0.0.34

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Known issues.

0.0.34 (2024-11-15)

General:

• Fixed invalid uv coordinate handling when importing meshes to voxelize them
• Added support for paint.net palettes
• Added support for Adobe Photoshop ACO palettes
• Added support for bbmodel Blockbench format
• Added support for vxb Sandbox Block format
• Fixed a few errors in the lua bindings of the g_import global
• Extended the lua api (g_sys, g_io)
• Fixed nameless, embedded textures in glb
• Fixed off-by-one in voxformat_voxelizemode 1
• Fixed missing axis flip for md2 scale and translate value imports
• Added support for Quake1 mdl files
• Added support for exporting and importing to and from png slices
• Added support for Autodesk 3ds files
• Support for loading normals for voxelization (mesh formats) and for voxel formats (vxl)
• Fixed vxl saving for negative coordinates
• Split file dialog options into a new separated dialog
• Added new lua scripts (game of life, mandelbulb, smooth)
• Added support for Pixelorama palette

VoxConvert:

• Removed --image-as-XXX parameters (now part of the png format)
• Removed --colored-heightmap (this is auto-detected in the png format now)

VoxEdit:

• Allow to change the local directory for the asset panel
• Add more online sources to the asset panel
• Added support to apply a checkboard pattern to your voxels just for rendering
• Improved handling for max allowed voxels
• Disable undo/redo for model changes if you exceed a max suggested model size
• Disable autosaves for model changes if you exceed a max suggested model size
• New brush type to project textures into sub areas or on surfaces
• Added an FPS option for the animation timeline
• Added normal palette panel
• Fixed missing memento group for merging nodes
• Improved undo/redo for lua script changes on the scenegraph
• Added a slice mode to only show a particular height level of your volume
• Don't place invalid colored voxels in group lock mode
• Render forward direction in the viewport

0.0.33

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Known issues.

0.0.33 (2024-08-05)

General:

• Fixed invalid log levels
• Added a new node type for named points
• Improved 3zh format support
• Added support for ase and aseprite format
• Added cvar voxformat_emptypaletteindex
• Create walk and jump animations with the new animate.lua script
• New lua script and bindings (imageasvolume.lua) for importing 2d images with depth
• Added v3b format support (compressed v3a file)
• Translation improvements
• Fixed mesh extraction at chunk borders in some situations
• Added support for libjpeg to speed up save times (and thus avi creation times)
• Improved Windows file attribute handling
• writeString lua stream binding has a new default value - check the docs

VoxConvert:

• Added a basic UI for voxconvert
• Removed --dump and added --json <full> to generate a scene graph structure

VoxBrowser:

• Removed standalone application - it's integrated in voxedit now

VoxEdit:

• Improved brush support
• Fixed loading voxel collection assets
• Gradient paint brush mode
• Fixed invalid voxel erasing in plane brush
• Extrude with preview (plane brush)
• Fixed a few palette panel issues when re-ordering colors
• Improved the workflow to import a new palette

0.0.32

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Known issues.

0.0.32 (2024-05-29)

General:

• Add meshoptimizer support (new cvar voxformat_optimize)
• Fixed missing region shift for vxl (Command and Conquer)
• Fixed MagicaVoxel vox file loading for files that don't contain instances, but only models
• Added vxc thumbnail support
• Fixed a translation related crash for all apps on windows

VoxEdit:

• Converted the text-voxel-rendering into a new brush
• Fixed undo node transform changes as first action

0.0.31

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0.0.31 (2024-05-09)

General:

• Fixed memory leak in fbx loading
• Added support for starmade templates smtpl format
• Fixed merging of nodes when pivots are used
• Added support for litematic Minecraft support
• Extended supported Minecraft materials
• Extended lua bindings for key frames and transforms
• Extended lua bindings for http requests
• Fixed face culling for negative scale values
• Added command and cvar dialogs to the help menus
• Added cubzh version 5 (older version) support
• Added support for writing uncompressed qubicle qb files
• Fixed qubicle qb version number
• Added basic support for rooms.xyz thing file support
• Optimized file dialog for large directories
• Added translation support (po files)
• Fixed error in up-scaling volumes
• Fixed x-axis flip for cubzh 3zh files
• Added cvar voxformat_rgbweightedaverage to control the color contributions for a triangle
• Added the ability to upload crash dumps
• Improved support for reference nodes in a lot of formats
• Improved pivot support in a lot of formats

VoxConvert:

• Added zip archive support for --input
• Added the ability to export into slices with --slice when --output is a png file

VoxEdit:

• Added support for browsing the remote voxel collections to the asset panel
• Added modelmerge all parameter to merge all nodes at once
• Added presentation command to cycle through all models in a scene
• Improved position panel to edit transforms
• Improved start-up times
• Pasting from a different palette will search the closest colors
• Fixed off-by-one error in ve_regionsizes cvar handling
• Re-enabled the yocto-pathtracer panels again
• Moved some ui elements into other panels
• Improved stamp brush features
• Fixed brush regression in combination with the override mode
• Added pathfinder brush preview

Thumbnailer:

• Fixed logic error in skipping camera nodes

Packaging:

• Renamed AppStream package to io.github.vengi_voxel.vengi.voxedit for DBUS compatibility

0.0.30

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This is a bug fix release

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Known issues.

