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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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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0.0.27

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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

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0.0.26

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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

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0.0.25

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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

0.0.24

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0.0.24 (2023-03-12)

General:

• Support using palette cvar as a destination palette again by setting voxformat_createpalette to false
• Added new image formats from SOIL2 (DDS, PKM, PVR)
• Added FBX read support
• Improved texture lookup for mesh formats
• Added multiple color reduction algorithms and expose them to the user by the cvar core_colorreduction
• Fixed several issues with AceOfSpades vxl format - switched to libvxl for loading and saving
• Fixed splitting volumes even if not needed (off-by-one error)
• Fixed multi-monitor support
• Fixed colors in the tree generator
• Improved the key binding handling and made it more flexible
• Added support for loading minetest mts files
• Fixed Command&Conquer vxl format writing issue
• Added own format with the extension vengi
• Added basic alpha support
• Fixed saving the keybindings with multi click
• Improved keybinding and ui setting saving (added a version)
• Fixed invalid transform on re-parenting a node
• Refactored the file dialog
• Fixed issue in saving MagicaVoxel vox files under some special conditions
• Implemented basic transparency support for voxels
• Fixed invalid clamping for uv based pixel lookup (mesh imports)
• Update renderer to only use uniform buffers
• Fixed rendering issue for windows users
• Fixed fullscreen issues for windows users
• Extended lua script bindings to allow to render text as voxels
• Support GLES3 rendering

VoxConvert:

• Show supported palette and image formats in help screen (--help)

VoxEdit:

• Disable animation window if there are no animations to show
• Allow to show the color picker in the palette panel
• Reworked the modifiers panel
• Made undo/redo more visible
• Switched the camera modifier to the right side of the viewport
• Fixed diffuse and ambient color settings mix-up
• Merged layer and scene graph panel into one
• Several gizmo related fixes and improvements
• Added simple UI mode which removes some panels
• Fixed a few memento (undo/redo) related issues
• Added templates to the menu (robo, chess, head and chr_knight)
• Allow to control the amount of viewports
• Allow to define pre-defined region sizes (see ve_regionsizes cvar)
• Some ui actions are only available in edit mode
• Edit mode has support for the gizmo now - you can shift the volume boundaries
• Highlight copy&paste volume region
• Visually disable some buttons if they won't work in the current mode anyway
• Don't execute actions for hidden nodes
• New keybindings
• Allow to sort the palette colors by hue, saturation or brightness
• Allow to select and drag keyframes in the animation timeline
• Export animations as AVI
• Allow to import a whole directory into a scene
• Allow to select all node types in the scene graph panel
• Allow to edit node properties
• Added voxel cursor tooltips about the position in the volume
• WASM/HTML5 port

0.0.23

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0.0.23 (2022-12-17)

General:

• Improved big endian support for voxel formats
• Improved VXL format default palette support
• Improved QBCL scene graph support
• Improved voxelization vertex color support
• Fixed VOX root node handling
• Fixed QBCL and GOX thumbnail handling
• Removed unused code
• Added support for VXA version 3
• (Re-)added support for marching cubes
• Fixed a bug in Ace of Spades VXL loading

VoxEdit:

• Added support for embedding screenshots in formats that support it
• Allow to export palettes
• Allow to change color intensity of the whole palette
• Allow to voxelize text
• Fixed orthographic cameras
• Massive performance increase when using multiple viewports
• More than 10 times gpu memory reduction
• Render the camera nodes in scene mode

Thumbnailer:

• Added support for turntable rendering

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0.0.22

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Known issues.

0.0.22 (2022-10-31)

General:

• Improved GLTF format support
• Improved VXL format support
• Improved Qubicle QB support
• Fixed block id parsing for StarMade voxel models
• Major improvements in scene graph transform handling
• Improved voxelization of meshes with voxels
• Added kv6 write support
• Added slab6 vox write support
• Fixed saving black colors for cubeworld
• Fixed saving palette index 0 for binvox
• Fixed Sandbox VXM palette issue
• Fixed QBCL saving
• Improved qbt scene graph support
• Improved vox saving with multiple palettes
• Improved the file dialog size and special dir handling
• Improved dark mode support
• Improved palette support for some formats

Packaging:

• There is a snap package available now (io.github.mgerhardy.vengi.voxedit)

VoxEdit:

• Fixed layer color selection if you have multiple layers
• Fixed moving nodes in the scene graph panel
• Fixed transforms in scene graph mode (translation, rotation)
• Allow to add group and camera nodes
• Don't just quit the application if you have unsaved data in your scene