meeting zones: Allow to clear a waitingzone when the capacity is reached
  • Allow agents that travel with an elevator to temporarily step out of the elevator when evading deboarding agents
  • Agents can be colored by their navigation mode now
  • Write the agent's group and path id when exporting tripwire data as csv

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where crowdit crashed when empty pathsnippets were present during the integrity checks prior to simulating
  • Fixed a bug where the start time was not correctly handled when creating tripwire summaries
  • Agents now evade in origins even if they don't have a path
  • Fixed a bug where agents did not properly evade when other agents were deboarding an elevator
  • Correctly evaluate the capacity when queuing for nested sets where some items are dropped by the selection process
crowd:it Version 2.16.4          16.09.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where opening a report including social distancing lead to an error
  • Use the correct start time in several locations
  • Fixed a bug where it was not possible to create charts for statistical runs in the german version of the software
  • Fixed a bug were the simulation crashed when an agent with a very large torso size entered a queue with many small agents
  • Fixed a bug where agents could get stuck in sorted queues if the queue was in a very tight space
  • Fixed a bug where agents got stuck in unsorted queues if an agent tried to leave the queue but was blocked by other agents
  • Correctly evade when agents leave an elevator
  • Fixed a bug where the distance selection mode was not always evaluated correctly when coming from an elevator
crowd:it Version 2.16.3          01.09.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed after deleting simulation results
  • Fixed a bug, where the cell grid was displaced in various scenarios
  • Draw object labels on all floors where a simulation object is visible
  • Allow the entire simulation time in certain time pickers
  • Consider portals when navigating on their target floor
  • Correctly navigate towards a portal if an agent is far away from the portal
crowd:it Version 2.16.2          26.08.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where the Sets-Window crashed when adding a new set and pressing enter
  • Fixed a bug, where the Sets-Window crashed when deleting multiple members from a set by pressing the delete-key
  • Correctly calculate first and last entry for evaluation summaries
  • Fixed a bug, where the selection process window crashed under very specific circumstances
  • Fixed a bug where evaluations were drawn on all floors while being moved
  • Disallow time pickers for video reports and heatmaps to exceed the simulation time
  • Fixed a bug, where inconsistent settings for social distancing crashed crowd:it
  • Fixed a bug where selection processes were not correctly evaluated when using nested sets
  • Made movement of agents waiting for an elevator more natural
  • Ensure that agents always correctly overstep the waiting line in sorted queues
crowd:it Version 2.16.1          08.08.2022

Features

  • Slightly improved the selection process UI
  • Allow pathsnippets and sets to be a direct successor of itself

Fixes

  • Made the calculation of scatter charts more robust
  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed when an object that was not a member of a set was referenced in a selection mode
  • Fixed a bug where crowdit crashed when pasting data to tables that was improperly formatted
  • Fixed a bug were not all skipped sets were written as simulation output
  • Display all sets that were skipped at the same time
  • Show duplicate warnings only once
  • Correctly calculate threshold in selection processes when agents in groups revisit the same set several times
  • Correctly evade other agents in origins and waitingzones
  • Fixed a bug where groups could not enter waitingzones
  • Don't crash when an agent skips the last set on their path
crowd:it Version 2.16.0          28.07.2022

Features

  • Increased scrolling speed in some of the windows
  • Allow to select simulation objects in the floor plan using quickselect
  • Allow starting pathsnippets with origins

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed when the default system language is not english or german
  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed when entering an invalid value in the default value field for elevators
  • Correct dxf-export of floor files that originally came from a dxf-file that contained blocks
  • Fixed bad displayed dialog windows when reimporting a floor by adding scrollbars
  • Translated some text to german that was only available in english
  • Warn before simulating when a path or pathsnippet spans two floors, but no floor connectors are contained in the path
  • Warn before simulating when the geometry of origins or waitingzones intersects itself
  • Fixed a bug, where renaming a simulation object removed its settings in the selection processes
  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed when making objects that are not selected in the floorplan invisible via quickselect
  • Correctly calculate threshold in selection processes when agents are in groups
  • Disallow to sidestep a portal
crowd:it Version 2.15.0          14.07.2022

Features

  • Added a reset button to the agent visualization dialog
  • Agents now skip a set if the selection process does not return any members
  • Display sets that were skipped by an agent in the agent statistics
  • Added data series for agents inside evaluations by persona

