0.4.0

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Known issues.

0.4.0 (2026-02-08)

General:

• Fixed invalid scaling for fbx imports
• Fixed a lua integration bug for Windows
• Improved palette name support
• Converted the tree generators into lua scripts
• Fixed issues regarding vxl/hva animations (Command & Conquer)
• Added pipe support to send commands from external tools (app_pipe needs to be set true)
• Added new greedy texture mesher that uses a texture atlas to reduce vertex counts
• Added filtering to the cvars dialog
• Added keyboard layout detection
• Improved mime-type handling
• Added support for Axiom Blueprints Minecraft Schematics (bp)
• Optimized volume cropping
• Implement scaling of volumes by fractional values and handle it also in baking transform matrices
• Split vox_meshmode to voxformat_meshmode
• Improved argument handling for console commands
• Added CityGML support (gml)
• VoxelMax (vmaxb) loading support fixed
• Improved the quake map format support (still wip though)
• Fixed network issues on Windows
• Improved auto generated lua docs

VoxConvert:

• Renamed source and target to input and output in the ui to match the command line parameters
• Use voxformat_meshmode if you previously used vox_meshmode

VoxEdit:

• Bump network protocol version - added two missing messages
• Implemented unselecting and intersections
• Fixed input fields for xyz values in the ui
• Optimized some ui panels
• Optimized node transform calculation
• Improved the L-System editing support and added templates
• Fixed potential memento state corruption
• Added more features to the palette panel
• Fixed normal rendering with binary mesher
• Implemented editing of normals and improved the normal palette panel
• Improved autonormals
• Improved camera movement and allow wasd-based movement in both rotation modes
• Improved game mode settings and allow to tweak more properties
• Fixed broken scrolling in the animation timeline
• Fixed switching animations (cache invalidation was missing)
• Removed tree panel
• Fixed multi color selection in palette panel after sorting the colors
• Added transform baking
• Added offline help markdown to a new panel
• Let the default normal palette also depend on the view mode (the game type that is selected)
• Refactored the selection handling
• Allow to re-configure key bindings in the options
• Added MCP server
• Fixed a few high dpi issues

Thumbnailer:

• Fixed missing --angles radians conversion
• Fixed missing transform handling

0.3.0

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Known issues.

0.3.0 (2025-11-29)

General:

• Allow one to export ply vertex positions as integers when voxformat_transform_mesh is set to false and no scale is applied
• Fixed hollowing in some situations
• Fixed a few vxl (Tiberian sun) issues
• Added spritestack write support
• Load a few more world properties for the blip/cubzh base64 encoded world files
• Use own filesystem abstraction for gltf files
• Implemented missing easing functions
• Extended blockbench format support regarding external textures
• Allow one to put rotations into the AceOfSpades vxl export (no scaling yet)
• Performance optimizations for stuff like rotate on axis
• Added support for loading the palette from animatoon files
• Added clouds.lua to generate parameterized clouds
• Fixed a few culling issues
• Fixed debian/ubuntu/mint mimetype errors
• Added palette:size() to lua bindings
• New lua script palette-brighten
• Fixed animation interpolation handling
• Added anivoxel voxa support

VoxEdit:

• Improved the game mode movement (stair handling)
• Fixed physics for nodes that have a pivot applied
• Allow editing in game mode, too (there were key binding conflicts before)
• Stamp brush can get an offset applied which is useful when e.g. placing trees
• Line brush got a continuous mode where the last end is the next start of a line
• Line brush got support for a stipple pattern
• Fixed unclear stamp volume size checks
• The cursor details can now also measure the distance from the reference position (value 3 in the ui)

VoxConvert:

• --image (and --isometric) is now also able to write png files
• --image is now executed after all other steps are executed (so script output can directly go to images)

PalConvert:

• Allow to load more than 256 colors for palettes
• Added --quantize option to produce 8 bit palettes
• Added --optimize option that duplicates and empty (no opacity) colors

0.2.1

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Known issues.

0.2.1 (2025-10-24)

General:

• Minor bugfix release

0.2.0 (2025-10-24)

General:

• Added missing ascii fbx header for saving and support texture coordinates and thumbnails for loading
• Support obj point clouds
• Added cvars voxformat_imagesliceoffsetaxis and voxformat_imagesliceoffset to import spritestacks via Aseprite asprite files
• Fixed symlink handling on linux
• Reduced memory usage
• Optimized palette color mappings
• Added meshoptimizer simplification support for mesh imports (cvar voxformat_mesh_simplify)
• Improved split-by-objects for hollowed objects
• Bump vengi format version
• Improved a few error messages and added missing error handling to some parts
• Optimized voxelization (subdividing triangles)
• Added support for goxel txt file format
• Added support for the veloren server chunk dat files
• Allow to export all cvars as json
• Optimized loading vengi files

