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Welcome to the Image Editor Update! There are a lot of new features and changes, check it out!

Highlights

• 2D Image Editor now has Layers and Selections
• Plugin details and settings page
• Animation Onion Skinning
• Animation presets!
• Java Modded Entity animation support!
• Secondary color

Image Editor

• Added layers
• Added selection system
• Replaced Copy-Paste Tool with Selection Tool
• Added secondary color
• Added Pixel perfect brush
• Improved brush stroke dynamics
• Added option to paint with right mouse button and second color
• Allow 2D editor brush tool starting position to exceed frame
• Added 2D Image format to start screen, renamed the category Low Poly to General
• Reverting to a texture version that is synced to a file will now load the old version from memory
• Moved image editor panels to the right sidebar
• Highlight brush line (shift key) before drawing
• Allow using "Edit in Blockbench" in web app
• Textures now get synced from and to "Edit in Blockbench" tab
• Renamed Textures panel to Images in image editor
• Added texture list multi selection
• Painting performance improvements
• Added option to discard local image/texture changes
• Remove Sync Color Between Instances feature, as tabs exist now
• Fill Tool mode "Element" is now hidden in 2D editor

Animation

• Added animation onion skinning
• Added animation presets
  • Created 20 built-in animation presets
  • Added the option to create custom presets
• Added toggle to lock animations into the playing state
• Added a Hint/error message when trying to select single element in animator
• Added new molang validation checks (#2011)
• Added the option to bake IK animations
• Auto-load particle and sound files when loading from bbmodel
• Added Java animation export (Modded Entity format)
• Increase timeline margin after last keyframe

Plugins

• Added plugin settings in plugin dialog
• Added plugin details page
• Added plugin features page

Meshes

• Added tool to apply object rotation to meshes
• Improved mesh editing performance

UV Mapping

• Added per-texture UV size in supported formats
• Added more accessible toggle for UV overlay in edit mode
• Added rectangle frame around UV selection

Screenshots and Recorder

• Added Advanced Screenshot option to capture screenshots at higher quality and with pre-determined parameters
• Added resolution and focal length options to GIF recorder
• The GIF recorder now records animations at consistent speed
• Added button to edit captured screenshots in 2D editor

Misc

• Added setting and enabled modded entity integer size by default
• Added cursor tooltips for many interactions
• Improvements to element and UV copying
• Custom OS file explorer icon for bbmodel files
• Updated several icons
• Updated window control icons on Windows/Linux
• Updated PWA display mode to collapse the title bar (#2079)
• Added icons to import image dialog
• Save panel configurations and sidebar width per mode
• Remember display slot when switching modes
• Allow area-selecting when the click was started over an element (#2028, thanks @farfalk)
• Added option to insert final newline in exported JSON files (#2086)
• Added icons in tab bar
• Removed scroll bar on start screen file names

Technical changes

• Upgraded electron
• Added togglable dialog form fields
• Added cursor tooltip API
• Added shared action system
• Allow ModelFormats without animation files to have animation controllers (#2095)
• Switch to standardized system for outliner node type icons (#2019)

Fixes

• Fix issues with using nested menus on touch screens
• Fix #2054 Non-vanilla model fields leak to other models
• Fix bedrock display settings accuracy
• Fix backup files not being created in image format
• Fix #2074 incorrect position when converting cube to mesh
• Fix scaling not updating sliders and transform gizmo
• Fix icon display issue in customize toolbar dialog
• Fixed #2093 Cannot select multiple files on mac via electron dialog
• Fixed blueprint reference image error
• Fixed mesh mirror modeling issues
• Fixed timeline channel heads lagging behind on some devices
• Fixed #2081 duplicating faces in mirror modeling
• Fixed #2071 issue with mouse wheel events on Firefox (thanks @Ampflower)
• Fixed #2104 slow draw speed on complex meshes
• Fixed unintended small borders around UV editor viewport
• Fixed an issue in the OBJ exporter (#2032, thanks @Steelsmasher)
• Fixed #2118 Undo in new image project deletes the image
• Fixed #2077 Freeze when loading particle with lifetime expressions
• Fixed converting single texture project sometimes not applying the correct texture
• Fixed #2108 Pasting keyframe over other deletes original keyframe
• Fixed hybrid menus not opening correctly
• Correctly adjust 2D Image editor size on mobile
• Added fallback for folded panels on mobile

Welcome to the 2nd beta for Blockbench 4.9 - The Layer Update!

To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features. Please note that pre-release versions in general may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.

To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/

Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.

Known issues

The windows builds display Beta 1 in the log and About window, even though this is beta 2.