Fixes

  • Disable certain menu items when no floors are loaded
  • Fixed a bug, where sometimes crowd:it crashed when renaming objects via quickselect
  • Don't make the table that shows all navigation states ridiculously small
  • Allow the simulation time to wrap around 00:00:00
  • Fixed weird queueing behaviour in unsorted queues
  • Fixed a bug, where agents sometimes got stuck in sorted queues, when personas with vastly different torso sizes were used
crowd:it Version 2.14.0          30.06.2022

Features

  • Added an option to color agents by persona
  • Added Icon + Text to show drag&drop areas when no project or floor is present

Fixes

  • Correctly update the Quickselect window when deleting elements
  • Fixed a bug, where selecting members from a path/path snippet that contained the same member several times lead to an error
  • Fixed a bug, where replacing and renaming a floor removed evaluations
  • Format numbers in textfields to two decimal places
  • Fixed a bug, where the bounds of a screenshot exported from evaluations were too large
  • Fine-tuned, how the selection processes of nested sets are evaluated
  • Don't wait out premovement time again, if an origin is used as intermediate destination
  • Fixed a bug, where agents got stuck when queueing for origins
  • Correctly account for agents revisiting a set multiple times
crowd:it Version 2.13.0          17.06.2022

Features

  • It is now possible to replace a floor with a new floor that doesn't contain all assigned simulation objects

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where the simulation results were not loaded after canceling the simulation calculation
  • Fixed calculation of OD Summaries
  • Fixed columns for Tripwire Tour Tables
  • Fixed the filter in the "Add to Set" - Dialog
  • Fixed a bug where agents got stuck on stairs
crowd:it Version 2.12.0          02.06.2022

Features

  • Allow personas to ignore certain types of simulation object

Fixes

  • Disabled edit action in quickselect
  • Fixed a bug where agents got stuck on stairs
crowd:it Version 2.11.1          23.05.2022

Fixes

  • Allow capacity for pathsnippets that use the MayVisit heuristic
  • Fixed a bug where barcharts sometimes crashed
crowd:it Version 2.11.0          19.05.2022

Features

  • See the total number of generated agents before running a simulation
  • Allow to set a capacity for pathsnippets

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where portals were not drawn on the connected floor
  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to open a file where a persona was renamed
crowd:it Version 2.10.1          26.04.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the logo was not shown in screenshots or videos
  • Fixed an error that occurred when opening crowd:it on MAC
  • Fixed an error that occurred when opening crowd:it for the first time
crowd:it Version 2.10.0          12.04.2022

Features

  • Introduced offline version
  • Usability improvements
crowd:it Version 2.9.0          29.03.2022

Features

  • Introduced german language
  • Usability improvements

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug, where wrong values were displayed in path summaries, if a start time was set
  • Fixed a bug that caused queues to break, when queueing around very sharp edges
crowd:it Version 2.8.3          17.03.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a rare bug that lead to agents being stuck on escalators
  • Fixed a bug where agents sometimes didn't find a waitingspot in waitingzones
crowd:it Version 2.8.2          10.03.2022

Fixes

  • Improved performance of selection processes by applying a preprocessing step
crowd:it Version 2.8.1          09.03.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where it was possible to create portals that don't connect Floors
  • Fixed a bug where agents got stuck in portals
  • Fixed demand mode in selection processes: Don't select a member, when the threshold is set to 0
crowd:it Version 2.8.0          07.03.2022

Features

  • Added "only for navigation" option to scaled areas
  • Improved tripwire UI
  • Enable double click for evaluations

Fixes

  • Fixed several minor bugs
  • Performance improvements
crowd:it Version 2.7.3          18.02.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed when someone tried to open certain "hint" Dialogs
  • Fixed a bug where it was impossible to simulate more than the default time
crowd:it Version 2.7.2          17.02.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused simulations to crash
  • Fixed a bug where crowd:it crashed, when the agent to follow in a video report was not present
  • Fixed a bug where the selected agents were not shown in screenshots
crowd:it Version 2.7.1          15.02.2022

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that made it impossible to load a crowd:it project
crowd:it Version 2.7.0          15.02.2022

Features

  • Improved Forms: Added preview for Dialogs that create or edit Stairs, Escalators, Queues, Portals and Tripwires
  • Improved Summary Tables
  • Updated to Java 11
crowd:it Version 2.6.0          24.01.2022

