Changelog

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Known issues.

0.0.21 (2022-09-05)

General:

• Added support for minecraft 1.13 region files
• Added support for loading minecraft level.dat (only with supported region files)
• Added support for WorldEdit schematics
• Added support for Minecraft nbt files
• Added support for StarMade voxel models
• Added support for Quake1 and UFO:Alien Invasion
• Reduced memory footprint for voxelizing huge meshes
• Support wrap mode texture settings for gltf voxelization
• Improved sanity check for Qubicle Binary format support
• Fixed texture lookup error in gltf voxelization
• Extended lua vector bindings and allow to import heightmaps
• Improved the file dialog filters
• Added new lua scripts and extended lua integration in voxconvert
• Added support for RGB (pal) and Gimp (gpl) palette loading
• Improved the Command & Conquer VXL format support

VoxEdit:

• Fixed resetting the camera in eye mode
• New asset panel
• Place images, models and colors via drag and drop into the scene
• Extended scene mode modifiers to allow resizing the volumes (double click in scene mode)
• Fixed updating the locked axis plane on change
• Fixed scene graph node panel width
• Fixed mesh extraction on chunk boundaries
• Fixed new volume dialog input handling
• Fixed cursor being invisible with bloom disabled
• Fixed cursor face being on the wrong side of the voxel at the volume edges
• Fixed last opened files with spaces in their names
• Fixed loading files from command line again
• Allow to select scene graph node from the animation timeline
• Fixed deleting key frames
• Improved adding new key frames

Changelog

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Known issues.

0.0.20 (2022-06-14)

General:

• Added support for minecraft schematic
• Refactored and extended the lua script integration
• Implemented applying depth/height map to a 2d plane
• Added support for new magicavoxel format (animations)
• Preserve node hierarchie when saving vxr
• GLTF voxelization
• Allow to enable certain renderer features
• Expose more noise functions to the lua scripts
• Expose more volume functions to the lua scripts
• Allow to delete voxels from within a lua script
• Improved splitting of volumes (target volume size)
• Expose more region functions to the lua scripts
• Added more lua example scripts
• Improved color sampling for voxelization
• Started to support different palettes in one scene
• Fixed vxc support
• Load the palette from the source file
• Fixed vxm file path when saving vxr
• Save vxmc (version 12) now
• Changed default ambient color and gamma values
• Improved osx dmg file and app bundles

VoxEdit:

• Fixed start problems on some systems with multisampled framebuffers
• Allow to drag and drop colors from the palette
• Change between the edit and scene mode is now bound to tab
• Updated imguizmo to support clicking the view cube
• Cursor is no volume anymore but a plane
• Implemented plane filling
• Added extrude feature
• Allow to place a single voxel
• Fixed keyboard input errors that made the ui unusable
• Don't reload the last opened file with every start

VoxConvert:

• Extended --dump to also show the key frames and the voxel count
• Removed --src-palette (src palette is always used)

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Known issues.

0.0.19 (2022-03-27)

General:

• Replaced minecraft support with own implementation
• Added support for Sandbox VXA format (via VXR) and improved VXR
• Allow to change the ui colors via cvar (ui_style)
• Added bloom render support for vox and vxm
• Added support for loading key frames if the format supports it
• Improved apple support in file dialog
• The palette handling was refactored
• Allow to save the MATL chunk in magicavoxel vox files
• Ability to scale exported mesh with different values for each axis
• Added stl voxelization support
• Allow to modify the camera zoom min/max values
• Allow to load different sizes for AoS VXL files
• Lerp the camera zooming
• Added support for GLTF export
• Added experimental export support for FBX ascii
• Increased the max scene graph model nodes from 256 to 1024

VoxEdit:

• Added new command to fill hollows in models
• Fixed escape key not closing the dialogs
• Added support for drag and drop the nodes of the scene graph
• Scene graph rendering improved
• Removed noise panel (use the lua scripts for noise support)
• Fixed a lot of undo/redo cases and improved the test cases a lot
• Fixed viewport screenshot creation (now also bound to F5)
• Added dialog to configure the mesh and voxel format settings for loading/saving
• Improved the palette panel
• Improved the guizmo for translation and rotation
• Open in scene mode as default

VoxConvert:

• Added --image-as-plane and --image-as-heightmap parameters
• Allow to create a palette from input files

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Known issues.

