MagicaVoxel 0.99.6.2 Released

New Unified Material System[06/30/2020]

• Blend Material: weighted blending Metal/Plastic/Glass/Cloud materials (similar to Disney Principled BRDF).
• SSS Material: sub-surface scattering. transparency tp control light transmission. density to control light scattering.
• Aborb/Scatter/Emissive Media Material: emissive cloud. can be contained in the glass with ior > 1.
• Improved Alpha Blending: glass material, absorb media type, density = 0, ior = 0, transparency > 0

New Transform and Voxel Shader Brushes[09/26/2020]

• Refactored the brush menu and add icons.
• Voxel Shader Brush to use Voxel Shaders interactively and directly.
• Transform->Scale Brush : live scale models, point sampled, low quality but fast.
• Transform->Wrap Brush : live wrap/crop models with mirroring and spacing modes.
• Geometry Mode->Line/Square/Circle: the old center mode is combined with the old line mode
• World Editor->Pattern and Wrap Brush: can create patterns from selected object (check the pattern model menu on the right panel).

Rotate Transform Brush [09/26/2020]

• Axis rotate : press any inner circle.
• Screen rotate : press the outer circle.
• Sphere rotate : press any point inside the outer circle.
• Snap rotate : press SHIFT or SHIFT+ALT to snap angle to multiple of 5 or 15.

Voxel Shader[09/13/2020]

• no need to define id for arguments.
• use var to define alias of arguments. same as float var = i_args[id];.
• can import and export arguments values.
• can display compile errors in the console window.
• can get color selections via: color_sel().
• can get palette color via: palette().
• increase number of arguments to 16.
• add interation number to the interface.

Editing[09/26/2020]

• Boolean operations for groups and objects.
• Modify->Mask/Texture: mask and texture models with pattern models.
• Sort: only sorts selected colors if number of selection is greater than one.
• command log: display count of models, scene size, count of voxels for each color, etc.
• command shear [axis] [scale] [scale] shear model, e.g. shear z 0.2 0.2 .

Camera Control Panel[09/26/2020]

• click the arrow on the bottom bar to show the camera control panel.
• can change camera global/local position, pitch/yaw/roll angles, save/load camera slots, etc.
• press SHIFT to change values in smaller steps.
• the nine values can also be modified by cmds cam x/y/z tx/ty/tz rx/ry/rz

Pattern Pack[09/26/2020]

• can load all the models in a project as a pattern pack.
• can create pattern pack from multiple selected objects.
• use left/right mouse button to rotate the preview model; use mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
• use 1/2 to select previous/next color in the palette.
• use 3/4
• use ctrl+alt to switch to pattern tool.
• use ctrl to switch to free move tool.
• use ESC to switch between pattern/move brush and select brush in the world editor.