Pre-Release 0.2.0 ZIRON Engine

ZIRON Engine — Release 0.2.0

This update focuses on editor customization, workflow flexibility, and project reliability, introducing long-requested configuration systems and automatic project protection features.

Added

• Added a full Settings window for configuring editor behavior and keybinds.
• Added support for additional editor configuration categories and internal config handling.
• Added a complete Autosave system to automatically protect project progress.
• Added Autosave configuration options directly inside the editor settings.

Improved

• Improved editor customization workflow by centralizing settings management.
• Improved internal configuration compatibility and scalability for future editor features.
• Improved project safety and recovery reliability through automated saving intervals.
• Autosave settings now properly handle interval updates and project restart requirements when necessary.

Fixed

• Fixed configuration synchronization issues affecting some editor settings.
• Fixed internal autosave interval handling to ensure changes apply correctly after configuration updates.
• Fixed multiple settings persistence inconsistencies across editor sessions.

Pre-Release 0.1.1 ZIRON Engine

ZIRON Engine — Pre Release 0.1.1

This update focuses heavily on editor stability, rendering performance, workflow improvements, and overall usability across the engine.

Added

• Added full dual-font support across the editor, ensuring title fonts are now correctly applied to special texts and editor headers.
• Added direct .ziron.project file association support on Windows, allowing projects to be opened directly from the file explorer.
• Added double-click rename support in the hierarchy panel.
• Expanded Lucide icon integration across the editor UI:
  • Recent Projects
  • Create Project menu
  • Viewport window headers
  • Hierarchy and Properties panels
• Improved Recent Projects empty-state visuals and behavior.

Improved

• Reworked the rendering/threading pipeline for significantly faster editor performance.
• Improved large scene loading and viewport responsiveness.
• Improved camera movement consistency when rendering large numbers of objects.
• Refactored viewport and SceneManager internals for better scalability and maintainability.
• The default Sun entity is now treated like a standard entity inside the hierarchy:
  • Selectable normally
  • Visible in hierarchy
  • Still protected from deletion
• Simplified hierarchy interaction logic and removed unnecessary selection restrictions for better accessibility.

Fixed

• Fixed a major camera speed issue caused by resizing or unmaximizing the editor window.
• Fixed multiple Undo/Redo (CTRL + Z) inconsistencies:
  • Restored objects now correctly keep their IDs
  • Hierarchy positions are now properly restored
  • Selection and Properties panels now update correctly after undo operations
• Fixed multi-selection duplication issues where duplicated objects were not automatically selected.
• Fixed entity ID desynchronization issues that could lead to Unknown ID errors during complex editor operations.
• Fixed duplicated entity ID inflation caused by batch processing issues.
• Fixed the contextual menu rename action not correctly dispatching hierarchy rename events.

Pre-Release 0.1.0 ZIRON Engine

Pre Release v0.1.0 ZIRON Engine

This new version adds:

• New properties window
• Changed app font to Geist Font | Source
• Add new tooltips and fixes in i18n
• Fix scene name save

Pre Release 0.0.1

First release 0.0.1

This first release only contains a simple fast editor and a project manager easy to use.