Avoyd Changelog

List of Avoyd releases and the functionality added, changed and fixed, as well as known outstanding issues.

BUY | DOWNLOAD AVOYD

Known Issues

• Game - Can occasionally spawn inside a voxel material volume, unable to move. Workarounds: In Skirmish fire/delete material around you to escape; in Wander mode exit and start a new game to get a new spawn position

[0.15.0] - 2023-05-17 - FULL

Added

• Voxel Editor - Export - Export to MagicaVoxel .vox with option to remove hidden voxels (similar to MagicaVoxel's "Hull"), fit to boundaries, set maximum model size, and experimental option for unlimited size scenes. Menu File > Export > MagicaVoxel (.vox)
• Voxel Editor - Count of the number of materials and the number of materials in use. Menu > View > World Properties

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Import - Importing MagicaVoxel .vox files now only create 255 materials. MagicaVoxel's "empty" material is not created. Menu File > Import > MagicaVoxel (.vox)
• Voxel Editor - Import - Importing MagicaVoxel .vox progress bar improved with finer grain feedback at start of load
• Voxel Editor - Export - Export to Mesh with material parameters in textures now names the materials with the name of the file and _opaque and _transparent for easier identification.
• UI - Default theme Dear ImGui "Classic" and window collapse button position. Menu Settings > Display
• UI - Modal popup windows now appear in the center of the main window, or the window they were opened from, so they are easier to find.

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Graphics - Broken and noisy voxel edge patterns on extremely large flat surfaces.
• Voxel Editor - Graphics - Self shadowing issue on extremely large flat surfaces.
• Voxel Editor - Graphics - Level of Detail geometry in distance picking the wrong material.
• Voxel Editor - Graphics - Raycast and per vertex ambient occlusion errors due to level of detail being too low.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Scattering when ray does not pass through a node boundary.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Corrected rendering when material id 0 is transparent.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Denoiser - Fully transparent surfaces with no index of refraction difference at boundary now use inverse ray direction for normal to improve denoising.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Denoiser - Denoising images with many samples per pixel no longer results in unusual vertical lines in the image.
• Voxel Editor - Moved read lock which was preventing Auto Defrag Octree on Save.
• Voxel Editor - Temporary files which were written to but which have errors are now deleted.
• Voxel Editor - File > Save Paste Brush as World no longer silently overwrites a previously saved paste brush when they have the same name.
• Voxel Editor - File > New resets materials before loading defaults so that transparency information is not carried over from previous materials.
• Voxel Editor - Setting Camera > Focus on World Load to false no longer results in a black screen and potential crash when importing .vox files.
• Voxel Editor - File > Export > Mesh (.obj) resolved crash during texture export introduced in 0.14.0.
• Voxel Editor - Editing a Palette name then cancelling causes the last palette to be deleted.
• Graphics - Improved level of detail material selection for thin surfaces, so voxels on the visible face are preferred.
• UI - The file dialogue now selects the correct file in the list of files on opening for all sort orderings.
• Potential crash or data corruption due to error in read/write lock (no issues reported or observed but code was incorrect).
• Opening an Avoyd file type directly from Windows explorer might cause Avoyd to be unable to load assets (shaders etc.).

[0.14.0] - 2023-03-23

Added

• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Added Radiance HDR RGBE image export support for renders (.hdr). Menu Render, Image Settings
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Added OpenEXR 16bit and 32bit float image export support for renders (.exr). Menu Render, Image Settings
• Voxel Editor - UI - Added error dialogue when images created by the renderer or screenshots fail to save. Menu Render, and F10 for screenshots

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Reorganised Render GUI to follow the progression from Setup, Render, Post Process, to Save. Menu Render
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Saved image format moved from Settings to Render screen.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Removed HQ Denoise option as this is now producing lower quality than the fixed standard denoise.

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Corrected the integration for volumetric emissive materials (for example fire) with absorption and scattering.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Improved denoising by changing albedo handling for transmissive materials to be white unless purely reflective or refractive.
• Voxel Editor - UI - Progress bar now updates during saving when the user is not moving the mouse.
• Logging now includes all saved image types.

[0.13.3] - 2023-05-21 - DEMO

Changed

• Demo - Reduced maximum log file size.
• Demo - Removed debug information log spam.
• Demo - Added debug information for OIDN plugin loading for when it cannot be loaded.

[0.13.2] - 2023-05-18

Added

• Demo - From 0.15.0 - Voxel Editor - Count of the number of materials and the number of materials in use. Menu > View > World Properties
• Demo - From 0.14.0 - Voxel Editor - UI - Added error dialogue when images created by the renderer or screenshots fail to save. Menu Render, and F10 for screenshots

Changed

• Demo - All up to and including 0.15.0

Fixed

• Demo - All up to and including 0.15.0

[0.13.1] - 2023-02-11

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Fixed reflections on transparent surfaces not showing, introduced in 0.13.0.

[0.13.0] - 2023-02-07

Added

• Voxel Editor - Importer - New Minecraft blocks: light, honey_block, lava_cauldron, powder_snow_cauldron, water_cauldron. Menu File > Import > Minecraft Map or Structure (*.mca, *.nbt)
• Voxel Editor - Importer - New Minecraft block status "lit" for: deepslate_redstone_ore, redstone_ore, redstone_torch, redstone_wall_torch, redstone_lamp, furnace, blast_furnace, smoker, campfire, soul_campfire, candle, candle_cake. The status parameter is appended to the material name in Avoyd. This change means that we now have two materials for each block that has the "lit" property: one with emissive on, and one with emissive off. Old materials with "lit_" prefix e.g. lit_redstone_ore are kept for compatibility with older versions of Minecraft.

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Importer - Set the Minecraft materials emissive properties in Avoyd to be as close as possible to the blocks light level in Minecraft. Note: sea_pickle is lit by default.
• Voxel Editor - Importer - Optimized Minecraft map file (.mca) loading time by adding chunk level tasks on top of region file tasks. This results in up to 10x performance improvements measured for small maps.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Optimized scattering events by exiting octree ray cast early. This results in up to 1.25x faster rendering times. Menu Render
• Voxel Editor - UI - Improved copy world file name and copy full path buttons. Added copy directory. Menu Edit > World Properties
• Installer - File name now specifies "full" or "beta".
• UI - Display "full" or "beta" in version name.
• UI - Improved error messages for when Avoyd cannot start, along with suggestions to resolve the issues.

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Transparent Emissive materials which scatter now emit light when scattering occurs.
• Voxel Editor - Renderer - Rough transparent interfaces with the same refractive index no longer darken due to a precision issue with the Fresnel equations.

[0.12.3] - 2023-02-17

Added

• Demo - UI - Version update window with information about both the Demo and Full stream updates available.

[0.12.2] - 2023-02-07

Added

• Demo - UI - Buy Avoyd window shows every 10 runs of the application.

Changed

• Demo - UI - Display "demo" in version name.
• Demo - Installer file name now specifies "demo".

[0.12.1] - 2023-01-09

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - File > Export > Polygon Mesh (*.obj) no longer crashes when exporting large models.

[0.12.0] - 2022-12-20

Added

• Voxel Editor - Materials - Remove unused Materials. Menu Edit > Remove Unused Materials
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Remove unused Material Types. Menu Edit > Remove Unused Material Types
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Group all Materials in one Material Type. Menu Edit > Merge Materials into one Material Type
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Delete a Material Type. This will only delete the Material Type if no Materials are in use, otherwise it will delete the unused Materials from the Material Type. Menu Tools > Materials > Delete the current Material Type
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Increase the number of Materials in a Material Type. Menu Tools > Materials > Edit current Material Type name and Nr of Materials
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Delete a material if it is not in use. Menu Tools > Materials > Delete selected Material
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Change the display width of a Material Type. Menu Tools > Materials > Click on < > buttons to adjust width
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Edit Material Type name. Menu Toools > Materials, select a Material Type to modify and click the edit name button next to it.
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Load a Material Template and add it to the current Materials. Merge Template > Materials
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Load the default Materials and add them to the current Materials. Merge Template > Default Materials
• Voxel Editor - Context menu option "Move Edit Cursor here". Moves the Edit Cursor to the surface you point to. This makes it easier bring the edit cursor into sight, especially when it is hidden by geometry or anchored behind the camera. It turns the Anchor off.
• Voxel Editor - Increase the scale of world by 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x and 64x in a single action. Menu Edit > Scale World > 2X, 4X, 8X.. 64X
• Voxel Editor - Revert to last file save or import. Limitations: cannot revert import raw 3D binary array, nor import image as material. Menu File > Revert
• Voxel Editor - Export to OBJ - new presets for Blender 3D, Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. Menu File > Export > Polygon Mesh (*.obj)
• Voxel Editor - Shortcuts to world file path location, open directory in explorer and copy path to clipboard added to file dialogs File > Open, File > Save As etc. and View > World Properties
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmosphere presets - no Light, no Atmophere, or neither Light nor Atmosphere. These presets are useful for renders using emissive lights and to suppress any atmospheric effects. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Presets Global, Light, and Atmosphere, setting 'None'
• Voxel Editor - Minecraft Materials - Added over 60 missing materials for blocks: mangrove wood, mud, packed mud and mud bricks, sculk, honey, candles, froglights, frogspawn, reinforced deepslate, copper, vines, roots and more. Reordered and grouped blocks by types, and homogenised properties.
• Voxel Editor - Open source Avoyd voxel models (.avwr world files) and links to free .vox files, Minecraft worlds, heightmaps and palettes to download. github.com/enkisoftware/voxel-models link under menu Help > Free Voxel Models

Changed

• Performance - Improved multithreaded performance on machines with more than 64 cores
• Voxel Editor - Render - maximum accumulations increased to over a million. Menu File > Render
• Voxel Editor - Render - Preview no longer autogenerates if the Render Window does not have focus
• Voxel Editor - Import - MagicaVoxel .vox files no longer loads hidden groups, layers nor instances so rendering is consistent with MagicaVoxel
• Voxel Editor - Import - MagicaVoxel .vox files now only loads the palette from the .vox file. It no longer adds the default materials. Menu File > Import > MagicaVoxel (*.vox)
• Voxel Editor - Import - Minecraft maps (.mca) and Structure files (.nbt) now only load the Minecraft materials. Menu File > Import > Minecraft Map or Structure (*.mca, *.nbt)
• Voxel Editor - Import - Materials are not reset when importing image as heightmap or material
• Voxel Editor - UI - menus File > Save and File > Save As are now always available, including when an action deactivates the menu system
• Voxel Editor - UI - Removed the invert grid button from the Materials window. The functionality remains available in Settings > Display > Layout > Invert Materials Grid Order
• Voxel Editor - UI - Moved the "open Pick window" button to the bottom of the list of tools in the Edit Tool. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - UI - Palette: removed the 'Reset' button. Use Tools > Materials Reset instead.
• Voxel Editor - Save Template now defaults to using filename of world. Menu File > Save Template

