Avoyd Release Streams and Minecraft Lit Materials

How to Move to a Specific Part of a World or of a Minecraft Map?

There are several ways to move the camera:

• If you want to teleport to a place you can see on the map (this is the fastest), use the context menu Move Camera here as follows:
  1. Move the mouse cursor to point to the area of the map you want to go to
  2. Right-click to open the context menu
  3. Select the option Move Camera here. You'll instantly move above the position you were pointing to
• If you've imported a Minecraft map and you want to move to a set of Minecraft coordinates, enter them in the camera position system as follows:
  1. Open the camera window: menu Tools > Camera
  2. Enter the Minecraft coordinates in the camera Position field:
     • If you have three coordinates (x, y, z): enter them in the three fields in that order.
     • If you have two Minecraft coordinates (x, z): enter them in the first and the last field in the same order. Make sure the middle value (y height) is positive or you might end up under or inside the landmass.
• If you want to "fly" to a place on the map (similar to a FPS game), follow the instructions to use the First Person camera in movement mode.

Original question on Youtube.

How to Export Transparent and Emissive Materials from Avoyd to Unreal Engine 5.1?

Update 01 May 2023 - This workaround no longer works. See the Avoyd documentation on importing mesh, material and textures generated by Avoyd into Unreal Engine instead.

This is an issue in Unreal Engine 5.1 and above. Older versions up to 5.0.3 are unaffected. Someone posted a workaround in the Unreal Engine forum which worked when we tested it.

The workaround steps involve using the Console Variables Editor plugin as follows:

1. In Unreal Engine, enable the Console Variables Editor plugin.
2. In UE5 Editor, open Edit > Plugins.
3. Search for Console Variables Editor and enable it.
4. Restart the Editor.
5. In the Editor, open Window > Console Variables.
6. Search for import.obj. It should return the variable Interchange.FeatureFlags.Import.OBJ.
7. Set Interchange.FeatureFlags.Import.OBJ to FALSE.
8. Follow the Unreal instructions in the Avoyd User Documentation

Original question in the MagicaVoxel Discord channel #questions-and-help.

[Edit 01 May 2023 - Unreal workaround no longer works. Link to the Avoyd documentation.]