zStudio 0.9.7

• One file. zStudio is now a single, compressed zStudio.exe with .NET included, instead of zStudio.exe and a dependencies folder (459 files in all). The ZIP holds only zStudio.exe, LICENSE, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md (now with every licence text) and the Blender extension zStudio-Blender-extension-0.9.7.zip, and shrinks from 79 MB to 72 MB. The first start of each version unpacks the WPF native libraries (about 8 MB) to %TEMP%\.net\zStudio\. Decompressing the program in memory makes a start about 0.2 s slower than 0.9.6 and uses about 70 MB more memory. Replace an earlier version's folder rather than extracting over it: its dependencies folder is no longer used.
• The guides are no longer in the download: Help opens each guide, and the release notes, on GitHub as they are for the installed version. About zStudio shows zStudio's licence and the third-party notices.
• The Blender extension is now zStudio-Blender-extension-<version>.zip (it was zstudio_recoil-<version>.zip), beside zStudio.exe instead of in dependencies\blender; install it from there. Blender still lists it as zStudio RECOIL. It now asks the selected zStudio.exe for its version and works with the one of its own version, so the ZIP no longer has to stay beside zStudio.exe after installing.
• MCP: zstudio_help returns the installed version, the links Help opens and the licence and notice files beside zStudio.exe.
• Update check. The status bar shows Update available (left of Preview notices, also without a map) when a newer release is on GitHub; click it for the release page. zStudio checks at most once a day (Help → Check for updates automatically, on by default); Help → Check for updates checks now. MCP: zstudio_update_check, and zstudio_state reports update. With it and zstudio_help the catalog has 103 tools.

Download the win-x64 ZIP, extract it, and run zStudio.exe; the Blender extension (zStudio-Blender-extension-0.9.7.zip), LICENSE and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md come beside it. SHA256SUMS verifies the download. Game files are not included.