Features

  • Improved Form Dialogs
  • Allow to copy warning and error messages in some dialogs
  • Enabled copy and paste support in more tables

Fixes

  • Fixed several minor bugs
crowd:it Version 2.5.12         20.12.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with initializing color manager for heatmaps
  • Corrected an issue with updating tables
  • Corrected an issue with deleting background images
  • Correct behaviour if a origin has no intervals
crowd:it Version 2.5.11         14.12.2021

Fix

  • Added a circular check to path validation
crowd:it Version 2.5.10         10.12.2021

Fix

  • Fixed an issue where a project couldn't be loaded when it contained a background image
crowd:it Version 2.5.8 + 2.5.9         09.12.2021

Fix

  • Fixed an issue with reseting data series after evaluation settings change
crowd:it Version 2.5.7         08.12.2021

Fix

  • Corrected behaviour when aborting file conversion
  • Corrected behaviour of "Congestion summary table"
  • Corrected read trajectory task displayed percentage
  • Corrected behaviour of double clicking on simulation objects
  • Many minor bugs
crowd:it Version 2.5.6         06.12.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an rare issue with stuck agents after stepping alternatively
crowd:it Version 2.5.5         01.12.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an rare issue with stuck agents on escalators
  • Corrected an issue where "All at once" for premovement time intervals was ignored
  • Corrected an issue within navigation
crowd:it Version 2.5.4         25.11.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with renaming origins
  • Corrected an issue with displaying labels of simulation objects
crowd:it Version 2.5.3         23.11.2021

Fix

  • Fixed an issue with exporting videos
crowd:it Version 2.5.2         22.11.2021

Fix

  • Fixed an issue with parsing waitingzones
  • Fixed an issue with the build process
crowd:it Version 2.5.1         22.11.2021

Feature

  • Improved validation inside intervals table in forms
  • Warn user when closing crowd:it while the simulation calculation is running
  • Display persona details in simulation parameters (result) table
  • Display errors in other tabs of form
crowd:it Version 2.5.0          18.11.2021

Features

  • Option to have multiple populations within one project
  • Scheduled waiting behaviour
  • Improved origin, waitingzone and destination form
  • Improved summary creation
  • Many new predefined charts and evaluations

Fixes

  • Correct behaviour in charting dialog
  • Corrected issues with group movement
crowd:it Version 2.4.3         05.11.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with creating multiple sets after each other in the same dialog
crowd:it Version 2.4.2         14.10.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with writing multi assigned simulation objects to file
  • QuickSelect "edit" multiple no longer renames the simulation objects
crowd:it Version 2.4.1         08.10.2021

Fix

  • An issue with exporting videos
crowd:it Version 2.4.0          07.10.2021

Features

  • Redesign of origin and waitingzone configuration dialogs
  • Configuration option for agent and trace coloring in video export and screenshot dialog
  • Improved set filter configuration user interface
  • Improve result table content.
  • Many additional data series and predefined chart

Performance Improvements

  • Improve performance of chart dialog

Fixes

  • Correct behaviour if there is no way to reach its next destination for a agent
  • Many minor issues
crowd:it Version 2.3.6         05.10.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with converting old files with queues without direction to new file format version
crowd:it Version 2.3.5         22.09.2021

Feature

  • Improved validation for torso diameters (Settings form + simulation results)
crowd:it Version 2.3.4         14.09.2021

Feature

  • Add population predefined charts (premovement & velocity distribution)
  • Improve support for slightly not rectangular stairs and escalators
crowd:it Version 2.3.3          13.09.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an small issue with the updating process
crowd:it Version 2.3.2          13.09.2021

Fix

  • Corrected an issue with checking if pedestrian reached there final destination
  • Corrected an issue with predefined chart axis labels
crowd:it Version 2.3.1          08.09.2021

Fix

  • Corrected a small issue in the update process
crowd:it Version 2.3.0          08.09.2021

Features

  • Redesign Sets table
  • Redesign workflow charts
  • Improved congestion evaluation (ignore waiting peds and defined threshold on stairs)
  • Improved behaviour in sorted and unsorted queues
  • Support for single-step stairs
  • Improve social distancing support
  • Allow pedestrians within a origin to be generate at the same timestep as all other pedestrians in this origin within a premovement time interval
crowd:it Version 2.2.3          16.08.2021