VoxEdit:

• Allow to animate point and camera nodes, too
• Allow to follow an animated camera to fly through a scene
• Fixed resetcamera when transforms are applied in edit mode
• Shared voxel editing with client/server collaboration mode
• Enable undo/redo for big volumes
• Refactored scene rendering settings dialog
• Improved shadow rendering
• Support translations and lua scripts in the web version
• Implemented basic physics that allows you to walk through a scene
• Allow to move a node in the hierarchy but don't move it in the world

VoxConvert:

• Transfer existing thumbnails between formats (if supported)
• Allow isometric console output of a scene
• A web version is available now, too

Thumbnailer:

• Added isometric thumbnail support
• Allow to set sun parameters

0.2.0

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Known issues.

0.2.0 (2025-10-24)

General:

• Added missing ascii fbx header for saving and support texture coordinates and thumbnails for loading
• Support obj point clouds
• Added cvars voxformat_imagesliceoffsetaxis and voxformat_imagesliceoffset to import spritestacks via Aseprite asprite files
• Fixed symlink handling on linux
• Reduced memory usage
• Optimized palette color mappings
• Added meshoptimizer simplification support for mesh imports (cvar voxformat_mesh_simplify)
• Improved split-by-objects for hollowed objects
• Bump vengi format version
• Improved a few error messages and added missing error handling to some parts
• Optimized voxelization (subdividing triangles)
• Added support for goxel txt file format
• Added support for the veloren server chunk dat files
• Allow to export all cvars as json
• Optimized loading vengi files

VoxEdit:

• Allow to animate point and camera nodes, too
• Allow to follow an animated camera to fly through a scene
• Fixed resetcamera when transforms are applied in edit mode
• Shared voxel editing with client/server collaboration mode
• Enable undo/redo for big volumes
• Refactored scene rendering settings dialog
• Improved shadow rendering
• Support translations and lua scripts in the web version
• Implemented basic physics that allows you to walk through a scene
• Allow to move a node in the hierarchy but don't move it in the world

VoxConvert:

• Transfer existing thumbnails between formats (if supported)
• Allow isometric console output of a scene
• A web version is available now, too

Thumbnailer:

• Added isometric thumbnail support
• Allow to set sun parameters

0.1.0

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Known issues.

0.1.0 (2025-07-19)

General:

• Fixed handling of invalid jpeg files
• Added new normal palette from slab6
• Reduced overall memory usage
• Improved format detection for the file dialog
• New lua script shadow to generate shadows for a scene
• General performance improvements
• Minecraft skin loading and saving

VoxEdit:

• New single-non-contiguous voxel placing mode in the brushes
• Added new view modes for Minecraft skins and Ace Of Spades

PalConvert:

• Allow to use the built-in as well as lospec palettes from the command line, too

VoxConvert:

• Added --image to voxconvert to print the loaded scene to the colored text console (showcase)
• Thumbnails for formats that support them can now be generated and added to the files

Skins from https://skinmc.net/

0.0.38

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Known issues.

This release has a lot of performance improvements and will most likely be the last release with version range 0.0.X.

0.0.38 (2025-06-01)

General:

• Fixed an off-by-one bug in the marching cubes extractor
• Fixed outline rendering in scene mode
• Fixed vxl slab5 loading
• Support binvox version 2 and 3 (unofficial)
• Allow to save all three versions of binvox files (cvar voxformat_binvoxversion)
• Improved DirectStateAccess (DSA) support for OpenGL
• Quite a few performance improvements
• Support colors on apple and windows terminals, too
• Added lua binding for genland algorithm. See the new g_algorithm.genland function
• Allow to save scenes as heightmaps (png). See the new voxformat_imagesavetype cvar
• Added support for writing Luanti/Minecraft mts files

VoxEdit:

• Fixed directory import on Windows systems
• Fixed missing ambient occlusion for the binary mesher mode
• Fixed bloom rendering artifacts
• Fixed material changes not being applied to the palette

Picture showing giant house minecraft map

0.0.37

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Known issues.

0.0.37 (2025-05-12)

General:

• Added new minecraft block to color mappings
• Improved bash completion scripts
• Fixed vmax.zip loading
• Improved VoxelMax scene loading
• Improved color mapping for minecraft blocks with prefixes
• Fixed some dpi issues with a few dialog sizes
• Added support for Avoyd material template (avmt) files
• Fixed new binary mesher for negative region offsets
• New lua scripts
• Added lua script description

VoxEdit:

• Added new dialog to show the minecraft block to color mappings
• Extended palette function (white-balancing and constrast-stretching)
• Fixed showing a few keybinding hints
• Refactored the node inspector
• Improved the camera panel
• Allow to change the cvar ve_regionsizes from within the UI
• Fixed crash in memento panel tooltip handling
• Optimized lua script panel

PalConvert:

• Print palette and color names

(Giant house)

0.0.36

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Known issues.

