v1.1.0

🚦traffiq 2.1 and more!

This release includes support for emergency lights for traffiq 2.1, adding new features and improving existing ones.

Now it is possible to ✏️ draw geometry nodes assets directly from engon browser. You can see 🆕 what is new in installed asset packs. Adjust 🚨emergency lights directly from the panel, 📃List through assets by version based on introduced_in parameter (currently supported for traffiq, other packs will have this feature enabled once updated). It is possible to have 🔧 preferences and engon browser open simultaneously. You can add models directly to 🌿particle systems from the browser.

The release includes fix to car animation baking and fix for animating scattered objects and many smaller tweaks and quality of life changes⭐.

Changelog

Highlights

• Draw geometry nodes from the engon browser
• What's new - see what is new in last version of the asset pack
• Adjust traffiq emergency lights from panel
• It's possible to have both preferences and engon browser at the same time
• Add model directly to particle system if active object contains particle system
• Vector parameters, introduced_in parameter for traffiq-2.1 release.

Other changes

• Asset spawned into particle collection appears without needing to refresh
• Geometry nodes assets respect spawn options collection (spawning into asset pack or active collection)
• Default spawning texture size doesn't change when resizing textures for materials
• UI button to enable / disable the engon keymaps and to restore to default
• Search in All button when no assets are found inside nested category
• Remember active particle system and instance collection object index
• Reinstall and Update options in install dialog UI are not greyed out
• Hide Installation Path if update is done through install (Try Updating Instead) asset pack dialog
• Subpanels are now closed by default, as the expanded UI was unnecessarily long
• Vector parameter is displayed on one row

Fixes

• Fixed bake wheels rotation and steering
• Animating scatters or selection of more than one object works now in Blender 4.0 and above
• Convert to linked now works for objects composed of only linked collections (US signs)

v1.0.3

Blender 4.1 compatibility

Changelog:

• engon is compatible with Blender 4.1
  • Use LIGHTPROBE_GRID icon instead of LIGHTPROBE_VOLUME in 4.1
  • Use displacement_method from bpy.types.Materials in 4.1
  • Adjusted installation UI to not have duplicated Cancel button, as from 4.1 there is Cancel natively
• Fixed previews deallocation, now previews won't hang unloaded
• Fixed reloading asset packs when updating or removing if other pack_info paths point to it

v1.0.2

Version 1.0.2 🎉

Bugfixes, small quality of life improvements and tweaks to existing features or documentation. Includes refactors for engon and asset pack features coming up in next versions 👀.

Changelog:

• Fixed particle system assets spawning with incorrect rotation
• Fixed properties reordering in panels when undoing
• Fixed adding bumps modifier
• Fixed migrator failing for case-sensitive file paths when relative paths were used
• Workaround for spawning materials crashing Blender - material data preview is now not rendered and is a known issue
• Asset packs are now refreshed correctly when opening .blend file from file explorer
• Escape glob characters in pack search paths
• Improved formatting of asset pack information in preferences and installer dialogs
• Collapse filter groups by default
• Added browser support for vector parameters
• Added icon to the .blend maintenance panel, stop using the 'FILE_TICK' icon for non-saving purposes
• Append Selection adds assets with (0, 90, 0) rotation, so they are upright
• Added documentation for river, rain, and vine generator panels
• Added admonition in documentation about reinstalling an asset pack

v1.0.1

• Added the option to reinstall an already installed asset pack
• Improved install flow
• Link to docs in the panel
• Geometry nodes modifiers have additional UI
• Better asset detail and filters UX.
• Avoid linking the same data twice
• Fixed a few cases of snap to ground bugs
• Fixed randomize float
• Added a missing migration rule for botaniq's Cortaderia selloana
• Users can now remove scatter system even if the underlying collection is missing
• Better logging and diagnostics when installing asset packs
• Fixed a few cases of engon UI getting stale and not refreshing

v1.0.0

Initial release

v0.4.0 | Testing release

Testing pre-release of engon. We are mainly testing auto-updating and the github release workflow.