0.18.0-preview Release

Added

• blender-feat: adding option to only sync selected objects.
• blender-feat: handle node group for materials
• doc: mention support for Blender 3.4

Changed

• doc: remove Modo and Metasequoia sections

Fixed

• blender-fix: Spline crash fix in Blender 3.3+
• blender-fix: material index crash fix
• blender-fix: fix for race condition when applying properties
• blender-fix: crash fix when removing an empty instance object
• blender-fix: fix for debug logs and uninitialized colorValue variable
• blender-fix: apply mirror Modifier for instances when applicable
• blender-fix: null reference check in visible_in_collection()
• fix: use path provider to ensure instances use their correct path for properties
• blender-fix: fix for image paths coming from libraries
• doc-blender: fix anchor links (lower case)

Added

• Blender 3.4 support
• blender-feat: Material baking
• blender-feat: displacement maps baking
• blender-feat: AO baking for materials
• blender-feat: implementing orthographic size for camera
• blender-feat: Adding texel density setting for baking

Changed

• blender-change: bake modifiers in Edit Mode
• blender: Making deduplication of meshes optional
• blender-opt: optimisation to avoid making unique objects when the source object is the same.
• blender-doc: update docs to include all new material baking settings
• blender: use all available UV layers in Edit mode
• blender: updated UI to show materials panel. Reordered panels and removed Unity Project panel
• blender: added cancel and reset modes to increment progress. Used reset mode when resetting and cancel mode when cancelling
• doc: update Table of contents with Blender Installer page

Fixed

• blender-fix: export normals correctly in edit mode, taking polygon smooth into account
• blender-fix: dangling pointers on Mesh data
• blender-fix: avoid copies of linked duplicates
• blender-fix: fix for materials not referencing correctly and smoothness map being roughness.
• blender-fix for crash on empty material slots.
• blender-fix: Fix for crashes when instantiating curves through geonodes
• blender: geometry node fixes

Feat

• blender-feat: material support
• blender-feat: support exporting empty objects

Changed

• blender-doc: update installation docs

Fixed

• blender-fix: make all object types (incl. lights) instantiable for geometry nodes
• blender-fix: fix for exporting keyframes in 3.3.0 and above
• blender-fix: null check for geometry node properties

Removed

• blender: removed editor path property from project panel

Feat

• blender: preferences UI for auto-detecting the hub and the editors folder
• blender: use hub to select or create project

Changed

• blender-change: Handled local packages

Fixed

• fix: fix for crash when exporting baked transforms
• blender-fix: fix for broken uvs on edit mode
• blender-fix: get latest compatible version of MeshSync package in AutoSetup
• blender-fix: More reliable way to check if project is already running
• blender-fix: give feedback when selecting project
• blender-fix: give feedback for project creation

Added

• blender-feat: add Add-on Preferences file
• blender-doc: add Unity project panel documentation

Changed

• doc: update Installation page (TOC, typo fixes) and add missing English docs in DCC pages
• doc: put Unity setup via DCC section below in the Installation page

Fixed

• blender-fix: avoid overwriting manifest package and report error if installed package is not supported
• blender-fix: do not reset Server port if server is available
• blender-fix: use default ports if possible in auto-config
• blender-fix: fix for crash in blender 3.3

Removed

• doc: remove obsolete installation steps in DCC pages
• doc: remove Japanese documentation. Moved to the official page

Added

• blender-feat: support Blender 3.3.0
• blender-feat: Editor commands in Blender clients
• blender-feat: install MeshSync from Blender
• blender-feat: auto-config of ports for AutoSetup via Blender
• blender-doc: add doc for installing MeshSync via Blender

Changed

• change: change plugins folder to Plugins to reveal it in the Unity Editor
• doc: organize usage in DCC tools into separate pages
• doc: reorganize and update installation documentation
• blender-doc: update the section about BakeModifiers
• blender-doc: add Bidirectional Sync section in the Blender documentation

Fixed

• blender-fix: Scale instance transforms with meshsync scale factor to ensure correct positioning.
• blender-fix: fix instance scaling
• blender-fix: set camera visibility based on the active scene camera
• blender-fix: export geometry node instances when frame changes
• blender-fix: fix for material index bug

Fixed

• maya-fix: load plugin for Maya 2023 properly
• 3dsmax-fix: export vertex alpha
• blender-fix: fix to export curves

Added

• blender-feat: support for Blender 3.2.0
• blender-feat: send particle instance meshes
• blender-feat: Unity->Blender communication
• maya-feat: support for Maya 2023

Changed

• change: set minimum Unity requirement to 2020.3
• blender-change: convert sun light energy to Unity light intensity directly
• licensed several components under GPL v3

Fixed

• blender-fix: ensure layers that are hidden for render in blender, are also hidden in unity
• blender-fix: Fix for accessing deform groups in Blender 3.0 and above
• blender-fix: Blender settings apply differently depending on the order of using Manual Sync vs Animation Sync
• blender-fix: fix for calllback getting registered multiple times. Ignore updates when not active
• blender-fix: ceil floats to avoid hashing issues

Removed

• blender-change: drop support for Blender 2.83

Fixed

• blender-fix: do not handle already handled records when extracting geometry node instances
• 3dsmax-fix: consider "Enable in Renderer" option for syncing with "Ignore Non-Renderable" set to on