Bugfix

  • Add lost functionality to rename sets back
crowd:it Version 2.2.2          06.08.2021

Bugfix

  • Correct drawing arrow of tripwire
  • Correct get final destination for old files
crowd:it Version 2.2.1          04.08.2021

Bugfix

  • Correct an issue with calibrating background images
  • Correct an issue with parsing axis of saved charts
  • Hide some feature still in beta mode
crowd:it Version 2.2.0          02.08.2021

Features

  • New elevator evaluations (Waiting, boarding, traveling and deboarding time and stop counter)
  • New elevator data series (Pedestrians waiting before elevator per floor and pedestrians inside elevator)
  • New queueing data series (No of pedestrians currently queuing, Queuing duration per pedestrian)
  • New information about next destination of a pedestrian
  • New arrival data series at evaluation polygons
  • New option to create a portal leading to the same floor to allow "one way streets"
  • New option xBest in selection processes for set

Performance improvements

  • Improved validation performance in Path table
  • Improved rendering performance
  • Improved video export and screenshot export performance
crowd:it Version 2.1.15          13.07.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected popup menu on right click on non selected simulation object
  • Corrected dxf import for grouped objects that are on different layers
  • Corrected renaming via quickselect for sets, pathsnippets and paths
  • Corrected and issue with reading closest from file for best filters
crowd:it Version 2.1.14          05.07.2021

Bugfix

  • Correct a minor problem with exiting escalators / stairs
  • Many minor bug fixes
crowd:it Version 2.1.13          29.06.2021

Feature

  • Improved popup menu for path creation when clicking on overlapping simulation objects

Performance improvement

  • Improved rendering performance for pedestrians
  • Improved popup menu for path creation when clicking on overlapping simulation objects
  • Corrected an issue with updating the properties table for selected pedestrians

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with updating the properties table for selected pedestrians
crowd:it Version 2.1.12          18.06.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with updating the properties table for selected pedestrians
crowd:it Version 2.1.11          08.06.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an rare issue with arcs in imported dxf files
  • Corrected an issue with exporting videos following traced agents
crowd:it Version 2.1.10          01.06.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with detecting old heuristics
crowd:it Version 2.1.9          01.06.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with importing closed polylines with only 2 points
  • Corrected an issue with adding new set members to sets with old heuristics
crowd:it Version 2.1.8          08.05.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with calculating congestion duration
crowd:it Version 2.1.7          04.05.2021

Bugfix

  • Display "Referenced by" again in sets table
  • Corrected an issue with displaying legends for color agents by ...
crowd:it Version 2.1.6          30.04.2021

Feature

  • Removed check for additional parallelization of stair railings
  • Improved error message display

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with sets tables
crowd:it Version 2.1.5          29.04.2021

Feature

  • Improved support of old heuristics for sets

Bugfix

  • Corrected minor issues with set table
crowd:it Version 2.1.3 & 2.1.4          28.04.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected small issues with file conversion from file format 0.8 to 0.9
  • Corrected display of old heuristics
  • Corrected display of popupmenu in pedestrian details table
crowd:it Version 2.1.1 & 2.1.2          27.04.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with parsing simulation files
crowd:it Version 2.1.0          27.04.2021

Features

  • Integration of new file format 0.9
  • Converter from file format 0.8 to 0.9
  • Remove option to set object to queue for
  •  Reworked selection option for set members
crowd:it Version 2.0.3          22.04.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected an issue with pedstrians stepping back on a stair if there is an congestion
crowd:it Version 2.0.2          16.04.2021

Feature

  • Add new predefined chart "floor exit times"

Bugfix

  • Add new predefined chart "floor exit times"
  • Correct behaviour when switching between data series in refine data tab
crowd:it Version 2.0.1          15.04.2021

Bugfix

  • Corrected a small issue with data series for portals
crowd:it Version 2.0.0          14.04.2021

