Welcome to the third beta for Blockbench 4.7 - The Reference Image Update!
To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features.
Please note that pre-release versions in general may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.
To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/
Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.
Changes
- Added option to toggle all reference images
- Removed reference image web search due to being unreliable
- Added attachable binding validation
- Added support for animated textures on meshes (#1634)
- Added pixel grid to default empty texture
- Added Round Value feature to numeric sliders
- Removed proportional editing from toolbar by default (it's a niche tool for Blockbench style)
Improvements
- Improve prism editor autocomplete:
- Disable autocomplete popping up on navigation
- Don't autocomplete if word is already completed
- Improve edge/vertex extrusion direction in side views
- Hide box UV toggle in texture generator if no cubes exist
- Applying texture to box UV cube in UV editor now applies to all sides
- Invert color palette slider scroll direction
- Switch rotate gizmo cursors
- Pre-compute vertex weights for proportional editing to improve edit dynamics
- Allow scrolling while dragging UV and copy-paste tool overlay
- Better graphics table support for paint tools (solves #1286)
- Improve timeline timecode displays: E. g. snapping 50 no longer displays as 0.52, 1.04 etc.
- Improved mesh selection update performance
API changes
- Allow tab editing in prism editors with class
capture_tab_key - Added NumSlider field to invert scroll direction
Fixes
- Fixed flickering in recorded GIFs
- Fixed issue with unset particle lifetimes (#1770)
- Fixed bezier handles not syncing on uniform scale keyframes
- Fixed reference images being selectable behind UI
- Fixed error when using resize slider with box UV cube
- Fixed resize line dragging with pen (#623)
- Fixed painting grid not updating after creating template
- Fixed incorrect position in display settings
- Disabled action prevention while transforming due to potential errors