Changelog

If you haven't already, check out the changelog of the previous beta version: https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench/releases/tag/v4.9.0-beta.1

Image editor

• Added layer blend modes
• Moved panels to the right sidebar
• Added setting for moving selection with selection tool
• Hold Alt and drag to duplicate texture selection
• Highlight line brush line in 2D editor
• Allow using "Edit in Blockbench" in web app
• Textures now get synced from and to "Edit in Blockbench" tab
• Renamed Textures panel to Images in image editor
• Restore chosen selection operation mode after pressing modifier key
• Added texture list multi selection
• Added Image format screen
• Added color overlay in rectangle selection tool

Other changes

• Save panel configurations per mode
• Auto set imported textures UV size
• Added more accessible toggle for UV overlay in edit mode
• Improved mesh editing performance
• Remember display slot when switching modes
• Allow ModelFormats without animation files to have animation controllers
• Added option to insert final newline in exported JSON files
• Allow custom repository and bug tracker links for plugins
• Allow area-selecting when the click was started over an element (#2028, thanks @farfalk)

Fixes

• Fixed issue with saving texture after some types of edits
• Fixed #2090 Move Texture with UV cuts off texture
• Fixed #2092 Issues with Per texture UV size
• Fixed #2087 Issue when duplicating and copying texture with layers
• Fixed #2088 Paint cursor offset when using higher template resolutions
• Fixed #2093 Cannot select multiple files on mac via electron dialog
• Fixed blueprint reference image error
• Fixed mesh mirror modeling issues
• Fixed timeline channel heads lagging behind on some devices
• Fixed #2081 duplicating faces in mirror modeling
• Fixed template generator issues
• Fixed #2071 issue with mouse wheel events on Firefox (thanks @Ampflower)
• Fixed #2104 slow draw speed on complex meshes
• Fixed unintended small borders around UV editor viewport
• Fixed manual color input in color panel not working
• Fixed and improved copy pasting workflow in 2D editor
• Fixed an issue in the OBJ exporter (#2032, thanks @Steelsmasher)
• Fixed selection tool dragging outline scale
• Fixed auto-keyframing issue when creating keyframe at start of timeline
• Fixed double clicking layer visibility icon opens properties dialog

Welcome to the first beta for Blockbench 4.9 - The Layer Update!

To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features. Please note that pre-release versions in general may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.

To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/

Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.

Image Editor

• Added layers
• Added selection system
• Replaced Copy-Paste Tool with Selection Tool
• Added secondary color
• Added Pixel perfect brush
• Improved brush stroke dynamics
• Added option to paint with right mouse button and second color
• Allow 2D editor brush tool coords to exceed frame
• Added 2D Image format to start screen, renamed the category Low Poly to General
• Remove Sync Color Between Instances feature, as tabs exist now
• Reverting to a texture version that is synced to a file will now load the old version from memory

Animation

• Added animation onion skinning
• Added animation presets
  • Created 19 included animation presets
  • Added the option to create custom animation presets
• Added toggle to lock animations into the playing state
• Added a Hint/error message when selecting element in animator
• Added new molang validation checks (#2011)
• Added the option to bake IK animations
• Auto-load particle and sound files when loading from bbmodel
• Added Java animation export (modded entity format)

Plugins

• Added plugin settings in plugin dialog
• Added plugin details page
• Added plugin features page

Meshes

• Added tool to apply object rotation to meshes

UV Mapping

• Added per-texture UV size in supported formats

Screenshots and Recorder

• Added Advanced Screenshot option to capture screenshots at higher quality and with pre-determined parameters
• Added resolution and focal length options to GIF recorder
• The GIF recorder now records animatios at consistent speed
• Added button to edit captured screenshots in 2D editor

Misc

• Add setting and enable modded entity integer size by default
• Add cursor tooltips for many interactions
• Improvements to element and UV copying
• Custom OS file explorer icon for bbmodel files
• Updated several icons
• Updated window control icons on Windows/Linux
• Updated PWA display mode to collapse the title bar (#2079)
• Add icons to import image dialog
• Sidebar width now works per mode

Technical changes

• Upgraded electron
• Added togglable dialog form fields
• Added cursor tooltip API
• Added shared action system

Fixes

• Fix issues with using nested menus on touch screens
• Fix #2054 Non-vanilla model fields leak to other models
• Fix bedrock display settings accuracy
• Fix backup files not being created in image format
• Fix #2074 incorrect position when converting cube to mesh
• Fix scaling not updating sliders and transform gizmo
• Fix icon display issue in customize toolbar dialog

