vengi/CHANGELOG.md

A more detailed changelog can be found at: https://github.com/mgerhardy/engine/commits/

0.0.5 (2020-XX-XX)

VoxConvert:

• Support different palette files (cvar palette)
• Support writing outside the registered application paths
• Allow to overwrite existing files

General:

• Switched to qb as default volume format
• Improved scene graph support for Magicavoxel vox files
• Fixed invisible voxels for qb and qbt (Qubicle) volume format
• Support automatic loading different volume formats for assets
• Support Command&Conquer vxl files

0.0.4 (2020-06-07)

General:

• Added support for writing binvox files
• Added support for reading kvx (Build-Engine) and kv6 (SLAB6) voxel volumes
• Performed some AFL hardening on voxel format code
• Don't execute keybindings if the console is active
• Added basic shader storage buffer support
• Reduced voxel vertex size from 16 to 8 bytes
• Apply checkerboard pattern to water surface
• Improved tracy profiling support
• A few highdpi fixes

Server:

• Allow to specify the database port
• Fixed loading database chunks

VoxEdit:

• Added scale console command to produce LODs

VoxConvert:

• Added ability to merge all layers into one

0.0.3 (2020-05-17)

Assets:

• Added music tracks
• Updated and added some new voxel models

VoxEdit:

• Made some commands available to the ui
• Tweak thicken command
• Updated default tree generation ui values
• Save layers to all supported formats
• Fixed tree generation issue for some tree types
• Changed default reference position to be at the center bottom
• Reduced max supported volume size

General:

• Print stacktraces on asserts
• Improved tree generation (mainly used in voxedit)
• Fixed a few asserts in debug mode for the microsoft stl
• Added debian package support
• Fixed a few undefined behaviour issues and integer overflows that could lead to problems
• Reorganized some modules to speed up compilation and linking times
• Improved audio support
• Fixed timing issues
• Fixed invalid GL states after deleting objects

VoxConvert:

• Added a new tool to convert different voxel volumes between supported formats Currently supported are cub (CubeWorld), vox (MagicaVoxel), vmx (VoxEdit Sandbox), binvox and qb/qbt (Qubicle)

Client:

• Added footstep and ambience sounds

0.0.2 (2020-05-06)

VoxEdit:

• Static linked VC++ Runtime
• Extract voxels by color into own layers
• Updated tree and noise windows
• Implemented thicken console command
• Escape abort modifier action
• Added L-System panel

General:

• Fixed binvox header parsing
• Improved compilation speed
• Fixed compile errors with locally installed glm 0.9.9
• Fixed setup-documentation errors
• Fixed shader pipeline rebuilds if included shader files were modified
• Improved palm tree generator
• Optimized mesh extraction for the world (streaming volumes)
• Added new voxel models
• (Re-)added Tracy profiler support and removed own imgui-based implementation
• Fixed writing of key bindings
• Improved compile speed and further removed the STL from a lot of places
• Updated all dependencies to their latest version

Server/Client:

• Added DBChunkPersister
• Built-in HTTP server to download the chunks
• Replaced ui for the client

Voxel rendering

• Implemented reflection for water surfaces
• Apply checkerboard pattern to voxel surfaces
• Up-scaling effect for new voxel chunks while they pop in
• Optimized rendering by not using one giant vbo

0.0.1 "Initial Release" (2020-02-08)

VoxEdit:

• initial release