Feature

  • New agent behaviour and representation
  • Charts from each simulation object are now available
crowd:it Version 1.11.1          16.04.2021

postvis

  • Corrected an issue with switching between data series in refine data tab
crowd:it Version 1.11.0          14.04.2021

postvis

  • Update update process
  • Many small fixes
crowd:it Version 1.10.6          12.04.2021

postvis

  • Correct an issue with displaying category data series in charts
crowd:it Version 1.10.6          12.04.2021

postvis

  • Correct an issue with displaying category data series in charts
crowd:it Version 1.10.5          09.04.2021

postvis

  • Improve behavior of pedestrian statistics table
  • Corrected behavior when importing charts without fixed axis
  • Corrected behavior of screenshot and video export dialogs (again)
crowd:it Version 1.10.4          09.04.2021

postvis

  • Corrected behavior of screenshot and video export dialogs
  • Some optical changes on screenshot and video export dialogs
crowd:it Version 1.10.3          08.04.2021

postvis

  • Corrected a small issue with aborting social distance exposure calculation
  • Correct size of social distancing circle display
  • Correct a lot of other minor issues
crowd:it Version 1.10.2          31.03.2021

postvis

  • Corrected an issue with the default value for heatmap calculation in screenshots
crowd:it Version 1.10.1          30.03.2021

postvis

  • Corrected an issue with reopening saved charts
  • Corrected an issue with congestion duration calculation with premovement times
crowd:it Version 1.10.0          29.03.2021

postvis

  • Reworked chart creation process and added additional functionality to create custom bar charts
crowd:it Version 1.9.18          16.03.2021

kernel

  • Corrected a rare issue with stepping on rotated stairs
crowd:it Version 1.9.17          16.03.2021

postvis

  • Correct dxf import for polylines with less than two vertices
crowd:it Version 1.9.16          15.03.2021

postvis

  • Block quick select while running any action
  • Improved error handling
  • Various small bug fixes for video export

kernel

  • Improved error handling
  • Improved collision detection
  • Cleanup walking modes to allow to add more states in the future
crowd:it Version 1.9.15          04.03.2021

kernel

  •  Improve collision detection for corner cases
  •  Improve navigation field interpolation
  • Correct behaviour when stepping over short stairs (less than 4 treads)
  • Correct behaviour when evading for pedestrians with highly different torso sizes
  •  Correct behaviour for stairs stacked on top of each other
  •  Correct rounding issues when stepping over portals
crowd:it Version 1.9.14          18.01.2020

kernel

  • Improved evasive behaviour in waitingzones near walls
  • Improved behaviour in unsorted queuing areas
  • Improved boarding behaviour in elevators
crowd:it Version 1.9.13          11.01.2020

postvis

  • New congestion duration heatmap and data series for charts
  • New option to copy chart data to clipboard
  • New powered by open source software dialog
  • Improve start screen and licence dialog
  • Improved error handling for unknown errors
  • Improved quick select performance
  • Improved pedestrian rendering performance

kernel

  • Improved social distancing behavior
  • Improved collision check when stepping over portals
  • Improved navigation to waiting spots
crowd:it Version 1.9.12          09.12.2020

postvis

  • Correct ui behaviour on macOS
  • Charting: Move buttons to a position suitable for macOS
  • Improve unknown error handling
  • Correct behaviour of data series "floor exit times"
crowd:it Version 1.9.11          23.11.2020

kernel

  • Correct check for two overlapping line shaped simulation objects
crowd:it Version 1.9.10          19.11.2020

postvis

  • Correct heatmap tooltip
crowd:it Version 1.9.9          19.11.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with the floor background coloring for scenarios with a single floor
crowd:it Version 1.9.8          19.11.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with export screenshots and videos
crowd:it Version 1.9.7          16.11.2020

postvis

  • Improve escalator behaviour: No fixed lanes and switch floor on half of the escalator
  • Portals are drawn on connected floor
  • Heatmaps: Select if pedestrians are ignored in premovement time
  • First statistical run data series: simulation time percentiles

kernel

  • Improve escalator behaviour: No fixed lanes and switch floor on half of the escalator
crowd:it Version 1.9.6          21.10.2020

kernel

  • Improve positioning in origins with only one pedestrian
  • Improve pedestrian behaviour in front of stairs, escalators and portal entries
  • Improve unsorted queuing behaviour and performance
crowd:it Version 1.9.5          19.10.2020

postvis

  • Improve menu: Reduction of the menu with the help of toggle menu items 
  • Addtional preview panel in video and screenshot export dialogs
  • Option to set size of screenshots directly in dialog
  • Many QuickSelect performance improvements
  • Improved naming when creating mulitple simulation object
crowd:it Version 1.9.4          05.10.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an small validation issue in the waiting zone form
crowd:it Version 1.9.3          28.09.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with replacing floors with floors with different name
crowd:it Version 1.9.2          17.09.2020