Fixes

• Fixed #2016 Global mirror painting not working on centered elements
• Fixed issue with hybrid menu not staying open
• Fixed exporting textures with # in path
• Timeline ruler labels not rounded
• Updated electron to 25.7

Changes

• Elytra + cape skin model
• Banner skin model (#1997)
• Elements now support name flipping (#1982)
• Added update_scene_shading event hook
• Added a CDN mirror option, to solve plugins being unavailable in Egypt

Fixes

• Fixed #2002 Issue with loop cut on triangle shape
• Fixed #1984 Mesh merge undo does not track hierarchy
• Fixed amend edit can undo other changes after error in function
• Fixed graph editor box select selects graph on mouseup
• Fixed texture path issues
• Issue with duplicate texture detection
• Issue with relative texture paths in bbmodel export
• Fixed issue opening image project in web app
• Fixed #1920 Copy brush issues
• Fixed issue with loading new version plugins in the web app
• Fixed plugin settings deleting in rare cases
• Added limit + improved performance of searchable menus
• Fixed mirror modeling issues
• Fixed issue with recording high FPS GIFs
• Fixed num slider sliding not working on touch screens
• Fixed icon issues in action control
• Fixed incorrect location of brush outline in java block/item
• Reloading local plugin does not reload icon and about file
• Fixed #1976 issue when offsetting mirror editing loop cut
• Close #1981 Mirror modeling now no longer updates names
• Fixed #1994 Assigning left click for panning messes up UV editor and timeline controlls
• Fixed #1991 Zombie head does not change rotation when applying a pose
• Fixed #1992 unchanged backups not persistent after second crash (#2003)
• Fixed menu navigation issue on touch devices
• Fixed mesh flipping issue: Flipping a vertex of edge selection of a mesh would not invert the affected faces
• Fixed GIF recording with unlinked camera
• Fixed issue with tab key in variable placeholder field
• Optimize keybinding saving, fixed potential error
• Fixed issue with generating mirror modeling box UV templates

Changes

• Adjust boder size of 3D brush outline based on size
• Added settings to toggle 2D and 3D brush cursor
• Added message box with instructions before updating
• Switching page on paginated lists now scrolls to top of list

Fixes

• Fixed issues with "Color" blend mode
• Fixed generated bones in mirror modeling not having unique names in some cases
• Fixed issue with painting through transparency
• Fixed incorrect GIF FOV in preview scenes
• Fixed #1970 issue drag and dropping skin file
• Fixed #1968 mirror painting not working on certain faces
• Fixed file inputs in some dialogs not clearing properly
• Fixed painting on selected layered texture when it's hidden
• Fixed Russian language using English strings instead

Welcome to the Plugin Browser Update! There are a lot of new features and changes, check it out!

Highlights

• Plugin Browser redesign
• 3D Brush Outline
• Mirror Modeling
• Split screen layouts
• Searchable Outliner
• New Preview Scenes

Plugin browser redesign

• Split screen layout with list in sidebar
• Full-screen information about the plugin
• Added the ability to disable plugins temporarily (#1724)
• Added plugin dependencies
• Plugins can now have PNG and SVG icons
• Start screen with suggested plugin rows
• Added context menus for installed plugins

Preview Scenes

• Added 9 new Minecraft Preview Scenes
• Added cube maps to make preview scenes feel more immersive
• Added the option to enable a Minecraft player model in the scene as a size reference

Mirror modeling

Mirror modeling let's you change one side of your model, and updates the other side automatically

• Enable mirror modeling from the Edit menu or the main toolbar
• Right click elements to disable mirroring per element

Other Key Features

• Added outliner search bar
• Added backup browser
• Split screen layouts, replacing quad view
• Added transparency render order option

Dialog and UX Improvements

• Improved layout of texture resize dialog
• Added save project selector on quit
• Reference Image option when sharing models
• Added better error messages when sharing model fails
• Display file path in "file not found" error message
• Added better description for project conversion
• Added error message for expired model link

Texturing

• Added 3D brush outline (#1410)
• Clear unused texture space feature
• Added option to duplicate texture
• Option to hide selection outlines in paint mode (#1869)
• Limit zoom level when opening pixel art
• Let color picker pick through transparency by default
• Improve Paint Through Transparency feature (#1798, #1952)
• Allow moving copy paste selection with alt key
• Move copy paste selection with arrow keys (#680)

UV Mapping

• Added UV project from view action
• Improvements to mesh template generator
• Allow navigating UV editor + timeline with viewport pan key (#1792)

