V3 Update, V4 Progress

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I uploaded a new version of V3 a couple of days ago with a couple of infrequent but important bug fixes.  If you run Check for Updates it should be there waiting.

I’m about 70% done with the adaptive stepping for waterline and it’s going very well.  I’ve redone it twice trying to find the right way to do it and if the current attempt works then it should be a really good feature.  The first failed attempt caused me to have to restructure the old code in a way that makes a conversion to mutithreaded code pretty easy.  Once I convert to multiple threads, the calculation time for waterline code should drop a lot if you have multiple CPU cores.  Nothing makes me happier than watching both cores on my laptop go to 100% during the calculations.

This should be the last major feature for the preview release of V4.  I’ll probably just do a couple of minor bug fixes and UI improvements and the push it out for testing.  I also spent a day updating my build system so it should make updates much more automated.  Hopefully I can push out V4 betas very quickly once I’m ready.