SEUT 1.2.2-alpha.3

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.2

Changelog

• Added: W021 for when a material could not be prepared for export. (Alpha 3)
• Improved: Added support for additional file naming convention to Complete Import. (Alpha 3)
• Improved: Additional safeties for Icon Render and Planet Editor. (Alpha 3)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.2-alpha.2

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.2

Changelog

• Added: Planet Editor - support for Weather Generators, Cloud Layers and Sound Rules. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Added Error E56 for when a data block is linked into the active file but the original file is unavailable. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Path handling for simultaneous SG / LG export. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: General Planet Editor improvements. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Numerous improvements to the Planet Editor. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Better handling if json definitions for empties cannot be found. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Error with QuickTools in specific instances. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Rare case in which an object could have UV Maps but no active ones. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Rare error during export when material was removed but remaining code not skipped. (Alpha 2)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.2-alpha.1

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.2

Changelog

• Changed: SEUT now uses the asset tag system to determine if a material is Vanilla or DLC. The previous toolbar is no longer accessible. The corresponding tags are is_vanilla and is_dlc and can be set like any other asset tag. (Alpha 1)
• Changed: SEUT now primarily uses the new Blender FBX importer. The GLTF importer is now the alternate mode. (Alpha 1)
• Changed: Icon Render mode now gets its compositing node tree from SEUT assets - which means it can be locally overridden / adjusted. (Alpha 1)
• Changed: Planet Editor SBC maximum values now default to their maximum. (Alpha 1)
• Changed: Minimum supported version of Blender to 5.0 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Various issues around Icon Render mode in Blender 5.0 . (Alpha 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.1

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.1

Changelog

• Added #381: New scene type: Generic item. For environment items, hand items, components, etc. (Alpha 1)
• Added #402: Option for icon render in character animation scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added #410: Button to copy icon render offset options to all scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added: Alternative FBX import option in case normal import is broken. (Alpha 3)
• Added: Option to disable character rotation on export. This is needed for characters not based on the male / female skeleton. (Alpha 3)
• Added: Option to disable preserving GLB files on import. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Added Planet Editor preview sphere.
• Improved: Allow material wind parameters to be set for all material techniques.
• Improved: Material definition export to XML now only exports the materials used on the exported object(s).
• Improved: Icon path adjustments during simultaneous export.
• Improved: Added more safeties for empty import from FBX. (Alpha 3)
• Improved: Remap materials duplicate detection. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Changed FBX import to use GLTF as an intermediary format to fix imported objects being weirdly arranged. ASCII FBX can now also be imported through this workaround. Thanks to @quantum-unicorn for the help on this. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Remap materials no longer remaps materials that have asset data - to enable local overrides. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Prevent too long SubtypeIds as they can break SEUT. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #421: Texture Conversion functionality would generate files with .DDS extension instead of .dds.
• Fixed #420: Blender 4.5 import issue.
• Fixed #418: Allow relative paths for relevant properties in 4.5 .
• Fixed #415: Character export empty scale was messed up. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed #400: Center empty SBC output was incorrect. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #403: Broken materials on export with Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #404: Bug with non-transparent icon background in Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #407: Export error when user has set a custom scripts directory. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Planet Editor image output.
• Fixed: Material import sometimes failed when the material did not have a NG-texture.
• Fixed: Rotate character option was present in item-type scenes. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: Error in SEUT panel display in asset browser. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: BBOX display in Blender 4.4 . (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: Some export options were available in scene types that did not support them. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: SEUT Asset information panel not displaying in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Error when initializing scene in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not setting grid scale properly when initializing a scene. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not being able to handle it when the BLEND file was located in the mod folder. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Some issues with emptys not being the correct scale. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Error when using QuickTool's Mirror and Apply with non-mesh objects. (Alpha 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.1-alpha.3