postvis

  • Speed up floor import
  • Improve simulation object click and selection behaviour
crowd:it Version 1.9.1          03.09.2020

postvis

  • Fixes a small issue with showing social distancing circles without calculating them
crowd:it Version 1.9.0          02.09.2020

postvis

  • Option to set social distance value in simulation settings form
  • New Heatmaptype: time within social distance
  • Option to evaluate and display “exposure time” of pedestrians
  • Screenshot and Video Dialog: Choose folder after pressing “export”
  • Addtional option to add floors via tab pane
  • Hide and Show option for simulation objects in quickselect
  • Option to reload current simulation project
  • Some small ui adjustments and bugfixes

kernel

  • Additonal option for pedestrians  to keep social distance to other pedestrians
  • Improvements on behaviour in unsorted queuing area 
crowd:it Version 1.8.21         05.08.2020

postvis

  • Fixes an issue with opening crowd:it on mac
crowd:it Version 1.8.20          30.07.2020

postvis

  • Fixes a potential issue with file validation
crowd:it Version 1.8.19          27.07.2020

postvis

  • Correct file chooser behaviour for invalid file paths
crowd:it Version 1.8.18          22.07.2020

postvis

  • Improved visualization of floor connecting stairs
  • Additional density option “Standard density”
  • Improved voronoi density calculation
  • Zoom factor is adjustable in export dialogs
  • Allow to convert floors to dxf files
  • Remove jumping around in set colors dialog

kernel

  • Pedestrians switch floor on half of the stair
  • Improved evasive behaviour on stairs
  • Improved collision detection on floor connecting stairs
  • Improved evasive behaviour in front of elevators
crowd:it Version 1.8.17          08.07.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with opening the hierarchie for a specific pedestrian
crowd:it Version 1.8.16          07.07.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with renaming elevators
  • Fixed an layout issue in the select data for chart dialog
  • Fixed the default size of the hierachie dialog
crowd:it Version 1.8.15          26.06.2020

kernel

  • Fixed an issue with less crowded for simulation objects with fixed capacity
crowd:it Version 1.8.14         26.06.2020

kernel

  • Fixed an issue that occurred when leaving the elevator
  • Fix small issues with the navigation around obstacles
crowd:it Version 1.8.13          22.06.2020

kernel

  • Pedestrians move into elevators
  • Pedestrians evade other pedestrians while waiting for the elevator
crowd:it Version 1.8.12          17.06.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with displaying the form of newly created directed scaled areas  
  • Fixed an issue with escalator creation
crowd:it Version 1.8.11          08.06.2020

postvis

  • Change heatmap settings in video and screenshot dialogs 
  • Evaluation polygons, rectangles and tripwires can be viewed, added, changed and deleted without simulation results
  • Additional information of “number of visits” in area summary tables
  • Design information panel: Right click on simulation object id opens default popupmenu
  • Tree hierarchie is not expanded as default and shows default popupmenu on rightclick on elements
  • Small fix for evaluations for long scenarios
crowd:it Version 1.8.10          25.05.2020

postvis

  • Additional option to unsorted queue for simulation object
  • Additional option to queue for multiple simulation objects
  • Additional option to set a direction vector for queues
  • Some small visual adjustments and fixes

kernel

  • Additional option to unsorted queue for simulation object
  • Additional option to queue for multiple simulation objects
  • Additional option to set a direction vector for queues
  • Many performance improvements
crowd:it Version 1.8.9          05.05.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with displaying files with multiple floors
crowd:it Version 1.8.8          04.05.2020

postvis

  • New Heuristic MayVisist for PathSnippets
  • Additional information panel provided in the design phase of simulation
  • Transparent simulation objects are now non-clickable
  • Fixed a bug with disabled sub menu entries on mac

kernel

  • New Heuristic MayVisist for PathSnippets
crowd:it Version 1.8.7          24.04.2020

postvis

  • It is only allowed to open existing files
  • Fixed the apply issue in some of the chart forms
crowd:it Version 1.8.6          14.04.2020

postvis

  • Edit functionallity for  simulation design forms when simulation results are present
  • Remove unit in default axis labels
  • Many small fixes

kernel

  • Sorted pedestrian generation is speed up
crowd:it Version 1.8.5          31.03.2020

kernel

  • Fixed an issue where agents got stuck for no reason
crowd:it Version 1.8.4          31.03.2020

