Welcome to the Plugin Browser Update!
There are a lot of new features and changes, check it out!
Highlights
- Plugin Browser redesign
- 3D Brush Outline
- Mirror Modeling
- Split screen layouts
- Searchable Outliner
- New Preview Scenes
Plugin browser redesign
- Split screen layout with list in sidebar
- Full-screen information about the plugin
- Added the ability to disable plugins temporarily (#1724)
- Added plugin dependencies
- Plugins can now have PNG and SVG icons
- Start screen with suggested plugin rows
- Added context menus for installed plugins
Preview Scenes
- Added 9 new Minecraft Preview Scenes
- Added cube maps to make preview scenes feel more immersive
- Added the option to enable a Minecraft player model in the scene as a size reference
Mirror modeling
Mirror modeling let's you change one side of your model, and updates the other side automatically
- Enable mirror modeling from the Edit menu or the main toolbar
- Right click elements to disable mirroring per element
Other Key Features
- Added outliner search bar
- Added backup browser
- Split screen layouts, replacing quad view
- Added transparency render order option
Dialog and UX Improvements
- Improved layout of texture resize dialog
- Added save project selector on quit
- Reference Image option when sharing models
- Added better error messages when sharing model fails
- Display file path in "file not found" error message
- Added better description for project conversion
- Added error message for expired model link
Texturing
- Added 3D brush outline (#1410)
- Clear unused texture space feature
- Added option to duplicate texture
- Option to hide selection outlines in paint mode (#1869)
- Limit zoom level when opening pixel art
- Let color picker pick through transparency by default
- Improve Paint Through Transparency feature (#1798, #1952)
- Allow moving copy paste selection with alt key
- Move copy paste selection with arrow keys (#680)
UV Mapping
- Added UV project from view action
- Improvements to mesh template generator
- Allow navigating UV editor + timeline with viewport pan key (#1792)
Animation
- Show multiple axes in the graph editor
- Added graph editor ruler lines
- Lock timeline axis when holding ctrl or shift
- Added timeline menu to menu bar
- Display icons on keyframes with Math expressions
- Make Invert Selection work for keyframes
- Added the option to specify a separate inverse kinematics root (#1825, thanks @TheDrawingCoder-Gamer)
- Implement timeline frame number display
- Reorganized timeline menu
Meshes
- Make Invert Selection work for mesh selection
- Added Switch Face Crease button
- Added the ability to create multiple loop cuts
- Added size sliders for meshes
Minecraft
- Added Minecraft 1.20 skin presets
- Added bed skin preset (#1852)
- Added extra bedrock binding presets
- Apply first imported texture on bedrock block automatically
- Improve accuracy of first person attachable view
- Always enable backface culling in java block/item
- Re-center java block/item models when converting
- Improve texture import on java block/item parent models
- Renamed Steve and Alex skin presets to Player - Wide and Player - Slim
- Keep skin file names when importing skins in the web app
Miscellaneous
- Added JSON indentation setting (#1407)
- Display locator rotation using pivot marker
- Setting to switch tools on double click
- Added option to toggle all grids from the view menu
- Action control: Add support for BarSelect
System Requirements
- Removed support for 32-bit Windows systems
Technical & API updates
- New file structure system for the blockbench-plugins repository
- Added menu groups
- Added dynamic icon vue component
- Added hasAny and hasSelected to improve performance
- Added checkbox as amendEdit input type
- Added save_model_action event hook
- Made toolbars work with actions directly instead of just IDs
- Added findFileFromContent API
- Added validate method to individual checks
- Added
stretch_cubesfeature for custom formats (#1806, thanks @AaronWoodward) - Added action events
- Updated electron to 25.2
Fixes
- Fixed reference images not embedding data in projects
- Fixed switching elements to per face UV in validator
- Fixed image format not getting marked as saved on quit
- Fixed missing undo integration for dropping textures
- Fixed GIF reference images potentially not saving correctly
- Fixed error on startup with action conditions
- Fixed description of bedrock legacy export action
- Fixed #1931 dialog file input reveals path in streamer mode
- Fixed locator/null size changing with FOV
- Fixed undoing mesh removing ignoring outliner position in some cases
- Fixed Share Model link dialog having unneccesary button
- Fixed mesh selection not updating correctly when copy pasting mesh selection
- Fixed face properties editor completely hidden when no cubes selected
- Fixed #1900 Resetting a toolbar 2x empties it
- Fixed texture apply actions being visible in single-texture formats
- Fixed menus having incorrect scroll bars
- Fixed slider for keyframe "Post" values not working correctly
- Fixed the mirror brush having an incorrect brush size in some cases
- Moving a selection in the outliner now moves it in the displayed order, rather than in the order in which they were selected
- Fixed gradient tool mirror paint offset
- Fixed rotation issue when converting model with rotation axis restriction
- Fixed issue with undoing texture edits in web app
- Fixed #1940 desktop only plugins can be installed in web app via URL query
- Fixed start screen slideshow not working on older browsers
- Fixed #1891 Cannot add reference images in orthographic
- Fixed reference image error
- Fixed #1946 dissolving edge does not remove vertices
- Added fallback for customized toolbars that error on load (#1955)
- Fixed mesh tools performance bottleneck
- Fixed #1510 issue with clicking to edit slider value
- Fixed groups with export=false still exporting in bedrock format