0.0.18 (2022-02-12)

renamed the github project to vengi - the url changed to https://github.com/mgerhardy/vengi.

Build:

• Removed own cmake unity-build implementation
• Fixed build when GAMES was set to OFF

General:

• Extended qbcl format support
• Fixed color conversion issue when importing palettes from voxel models
• Voxelization of obj meshes now also fills the inner parts of the mesh with voxels
• Fixed magicavoxel pivot issue (sometimes wrong positions)
• Added support for sandbox vxc format
• Added support for sandbox vxt format
• Added new example lua scripts

VoxConvert:

• --input can now also handle directories

VoxEdit:

• Added context actions to scene graph panel
• Fixed mouse input issues in fullscreen mode
• Fixed script editor placement

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Known issues.

0.0.17 (2021-01-23)

General:

• Fixed relative path handling for registered paths
• Stop event loop if window is minimized (reduce cpu usage)
• Support scene graphs in the voxel formats
• Fixed a few issues with the magicavoxel vox format (switched to ogt_vox)
• Load properties from supported voxel formats (vxr, vox, gox)
• Added support for loading minecraft region files (used enkimi)
• Fixed vxm pivot and black color issue
• Added obj voxelization
• Improved obj export
• Improved file dialog

VoxConvert:

• Added --crop parameter that reduces the volumes to their real voxel sizes
• Added --split option to cut volumes into smaller pieces
• Added --export-layers to export all the layers of a scene into single files
• Added --dump to dump the scene graph of the input file
• Added --resize to resize the volumes by the given x, y and z values

VoxEdit:

• Fixed torus shape
• Added scene graph panel
• Fixed an issue that delayed the start by a few seconds

Changelog

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Known issues.

0.0.16 (2021-12-27)

General:

• Fixed magicavoxel vox file saving
• Added support for old magicavoxel (pre RIFF) format
• Fixed bugs in binvox support
• Fixed save dir for vxm files when saving vxr
• Save vxm version 5 (with included pivot)
• Support bigger volumes for magicavoxel files

VoxConvert:

• Fixed --force handling for target files
• Allow to operate on multiple input files
• Added --translate command line option
• Added --pivot command line option
• nippon palette is not loaded if --src-palette is used and it's no hard error anymore if this fails

VoxEdit:

• Add recently used files to the ui

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Changelog

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0.0.15 (2021-12-18)

General:

• Fixed missing vxm (version 4) saving support
• Fixed missing palette value for vxm saving
• Added support for loading only the palettes
• Added support for goxel gox file format
• Added support for sproxel csv file format
• Added support for a lot more image formats
• Improved lod creation for thin surface voxels
• Fixed vxr9 load support
• Added support for writing vxr files

VoxConvert:

• Added option to keep the input file palette and don't perform quantization
• Allow to export the palette to png
• Allow to generate models from heightmap images
• Allow to run lua scripts to modify volumes
• Allow to export or convert only single layers (--filter)
• Allow to mirror and rotate the volumes

Thumbnailer:

• Try to use the built-in palette for models

VoxEdit:

• Allow to import palettes from volume formats, too
• Implemented camera panning
• Added more layer merge functions

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Changelog

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There is a NixOS Linux package available, too

0.0.14 (2021-11-21)

General:

• License for our own voxel models is now CC-BY-SA
• Support loading just the thumbnails from voxel formats
• Support bigger volume sizes for a few formats
• Don't polute the home directory with build dir settings
• Fixed gamma handling in shaders
• Added bookmark support to the ui dialog

Thumbnailer:

• Added qbcl thumbnail support

VoxEdit:

• Render the inactive layer in grayscale mode

Changelog

A more detailed changelog can be found on github.

0.0.13 (2021-10-29)

General:

• Logfile support added
• Fixed windows DLL handling for animation hot reloading

UI:

• Fixed log notifications taking away the focus from the current widget

VoxEdit:

• Fixed windows OpenGL error while rendering the viewport

Changelog

This is basically a 0.0.11 with windows build fixes.

A more detailed changelog can be found on github.

0.0.12 (2021-10-26)

General:

• Fixed a few windows compilation issues
• Fixed issues in the automated build pipelines to produce windows binaries