0.0.36 (2025-04-21)

General:

• Fixed emit value handling for palettes
• Fixed KHR_materials_pbrSpecularGlossiness handling for gltf exports
• Added new lua script to create newel stairs
• Fixed missing animation transfer from one scenegraph into other one
• Updated/Added SDL3 support (both SDL2 and SDL3 are supported now)
• Added Adobe ColorBook (acb) palette support
• Fixed xraw palette issue with color slot 0
• Added schematic write support (Minecraft)
• Fixed Adobe Swatch Exchange (ase) palette loading issue
• Use a faster binary-greedy-mesher
• Optimizations
• Fixed node merging with pivots
• Allow to load other palette image dimensions than 1x256

VoxEdit:

• Implemented selection invert
• Added palette options to file dialog
• Allow to execute palette actions on multiple colors
• Allow to reduce multiple colors at once
• Fixed missing font glyphs in some cases

PalConvert:

• Added a new tool for dealing with palettes

0.0.35

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Known issues.

0.0.35 (2025-02-09)

General:

• Added support for BenVoxel ben and ben.json format
• Added support for loading vertex colors for 3ds
• New cvar to define additional texture search paths for voxelization (voxformat_texturepath)
• Fixed an error with loading magicavoxel files without layers
• New lua script to remap colors
• Prevent files from being opened twice (windows doesn't like this)
• Fixed unicode related errors on windows for path handling
• Fixed case-sensitivity in pattern matching. We couldn't find files that had upper-case extensions
• Implemented symlink handling on windows
• Added public domain Ace Of Spades map generator code
• Added new cvar palformat_maxsize to control the max image size for palette quantization
• Added new cvar voxformat_imageheightmapminheight to control the minimum size during a heightmap import
• Fixed handling of gltf embedded images
• Fixed png import palette handling
• Fixed issues with thing format
• Fixed issues with vxl format
• Added support for loading quake map files (but this is still work-in-progress)
• Added new blocks to sment StarMade palette
• Added new lua script flatten
• Fixed issue with auto selecting files in the file dialog if the options popup is visible
• Added support for KenneyShape kenshape format
• Added save support for Godot escn scene format

VoxConvert:

• Removed the file type selection for source and target files in the ui
• Added script support to the ui
• --usage shows lua script details now
• Removed --slice (see png format)
• Allow to specify multiple --script parameters

VoxEdit:

• Added the possibility to render a plane to the viewport for easier orientation
• Show the normals in scene mode, too
• Allow to edit models in-place in edit mode

Screenshots

The screenshot is showing the new edit mode transforms - where you are able to edit your single volumes in the correct location.

The screenshot is showing the Command&Conquer normals for the hmec.vxl

0.0.34

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Known issues.

0.0.34 (2024-11-15)

General:

• Fixed invalid uv coordinate handling when importing meshes to voxelize them
• Added support for paint.net palettes
• Added support for Adobe Photoshop ACO palettes
• Added support for bbmodel Blockbench format
• Added support for vxb Sandbox Block format
• Fixed a few errors in the lua bindings of the g_import global
• Extended the lua api (g_sys, g_io)
• Fixed nameless, embedded textures in glb
• Fixed off-by-one in voxformat_voxelizemode 1
• Fixed missing axis flip for md2 scale and translate value imports
• Added support for Quake1 mdl files
• Added support for exporting and importing to and from png slices
• Added support for Autodesk 3ds files
• Support for loading normals for voxelization (mesh formats) and for voxel formats (vxl)
• Fixed vxl saving for negative coordinates
• Split file dialog options into a new separated dialog
• Added new lua scripts (game of life, mandelbulb, smooth)
• Added support for Pixelorama palette

VoxConvert:

• Removed --image-as-XXX parameters (now part of the png format)
• Removed --colored-heightmap (this is auto-detected in the png format now)

VoxEdit:

• Allow to change the local directory for the asset panel
• Add more online sources to the asset panel
• Added support to apply a checkboard pattern to your voxels just for rendering
• Improved handling for max allowed voxels
• Disable undo/redo for model changes if you exceed a max suggested model size
• Disable autosaves for model changes if you exceed a max suggested model size
• New brush type to project textures into sub areas or on surfaces
• Added an FPS option for the animation timeline
• Added normal palette panel
• Fixed missing memento group for merging nodes
• Improved undo/redo for lua script changes on the scenegraph
• Added a slice mode to only show a particular height level of your volume
• Don't place invalid colored voxels in group lock mode
• Render forward direction in the viewport