postvis

  • Fix an issue with reopening the heatmap dialog
crowd:it Version 1.8.3          30.03.2020

postvis

  • Input fields for time now behave more intuitively
  • The floor import dialog has improved support for keyboard inputs
  • Charts generated directly from evaluations now have their name in the title

kernel

  • Agents in Origins are by default placed more densely
  • Fixes a rare issue where larger agents couldn’t access a better position because of their geometry
crowd:it Version 1.8.2          08.06.2020

postvis

  • Fixed a issue with display floor connecting stairs
crowd:it Version 1.8.1          19.03.2020

postvis

  • Fixed a issue with high resolution
  • Fixed stair repair on file opening
crowd:it Version 1.8.0          18.03.2020

postvis

  • Sorted Birth Cells for Origins is now selected by default to improve performance in high-density situations
  • Performance of scenarios with many sets and path snippets has been improved
  • Renaming an interval now also renames the interval in the interval matrix
  • Replacing the floor-plan or inserting a new floor between two existing floors can now be done using the floor tab context menu
  • When exporting videos or screenshots, the name of the floor can be included in the image
  • Evaluations can now be copied to other floors
  • QuickSelect supports searching for PathSnippets
  • Simulation objects can now be removed from Sets via their context menu
  • Users can now edit Sets even when they are referenced
  • Fixed issues with the custom heatmap colors dialog
  • Validation of stairs was made stricter to match the kernel
  • DXF-files using blocks with a user-coordinate-system were not imported correctly
  • Many small fixes and improvements

kernel

  • When a single agent is born in an Origin interval, it will be placed in the center of the Origin to better support modelling chairs
  • When the Capacity of a Waiting Zone is 1, agents will always wait in the center
  • To match natural densities even closer, repulsion parameters have been calibrated and will be used for newly created projects
  • Performance for certain scenarios has been improved 
  • The flow rate of escalators has been reduced 
  • Sometimes agents in front of crowded stairs were behaving wrong, this has been fixed.
crowd:it Version 1.7.5          26.02.2020

postvis

  • Fixed an issue with editing the color stop values of custom color schemes for heatmaps
crowd:it Version 1.7.4          25.02.2020

postvis

  • Heatmaps can be configured with customized colorschemes
  • The standard color scheme for heatmaps has been changed to a clean blue one
  • Tripwire Tour Table now also contains the “Number of Agents” for each leg of the tour
  • Voronoi density is only calculated for certain evaluation areas
  • Multiple dataseries can be added to a chart at once
  • Users can navigate the floor plan with arrow keys as well
  • Complex geometry is simplified on import
  • Many small UX improvements
  • Fixed selecting a path with the mouse
  • Fixed drawing issues for stairs and portals
crowd:it Version 1.7.3          12.02.2020

kernel

  • Fixed a rare case where the “closest”-heuristic did not yield the expected object.
crowd:it Version 1.7.2          29.01.2020

kernel

  • Allow slow Agents to enter and move on stairs
crowd:it Version 1.7.1          12.12.2019

postvis

  • When a Logo was set, right clicking didn’t work properly anymore
  • When highlighting a Simulation Object in the PathHierarchy, crowd:it showed an error message
  • Taking multiple screenshots or videos of Rectangles didn’t work
  • Selecting Queuing Areas has been improved

kernel

  • Agents were able to walk along a Path that had Itinerary Items on other floors on them. If that is the case now, the agent stops.
crowd:it Version 1.7.0          11.12.2019

postvis

  • Zooming and panning the floor plan has been improved and feels much more natural
  • Multiple simulation objects can now be selected to configure or create sets from directly in the plan
  • crowd:it now supports heatmaps displaying the Level of Service after Fruin
  • A new demo license allows testing crowd:it without registering with accu:rate first
  • When loading a scenario, the progress is communicated clearer
  • The Saved Reports dialog supports searching
  • Added a SUM aggregation function to dataseries
  • New Tripwire Summary table
  • Coordinates of Evaluations can be specified precisely now
  • The path hierarchy for the path of a certain agent can be opened from the info panel
  • Performance of certain tables has been improved for large scenarios
  • Some other UI/UX improvements

kernel

  • On stairs, agents evade oncoming traffic better
  • When waiting in a waiting zone, agents now make way for passing agents if necessary
  • Performance improvements for certain scenarios

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