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.1

Changelog

• Added #381: New scene type: Generic item. For environment items, hand items, components, etc. (Alpha 1)
• Added #402: Option for icon render in character animation scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added #410: Button to copy icon render offset options to all scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added: Alternative FBX import option in case normal import is broken. (Alpha 3)
• Added: Option to disable character rotation on export. This is needed for characters not based on the male / female skeleton. (Alpha 3)
• Added: Option to disable preserving GLB files on import. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Added more safeties for empty import from FBX. (Alpha 3)
• Improved: Remap materials duplicate detection. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Changed FBX import to use GLTF as an intermediary format to fix imported objects being weirdly arranged. ASCII FBX can now also be imported through this workaround. Thanks to @quantum-unicorn for the help on this. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Remap materials no longer remaps materials that have asset data - to enable local overrides. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Prevent too long SubtypeIds as they can break SEUT. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #415: Character export empty scale was messed up. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed #400: Center empty SBC output was incorrect. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #403: Broken materials on export with Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #404: Bug with non-transparent icon background in Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #407: Export error when user has set a custom scripts directory. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Rotate character option was present in item-type scenes. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: Error in SEUT panel display in asset browser. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: BBOX display in Blender 4.4 . (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: Some export options were available in scene types that did not support them. (Alpha 3)
• Fixed: SEUT Asset information panel not displaying in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Error when initializing scene in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not setting grid scale properly when initializing a scene. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not being able to handle it when the BLEND file was located in the mod folder. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Some issues with emptys not being the correct scale. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Error when using QuickTool's Mirror and Apply with non-mesh objects. (Alpha 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.1-alpha.2

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.1

Changelog

• Added #381: New scene type: Generic item. For environment items, hand items, components, etc. (Alpha 1)
• Added #402: Option for icon render in character animation scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added #410: Button to copy icon render offset options to all scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added: Option to disable preserving GLB files on import. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Remap materials duplicate detection. (Alpha 2)
• Improved: Changed FBX import to use GLTF as an intermediary format to fix imported objects being weirdly arranged. ASCII FBX can now also be imported through this workaround. Thanks to @quantum-unicorn for the help on this. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Remap materials no longer remaps materials that have asset data - to enable local overrides. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Prevent too long SubtypeIds as they can break SEUT. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #400: Center empty SBC output was incorrect. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #403: Broken materials on export with Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #404: Bug with non-transparent icon background in Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #407: Export error when user has set a custom scripts directory. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: SEUT Asset information panel not displaying in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Error when initializing scene in Blender 4.3 . (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not setting grid scale properly when initializing a scene. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: SEUT not being able to handle it when the BLEND file was located in the mod folder. (Alpha 2)
• Fixed: Some issues with emptys not being the correct scale. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Error when using QuickTool's Mirror and Apply with non-mesh objects. (Alpha 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.1-alpha.1

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.1

Changelog

• Added #381: New scene type: Generic item. For environment items, hand items, components, etc. (Alpha 1)
• Added #402: Option for icon render in character animation scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Added #410: Button to copy icon render offset options to all scenes. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Changed FBX import to use GLTF as an intermediary format to fix imported objects being weirdly arranged. ASCII FBX can now also be imported through this workaround. Thanks to @quantum-unicorn for the help on this. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Remap materials no longer remaps materials that have asset data - to enable local overrides. (Alpha 1)
• Improved: Prevent too long SubtypeIds as they can break SEUT. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #400: Center empty SBC output was incorrect. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #403: Broken materials on export with Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #404: Bug with non-transparent icon background in Blender 4.2 . (Alpha 1)
• Fixed #407: Export error when user has set a custom scripts directory. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Some issues with emptys not being the correct scale. (Alpha 1)
• Fixed: Error when using QuickTool's Mirror and Apply with non-mesh objects. (Alpha 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.0

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.0

Notes

1. SEMREF will be retired within around a week, but all its content has been moved to the new Space Engineers Official Wiki. This has many benefits, among them more people than just me being able to contribute and me not having to pay for Confluence anymore.
2. A change in the way paint color is handled has meant that unfortunately paint color in all your existing files will be off and have to be set anew. Unfortunately, due to Blender limitations, I could not find a way to seamlessly patch this.
3. I added the new QuickTools to help streamline common tasks when making models for SE. The things available in that panel depends on which type of collection is active, and which mode (OBJECT / EDIT) you're in.
4. I added a small but useful dropdown in the Materials property window: It lets you select from a list of variants of the current material. For example, if the currently selected material slot uses Atlas4_Colorable, the dropdown will allow you to switch to Atlas4_Chrome, Atlas4_Darker, etc. Especially useful in combination with the many new premade assets I added with the 1.5.0 update for SEUT Assets, also released now.

