0.0.4.0

General:

• Added support for writing binvox files
• Added support for reading kvx (Build-Engine) and kv6 (SLAB6) voxel volumes
• Performed some AFL hardening on voxel format code
• Don't execute keybindings if the console is active
• Added basic shader storage buffer support
• Reduced voxel vertex size from 16 to 8 bytes
• Apply checkerboard pattern to water surface
• Improved tracy profiling support
• A few highdpi fixes

Server:

• Allow to specify the database port
• Fixed loading database chunks

VoxEdit:

• Added scale console command to produce LODs

VoxConvert:

• Added ability to merge all layers into one

0.0.3.0

Assets:

• Added music tracks
• Updated and added some new voxel models

VoxEdit:

• Made some commands available to the ui
• Tweak thicken command
• Updated default tree generation ui values
• Save layers to all supported formats
• Fixed tree generation issue for some tree types
• Changed default reference position to be at the center bottom
• Reduced max supported volume size

General:

• Print stacktraces on asserts
• Improved tree generation (mainly used in voxedit)
• Fixed a few asserts in debug mode for the microsoft stl
• Added debian package support
• Fixed a few undefined behaviour issues and integer overflows that could lead to problems
• Reorganized some modules to speed up compilation and linking times
• Improved audio support
• Fixed timing issues
• Fixed invalid GL states after deleting objects

VoxConvert:

• Added a new tool to convert different voxel volumes between supported formats
  Currently supported are cub (CubeWorld), vox (MagicaVoxel), vmx (VoxEdit Sandbox), binvox
  and qb/qbt (Qubicle)

Client:

• Added footstep and ambience sounds

0.0.2.0

0.0.2 (2020-05-06)

VoxEdit:

• Static linked VC++ Runtime
• Extract voxels by color into own layers
• Updated tree and noise windows
• Implemented thicken console command
• Escape abort modifier action
• Added L-System panel

General:

• Fixed binvox header parsing
• Improved compilation speed
• Fixed compile errors with locally installed glm 0.9.9
• Fixed setup-documentation errors
• Fixed shader pipeline rebuilds if included shader files were modified
• Improved palm tree generator
• Optimized mesh extraction for the world (streaming volumes)
• Added new voxel models
• (Re-)added Tracy profiler support and removed own imgui-based implementation
• Fixed writing of key bindings
• Improved compile speed and further removed the STL from a lot of places
• Updated all dependencies to their latest version

Server/Client:

• Added DBChunkPersister
• Built-in HTTP server to download the chunks
• Replaced ui for the client

Voxel rendering

• Implemented reflection for water surfaces
• Apply checkerboard pattern to voxel surfaces
• Up-scaling effect for new voxel chunks while they pop in
• Optimized rendering by not using one giant vbo

Voxel Editor

This is the first alpha version of the voxel editor that is part of the engine.

For the windows binaries you also need the Visual Studio C++ Runtime dllls (will be fixed in the next release): https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads