VoxEdit June 2021 — New Features
Discover the updated version of VoxEdit including a plethora of new features!
There is a new update of VoxEdit available now! Your ASSET creation process will be smoother, faster and better than it has ever been. Read all about the new features implemented and bugs that were fixed in the VoxEdit update.
Features
Sync To/From MagicaVoxel
You can now sync files to and from MagicaVoxel. With the new version of VoxEdit, you can edit your models on MagicaVoxel and then save and sync them into VoxEdit.
Decorative nodes in template based assets
This feature allows you to add childs to nodes in template based assets and animate them.
Autosave/Backup system
To ensure that you don’t lose your hard work while creating, the ASSET you are working on will now save automatically every 10 minutes as a backup. In turn you can load the saves from the ‘Recent Files’ card.
Shortcut Quick Guide
Find all shortcuts at a click! All active shortcut are now displaying in an overlay that can be opened with the keyboard button on the right side of the menu bar, or by pressing the H key.
New Shortcuts
- “Pan Camera” (default: SPACE)
- “Copy Keyframes” (default: C)
- “Open Shortcut Quick Guide” (default: H)
Added a collideable flag for Animator’s nodes
As an artist, you can now select which nodes should be collideable in game.
*This features has yet to be implemented in the Game, but your assets will be compatible once it’s done.
“List style” layout for File Browser
Just like in any file browser, you can now choose a layout that allows you to see much more files and folders than before.
Below are more attributes that you can find on the Animator’s Library or in its card menus:
- “Replace”, which loads VXM and VOX and replaces the model with it
- “Delete Unattached”, which cleans up your project by deleting the models that are not attached to the rig.
- “Export as VOX”, a small shortcut to create a MagicaVoxel compatible file from a model directly in the Animator.
Here are some other features that you can see in VoxEdit:
- “Save as New Model” in Modeler
This feature enables you to make a new model with the selected voxels.
- Interpolation type tooltip on hover.
- Timeline readout that also shows current frame (from 0 to 479).
- New Animator floor grid that has subdivisions up to individual voxels and extends far into the distance.
- New Modeler checkerboard grid that looks better and is much less performance heavy.
- Theming support for viewport background and grid line colors
The next release of VoxEdit will have whole UI themes so stay tuned!
Improvements
Voxel volume and tool preview are both better rendered, and faster.
UI controls now detect hover
No more hovering things behind popups, contextual menus or other windows. No more tooltips appearing from behind those either.
Visual feedback in Timeline Curves popup
Currently selected interpolation curve button is now shown as active, only if all selected interpolations have the same curve.
More intuitive voxel displacing
Modeler 2D views now show tool previews and better support edition.
Windows will now show in a background color while resizing, making for a cleaner and speedier resize.
Some more improvements are as follow:
- Duplicate node is now selected on creation.
- If you are editing a model from the animator, the home button will now be the back button.
- Combo controls now collapse properly if you click them again (language and collapsed timeline panel animation list)
- The “Export to Marketplace” popup animation dropdown now scrolls, and its content is sorted alphabetically.
- Files in “File Browser” are now sorted on both Windows and MacOS.
Changes
Two changes have been made to the newest version of VoxEdit:
- Both the ENTER and TAB keys are no longer permitted to be used for shortcut chords.
- “Delete Keyframe” shortcut is now BACKSPACE on OSX by default.
Fixes
Old bugs are no more! Thanks to the update you won’t have to worry about:
- Very large static rigs crashing the editor when trying to export.
- Low repro issue that made rigs load broken (all models placed at the origin) in a small set of systems.
- Camera focus.
- The editor freezing when an animation is playing. It will now keep running in the background.
- The text field error messages appearing behind other UI controls sometimes is now fixed.
- The Apple key symbols showing crossed boxes in the shortcuts popup. We now show key names instead.
The new version of VoxEdit also fixed these frustrating bugs that will you save you precious time when creating:
- Modeler mirrors will now show all of the time and not only when utilizing the tool.
- Pasting keyframes before cutting/copying some will not crash anymore.
- Overwriting a VXR will now delete the overwritten folder (and it’s contents) first.
- Bad internet connectivity will no longer crash VoxEdit.
- Pressing ESC while the top bar menu is active, does not break the menu anymore.
- Tutorials UI now shows all of the tutorials in the YouTube playlist.
- The window UI now adapts properly after resizing.
- Library and inspector UI headers now adapt their window sizes when detached.