Fixed

• Installer - Removed option to launch Avoyd after install as this occasionally fails
• Voxel Editor - UI - Menu System getting stuck in a disabled state
• Voxel Editor - UI - menu Tools > Edit Tool now brings the window to the front if hidden
• Voxel Editor - Render - Can no longer accumulate after a cancelled render
• Voxel Editor - Render - Drag and Drop a voxel model onto Avoyd during a Render or Preview no longer causes a crash
• Voxel Editor - Render - Drag and Drop a voxel model onto Avoyd with auto preview on now correctly re-renders the preview
• Voxel Editor - File > Open Recent Worlds now works with Minecraft region files
• Voxel Editor - Import - Importing a Minecraft region file now sets the arcball camera center to world center of mass for easier viewing when using the arcball camera
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Anchor no longer drifts when editing Snap To Grid spacing and offset
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Loading a material template no longer results in voxels with unassigned material parameters

[0.11.0] - 2022-09-13

Added

• Voxel Editor - Minecraft Structure File Import. Drag & drop nbt files into Avoyd or go to menu File > Import > Minecraft Map or Structure (*.mca, *.nbt)
• Setting to control how many CPU threads Avoyd is allowed to use. This can be used to lower the CPU utilization to run multiple apps or to keep CPU temperatures low. Menu Setting > System > (Multithreading) Maximum Logical Processors
• Automatically open the last used menu (voxel editor or main menu) when starting Avoyd. Option set in menu Settings > Start As Menu 'Last Used (default)'
• Voxel Editor - UI - Copy/paste paths from/into file dialogues
• Voxel Editor - UI - Drag and drop avoyd template files (materials, light and atmosphere, and camera templates) onto the voxel editor to open them without opening file dialogues

Changed

• Power save mode now turns on vsync when in menu screens (not in movement mode) if vsync is set to off
• Decreased size of avoyd world files and network world data by compressing the materials, lighting & atmosphere, camera, and world properties data
• Voxel Editor - Pick cursor no longer uses tool intensity settings so always visible. Menu Tools > Pick Material
• Voxel Editor - Renamed window to "Avoyd Voxel Editor"

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Starting a game from the editor and then escaping to editor and continuing now goes to in game menu not create game. Menu Game > Continue
• Visible voxel surface sampling improvement no longer causes occasionally incorrect voxel positions in distant objects
• Potential crash in file dialogue when double clicking the file list with nothing selected

[0.10.1] - 2022-06-03

Changed

• Game - Can now cancel a pending client to server connection in case of a lengthy response from the server instead of waiting for the auto disconnect
• Game - When disconnected the "Disconnected - Exit Game" window now appears centered
• Game - Further multithreaded the server handling of client voxel octree data requests

Fixed

• Graphics - Fixed fog inconsistencies when fog amount not 1.0. Applies to both real time renderer and path traced renderer
• Voxel Editor - Path traced continuous rendering will now continue if the application is minimized
• Game - Resolved a multithreading issue with access to transform data which could cause a crash
• Game - Resolved a multithreading issue with deallocation of network packets which could cause a crash
• Game - Joining a network game no longer occasionally results in the user interface for the wrong game mode showing
• Game - Resolved a multiplayer client multithreading issue with missing voxel data
• Game - Exiting after playing as a network client resets all world data and no longer requests to save unchanged data
• Game - Resized in game menu buttons to fit largest text

[0.10.0] - 2022-05-27

Added

• Voxel Editor - Path tracing Render preview settings for maximum image width and number of samples per pixel are now configurable in Render window. Menu Render
• Voxel Editor - Path tracing Render preview auto denoising option
• Voxel Editor - Toggle Landscape / Portrait: exchange width and height for custom window size (menus Resize and Settings > Graphics) and Render image size (menu Render)

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Moved path tracing Render settings to bottom of Render window in collapsing headers
• Voxel Editor - Path tracing Render images are now centered

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - MagicaVoxel cloud material transparency and emission parameters imported to more correctly match MV renders
• Voxel Editor - MagicaVoxel object import order was broken in an earlier build, now resolved so objects should render in correct order
• Voxel Editor - Loading or importing a new world file with the Render window open and auto preview on no longer causes occasional crash
• Voxel Editor - Switching to a camera loaded from an older Avoyd file now sets the correct perspective projection type
• Voxel Editor - Exiting Avoyd now stops rendering to exit completely faster
• Voxel Editor - Defragmentation progress corrected to take account of already defragmented voxel counts
• Voxel Editor - Import image as heightmap uses the requested number of colours for palettisation
• Exit fullscreen button at top right of fullscreen windows should now display correctly for all fonts and font sizes

[0.9.3] - 2022-05-12

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Exiting the editor with changes and then selecting "Yes" to save changes no longer causes editor to be unable to exit

[0.9.2] - 2022-05-06

Added

• Voxel Editor - Can now drag & drop avoyd world files onto the voxel editor to open them without opening file dialogue
• Voxel Editor - File > Open can now import files as well as open Avoyd world files
• Voxel Editor - Improved file dialogue with sortable filename, modification date, type, and size
• Voxel Editor - Avoyd .avwr world files are now associated with Avoyd and can be opened from Windows Explorer
• Voxel Editor - Export to polygon mesh now supports basic transparency. Menu File > Export > Polygon Mesh (*.obj)
• Voxel Editor - Export to polygon mesh option to export normals (previously defaulted to always generating & exporting face normals)
• Voxel Editor - Enhanced visiblity of the wireframe voxel edge to brush shapes when enabled in Menu > Settings > Voxel Style > Show Voxel Edges and Voxel Edge Amplitude

Changed

• Graphics - Level of detail material sampling attempts to sample the materials on the visible edges for improved distant visuals
• Voxel Editor - Improved performance of Export to polygon mesh, now up to ~15x faster
• Voxel Editor - File dialogue Useful Directories list changed to a Recent Directories list (with added 'useful directories')
• Voxel Editor - Recent files lists now shows all recent world (model) file types. Menu File > Open Recent Worlds and File > Load Recent Worlds as Paste Brush
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool hollow shapes wall thickness is now an absolute number of voxels (replaces percentage of size). This gives more precise control and ensures the walls are the same thickness along every axis. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes 'Box Hollow', 'Tube', 'Ellipsoid Hollow', 'Torus Hollow'
• Voxel Editor - Simplified menu and toolbar shortcut to the Edit Tool. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Improved CPU and GPU performance when using orthographic camera by lowering level of detail for off screen sections
• Game - Improved LAN multiplayer server list with sortable status (ready to join or not), server name, game mode, number of players, etc. Default sort by status. Main menu 'Join LAN Game'

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Edit tool Anchor bounds can now be modified when further than 10000 voxels away
• File dialogue flickering when External Viewport Display enabled and file dialogue moved outside main window
• Improved error handling for loading corrupt Avoyd .avwr world files
• Changing between menus (Voxel Editor to Main Menu for example) closes the file dialogue
• Installer - Added a delay after install before running Avoyd to ensure copied dlls can be loaded

[0.9.1] - 2022-04-16

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - MagicaVoxel files with group references now import correctly

[0.9.0] - 2022-04-15

Added

• Voxel Editor - Support for importing .vox files from MagicaVoxel 0.99.7.0 (Beta) (EDIT: this broke group references, fixed in 0.9.1)
• Voxel Editor - Support for importing raw 3D binary 8bit array files. Menu File > Import > Raw 3D Binary Array

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Updated ImGuizmo for an improved Anchor tool
• Voxel Editor - Significantly improved vox file import performance for vox files with large numbers of objects
• Avoyd installer and exes now signed with an Extended Validation Certificate (previously used a standard validation certificate)
• Voxel Editor - Added link to online documentation in French and links to social media. Menu Help > Documentation en Ligne etc.

Fixed

• Reduced HTTP request timeout so Avoyd no longer hangs when exiting or changing window size / going fullscreen if server connection for version query cannot be made
• Ctrl+M shortcut (hide all UI elements) now works on keyboards other than Qwerty, and CTRL+M no longer hides menu when in movement mode
• Voxel Editor - Memory leak in vox importer

[0.8.15] - 2022-03-19

Added

• Graphics - Presets for real time GPU Graphics Quality - Very Low, Low, High, Very High and Custom. Game Settings > Graphics, Voxel Editor menu Settings > Graphics > Graphics Quality
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - Online tutorial in French | Tutoriel en Français : https://www.avoyd.com/documentation-avoyd-editeur-voxels.html
• Voxel Editor - Added Minecraft materials such as moss_block, tuff, deepslate etc.; set materials missing colours and parameters (e.g. corals); and grouped some of the materials by type, e.g. glass and glass_panes, woods, plants etc. (work in progress). To view the new Minecraft materials, import a Minecraft map with menu File > Import > Minecraft Map (*.mca). If you’ve imported Minecraft worlds into a version of Avoyd older than 0.8.15, you should install the latest version of Avoyd and import again to ensure the latest materials are used.
• UI - Added button (top right) to escape fullscreen along with many other UI improvements

Changed

• Graphics - Improved real time GPU shadow map resolution distribution by scaling cascade distances with minimum observed distance
• Graphics - View performance now shows FPS, with a detailed option to view frame time, CPU time, GPU time, pixels and primitives rendered
• Voxel Editor - Improved octree defragmention performance by over 1.2x, also improves saving performance when a defrag is scheduled
• Voxel Editor - Albedo Colour debug render mode and path traced Render Albedo view use constant ambient light colour to better enable 'green screen' and other techniques. To set for real time GPU rendering: menu Settings > Voxel Style > Display Mode = 'Albedo'. For CPU path tracing: menu Render > Mode = 'Albedo'

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Exiting the application from the Main Menu when started directly into the Voxel Editor with no changes no longer erroneously detects unsaved data
• Taking jpg screenshots with certain sizes no longer crashes. Take a screenshot shortcut: F10

[0.8.14] - 2022-02-28

Changed

• Voxel Editor - World Properties: improved performance by only calculating dimensions on window appearance, loading a world, or when manually refreshed. Menu View > World Properties

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Level of detail system for orthographic views changed to use visible distance instead of distance to objects
• Voxel Editor - Shadow maps now correctly frustum culled when using an orthographic camera

[0.8.13] - 2022-02-18

Added

• Voxel Editor - Export: .obj Wavefront polygon mesh export option to use a single material with material information in texture (one RGB colour texture and one with metal, roughness, emissive in RGB). Menu File > Export > Polygon Mesh (*.obj)
• Voxel Editor - UI: External Viewport Display setting to enable/disable the ability to drag windows outside the main window viewport in windowed mode. Menu Settings > Display > External Viewports
• Voxel Editor - Azimuth and Elevation angle widgets for Light direction control. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Light
• Voxel Editor - Link to online documentation on www.avoyd.com under Menu Help > Online Documentation

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Resolved occasional stall when starting a new path traced render
• Voxel Editor - Render depth of field aperture is ignored if focus distance is negative
• Voxel Editor - Screenshots and renders to PNG format now no longer output an unused alpha channel
• Voxel Editor - Undoing a copy operation will revert the tool from paste brush to copy brush if there is no previous valid paste brush
• Voxel Editor - Undo of a paste operation from a CTRL+V when using a tool size different from the size of the paste leaving behind pasted voxels
• Voxel Editor - Undo & Redo for multiple copy / paste operations occasionally failed to paste correctly
• Voxel Editor - Crash when exporting polygon meshes on models with large contiguous sections of the same material
• Voxel Editor - Denoising path traced image or switching view mode no longer potentially causes an in progress image save to become garbled

[0.8.12] - 2022-01-21

Changed

• Game - Significantly improved performance of voxel damage
• Graphics - As a result of fixing the fog and path traced transparency blending atmospheric fog has a less sharp onset, which may result in greater foreground fog
• Voxel Editor - Optimized Minecraft import reducing time taken by ~1.2x
• Voxel Editor - Significantly improved Render path traced ray casting performance for transparent full voxels

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Minecraft map import no longer reading wrong y (height) values, which caused missing & wrongly placed sections of maps
• Voxel Editor - Blending of atmospheric fog with path traced transparencies corrected so fog does not appear clearer through transparencies
• Avoyd application and installer icons: replaced the red background with purple-blue gradient, no transparency. Added images to installer.

[0.8.11] - 2021-12-20

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Importing Minecraft maps from versions 1.13 up to and including 1.15 no longer have occasional incorrect columns of blocks

[0.8.10] - 2021-12-18

Added

• Voxel Editor - Support for Minecraft Version 1.18 maps

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Imported Minecraft maps now use the Blue Sky Sunny atmosphere settings (can be changed after importing)

[0.8.9] - 2021-12-16

Added

• Voxel Editor - Added HQ (High Quality) denoise option to CPU path traced rendering (available through menu Render)
• Voxel Editor - Added Firefly Clamp Value to reduce fireflies (bright seemingly random spots on image caused by low propability paths)

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Saving a large file which already exists now correctly overwrites the file on a successful write rather than leaving a temporary file name
• Voxel Editor - Importing unsupported Minecraft maps (version 1.18+) now shows an error message instread of crashing
• Voxel Editor - When loading a file with unsaved changes responding Yes to Unsaved Changes dialogue no longer loads world to prevent potential data overwrite during save

[0.8.8] - 2021-12-10

Added

• Voxel Editor - Transparent materials: currently these are only supported in the CPU path traced Renderer (available through menu Render). Transparency support adds a surface transmission parameter, along with volume parameters absorption length, scatter length, index of refraction and scattering phase.
• Voxel Editor - New Materials: Glass, Water, Ice, Cloud, Smoke and Fire. Menu Tools > Materials > Material Type and select 'Glass', 'Water and Ice' or 'Cloud Smoke Fire'
• Voxel Editor - Import support for MagicaVoxel .vox transparency parameters
• Voxel Editor - Minecraft materials with transparency parameters for imported Minecraft worlds
• Voxel Editor - Full voxels option: sets the Amount to 255 (max) and deactivates morphing voxels: all voxels are full cubes and shapes surfaces are stepped. This affects curved shapes (sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, tube, cone and torus) and wedge and corner. It achieves the full style other voxel editors use, and makes it easier to do stairs using the wedge shape. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Amount, tick 'Full Voxels'
• Voxel Editor - Import Heightmap Surface. This enables you to create complex diagonals and curved surfaces such as domes, curved lines etc. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap, choose the option 'Surface Layer Only'. Set the maximum thickness of the layer.
• Voxel Editor - Editable Material Name. Menu Tools > Materials > select a Material to display its properties, new 'Name' field
• Voxel Editor - Material Copy/Paste. Menu Tools > Materials > Material Type, select a Material swatch from the grid, press the 'Copy' button. Select another Material swatch and Paste to overwrite it with the copied Material properties.
• Voxel Editor - Material Type cloning: create a new Material type based on an existing one. The number of Materials (the grid) can be larger than in the original. Menu Tools > Materials > Material Type Add ('+') > tick 'Clone' and choose the Material Type to clone from the list. Modify the Name and enlarge the grid dimensions if needed.
• Voxel Editor - Material Types: option to display all the Materials together in the grid instead of using the drop-down to display them by Material Type. Menu Tools > Materials > tick 'Show All' next to Material Type drop-down
• Voxel Editor - Palette cloning and renaming: create a new Palette based on an existing one. Palettes (except 'Default') can be renamed. From the Edit Tool or Materials window, Palette Add ('+') > tick 'Clone' and choose the Palette to clone from the list. To rename a Palette select the Edit button (pencil icon).
• Voxel Editor - Double clicking on a swatch in a Palette opens the Materials window to give access to Material properties. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Palette
• Voxel Editor - Material Type and Palette grid invert vertical display order. This setting inverts the Materials grids display to match the MagicaVoxel Palette display order (lowest index bottom left). Menu Materials > Material Type > invert vertical grid toggle button, or Menu Settings > Display > Layout > Invert Materials Grid Display
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmosphere now defaults to neutral settings to minimise the effect of the global lighting and atmosphere on the world colours. Create a new world or go to menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Presets 'Global' option 'Neutral (default)'. (Previously the voxel editor default was global setting 'Blue Sky').

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Significantly improved Render path traced ray casting accuracy
• Voxel Editor - Added auto defragment on save system option, defaults to on. Will only defragment if there have been sufficient changes, though first saves of old files with new Avoyd will auto defragment.
• Voxel Editor - Imported files now defragmented on import for lower memory consumption
• Voxel Editor - Edit tool cursor will now go invisible when the Render window is focussed
• Voxel Editor - Path traced and real time sun magnitude corrected for improved visualisation
• Voxel Editor - Path trace render now auto-hides when another tool window takes focus
• Voxel Editor - MagicaVoxel vox importer material order changed so that the material view looks like an upside down MV palette. (Note: to match the MV Palette vertical display order, set invert vertical grid in Settings > Display > Layout > Invert Materials Grid Display)
• Voxel Editor - Importers now open the material window and show the imported materials
• Voxel Editor - Sticky Edit mode will now allow you to place a starting voxel in an empty world
• Voxel Editor - Tweaked material button display of emissive materials to be more visible for lower values
• Voxel Editor - Constrain plane now acts as a target for Move Anchor, Move Camera, & Centre Here
• Minor improvement in memory consumption & performance by reducing temporary allocations

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Canceling a save caused file overwrite with corrupted saved file
• Voxel Editor - Defragmented octree progress bar and log output for pre-defrag memory allocated corrected
• Voxel Editor - Renderer path tracing voxel self occlusion resolved on extremely large levels causing black shadows ( > 262144 voxels length on any side, only currently accessible through repeated Scale World by x2)
• Voxel Editor - Potential crash when viewing very large levels with a very high LOD distance set
• Voxel Editor - Canceling a .Vox import results in not being able to open files without restarting Avoyd
• Voxel Editor - Setting Mie Colour to 0 no longer results in no ambient light and black shadows in GPU render (this also results in a minor change to overall atmosphere/fog)
• Voxel Editor - Imports not setting materials when no materials present & potential crash when importing with material window open
• Voxel Editor - Fixed potential crash when anchor is on and orthographic mode is enabled with a orthographic width of 0
• Voxel Editor - File->New(), and Edit menu actions which modify world now close Render image display
• Voxel Editor - Randomize minimum size now constrained to shape size even when Modifier UI header is collapsed & settings not visible
• Voxel Editor - Anchor jittering when constrain plane offset set to Half or 0.5 and using an odd tool size

[0.8.7] - 2021-10-27

Added

• Voxel Editor - New Material Types 'Table', 'Split' and 'Radial' and default Palette designed By Rebecca Michalak. Menu File > Materials
• Voxel Editor - Create Palette from Material Type. Menu Tools > Materials > Automatic Palette add
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Material Type: images and palettes of type .JPG, .PNG and .TGA can be imported to create new Material Types and Palettes in Avoyd. For discrete colour palettes import we recomment to use the PNG or TGA format and set the 'Maximum Number of Colours' to the maximum value allowed. If the image contains less than the 'Maximum Number of Colours' requested, the exact colours will be imported. Otherwise, they will be interpolated and therefore modified. Menu File > Import > Image as Material Type
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Heightmap inversion: setting inverts the elevation calculation, as if importing a negative image but imported colours are not affected. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap > Height > Invert
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool cursor shortcut: Shift + Mouse wheel to increase / decrease the size of the brush by one voxel in all direction. Using the shortcut unlocks the aspect ratio. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Tutorial: added sections on Lighting and importing images as heightmap and palettisation, improved the Minecraft maps import and Render sections. Memu Help > Tutorial

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Import Image UI rework: reordered categories, added radio buttons RGB / Alpha for elevation, and palettise colours / use single material. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as heightmap now only creates exact colours if less colours in image than requested maximum number of materials. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Palette editing UI reworked: add/remove Materials and Material Types to/from Palettes and Palette resizing buttons behaviour improved. See menu Tools > Materials, Edit Tool and Pick material
• Voxel Editor - Material and Palette UI improved by reducing spacing between material buttons, changing behaviour to match normal buttons, and increasing selected state border. Menu Tools > Materials
• Voxel Editor - Replace Material tool UI simplified. Menu Tools > Replace Material
• Voxel Editor - Camera Align to Axis settings now saved with world. Defaults to y axis. Menu Tools > Camera > Align To Axes
• Voxel Editor - Camera Field of View (FOV) editor setting now saved with each camera (in game FOV remains part of the game settings). Menu Tools > Camera > FOV
• Voxel Editor - Path Tracing Render can now set Emissive Material Intensity up to 1000x. Menu Render > Emissive Material Intensity
• Voxel Editor - Path Tracing Render Previews can now be denoised. Menu Render, press Preview then Denoise Image

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Saving a file without an extension now checks and warns if the file with extension exists, rather than silently overwriting
• Voxel Editor - Snap to grid with odd sized edit tool spacing and anchor vibration
• Voxel Editor - Palettes and Material Types: identical names now have an increment automatically added. Menu Tools > Materials > Material Types add and Palettes add
• Voxel Editor - Modifying a Palette now marks world as unsaved (Palettes are stored with Materials in world files)

[0.8.6] - 2021-10-08

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Simplified Pick and Inspect Material window. Menu Tools > Pick Material

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Resolved crash during Export To Polygon Mesh

[0.8.5] - 2021-10-07

Added

• Voxel Editor - Paste as a single Material: the paste brush materials are replaced by the currently selected Material. 'Paste as Single Material' can be combined with the modifier 'Randomise Material'. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Paste, tick 'Paste as Single Material'
• Graphics - Shader compile error dialogue with support instructions

Fixed

• Graphics - Resolved "ERROR: 'readonly' : reserved word" shader compile issue on Intel UHD 630 (and potentially similar generation Intel GPUs)
• Voxel Editor - Resolved issue where first person camera is set as an orthographic camera. Menu Tools > Camera

[0.8.4] - 2021-10-01

Added

• Voxel Editor - Sticky collide option where the edit cursor will only move to another collision point. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > 'Sticky' tick box
• Voxel Editor - Can now select between RGB/HSV in the Material colour editor without using the pick popup. Menu Tools > Materials > Properties > 'HSV' tick box
• Voxel Editor - New Dawn Light preset. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Presets > Light drodown 'Dawn' option

Changed

• Voxel Editor - UI: Anchor, Lock Position, Collide and Continuous tick boxes are deactivated instead of being hidden when not applicable. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes
• Voxel Editor - Removed shortcut Camera Align to Axes from context menu. There is already a shortcut to it in Status Bar (bottom left) and it can still be set from menu Tools > Camera > Align to Axes
• Voxel Editor - Constrain plane and Symmetry planes now only visible when Edit Tool is open
• Voxel Editor - Improved visibility of wireframe cursor, constrain plane and symmetry planes
• Voxel Editor - Disabled editing when both brush preview and brush wireframe are disabled
• Voxel Editor - Moved brush preview Opacity control to settings. Menu Settings > Display > Spatial Interface

Fixed

• Graphics - Resolved rare vertex generation task deadlock by switching a wait to a dependency
• Graphics - Resolved another rare vertex generation task deadlock due to early exit prior to launching a task with a dependency
• Graphics - Resolved level of detail issue causing 'gaps' in the rendering of distant parts of large models
• Voxel Editor - Sub windows no longer lose mouse focus when dragged out of main window
• Voxel Editor - Resolved crash when attempting to build outside positive edge of world octree
• Voxel Editor - Wedge and Corner axis selection now working properly. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Shape dropdown 'Wedge' option 'Axis Inversion' setting, and 'Corner' option 'Apex' setting
• Voxel Editor - Camera now focuses on world in old world files which do not have cameras saved properly
• Voxel Editor - World is marked as unsaved if World Properties Notes are changed

[0.8.3] - 2021-09-15

Added

• Voxel Editor - Shape modifiers: random brush size and random Material from selected Palette. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Modifiers
• Voxel Editor - Multiple Palettes: create and edit custom Palettes for easy access to Materials. Each Palette width is customisable from menu Settings > Display > Layout. Palettes can be added and modified from the Edit Tool and the Materials windows: Menus Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Palette, Tools > Materials Palettes are saved with the World file. They can also be saved as a Material Template: Menu File > Save Template > Materials
• Voxel Editor - File browse paths stored in settings for each file type
• Voxel Editor - File dialogue open folder in explorer
• Voxel Editor - Saved cameras now store whether arcball or first person controlled, along with centre and projection type. Menu Tools > Camera > Saved Cameras
• Voxel Editor - During rendering any camera changes (other than switching between first person & arcball) result in a confirmation popup to prevent accidental loss of render view
• Voxel Editor - Tutorial: Minecraft, MagicaVoxel and image import, and export. Menu Help > Tutorial

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Improved Orthographic projection and Isometric angles controls. Menu Tools > Cameras > Arcball Camera and Orthographic Projection
• Voxel Editor - Removed Align Camera to Axes keyboard shortcut 'x'. Status bar align to axis indicator is now a toggle button: click to activate auto, x, y, z or off axis alignment.
• Voxel Editor - Saved camera positions cleared when using File > New
• Voxel Editor - File dialogue always in browse mode with useful directory drop down menu
• Voxel Editor - MagicaVoxel imports now have multiple models merged in correct order
• Voxel Editor - Simplified the Materials window: removed duplicate information, added Palettes editing. Menu Tools > Materials
• Voxel Editor - Simplified the Pick window. Menu Tools > Pick Material
• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera pitch can now be manipulated through -180 to +180 degrees range
• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera pitch Up and Down manipulation buttons with isometric, dimetric and plan angles
• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera pitch and yaw arrows can now be used in both orthographic and perspective projection
• Game - Significantly improved performance of voxel octree network packet deallocation on clients

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Minecraft import of maps with new height extensions should no longer crash
• Voxel Editor - Minecraft import of older Minecraft maps should now have correct wool colours
• Graphics - vertex duplication bug due to vertex cache update error. This also created duplicates in exported meshes.
• Voxel Editor - Saved camera templates now stored in "Documents\Avoyd\Templates\Cameras", previously in "Documents\Avoyd\Templates\Cameras\Exports" directory
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Copy/Cut and Paste sphere no longer slightly offset. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes
• Voxel Editor - Resolved rare crash due to pitch / yaw camera changes

[0.8.2] - 2021-08-16

Added

• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera can now be set into orthographic projection mode. Menu Tools > Camera > Arcball Camera
• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera yaw / pitch controls. Menu Tools > Camera > Arcball Camera
• Voxel Editor - Arcball camera isometric projection controls. Menu Tools > Camera > Arcball Camera
• Voxel Editor - Import image as heightmap can now optionally palettize the RGB channels for material, and use Alpha channel for height. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap, select image, options 'Use Alpha fopr height' and 'Create Material Palette from RGB'
• Voxel Editor - Load Recent Worlds as Paste Brush: shortcut to recently saved worlds to paste in currently open world. File > Load Recent Worlds as Paste Brush
• Voxel Editor - Context menu: add shortcut to 'Move Anchor Here'
• Crash log now includes module base addresses and sizes for easier translation. The crash log is saved in directory ..\Documents\Avoyd\AvoydLog.txt

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Save Paste Brush as World now appends _brush to filename (can be changed in file dialogue). Menu File > Save Paste Brush as World
• Voxel Editor - Atmospheric half length can now be set up to 1000000 voxels. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere
• Voxel Editor - Improved anchor axes display and movement. To enable anchor: menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes > Anchor option or right-mouse click to open the context menu, Anchor > use Anchor
• Voxel Editor - Right Click Context menu closes consistently on all menu items including check boxes
• Installer - Avoyd can now be installed to a users profile without needing administrator privileges
• Minor optimization of voxel traversal for faster rendering

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Imported MagicaVoxel models with models of different sizes now correctly positioned. Menu File > Import > MagicaVoxel Model (*.vox)
• Voxel Editor - Imported MagicaVoxel models diffuse materials now have smoothness set to 0.0f to be fully diffuse
• Voxel Editor - Imported MagicaVoxel models with long string names now do not crash Avoyd
• Voxel Editor - Pre-flattening Minecraft materials with non zero data values now load as the correct material
• Voxel Editor - Rotating paste brushes now much easier. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes, Paste option
• Voxel Editor - Rotating paste brushes which have an odd size no longer causes the brush visual to appear wrongly offset
• Voxel Editor - Right Clicking with mouse (for movement or context menu) no longer Picks material when Pick active
• Voxel Editor - Pick position now sets the path traced depth of field distance correctly
• Voxel Editor - Path Tracing focus distance set to zero or negative now gets clamped to a small number to fix blank renders
• Voxel Editor - Clamped view rotation to prevent spurious movement
• Graphics - Level of detail sections of models no longer get stuck at low levels of detail
• Graphics - Cube face quads now split along shortest edge correctly, removing triangles with opposing normals on the same face
• Graphics - Vertex ambient occlusion influence on quad triangle split was using the incorrect index order, now resolved for cleaner vertex AO
• Avoyd no longer crashes on hardware with only one CPU core but instead displays a warning
• Very rare crash in input handling when closing window now resolved
• Links in text now open in browser correctly when clicked

[0.8.1] - 2021-07-12

Fixed

• Resolves error "VCRUNTIME140_1.dll was not found" when running Avoyd

[0.8.0] - 2021-07-08

Added

• Voxel Editor - CPU Pathtracing Renderer. Menu Render
• Voxel Editor - Support for multi-model .vox (MagicaVoxel) files, metallic and emissive properties
• Voxel Editor - Improved Minecraft material support including per material instance namespace ids
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Emissive light property
• Voxel Editor - Pick and Inspect show the cursor position and distance. Inspect shows full material information
• Voxel Editor - Settings - Graphics Style Modes for selective viewing colour, lighting, shadows, ambient occlusion etc. Field of view and voxels appearance settings moved to the new Graphics Style window. Menu Settings > Graphics Style
• Voxel Editor - Screenshots file names include world name
• Voxel Editor - World Properties: centre, AABB min, and AABB max coordinates now displayed. Menu View > World Properties
• Voxel Editor - Materials now display local numerical id as well as global. Menu Tools > Materials
• Voxel Editor - Materials instances can have names. Currently only available for imported Minecraft materials or by editing the material template file manually using json
• Settings - Configure Avoyd start-up configuration, e.g. start directly as Voxel Editor. Menu Settings > System > Start As
• Settings - Screenshots and rendered images format (JPG and/or PNG) and JPG quality selection. Menu Settings > System > Saved Images Properties
• Settings - Configure the number of worlds selectable from the recent files list (Open Recent Worlds). Menu Settings > System > Open Recent Worlds List Size

Changed

• Game - Settings - Simplified menu by grouping the user interface controls. Main menu Settings
• Game - Player created turrets now display which player created them
• UI - Settings - Finer mouse sensitivity settings to accommodate gaming mice. Menu Settings > Controls
• UI - Change log, license and open-source attributions are now visible in the application. Main menu Settings and voxel editor menu Help > About
• UI - Default font changed to Atkinson Hyperlegible size 15. Main menu Settings > User Interface and voxel editor menu Settings > Display > User Interface Appearance
• UI - Voxel Editor usability: Context Menu frequently used command 'move/centre camera here' moved up one level to be easier to reach. Right-mouse button on the world area
• Voxel Editor - Added error dialogue when cannot write to files for save / export rather than silent failure. Menu File > Save, Save As and Export
• Voxel Editor - Added error dialogues when cannot scale world rather than silent failure. Menu Edit > World Transforms > Scale World by 2X
• Voxel Editor - Scale World moves and resizes octree to standard world max size if required to prevent floating point errors. Menu Edit > World Transforms > Scale World by 2X
• Voxel Editor - Saving shows progress and can be cancelled. Menu File > Save and Save As
• Voxel Editor - Defragment the Octree shows progress and can be cancelled. Menu Edit > Defragment the Octree
• Voxel Editor - Replace Material shows progress and operation can be cancelled (does not revert changes). Menu Tools > Replace Material
• Voxel Editor - Replace Material performance improved by running in a parallel task set
• Voxel Editor - Move World Centre to Origin shows progress and can be cancelled. Menu Edit > Move World Centre to Origin
• Voxel Editor - Move World Centre to Origin performance optimizations, up to 10x faster
• Voxel Editor - Move World Centre to Origin sets octree to default world size if possible
• Voxel Editor - Files are not overwritten until after a successful save completes (a temporary file is created and then renamed)
• Voxel Editor - Standard edit brushes always rendered with highest level of detail
• Voxel Editor - Removed material type "Contiguous Colour Grid" & converted old materials to discrete colours. Menu Tools > Materials
• Voxel Editor - TAB and ESC only toggle camera movement mode when main window has focus
• Voxel Editor - .obj mesh export now supports material emissive properties. Menu File > Export > Polygon Mech (*.obj)

Fixed

• Graphics - Added support for both 4 byte and 2 byte indices to resolve issue with too many vertices in very complex sections of models
• Graphics - Level of detail system no longer attempts to create higher LODs when these cannot be stored in LOD data structures
• Graphics - Certain material combinations with specular highlights would go completely black in shadowed areas, this has now been fixed
• Game - Spectate World now centers on center of voxel bounding volume rather than World origin
• Game - Resizing main menu window no longer changes the aspect ratio of the world displayed in the background
• Game - Starting a game server and then quitting the game back to the main menu or editor will no longer prevent power save from working
• Voxel Editor - Resolved occasional crash when switching to arcball camera
• Voxel Editor - External editor windows now brought to front when focussed
• Voxel Editor - File browser can now navigate to C:\ root directory
• Voxel Editor - Toolbar and Status Bar visibility settings are now saved. Menu View > Show Toolbar and View > Show Status Bar
• Voxel Editor - Manually changing anchor distance no longer breaks anchor widget
• Voxel Editor - Light direction cannot be set to a zero length vector. Menu > Tools > Light and Atmosphere
• Voxel Editor - Improved handling of recent file list & file load/save on case insensitive platforms
• Voxel Editor - Tool collision in paste mode now respects shape of bounding volume correctly. Menu > Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes

[0.7.7] - 2021-04-22

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Resolved crash when using certain keyboard layouts and pressing a modifier key such as ALT

[0.7.6] - 2021-02-26

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Progress bar for Minecraft importer improved
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool Size limitation (Menu Tools > Edit Tool) now user controllable in Menu Settings > Controls > Maximum Edit Size
• Added improved debug output to crash handler

Fixed

• Graphics - Removed occasional small holes which appear in geometry at LOD edges, introduced in 0.7.3 by performance improvement
• Voxel Editor - Minecraft map importer now handles region files with chunks which have locations beyond the end of the file

[0.7.5] - 2021-02-04

Added

• Voxel Editor - Import Minecraft maps: Support for loading Minecraft Nether (DIM-1) and End (DIM1) worlds / dimensions. Menu File > Import > Minecraft Map
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Heightmap: Palette for selecting materials now available. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Edit tool materials palette no longer resets when creating a new world. Menu Tools > Edit Tool > Palette
• Voxel Editor - If no material selected, select first material from default palette

[0.7.4] - 2021-01-08

Added

• Game - Predefined spawn positions. The Spawn coordinates are saved by setting Saved Cameras with descriptions "Spawn_Player" for player, "Spawn_A" and "Spawn_B" for MegaSpawners. Menu Tools > Camera > Saved Cameras
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmosphere - Added presets for light: white, grey, sunny, sunset, dusk and night; and atmosphere: clear, haze and fog. Changed default to have lighter atmosphere. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Presets
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Constraints: separate offset for Constrain plane and Collide. Added spacing and grid offset to Snap to Grid. Reworked the UI. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• User Interface - Settings - New font: Atkinson Hyperlegible. Settings > Display > User Interface Appearance

Changed

• Game - Optimization - Improved parallelism of AI movement
• Game - Optimization - Improved parallelism of internal message passing systems
• Graphics - Optimization - Faster and more parallel vertex generation (up to 2x faster)
• Graphics - Optimization - Reduced light texture memory consumption and bandwidth
• Voxel Editor - Decluttered menus by removing superfluous icons and info. Simplified info text for Edit Tool Edit Cursor, Constraints and Symmetry, and Cameras.
• Voxel Editor - Moved Cameras controls from the toolbar to the status bar: align to axis toggle, saved cameras, first person to arcball camera toggle. Menu View > Show Status Bar
• Voxel Editor - Settings - Edit Tool Palette width widget moved to Settings > Display > Layout
• Voxel Editor - Optimization - Faster Minecraft importing with improved multithreaded loader
• Voxel Editor - Improved camera start location after importing Minecraft maps
• Voxel Editor - Revised metallic and specular properties for Minecraft materials
• Voxel Editor - Constrain and symmetry planes now drawn to infinity
• User Interface - ImGui widgets values can be clamped and set to be read-only
• User Interface - Fullscreen/Windowed resolution settings no longer toggle to Fullscreen/Windowed when modified

Fixed

• Game - Crash in Join Game menu when a Wander game is present in list
• Game - Memory leak in network system octree data streaming
• Graphics - Resolved vertex reduction causing vertex ambient occlusion spread
• Voxel Editor - Importing Minecraft levels with region files with no data no longer crashes
• Voxel Editor - Importing Minecraft levels with maps larger than current maximum Avoyd World size are now cropped
• Voxel Editor - Fullscreen: any monitor can be selected, not just the primary
• Voxel Editor - Constrain Plane and Snap to Grid now work together
• Voxel Editor - Import image as heightmap window is now modal. File path is reset when cancel. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Rotating a paste brush no longer offsets brush center
• Increased profiling max threads to 256 to resolve potential issues on machines large numbers of threads

[0.7.3] - 2020-10-08

Added

• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Heightmap - Option to smooth the heightmap surface by reducing the amount in the top voxel in proportion to the remaining height. All the voxels in the column below use the Amount specified. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Heightmap - Floor option draws a box under the heightmap. The floor thickness can be adjusted. The floor prevents the holes that appear in the heightmap when height = 0 (black pixels). Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Brush preview shadow now uses stochastic transparency. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmosphere - Preset Deep Space: white light, no atmosphere. Menu Tools > Light and Atmosphere
• Voxel Editor - Camera Reset - All Camera settings are returned to their default values. Preserves position and focus/centre and saved cameras. Menu Tools > Cameras

Changed

• Voxel Editor - Optimized memory use by deduplicating during Minecraft map import. Menu File > Import > Minecraft Map (*.mca)
• Voxel Editor - Align Camera to Axes is off by default. Menu Tools > Camera > Align to Axes
• Graphics - Optimized shading by separating stochastic transparent pass from opaque
• Graphics - Optimized multidrawindirect by moving data to GPU buffer
• Graphics - Optimized shadow map rendering for narrow fields of view. Performance improvement of up to 1.5x
• Graphics - Optimized generation of vertices from voxels by up to 1.3x
• Graphics - Optimized lighting update by removing sync point for smoother framerate

Fixed

• Voxel Editor - Crash when cancel loading a world file
• Voxel Editor - Resetting the Display, Graphics or Control settings no longer cause the main window to shrink. Resetting is now specific to each of the Display, Graphics or Controls groups of settings. Menu Settings > Display | Graphics | Controls
• Voxel Editor - Loading a world as paste brush centers anchor on volume correctly. Menu File > Load World as Paste Brush
• Voxel Editor - Edit tool - Wireframe cursor shown when Delete, Remove or Cut are selected. Menu Tools > Edit Tool Shapes
• Game - Spectate Camera uses in-game field of view value instead of voxel editor's. In-game menu (Esc whilst game is running) > Spectate
• File Loading and Export - Improved efficiency by only updating display if percentage complete changed by >= 1%
• Reset Settings - Game and Voxel Editor settings are returned to their original state. Main Menu > Settings > 'Reset Settings to Default' for the game settings; Main Menu > Voxel Editor > Menu Settings > 'Reset' for the voxel editor settings

[0.7.2] - 2020-09-10

Added

• Voxel Editor - User interface layout: windows can now be docked and dragged outside of the main window
• Voxel Editor - World Properties window: custom notes and information about world dimensions in voxels and octree memory usage. Menu View > World Properties
• Voxel Editor - Import Image as Heightmap parameters: choose amount and material. Set the height scale and the heightmap position and direction in 3D. Menu File > Import > Image as Heightmap
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Enable Symmetry planes positioning with half voxel precision. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool Palette - Add/Remove Material types to the Palette. Menu Tools > Materials and Menu Tools > Edit Tool Palette
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool Palette - Configurable palette width. Menu Tools > Edit Tool Palette
• Voxel Editor - Keyboard shortcut Alt+A toggle Anchor On/Off. Menu Tools > Edit Tool open
• Voxel Editor - Keyboard shortcut 'F1' opens menu Help > Controls
• Voxel Editor - Keyboard shortcut Alt Gr modifier can be used instead of Alt
• Voxel Editor - Camera - Toggle First person/ Arcball camera keyboard shortcut 'C'
• Voxel Editor - Camera - Saved Cameras: description field for each saved camera. Menu Tools > Camera > Saved Cameras
• Voxel Editor - Camera - Align Camera to Axes toggle off/auto/x/y/z from Toolbar buttons, Context menu, keyboard shortcut 'X' and display status in Status Bar.
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - Materials documentation. Menu Help > Tutorial
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - Keyboard shortcuts reorganised both by functionality and a new list of all shortcuts indexed alphabetically. Added missing shortcuts. Menu Help > Controls Documentation

Changed

• Graphics - Moved volume texture allocation to using atlasses to permit draw call collation
• Graphics - Improved buffer allocation strategy to reduce fragmentation and improve draw call collation
• Graphics - Optimized CPU overhead of rendering by collating draw calls using multi draw indirect
• Graphics - Multithreaded render pass draw command list creation and GPU constant data updates
• Graphics - Reduced size of shadow pass per-model constant data structures
• Networking - Reduced memory overhead of data structure used to store voxel missing cache on clients
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Removed keyboard shortcut 'F' (Do Generate) for procedural generation. Menu Tools > Edit Tool Procedural Generation
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Removed keyboard shortcut 'P' for positioning constrain plane. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - User Interface - Toolbar buttons rearranged and fixed open/close window behaviour
• Voxel Editor - User Interface - Replace Material interface reworked. Menu Tools > Replace Material
• Voxel Editor - Camera - Keyboard shortcut for Saved Camera is Alt+arrow down

Fixed

• Multi monitor issues related to window resizing, full-screen display and monitor detection
• Graphics - Fullscreen flickering on Intel and AMD GPUs
• Voxel Editor - Minecraft import now supports Minecraft chunk changes made in MC v1.13 and v1.16. Menu File > Import > Minecraft Map (*.mca)
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - various issue with brush preview, wireframe and anchor positioning, sizing and visibility. Menu Tools > Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool Max now works in Continuous mode. Menu Tools > Edit Tool Shapes
• Voxel Editor - Material selected defaults to 'none selected' where relevant. Menu Tools > Edit Tool, Materials, Replace, Pick, Status bar
• Voxel Editor - Rare crash when using 2x Scale. Menu Edit > Scale World by 2X
• Voxel Editor - Performance: World lighting and power save no longer get stuck after 2x Scale then reload. Menu Edit > Scale World by 2X

[0.7.1] - 2020-06-18

Added

• Voxel Editor - Export to .obj: added Optimize Mesh, Centre on Origin, Scale and Blender compatible metallic material options to .obj polygon exporter
• Voxel Editor - Blender style material export for improved metallic handling
• Voxel Editor - Escape key can now be used to move from Voxel Editor to Main Menu. Esc switches from Movement Mode to Menu Mode, and from Menu Mode to Main Menu. Added a shortcut (chevron left icon) in the Voxel Editor menu bar
• Voxel Editor - Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+N New World, Ctrl+O Open World
• Documentation - Added Skirmish and Wander game modes descriptions in main menu and voxel editor game menu

Fixed

• Game - Resolved issue where new clients joining network game causes old clients worlds to disappear
• Game - Player HUD health label no longer remains on screen when network game server exits
• Game - HUD not showing after spectating following being unspawned in game
• Voxel Editor - Cameras - Previous/Next Saved Camera buttons now work in the Camera window
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Warning for large Sizes now shown when aspect ratio is locked

[0.7.0] - 2020-06-11

Added

• Graphics - GPU Shadow map cascades enable better defined shadows. Shadows settings under Main Menu > Settings > Graphics, and in the Voxel Editor under Settings > Graphics
• Graphics - Improved performance through reduced polygon count using edge collapse mesh simplification
• Game - Accessibility - resizeable user interface, head-up display (HUD) and floating HUD. Drones tracking carets now clamped to the edges of the screen instead of a circle. All user interface elements can be turned off. To adjust the HUD scale see games Settings > HUD, and in the Voxel Editor under Settings > Display > HUD
• Game - Visible player shadow option togglable in game Settings > Diegetic Interface > Show Player Shadow
• Game - Separate seeds for world and atmosphere procedural generation in main Menu > Create Game > World
• Voxel Editor - Export to .obj file (with .mtl materials file) with File > Export > Polygon Mesh (*.obj)
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Visible brushes enable Shapes preview for precise placement when adding, editing, deleting and painting shapes with the Edit Tool. The Visibility and Opacity of the brush preview is adjusted under Edit Tool > Edit Cursor > Show Brush Preview and Brush Preview Opacity
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Show/Hide Edit Cursor: Wireframe cursor and Brush Preview can be hidden individually or together from Edit Tool > Edit Cursor > Show Edit Cursor [] Brush Preview, and [] Wireframe
• Voxel Editor - Copy/paste from one world to another with Save Paste Brush / Load World as Paste Brush. The functionality is accessed through the file menu: File > Save Paste Brush as World and File > Load World as Paste Brush, or from Tools > Edit Tool and selecting Cut, Copy or Paste. This gives access to shortcut buttons to save/load paste brushes
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Torus and Torus Hollow shapes added to Tools > Edit Tool > Shapes
• Voxel Editor - Saved Cameras - camera positions can be added, modified, deleted and cycled through. Saved Cameras functionality is accessed through window Tools > Camera > Saved Cameras; toolbar (add and cycle through the list); context menu (add and select Saved Camera); keyboard shortcuts (add Alt + Up Arrow; previous camera Alt + Left Arrow; next camera Alt + Right Arrow) The list of Saved Cameras is saved with world. Lists can also be saved/loaded as templates to be reused with File > Save/Load Template > Cameras
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Move Anchor to Origin and Move Anchor to the centre of the World. Functionality accessed through Tools > Edit Tool and the context menu (right-mouse click on 3D world)
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Shape Size: Option to lock the aspect-ratio of the dimensions of box type shapes (Tools > Edit Tool)
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Shape Size: Warning sign shown when the Size requested exceeds the threshold beyond which the Shape will take a noticeable amount of time to draw (Tools > Edit Tool)
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Procedural generation progress bar for Menger Sponge and Tree. Generation can be cancelled part-way through (Tools > Edit Tool > Procedural Generation)
• Voxel Editor - Pick Tool and Inspector window accessible through Tools > Pick Material, shortcut Alt+P. The Pick tool is used to select a material from the 3D world so it can be used for Editing and Replacing. The Pick tool also features an inspector to quickly view the properties of a voxel
• Voxel Editor - Option to move/translate World so it is centred on Origin with Edit > Move World Centre to Origin
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmopshere - Random atmosphere uses seeds (Tools > Light and Atmopshere > Random Generator). Randomly generated unmodified atmospheres are saved with their seed. Light and Atmosphere parameters (and their seed) can be saved separately with File > Save/Load Template > Light and Atmosphere
• Voxel Editor - Light and Atmosphere - White and Grey light colour presets under Tools > Light and Atmosphere > Presets. Light direction and atmosphere are unchanged. Ambient is automatically calculated if Auto Set Ambient is on when the white or grey light button is pressed. Otherwise the Ambient is set to the default white or grey colour
• Voxel Editor - Controls - Roll snaps to axis when Align To Axes is on (set in Tools > Camera > Align To Axes). If Axis preference is automatic, the camera viewpoint rolls by 90 degree increments. If a preferred axis is selected, rolling inverts the camera view, i.e. rolls by 180 degree
• Voxel Editor - Both game modes Wander and Skirmish can now be started from the Voxel Editor with menu item Game > Start Wander and Game > Start Skirmish
• Voxel Editor - Context menu (Right-mouse click) reorganised and shows First Person and Arcball camera commands; Saved Cameras; and Anchor toggle and options
• Voxel Editor - Toolbar with shortcut buttons to Undo, Redo, Tools, camera shortcuts and game continue/stop buttons when applicable. The Toolbar can be toggled on/off under View > Show Toolbar
• Voxel Editor - Status Bar with Camera satus and coordinates, Anchor, Pick and Edit Tool status, Material selected, Game status and UI Menu/Movement state. The Status Bar can be toggled on/off under View > Show Status Bar
• Voxel Editor - Windows can be closed with one command with View > Close All Opened Windows (Alt+X)
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - tooltips to explain what the functionality does. Tooltips can be toggled on/off with View > Show Tooltips
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - Tutorial: added sections about the Edit Cursor and the Anchor, Camera movement, First Person and Arcball Cameras and Align Camera to Axis
• Voxel Editor - Documentation - Controls: added list of keyboard shortcuts
• Voxel Editor - Add folders, Delete and Rename files and folders from the file dialogues using right click menu (File > Open, File Save As etc.)
• Voxel Editor - Load Materials, Light and Atmosphere or Cameras templates from .avwr World files (and .avoyd_extra files from older world formats) using File > Load Template

Changed

• Graphics - Improved lighting, ambient occlusion, and CPU generated shadows
• Graphics - Atmospheric fog modification to make distant objects fade out correctly, and in scatter not overbrighten close to viewpoint
• Game - Accessibility - Improved HUD contrast so it is better visible against bright light-sources
• Voxel Editor - New file extensions and formats. .avwr for worlds, .avmt for materials, .avla for light & atmosphere, .avcm for cameras. The .avwr world file encapsulates voxel, material, light & atmosphere and camera data in one file. Icons represent each file type and folders to help differentiate them
• Voxel Editor - Replace Material tool UI redesigned. Default state is no material selected. The current Material is no longer automatically picked as the material to replace/replace with. It must be actively chosen by the user. The Pick tool (formerly part of the Edit Tool) is no longer automatically activated. Added a Reset option. Changed the wording in the UI. Menu: Tools > Replace Material
• Voxel Editor - Shortcut for Procedural Generation window changed to Alt+G
• Voxel Editor - Some menus are disabled when not applicable
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool actions button and wireframe colour coded: green for additive/editing (e.g. Set, Paint), red subtractive (e.g. Delete), purple neutral (e.g. Copy), yellow for procedural generation, grey disabled.
• Voxel Editor - Mark world as unsaved when atmosphere/camera/materials etc. are changed.
• Voxel Editor - Settings - menu items moved to tabbed windows Display, Graphics and Controls.
• Voxel Editor - Help - Grouped all Help topics (Tutorial, Controls, Tips, About) as tabs in a single Help window
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Cut/Copy/Paste - Paste brushes are now deleted when a new world is opened as copy/pasting across worlds was causing Materials compatibility problems. Instead use Save Paste Brush as World / Load World as Paste Brush
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Shapes and Procedural Generation grouped as tabs in the same window
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - The Materials Palette is now saved with the World file so each world can have a different palette
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Constraint Offset now always shows the offset distance
• Voxel Editor - Remember state of windows Lighting, Camera, Display settings, Controls settings and Help
• Voxel Editor - Different default atmosphere in game main menu and in the Voxel Editor

Fixed

• Game - Arcball camera now works when user interface is hidden (ctrl+M) in spectate mode
• Voxel Editor - Power Save mode now takes into account light and atmosphere modifications: lighting changes are fully recalculated before Power Save is reengaged
• Voxel Editor - Removed camera collision with geometry as it was causing camera to get stuck
• Voxel Editor - Switching from first person camera to arcball camera does not change camera position
• Voxel Editor - Crash when opening a new file whilst the Edit Tool is open
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Anchor center position no longer moves when modifying the Size through the Edit Tool
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Empty Paste Anchor no longer jumps to infinity when moved
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Anchor no longer jumps behind the camera when moved too far away
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Anchor now obeys constrain plane and snap to grid
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Amount field hidden when Paint tool is selected
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Procedural Generation: Cut/Copy/Paste shortcuts are now disabled
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - It is no longer possible to Cut or Copy an empty volume
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Save/Load Paste Brush: it is no longer possible to save an empty brush as World. Loading an empty world no longer causes an infinite paste brush to open
• Voxel Editor - Controls - Pressing the Ctrl key now moves the camera position down when Movement mode has been enabled throught right-mouse click
• Voxel Editor - UI - Context menu now opens in the center of the window instead of the top-left corner when movement mode has been engaged using Tab
• Voxel Editor - UI - Windows get focus when reopened from the menu
• Voxel Editor - UI - Light theme menu colours fixed for improved visibility (Settings > Display > Dark Theme toggle off)
• UI - Main Menu no longer shifts up when opening Create Game submenu. Contrast increased so Avoyd logo is visible
• System - Screenshots are no longer overwritten when taken within the same minute before and after restarting Avoyd
• Game - Crash in audio system when world removed (usually after client leaving multiplayer a game)
• Game - Player avater scale and offset issue in multiplayer resolved

[0.6.2] - 2020-03-23

Fixed

• Resolved error "SetThreadDecription could not be located" on Windows versions before Windows 10 1607

[0.6.1] - 2020-02-13

Added

• Voxel Editor - Replace Material tool - Select a material from the palette or the world, and replace it with a new one
• Voxel Editor - Procedural Generation tool - moved the procgen and fractal shapes out of the Edit Tool and into a dedicated window. Procgen and Edit tools cannot both be open.

Changed

• Game - Procedurally generated world - thickended the bridges and enlarged the openings at the end of bridges to make it easier for players to move around
• Voxel Editor - Materials - Window layout improved
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - Removed shape selection using arrow left key
• Voxel Editor - Added tooltips
• Game - Removed settings that don't apply to games, e.g. voxel edges, glow, colour variation

Fixed

• Voxel Colour Variation bug on NVIDIA GPUs no longer results in hatched noise
• Voxel Editor - Right mouse click plus keydown now engages movement mode. Issue introduced in 0.6.0.
• Voxel Editor - Field of View (FOV) setting now works
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - arrow down key now decreases shape size one voxel at a time
• Game - Ctrl+M now hides in-game UI elements such as position carets and health bars

[0.6.0] - 2019-12-27

Added

• Game - Skirmish prototype - Short player(s) vs computer game where each side must destroy the opposition's MegaSpawner. Waves of AI controlled drones spawn from the MegaSpawners at regular intervals. Players can shoot, build/destroy the environment and place turrets. Players have a choice of three difficulty levels that affect the number of drones that spawn. Difficulty adjusts dynamically when players join or leave the game.
• Game - Wander prototype - A peaceful exploration of the environment with no fighting, no building nor destruction. The mode uses the 'Boxes in Space' procedural generation algorithm.
• Game - Main menu selection for game modes Wander and Skirmish
• Game - Log to file the random seed used when generating a world
• Game - Toggle mute button in audio settings
• Voxel Editor - UI - New keyboard shortcuts for toggling Tools windows: Edit Tool Alt+E; Materials Alt+M; Light and Atmosphere Alt+L; and Camera Alt+C
• Help - Movement troubleshooting section
• Settings - Custom windowed resolutions
• Debug - Developer utilities window

Changed

• Game - Players and friendly drones trails, health bars and carets colour coding in green and blue
• Game - Weapon effects are now colour coded to each team colour.
• Game - Join multiplayer server browser list updates automatically when the server parameters change
• Game - Improved message & networking efficiency of transform updates
• Game - Added packed math types for improved message & networking efficiency
• Game - Skirmish 'Time Taken' format improved. Removed points counter and replaced with MegaSpawners health bars
• Voxel Editor - Improved copy and paste performance
• Voxel Editor - UI - Improved default windows placement and sizes
• Voxel Editor - UI - Improved the layout of Settings, Camera, Controls and Display, and consistency of menu items and windows
• Voxel Editor - UI - Improved right click menu ease of access
• Voxel Editor - UI - Hide the Edit Tool window when input is trapped for consistency
• Performance - Improved models and worlds compression by a factor of 3 to 10, saving space in memory and on disk
• Performance - Defragment Octree now deduplicates redundant data for improved memory consumption
• Performance - Network propagation of octree now uses deduplication for lower bandwidth and faster updates
• Performacne - Reduced bandwidth required for several common entity update messages

Fixed

• Game - Multiplayer setup port number and max players restricted to valid values
• Game - Resolved rare crash in audio system when starting a new game
• Game - Spacebar now moves player up when flying
• Game - Player velocity no longer preserved when destroyed or game ends
• Game - Audio from previous game no longer plays at start of a new game
• Voxel Editor - Saving an Avoyd model loaded from a browsed directory saves it to that directory as default instead of overwriting any file with the same name in the default directory
• Voxel Editor - Edit cursor no longer moves when mouse outside window or hovering over UI
• Voxel Editor - Fixed inconsistent behaviour when input is trapped: menu should be hidden if 'Show Menu when Editing' is off
• Voxel Editor - pressing CTRL / SHIFT etc. no longer stops you from switching tools
• UI - Windows dimensions proportional to text size so that text is no longer cropped
• UI - Links and headers wrapping fixed in imgui_markdown

[0.5.0] - 2019-06-20

Added

• Game - Audio system using OpenAL Soft
• Progress dialogue and iterative visual updates for lengthy operations
• Voxel Editor - New 'Boxes in Space' procedural edit shape
• Voxel Editor - Debug render mode 'Shadows'

Changed

• Multithreaded performance improvements from new version of enkiTS task scheduler
• Voxel octree memory optimizations
• Improved level of detail update, better initial LOD selection
• Improved random seed and randum number generators
• Game - Entity trails and projectiles update and vertex copy parallelized
• Game - Small generated world now default
• Voxel Editor - Pick tool distance set to max distance
• Voxel Editor - Pick tool always uses mouse cursor point (and not anchor position)

Fixed

• Resolved potential crash / lighting corruption
• Power save mode now does not pause if there are unprocessed visual changes
• Game - Clients joining a game now get correct in-game shader parameters
• Game - Clients joining a game now see correct trails for pre-existing entities
• Game - Start game will generate a different world every time if none already exists

[0.4.0] - 2019-03-21

Added

• Game - Building in-game: edit tool for adding/removing blocks and walls
• Game - Update status information in settings
• Game - Cinematic camera, FOV and build cursor intensity settings independent from Voxel Editor setting

Changed

• Game - New player avatar model
• Game - Increased material amounts in procedural environments to make various material strengths more noticeable
• Game - Switching from in game to menu pauses current game in singleplayer
• Game - Simplified turret crosshair visual feedback during cooldown
• Game - Splash screen Avoyd version info moved to bottom left
• Defaulting Sync CPU/GPU to off

Fixed

• Atmosphere on NVIDIA hardware
• Artifacts when moving on NVIDIA hardware when in Fullscreen
• Game - Turrets belonging to a given player removed when they leave a game
• Game - Exiting game after pause no longer leaves game paused when re-starting.
• Game - Paused player no longer remembered when start new game
• Game - Pressing play at start of game no longer reverts player back to menu.
• Voxel Editor - Update needed status now works and is more discreet

[0.3.4] - 2019-01-24

Added

• Game - Player can spawn turrets
• Game - Tool selection menu UI using num keys 1 to 4 (keys 2 & 3 currently disabled)
• Game - Modified crosshair according to selected tool
• Voxel Editor - New edit tool 'Max'

Changed

• Game - Chat window only visible in multiplayer
• Increased safe area padding range

Fixed

• Game - Improved collision system to reduce false misses
• Specular reflections now have a more consistent colour
• Atmosphere and materials now correctly transmitted to client when server changes world
• Crash on finishing the game when firing on a multiplayer client

[0.3.3] - 2018-11-09

Added

• Game - Option to use custom seed for world procedural generator
• Game - Random atmosphere
• Game - Weapon system HUD ammo display
• Game - Voxel edge pattern now glows nearby to help visibility in low light areas
• Game - Follow and Pause camera can now be moved when right mouse button is down (in addition to previous mode where TAB key toggles input mode)
• Voxel Editor - Random atmosphere and lighting generator
• Voxel Editor - Local edge glow option

Changed

• Game - Certain renderer options are overriden by the game when playing whilst preserving user settings in editor
• Game - Default menu camera position moved
• Game - In game settings no longer switches camera view
• Game - Follow camera default viewpoint improved
• Game - Pause camera preserves current view for a less jarring switch
• Game - Can now collapse the Create game menu to get a better view of the world
• Game - Trail colours and health indicators
• Game - Controls: added missing in-game control keys; rewrote tutorial; set all headers to collapse by default; show link buttons in start menu
• Voxel Editor - Ambient light colour now automatically set with optional manual setting
• Voxel Editor - Atmosphere amount now linearly controls atmospheric scattering
• Voxel Editor - Atmospheric g factor now appears as 'Scattering asymmetry' and clamped 0.0 to 0.99 corresponding to g factor 0.0 to -0.99
• Voxel Editor - Edit tool - Shapes order: group sphere with cube, move box and box hollow down the list
• Voxel Editor - Save icon in title bar

Fixed

• Game - Materialss, Atmosphere and Lighting data now correctly serialized over network
• Game - Added frame time smoothing to game timer systems to reduce shuddering due to framerate hitches
• Game - Pause and Follow cameras no longer reset when players go to settings menu
• Game - HUD health display of entities not always positioned correctly above them
• Game - Gameplay settings: ensure number of drones and win score are greater or equal to 0
• Game - Stopping the game now removes all game entities
• Game - Pausing the game now consistently goes to pause camera and back to previous camera mode when spectating
• Game - Rare crash on stopping game.
• When exit is requested the menu system is forced visible to permit user interaction
• Atmosphere scattering glow and reflection directions corrected
• Voxel materials, atmosphere and lighting now reset by File->New or generating a level in Create Game
• Voxel Editor - Delete, Remove, Add and Paint: allow all shapes except procgen & fractal
• Voxel Editor - Symmetry and Constraint planes no longer visible when the Edit Tool is closed
• Voxel Editor - Game play / stop workflow fixed

[0.3.2] - 2018-10-30

Added

• Game - Free camera movement when paused
• Voxel Editor - File Save with shortcut ctrl+S, File Close
• Voxel Editor - Key internationalisation for ctrl+Z, ctrl+Y, ctrl+S

Changed

• Game - New models for drones and Spawner
• Game - Default speed is fast. In-game Shift key (accelerate) disabled.
• Game - Optimized voxel data generation for the spawning of entities
• Game - Removed lazy evaluation optimization of vertices from voxel data so rapid turning is smoother.
• Game - Damage altered to be even stronger at hitpoint, but drop off faster
• Voxel Editor - Usability changes including menus order, new consistent icons, moved the palette down in the Edit Tool etc.
• Voxel Editor - Edit Tool - only allow deleting Cube, Box and Sphere shapes
• Voxel Editor - Adjusted power save mode to resolve level of detail changes better
• Improved trail level of detail
• Faster loading of models as vertex generation now completely asynchronous
• Significant optimizations for multiple model rendering
• Lighting and vertex generation now spread out over more threads

Fixed

• Game - Models now generate ambient occlusion correctly
• Game - Empty profile name bug fixed
• Game - Potential crash when game ends just as entities were firing
• Game - Potential crash in explosion system
• Game - Collision bounding boxes for asymmetric entities
• Voxel Editor - Action key F works correctly when mouse over UI
• Voxel Editor - Edit keys no longer enabled when in movement mode
• Voxel Editor - Game now stopped properly when playing in editor
• Crash when level of detail reduction grew larger than voxel octree depth

[0.3.1] - 2018-06-30

Fixed

• Crash on start for players with no prior config file.

[0.3.0] - 2018-06-26

Added

• Basic gameplay test prototype with singleplayer and multiplayer coop over LAN
• LOD Far Change Distance option which further decreases detail beyond this distance

Changed

• Main menu displayed at startup
• Game - Create game moved to own menu system
• Game - Disabled in-game LEFT SHIFT (speed change)
• Game - Spawn now Play, and Play now Continue Playing
• Game - Multiple improvements to movement and HUD to reduce motion sickness (see below)
• Game - Alignment to surface faster when surface is aligned to axis, and no alignment when not moving
• Game - Improved surface bound movement by quantizing attraction angles and rotating about surface attraction rather than player 'up' when possible
• Game - Simplified movement modes: movement in space is now always with momentum
• Game - Removed attraction angle visualization as it can cause motion sickness in some people
• Voxel Editor - Color of primary action button now set by tool
• Voxel Editor - Improved procedural boxes grouping by colour sets and orientation
• New icon for Avoyd
• UI transparency now works better

Fixed

• Procedural generation crash in 32bit builds
• File dialogue no longer shows browse mode or file type options for save
• bug where voxel edits occured when selecting tool in edit tool
• Game - When switching from 3rd person view in game to editor avatar is no longer visible

[0.2.1] - 2018-03-23

Added

• Game - choice of four sizes of generated world
• Voxel editor - Procedurl linked boxes parameters: number of boxes, multiple materials
• Voxel editor - Sphere copy tool
• Voxel editor - Materials UI shows selected material info: RGB colour, metallic, smoothness and strength
• Voxel editor - New Sapphire & Ruby materials
• Voxel editor - Import height map from image
• Voxel editor - Multiple drive support for file dialogue browsing

Changed

• Game pauses when toggling to editor view

Fixed

• View no longer rotates when switching between in-game and editor view
• Removed debug log message from in game movement code
• Memory leak in octree when editing

[0.2.0] - 2018-03-04

Added

• Prototype in-game movement and play menu
• Prototype primary and secondary destruction tools (in-game)
• Procgen Menger sponge
• Procgen linked boxes

Changed

• Improved performance of BOX and CUBE shape editing
• Removed procgen tree leaves
• Revised default config settings

Fixed

• Power save mode failure when frame time low

[0.1.17] - 2017-12-30

Changed

• Tutorial rewording.