0.0.30 (2024-03-23)

General:

• Fixed material saving and loading for vengi format
• Fixed off-by-one in palette material property handling
• Fixed extrude on region boundaries
• Added dialogs to recover from previous crash by resetting all config values

VoxBrowser:

• Optimizations for huge voxel collections
• Fixed some download url assembling errors for some online collections

VoxEdit:

• Fixed segfault when activating simplified mode
• Fixed spanning AABB
• Fixed crash on deleting reference nodes after duplication
• Fixed pivot handling issue for reference nodes
• Spurious reference nodes were visible in edit mode
• Fixed a few memento state handling errors in terms of key frames and pivot points
• Fixed memento state handling errors for reference nodes
• Disable a few of the new panels in simple mode again
• Improved scene mode node selection

0.0.29

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0.0.29 (2024-03-15)

General:

• Expose hollow() to lua bindings
• Add lua sanity checker to the build pipelines
• Fixed randomness in lua script similarcolor.lua
• Fixed error in voxelizer handling off-by-one cases in negative vertex coordinates
• Fixed vxl/hva loading and saving
• Fixed missing pcubes write support
• Support palette materials
• Optimized qubicle QB color quantization
• Import magicavoxel materials
• Improved GLTF material support
• Made the smooth normals for the cubic mesh extractor optional (voxformat_withnormals)
• Improved texture coordinates for mesh exports
• Improved bash completion script creation
• Improved scene camera centering
• Fixed Anima Toon (scn) volume loading support
• Palette optimizations
• Improved StarMade sment, smd2 and smd3 support

VoxBrowser:

• New tool to browse voxel collections

VoxConvert:

• Added --print-formats parameter to print all formats as json the ease the parsing for third party tools
• Support multiple --output parameters to write one (or more) input files into different formats in one step

VoxEdit:

• Auto create key frames when transform is modified via gizmo, too
• Fixed an error in interpolating between the key frames
• Fixed an error while trying to remove unused colors from a re-sorted palette
• Fixed missing outline for dark voxels
• Update paint features
• Added more features to the palette panel (e.g. duplicating and removing colors)
• Allow to bind the left- and right-scrolling mouse wheel
• Improved draw color brush darken/brighten to create new colors if needed (and possible)
• Fixed voxel placing on using the camera view manipulator
• Fixed grid culling for orthographic projections
• Selection in ortho fixed side view spans the whole size of the volume
• Updated key bindings
• Added popup for renaming a node
• Fixed a few palette panel issues for sorting and re-ordering
• Improved grid rendering
• Added new models to the new-scene-dialog

Thumbnailer:

• Don't render camera frustums for the thumbnails
• Allow to change the camera mode (top, left, right, ...)

0.0.28

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0.0.28 (2024-01-17)

moved the github project into an organization named vengi-voxel - the url changed to https://github.com/vengi-voxel/vengi.

General:

• Improved SLAB5/6 support of kvx, kv6, kfa and vox
• Don't fill the inner voxels of the SLAB5/6 models anymore
• Improved palette support for plane and volume import
• Fixed an error in de-duplicating Magicavoxel models
• Allow one to save/convert only visible nodes
• ply format got support for converting polygons into triangles
• Show the full application name as window title
• Improved esc handling for menus and popups
• Added support for particube pcubes and 3zh support
• Added support for Photoshop ase palette
• Added support for Paintshop Pro (JASC) pal palette
• Extended support for the Gimp gpl palette format to support the AseSprite alpha channel extension
• Added support to collect anonymous metrics (disabled by default)
• Added support to align all models in a scene - useful for rendering all models for an overview
• Extended lua bindings
• Added automatic bash and zsh completion generation for all apps. Just use e.g. vengi-voxconvert --completion bash (or zsh)
• Calculate normals for the cubic mesh extractor, too
• Added support for cubzh b64 maps
• Fixed endian issue on big endian machines in gltf loading
• Fixed non-flipped uv coordinates for some gltf files

VoxConvert:

• Improved --export-models to work with the output format given by --output
• Added --filter-property to filter by node property key<:value>

VoxEdit:

• Added alternative split-object implementation and expose it to the editor tool panel
• Fixed split dialog appearing too late
• Added shader for marching cubes
• Fixed selection handling
• Added tip of the day dialog
• Resize to selection
• Fixed palette panel issue if you changed the order of colors
• Added more templates to the new-scene-dialog
• Made the new-scene-dialog scrollable
• Allow one to change the transform of a node with updating the children
• Fixed a few crashes
• Improved gizmo settings panel
• Added the console next to the animation timeline panel
• Improved color themes (especially the light theme)
• Only show the brush panel if in edit mode
• Converted the script brush back to a normal panel
• Automatically reference all child nodes when creating a new reference
• Allow one to switch between cubes and marching cubes rendering in the editor
• Added clear and fill commands
• Preview for the line brush
• Allow to render the bones

Thumbnailer:

• Add a few more command line options to control the camera

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minecraft greenfield

lospec ui integration

0.0.27

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Known issues.

0.0.27 (2023-09-19)

Breaking changes:

• Renamed globals for lua scripts. Added a g_ prefix to them. You have to adopt your scripts
  to work with the latest version with vengi (if you use them):
  • scenegraph is now g_scenegraph
  • palettemgr is now g_palette
  • noise is now g_noise
  • cmd is now g_cmd
  • var is now g_var
  • XvecX is now g_XvecX (ivec3 is for example g_ivec3)

General:

• Added cvar voxformat_pointcloudsize for point cloud formats
• Added Polygon File Format (ply) mesh and point cloud support (ascii and binary)
• Fixed regression with GLTF exports
• Added a new lua script to slice a node into smaller pieces
• Expose shape generators to lua
• Fixed color intensity handling for kvx files
• Added write support for kvx format (used in e.g. voxel doom and eduke3d)
• Added support for Voxel3D v3a format

VoxEdit:

• Fixed regression about not rendering the shape volumes anymore
• Implemented scene graph panel drag and drop popup
• Added brush support and new editing features
• Fixed spurious crashes for windows

oasis

minecraft greenfield

lospec ui integration

0.0.26

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Known issues.

0.0.26 (2023-08-13)

General:

• Fixed pivot handling in VXR format
• Allow to export the GLTF vertex colors as byte values
• Added NeuQuant color quantization algorithm
• Optimized GLTF and MD2 import
• Fixed Quake1 texture handling
• General optimizations
• Added a new voxelization algorithm and a cvar to use it (set voxformat_voxelizemode to 1)
• Fixed issues with importing images with a depth-map
• Fixed regression for reading minecraft voxel data
• Added support for loading Lospec palettes

VoxEdit:

• Improved shape handling a lot
• Added (disabled) pathtracer support (Yocto/GL)
• Fixed rendering order of overlapping bounding boxes for the active node
• Added warning popup to split volumes into smaller pieces

oasis

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lospec ui integration

0.0.25

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Known issues.

0.0.25 (2023-07-28)

General:

• Fixed invalid x axis handling for Sandbox VXM format
• Fixed pivot handling in VXR/VXA format
• Support model references to build a complex scene
• Extended GLTF support to animation import and export as well as normal export
• Fixed missing base color support for GLTF
• Support for some parts of VoxelMax format
• Fixed Sandbox VXA version 3 support
• Fixed volume rotation issues
• Fixed volume merging issues
• Added Quake2 Model (md2) support
• Removed cvar voxformat_marchingcubes and replaced with voxel_meshmode (set to 1 to use marching cubes)
• Added new lua script gradient.lua
• Improved csm and nvm format support
• Added lua script for generating mazes
• Added the ability to easily scale a volume up
• Unified naming of commands and parameters (layer is model now, ...)
• Added VoxelBuilder (vbx) support
• Fixed missing group transform handling for MagicaVoxel files
• Added support for MagicaVoxel xraw format
• Added alpha support for MagicaVoxel materials
• Added support for loading Sandbox VXM format version 3
• Added new lua script and extended lua api to replace palettes, resize volumes and move voxels

VoxConvert:

• Fixed --input handling if the value is a directory
• Added option --wildcard to specify a wildcard in cases where the --input value is a directory
• Added --surface-only parameter that removes any non surface voxel.
• Added --dump-mesh to also show mesh details (like vertex count).

VoxEdit:

• Allow to export selections only
• Started to support different keymaps (blender, qubicle, magicavoxel and vengi own)
• Added support for multiple animations in one scene
• Allow to duplicate all scene graph nodes
• (Re-)implemented WASD controls in camera eye mode
• Fixed copy&paste errors with multiple selections
• Updated new scene dialog to include the templates
• Improved font quality
• Fixed a few crashes
• Added hollow functionality to remove invisible voxels
• Added pathtracer support (Yocto/GL)
• Preview of modifier shapes in edit mode

Thumbnailer:

• Improved camera placement
• Fixed threading issue with the mesh extraction for the renderer that could lead to black thumbnails