Changelog

• Added #387: Ability to set a collision object's collision radius margin - thanks to @quantum-unicorn! (RC 2)
• Added #379: Mark unpainted and ungrouped vertices in groups. (RC 1)
• Added: #392: Support for CouplingTag on mountpoints. (RC 1)
• Added: #391: Error for when both an external collision file is referenced and objects exist in the collision collection. (RC 1)
• Added: SEUT QuickTools - shortcuts for various commonly used actions when making SE models. (Beta 1)
• Added: Material variation dropdown menu, allowing the user to quickly switch between versions of a material. (RC 1)
• Added: Checkboxes to Addon Preferences to enable Quick Tools and Animation Support. (Beta 1)
• Changed: Switched all documentation links to instead link to the new Space Engineers Official Wiki. SEMREF will be retired, but all its content has been migrated to the SE wiki. (RC 1)
• Improved #398: Log decoding error handling. (RC 1)
• Improved #394: TransparentMaterial files are no longer exported per MWM file but per BLEND-file. (RC 1)
• Improved #389: Mountpoint mode now works better when editing mountpoint areas in EDIT-mode (origins are set to geometry automatically). (RC 1)
• Improved #373: Added error for incompatible physics shape (COMPOUND). (Beta 1)
• Improved #374: Added warning for exporting to a different grid size than scene is set to while subpart empties are present. (Beta 1)
• Improved #375: Ignore Collision collections that are not associated with a main or BS collection. (Beta 1)
• Improved #376: Added error for trying to launch Mountpoint or Mirror Mode while not having set an Asset path. (Beta 1)
• Improved: Channel settings on imported images. (RC 1)
• Improved: Paint Color handling. This will unfortunately reset all paint color in your exisitng BLEND-files. (RC 1)
• Improved: Sum up imported materials instead of reporting them one by one. (RC 1)
• Improved: Export errors now properly interrupt the entire export process. (Beta 1)
• Improved: Switched material technique error to warning. (Beta 1)
• Improved: The way some error messages would display empty paths. (Beta 1)
• Improved: Warning when using outdated version of Blender. (Beta 2)
• Changed #371 & #372: Updated the way the Bounding Box is drawn to ensure Blender 4.0 compatibility. (Beta 1)
• Fixed #378: BAU would not offer to update to a newer release version if user was on a dev version. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Paths in exported logs sometimes not getting properly anonymized. (RC 1)
• Fixed: SEUT Material being remapped to a linked one. (RC 1)
• Fixed: Remap Materials sometimes erroring. (RC 1)
• Fixed: Missing character weighting error not triggering (RC 1)
• Fixed: Longstanding bug that would lead to subpart duplication. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Issue where icon render would create folders named after files. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: SBC export icon path not being able to handle PNG icons. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Complete Import not setting HKT path correctly. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Issue during SEUT patching process. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Issue during Planet Editor baking process when image nodes were not present in materials. (Beta 1)
• Fixed: Export error with Blender 4.0 . (Beta 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.0-rc.1

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.0

Changelog

• Added #379: Mark unpainted and ungrouped vertices in groups. (RC 1)
• Added: #392: Support for CouplingTag on mountpoints. (RC 1)
• Added: #391: Error for when both an external collision file is referenced and objects exist in the collision collection. (RC 1)
• Added: Material variation dropdown menu, allowing the user to quickly switch between versions of a material. (RC 1)
• Changed: Switched all documentation links to instead link to the new Space Engineers Official Wiki. SEMREF will be retired, but all its content has been migrated to the SE wiki. (RC 1)
• Improved #398: Log decoding error handling. (RC 1)
• Improved #394: TransparentMaterial files are no longer exported per MWM file but per BLEND-file. (RC 1)
• Improved #389: Mountpoint mode now works better when editing mountpoint areas in EDIT-mode (origins are set to geometry automatically). (RC 1)
• Improved: Channel settings on imported images. (RC 1)
• Improved: Paint Color handling. This will unfortunately reset all paint color in your exisitng BLEND-files. (RC 1)
• Improved: Sum up imported materials instead of reporting them one by one. (RC 1)
• Fixed: Paths in exported logs sometimes not getting properly anonymized. (RC 1)
• Fixed: SEUT Material being remapped to a linked one. (RC 1)
• Fixed: Remap Materials sometimes erroring. (RC 1)
• Fixed: Missing character weighting error not triggering (RC 1)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.

SEUT 1.2.0-beta.2

This is a development release and not recommended for first-time users.

Relevant Milestone: SEUT 1.2.0

Changelog

• Improved: Warning when using outdated version of Blender. (Beta 2)
• Improved: Addon Preferences display of SEUT Panels. (Beta 2)
• Fixed: Export erroring when not on Blender 4.0 . (Beta 2)

Installation

Refer to the install guide.

How to Update

Manually

1. Open a new, empty, file in Blender.
2. Go to Edit --> Preferences... --> Add-ons and remove Modding: Space Engineers Utilities.
3. Click Install... and select the newly downloaded space_engineers_utilities_***.zip.
4. Re-enter the paths in the addon's preferences.
5. Restart Blender.

With BAU

Closely follow the instructions inside the BAU menu, including restarting Blender after the update is complete.