Fixed

• Avoyd not starting due to missing CRT DLLs
• Imported Minecraft maps now have correct name of map for saving as Avoyd files.

[0.1.16] - 2017-12-15

Added

• Procedurally generated trees (experimental)

Changed

• Camera moves to anchor position if anchor is on at startup

Fixed

• Cancel load for file imports
• Potential crash on save causing data loss

[0.1.15] - 2017-11-30

Added

• Wedge edit shape
• Corner edit shape
• Minecraft and .vox (MagicaVoxel) import workflow
• Minecraft levels now load automatically once you browse to their root directory
• Progress bar for loading files
• Asynchronous file loading
• File filtering options
• Refresh file list button

Changed

• Improved file dialogue layout
• Moved Lighting options to standalone window

[0.1.14] - 2017-11-18

Added

• List of technologies and open source libraries used to About menu.
• Default Materials palette.
• Edit Tool summary of settings for Constraint and Symmetry.
• Edit Tool Symmetry option to disable all symmetry planes.
• Edit Tool Undo and Redo buttons
• Message box for actions with no undo (e.g. clear world, reset all configuration settings).
• Help menu with Tutorial, About and links.
• Tutorial for the Edit Tool: Set, Paint and Delete.
• Tooltips functionality.

Changed

• Edit Tool layout reworked for improved usability.

Fixed

• Mouse click focussing window causing an edit.
• Crash when snap to grid set to zero.
• Arcball axial speed cinematic option.

[0.1.13] - 2017-10-17

Added

• Box hollow shape with wall thickness control.
• Ellipsoid hollow shape with wall thickness control.
• Tube shape with wall thickness control.
• Mouse wheel multiplier for tool and anchor distance.
• Camera auto align along axis with axis preference control.

Changed

• Checkbox menu items no longer close menu when clicked.
• Improved ellipsoid, Cylinder and Cone shapes surface.

Fixed

• Slider units labels.
• Possible fix for GUI controls getting stuck.

[0.1.12] - 2017-10-11

Added

• Lock anchor position, useful for making symmetric objects.
• Multiple bounds for anchor tool gizmo.

Fixed

• Bug in undo/redo system which could cause a crash.
• Turning anchor on now sets position to tool cursor correctly.
• Tool gizmo movement when camera perpendicular to an axis.
• Gizmo axis selection when camera perpendicular to an axis.

[0.1.11] - 2017-10-06

Added

• Cone edit shape.
• Edit->Clear command for clearing world whilst leaving the paste brush active.
• Can now modify size of tool using ImGuizmo when anchor active.
• Move anchor here and focus camera.

Changed

• Right click context menu can now be accessed by right clicking with no movement or CTRL + right click.
• Anchor controls simplified.
• Tool distance moved next to tool position in modify tool UI.
• Can always press F key to perform tool action.
• Tool distance no longer shown if anchor on.

Fixed

• Soft edges in remove mode for cylinder, cone and ellipsoid.

[0.1.10] - 2017-09-29

Added

• Cut and Copy now switch to Paste after use.
• CTRL+X, CTRL+C, CTRL+V for cut, copy, paste.

Changed

• Actions now operate on key press rather than key release, making CTRL+KEY operations easier.
• Paste rotation and reflection reset on cut or copy operation.
• The delete part of cut action now respects symmetry.

Fixed

• Cylinder crash with symmetry planes.
• Cylinder orientation with symmetry planes.
• Symmetry planes with multiple paste rotation axes.

[0.1.9] - 2017-09-28

Added

• Ellipsoid edit shape.

Changed

• File dialogue selection when typing filename modified for improved feedback.

Fixed

• Undo/redo now tracks copy/paste operations correctly.
• Snap to Grid can no longer be set to less than 1 in the UI.
• Can no longer set size of tool cursor smaller than 1 voxel.
• Resolved precision issues for small voxels.
• Cylinder shape symmetry issues.
• Potential crash in copy/paste operations.
• Cut restricted to box/cube shapes.

[0.1.8] - 2017-09-19

Added

• Cylinder edit shape.
• System task thread reduction control, which defaults to 1 (unused if less than 2 hardware threads).

Fixed

• Resolved transform bug in render order, massively reducing overdraw.
• Unicode filenames support.

[0.1.7] - 2017-06-28

Added

• Block edge outline amplitude control.

Changed

• Improved select tool cursor and block edge voxel grid outlining.
• Auto align to axis now clamps much faster.
• Auto algin now has a hysteresis for a more natural feel.
• Move Camera To & Center arcball camera here now expand ray test if no voxel hit for easier movement to far away structures.

[0.1.6] - 2017-05-17

Added

• Anchor cursor mode for precision building.
• 'Set Anchor Here' & 'Anchor' options to CTRL + Right Click menu.
• ImGuizmo tool in anchor mode for moving tool cursor.

Changed

• Improved light generation performance.
• Updated enkiTS for improved multithreading on high core count systems.
• Updated GLFW for raw mouse input support giving more precise mouse camera control.

[0.1.5] - 2017-04-29

Added

• CTRL + Right Click menu.
• Auto Align to Axes camera option.
• Set camera to position in camera menu.
• Set camera to position to origin in camera menu.
• Move Camera Here to CTRL + Right Click menu.
• Center Arcball Camera Here to CTRL + Right Click menu.

Changed

• Modify tool cursor only shows if edit tool visible.
• Menu layout.

Fixed

• Issue which can occur when using an empty save filename.

[0.1.4] - 2017-04-22

Fixed

• Save bug introduced in last release 0.1.3.

[0.1.3] - 2017-04-21

Added

• Drag & drop onto File browser now supported.

Changed

• File dialogue browse mode shows hidden files & folders.

[0.1.2] - 2017-04-20

Added

• Minecraft region files (*.mca) can be opened.
• File dialogue browse mode.
• Text input scrolls file dialogue to closest matching file.
• Can select files with UP/DOWN arrow keys.

Changed

• Load renamed to Open.

[0.1.1] - 2017-04-11

Changed

• Improved paste brush rotate & mirror UI.
• Moved to Visual Studio 2017 toolchain for CPU performance.
• Optimized CPU performance.

Fixed

• Power save mode did not update correctly.
• Paste brush occasionally not visible on load.
• Plane constrain position with size 1 tool.

[0.1.0] - 2017-03-22

Changed

• Significant rework of voxel octree structure for memory and performance optimization.
• File versions updated to V2 with backwards compatibility support.
• Optimized memory of voxel octree structure.
• Optimized CPU performance.
• F10 screenshot filenames now starts with Avoyd_.

Fixed

• Correct monitor used at startup when fullscreen has been selected.

[0.0.15] - 2017-03-10

Fixed

• Optimus and power Xpress exports no longer mangled so hybrid GPU should now choose high performance.

Changed

• Camera related options moved to camera menu.

[0.0.14] - 2017-03-04

Fixed

• Odd sized paste brushes no longer paste to wrong position, and undo works properly.

[0.0.13] - 2017-03-02

Fixed

• Recent file list updates correctly when a previously recent file is loaded.
• Large octrees no longer have problems with view frustrum.

[0.0.12] - 2017-02-28

Fixed

• Loading a brush orientation set correctly.

[0.0.11] - 2017-02-27

Added

• Load voxel models as paste brushes with material merging.
• Recent file list.
• Check for updated version with download button.

Changed

• .vox or slab file import only creates a new material if needed.
• Disabled voxel debug viewer.
• Snap to grid for boxes now snaps to the box shape, not just a single grid size.

Fixed

• Constrain position centres on cursor rather than min of aabb.
• Crash on New when a paste brush is active.
• Copy / paste at edges of octree

[0.0.10] - 2017-02-21

Added

• Box tool Z-Y axis flip.
• Edit->scale world by 2x.
• Paste brushes can be rotated and mirrored.
• Paste now works with symmetry planes.

Fixed

• Resolved issue where tool size or symmetry plane settings can get forgotten.

[0.0.9] - 2017-02-17

Added

• Paste content now visible in tool cursor for easier pasting.
• Signed exe and installer.

Fixed

• Symmetry planes no longer shown for tools which do not use them.
• Number keys for tool select no longer work when hovering over input in UI.
• LOD of built voxels now set approximately correctly on building.
• Shape and size of tool can no longer be set in paste as set by size of copy.
• Default smoothness of some materials too low.
• Symmetry planes for boxes.
• Changing tool (0-9) no longer resets tool size if PICK was selected.

[0.0.8] - 2017-02-14

Added

• Box shape allows arbitrary boxes.
• Tool cursor moves to center of view when mouse over menus.
• Constrain plane, snap to grid, offsets, symmetry now stored in ModifyTools config.

Changed

• Can now select tool via number keys when hovering over menus.

Fixed

• Number keys now select correct tool.

[0.0.7] - 2017-02-10

Added

• Avoyd now uses an installer for setup.
• NvOptimusEnablement and AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance to ensure high performance GPU selected in hybrid systems.
• Version number now in Avoyd.exe properties, build and visible in menu, log and config file.

Fixed

• Icon shows correctly in task manager and file properties.

[0.0.6] - 2017-02-08

Added

• Plane constrain can now be set at cursor position with 'P' key.

Fixed

• Resolved an issue where the arcball camera was not getting initialized correctly when turned on.
• Contiguous colour grid materials now have correct right hand side colour.
• Issue where non existent OpenGL queries were being checked.

[0.0.5] - 2017-02-06

Added

• Change log.
• Can now reset configuration settings.
• Can reset atmosphere settings.
• Can add materials to tool palette from material window.
• Tool palette now has a clear button.

Fixed

• Arcball camera sets center and position better when selected.

[0.0.4] - 2017-02-05

Added

• constrain plane can now be set to opaque or transparent.
• Auto center camera on load option.
• Arcball camera now has an auto speed option.

Changed

• Edit tool and plane line pattern has been improved.

[0.0.3] - 2017-02-04

Changed

• Removed Replace Material edit option as this currently doesn't work.

Fixed

• Crash when octree defragged.

[0.0.2] - 2017-02-03

Added

• Mesage box will now display error if either the window or the required OpenGL version cannot be initialized.

Changed

• Default configuration set to edit mode ADD and camera collide with geometry to off.

Fixed

• Issue where voxels close to upper bounds of octree would dissappear under some view orientations.

[0.0.1] - 2017-02-01

First Release.