Animation

• Show multiple axes in the graph editor
• Added graph editor ruler lines
• Lock timeline axis when holding ctrl or shift
• Added timeline menu to menu bar
• Display icons on keyframes with Math expressions
• Make Invert Selection work for keyframes
• Added the option to specify a separate inverse kinematics root (#1825, thanks @TheDrawingCoder-Gamer)
• Implement timeline frame number display
• Reorganized timeline menu

Meshes

• Make Invert Selection work for mesh selection
• Added Switch Face Crease button
• Added the ability to create multiple loop cuts
• Added size sliders for meshes

Minecraft

• Added Minecraft 1.20 skin presets
• Added bed skin preset (#1852)
• Added extra bedrock binding presets
• Apply first imported texture on bedrock block automatically
• Improve accuracy of first person attachable view
• Always enable backface culling in java block/item
• Re-center java block/item models when converting
• Improve texture import on java block/item parent models
• Renamed Steve and Alex skin presets to Player - Wide and Player - Slim
• Keep skin file names when importing skins in the web app

Miscellaneous

• Added JSON indentation setting (#1407)
• Display locator rotation using pivot marker
• Setting to switch tools on double click
• Added option to toggle all grids from the view menu
• Action control: Add support for BarSelect

System Requirements

• Removed support for 32-bit Windows systems

Technical & API updates

• New file structure system for the blockbench-plugins repository
• Added menu groups
• Added dynamic icon vue component
• Added hasAny and hasSelected to improve performance
• Added checkbox as amendEdit input type
• Added save_model_action event hook
• Made toolbars work with actions directly instead of just IDs
• Added findFileFromContent API
• Added validate method to individual checks
• Added stretch_cubes feature for custom formats (#1806, thanks @AaronWoodward)
• Added action events
• Updated electron to 25.2

Fixes

• Fixed reference images not embedding data in projects
• Fixed switching elements to per face UV in validator
• Fixed image format not getting marked as saved on quit
• Fixed missing undo integration for dropping textures
• Fixed GIF reference images potentially not saving correctly
• Fixed error on startup with action conditions
• Fixed description of bedrock legacy export action
• Fixed #1931 dialog file input reveals path in streamer mode
• Fixed locator/null size changing with FOV
• Fixed undoing mesh removing ignoring outliner position in some cases
• Fixed Share Model link dialog having unneccesary button
• Fixed mesh selection not updating correctly when copy pasting mesh selection
• Fixed face properties editor completely hidden when no cubes selected
• Fixed #1900 Resetting a toolbar 2x empties it
• Fixed texture apply actions being visible in single-texture formats
• Fixed menus having incorrect scroll bars
• Fixed slider for keyframe "Post" values not working correctly
• Fixed the mirror brush having an incorrect brush size in some cases
• Moving a selection in the outliner now moves it in the displayed order, rather than in the order in which they were selected
• Fixed gradient tool mirror paint offset
• Fixed rotation issue when converting model with rotation axis restriction
• Fixed issue with undoing texture edits in web app
• Fixed #1940 desktop only plugins can be installed in web app via URL query
• Fixed start screen slideshow not working on older browsers
• Fixed #1891 Cannot add reference images in orthographic
• Fixed reference image error
• Fixed #1946 dissolving edge does not remove vertices
• Added fallback for customized toolbars that error on load (#1955)
• Fixed mesh tools performance bottleneck
• Fixed #1510 issue with clicking to edit slider value
• Fixed groups with export=false still exporting in bedrock format

Welcome to the second beta for Blockbench 4.8 - The Plugin Browser Update!

To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features. Please note that pre-release versions in general may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.

To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/

Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.

Definitely check out the changelog of the previous beta build if you haven't already: https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench/releases/edit/v4.8.0-beta.1

Painting

• Allow navigating UV editor + timeline with viewport pan key (#1792)
• Let color picker pick through transparency by default
• Improve Paint Through Transparency feature (#1798, #1952)
• Allow custom color for 3D brush outline

Mirror modeling

• Add mirror modeling support for java block/item
• Add mirror modeling support for bones
• Save mirror modeling option per project

Plugins

• Add plugin dependency check when update adds dependencies
• Allow disabling store plugins
• Change plugin page scrolling behavior to only scroll About

Animation

• Implement timeline frame number display
• Graph editor click graph to select axis
• Reorganize timeline menu

Miscellaneous

• Added preview scene player model option
• Keep file name when importing skin
• Added size sliders for meshes
• Added option to toggle all grids
• Make Camel skin presets compatible with Toggle Layer
• Ensure moving outliner selections places in displayed order
• Re-center java block/item models when converting

Technical updates

• Setup new certificate + build process
• Removed support for 32 bit operating systems

