Changelog

A more detailed changelog can be found on github.

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0.5.0 (2026-04-18)

General:

• Increased vengi binary file version
• Added openstreetmap osm.json format support
• Allow to specify the target colors in a palette for voxelization and other RGB based formats (voxformat_targetcolors)
• Fixed voxformat_voxelizemode 1 missing voxels
• Speed up the binary mesher usage
• Fixed invalid triangle handling in some gltf files
• Fixed quaternion lua binding issues
• Improved pivot rounding errors when merging nodes
• Extended animate.lua to work with more different character scenes
• Fixed rotation import for gltf files
• Improved cvar handling
• Added a few new lua scripts
• Fixed crash when loading large vengi scenes
• Renamed vox_meshmode to voxel_meshmode
• Added L-System lua bindings for the voxel generator
• Improved obj voxelization performance by preventing buffer re-allocations
• Allow to skip position compensation when setting the pivot in lua scripts
• Added hexcolor parameter type for lua scripts with color picker widget
• Added md3 format support (Quake 3)
• Added sound module for wav playback
• Added PowerShell completion support and improved zsh/bash completions with cvar value completion
• Added animated gif support for viewport recording
• Fixed race condition in SparseVolume
• Fixed GLTF animation rotation quaternion reading
• Fixed GLTF invalid mesh index for point nodes
• Fixed undefined behaviour in RawVolume::clear() when building with msys2
• Added Teardown bin format support
• Added Teardown TDCZ chunk support
• Added point cloud export support for mesh formats
• Fixed axis aligned mesh voxelization
• Added stipple line and bezier curve lua bindings
• Greatly improved greedy texture mesher performance (14x+ faster)
• Improved markdown rendering with multiline code block support
• Fixed Minecraft schematic loading
• Fixed Sandbox VXA/VXR/VXM format issues
• Resolved UUID collisions when importing scene nodes
• Added animation export/import to transfer animations between scenes
• Added pathfinder and SparseVolume lua bindings
• Removed volume count limit for very large scenes
• Improved rendering performance for scenes with thousands of nodes

VoxEdit:

• Added sculpt brush with smooth additive/erode and preserve top height modes
• Added Smooth Gaussian and Bridge Gap sculpt modes
• Added SquashToPlane sculpt mode to project voxels onto a clicked plane
• Added Reskin sculpt mode for applying skin patterns onto surfaces
• Added bezier curve support to the line brush
• Added Lasso, HoleRim2D, ColumnRim2D, HoleRim3D selection modes
• Added mergeActiveToBackground and mergeVisibleToTemp commands
• Added brushapply/brushabort commands and selection color operations
• Added global paste as node, splat merge, global copy visible, and deferred transform
• Added uniform scale checkbox for transform brush
• Added sprint action button for game mode movement
• Persist scene mode setting across sessions
• Added lua script execution as MCP tools
• Fixed shading preview for selection brush
• Improved performance with dirty tracking for AABB and bone mesh rebuilds
• Improved performance by deferring hidden volume uploads
• Added IKConstraint editing and inverse kinematic solver
• Fixed scroll to active node in scene graph panel
• Auto enable a newly created animation
• Fixed pivot change not taking local child transform into account
• Improved locked axis handling
• Fixed locked plane position change
• Fixed mirror plane rendering
• Improved ui integration tests
• Fixed a stack overflow on mac
• Fixed invalid memento state handling with undoing mirrored actions
• Allow to record a session and play back later or share with others
• Fixed a few missing network messages on undo/redo
• Converted options menu to options dialog
• Added extrude brush for face-based extrusion and carving
• Added globalcopy/globalpaste commands for cross-instance clipboard sharing
• Fixed potential crashes when using brushes in some circumstances
• Added camera commands (camera_mouselook, camera_reset, camera_mode, camera_projection)
• Added network chat feature
• Split image/model asset panel and file panel into dedicated panels
• Fixed loading a new scene not stopping a previously running animation
• Added searchable combo box for script selection
• Added voxel-size input mode for transform scale brush
• Added rescale content for scene nodes
• Added resize option to scene graph context menu
• Added script browser for downloading, installing, and managing community scripts
• Added custom lua-based selection modes
• Added lua-based brush scripting (AABB brushes)
• Added camera_target_reference command
• Added palette_addcolor command
• Added thickness support to line brush
• Configurable sprint speed multiplier for game mode
• Added Teardown body height setting for game mode

VoxConvert:

• Extend --json options
• Fixed --rotate for multi-node chunked models