Fixes

• Fixed #1950 3D cursor offset on rotated cube face
• Fixed gradient tool mirror paint offset
• Fixed rotation issue when converting model with rotation axis restriction
• Fixed actions cannot be added to a menu without path
• Fixed issue with undoing texture edits in web app
• Fixed #1936 Mirror modeling leaves element behind
• Fixed #1937 Mirror modeling mesh selection issue
• Fixed #1939 3D brush outline on deformed UV quads
• Fixed #1940 desktop only plugins can be installed in web app via URL query
• Fixed start screen slideshow not working on older browsers
• Fixed #1891 Cannot add reference images in orthographic
• Fixed reference image error
• Fixed plugin dependency issue
• Fixed outliner search being case sensitive
• Fixed 3D brush outline not working with inflated cubes
• Fixed 3D brush offset in Java Block Item format
• Fixed #1946 dissolving edge does not remove vertices
• Added fallback for customized toolbars that error on load (#1955)

Welcome to the first beta for Blockbench 4.8 - The Plugin Browser Update!

To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features. Please note that pre-release versions in general may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.

To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/

Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.

Plugin browser redesign

• Split screen layout with list in sidebar
• Full-screen information about the plugin
• Added the ability to disable local plugins temporarily (#1724)
• Added plugin dependencies
• Plugins can now have PNG and SVG icons
• Start screen with suggested plugin rows
• Added context menus for installed plugins

Preview Scenes

• Added 9 new Minecraft Preview Scenes
• Added cube maps to make preview scenes feel more immersive

Mirror modeling

Mirror modeling let's you change one side of your model, and updates the other side automatically

• Enable mirror modeling from the Edit menu
• Right click elements to disable mirroring per element

I am especially looking for testing and feedback on this feature, since it will only be useful if it works reliably.

Features

• Add backup browser
• Added 3D brush outline (#1410)
• Split screen layouts, replacing quad view
• Add outliner search bar
• Display file path in "file not found" error message
• Action control: Add support for BarSelect
• Add error message for expired model link
• Display icons on keyframes with Math expressions
• Lock timeline axis when holding ctrl or shift
• Make Invert Selection work for keyframes + mesh selection
• Improve layout of texture resize dialog
• Reference Image option when sharing models
• Add better error messages when sharing model fails
• JSON indentation setting (#1407)
• Add save project selector on quit
• Clear unused texture space feature
• Add option to duplicate texture
• Add Switch Face Crease button
• Display locator rotation using pivot marker
• Option to hide selection outlines in paint mode (#1869)
• Add bed skin preset (#1852)
• Add extra bedrock binding presets
• Setting to switch tools on double click
• Add UV project from view
• Add Minecraft 1.20 skin presets
• Added the ability to create multiple loop cuts

Animation

• Show multiple axes in the graph editor
• Add graph editor ruler lines
• Add timeline menu to menu bar

Improvements

• Apply first imported texture on bedrock block automatically
• Always enable backface culling in java block/item
• Limit zoom level when opening pixel art
• Add better description for project conversion
• Renamed Steve and Alex skin presets to Player - Wide and Player - Slim

Technical updates

• Added menu groups
• Added dynamic icon vue component
• Added hasAny and hasSelected to improve performance
• Added checkbox as amendEdit input type
• Added save_model_action event hook
• Made toolbars work with actions directly instead of just IDs
• Added findFileFromContent API
• Added validate method to individual checks
• Added stretch_cubes feature for custom formats
• Added action events
• Update electron to 25.2

Fixes

• Fixed reference images not embedding data in projects
• Fixed switching elements to per face UV in validator
• Fixed image format not getting marked as saved on quit
• Fixed missing undo integration for dropping textures
• Fixed GIF reference images potentially not saving correctly
• Fixed error on startup with action conditions
• Fix description of bedrock legacy export action
• Fix #1931 dialog file input reveals path in streamer mode
• Fix locator/null size changing with FOV
• Fix undoing mesh removing ignoring outliner position in some cases
• Fix error in menus
• Fix Share Model link dialog having unneccesary button
• Fix mesh selection not updating correctly when copy pasting mesh selection
• Fix face properties editor completely hidden when no cubes selected
• Fixed #1900 Resetting a toolbar 2x empties it
• Fixed texture apply actions being visible in single-texture formats
• Fixed menus having incorrect scroll bars
• Fixed slider for keyframe "Post" values not working correctly
• Fixed the mirror brush having an incorrect brush size in some cases

Fixes

• Fixed #1890 Brush and eraser no longer work in 2D editor
• Returning from hovering over side menu in menu entry (e. g. Plugins...) to the main menu entry does not update highlight
• Fixed missing translation for Start Screen button tooltip, when Hide Tab Bar is enabled