v0.9.0

🚀 New blender2ogre release!

✨ Features

• Add support for Blender 4.1
• Add support for Blender 4.1+ drag and drop of files
• Exporting
  • Add support for exporting SkyBoxes
  • Add support for OgreMeshUpgrader '-optvtxcache' option
  • Add support for Rectangular Lights
  • Add option for exporting manual LOD levels
  • Add option to pack normals into INT_10_10_10_2 format
  • material: implement alpha rejection for ogre1
  • Ogre Next (aka v2) JSON material support (#178, #185)
• Importing
  • Add support for importing of pose animations
  • Add support for importing OGRE .scene files

🐛 Bugfixes

• significantly speed up mesh import and export
• Fix Edge Lists generation for OGRE >= 14.0
• From Blender 2.8x+ on LAMPS are now called LIGHTS
• Fix several problems with loading and saving configuration, also improve reloading and use json
• Fix wrong index entry for LOD
• not skip exporting of LOD levels
• Fix exception when there is a material slot but no material
• Fix importing of custom normals
• Fix windows path characters
• Fix for issue #181
• Fix for issue #188

📚 Documentation

• Add documentation about exporting SkyBoxes
• Update documentation regarding importing of .scene files
• Document new drag and drop feature for Blender 4.1+
• Create documentation for exporing Vertex Colors and per vertex transparency
• Fix wording for new LOD section

👌 Improvements

• Alert user if scale or rotation are not uniform
• Separate deletion of XML files between importer and exporter
• Replace isclose for math.isclose native method
• Show Blenders python script code for import/export options
• Save generated import/export script into a text block
• Only save import/export textblock script if called from the UI
• Use Blenders .OBJ importing code as template for importing meshes
• Add debug logging to importer
• Add exception handling to file read and write operations
• Add glob filter to OGRE importer
• Change to Blenders lighting model
• Correct al instances of config.get() to use singleton-comparison instead of truthiness wich was failing in some instances
• Correct point light attributes
• create default material if it could not be imported
• Fix for removal of 'use_inherit_scale'
• Refactor Vertex Color export and import
• Reuse materials and set default material name

NOTE: This release has been packaged to allow installing from Blender add-ons menu

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.9.0

v0.7.6

🚀 New blender2ogre release (2.7x-support)!

✨ Features:

• Add option to export a single Skeleton for objects that share the same Armature
• New exporter option: Export only key frames

📚 Documentation:

• Amend installation instructions for Ubuntu snap packages
• Create documentation for all the Exporter/Importer options
• Add documentation about Modifiers, Physics and some Modifiers capabilites
• Add documentation about Custom Split Normals and Mesh Triangulation

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fix issue #135, where Edge Lists where not being generated for OGRE > 1.9
• Fix Custom and Shape Normals
• (Importer) Use Custom Split Normals for .mesh normals data
• Fix issue: Parser Errors with importing .mesh #151

👌 Improvements:

• Progress update for mesh import
• Change filepath logic to resemble the Blender .OBJ official exporter

Full Changelog: v0.7.5...v0.7.6

v0.8.4

🚀 New blender2ogre release!

✨ Features:

• Export Metal-Roughness maps
• Add option to export a single Skeleton for objects that share the same Armature
• New exporter option: Export only key frames

📚 Documentation:

• Amend installation instructions for Ubuntu snap packages
• Create documentation for all the Exporter/Importer options
• Add documentation about Modifiers, Physics and some Modifiers capabilites
• Add documentation about Custom Split Normals and Mesh Triangulation

🐛 Bugfixes:

• Fix issue #135, where Edge Lists where not being generated for OGRE > 1.9
• Fix Custom and Shape Normals
• (Importer) Use Custom Split Normals for .mesh normals data
• Fix issue: Parser Errors with importing .mesh #151

👌 Improvements:

• Progress update for mesh import
• Add modifiers support for Blender 2.8+
• Change filepath logic to resemble the Blender .OBJ official exporter

Full Changelog: v0.8.3...v0.8.4

v0.8.3

What's Changed

• add option to export PBR materials (default)
• New exporter option: Export only key frames (#127)
• Correct scene light export settings for Blender 2.8+
• material: include blender2ogre version in comment
• only write "generated by" once per material
• add basic CI test
• comment unknown texture maps instead of breaking base_color
• Code clean up (#122, #124)
• describe simple CLI export & drop console.py
• disable USER_MATERIALS on Unix as well
• drop path.exists checks for MESH_PREVIEWER
• Export dialogue and V2 OgreMeshTool bugs (#121)
• only show report if not headless

New Contributors

• @oldmanauz made their first contribution in #121

Full Changelog: v0.8.2...v0.8.3

v0.7.5

this release targets blender 2.7x - for blender 2.8+ use the v0.8.x releases

• Add instancing property to scene objects
• decide converter type by name, not by version
• Integrate Kenshi Importer into blender2ogre
• Reduce differences between Blender versions and increase cleanup logging
• Set origin of merged objects through dupli_offset
• Update documentation for Importing
• dont spam terminal when running meshviewer

v0.8.2

this release targets blender 2.8+ - for blender 2.7x use the v0.7.x releases

• Add instancing support to exporter
• decide converter type by name, not by version
• dont spam terminal when running meshviewer
• fix exceptions with certain option combinations
• Fix for Exporter duplicates mesh (#102)
• in 2.8+ "groups" are called "collections"
• Integrate Kenshi Importer into blender2ogre
• packed images: improve filename generation on export
• Set origin of merged objects through instance_offset

v0.8.1

Features

• UI Overhaul
  • Arranged the options into sections that go into boxes with their own title and icon
  • Improved some of the descriptions which were not very descriptive of the options purpose
• Support for node animation
• Support for Particle systems
• Option to use OgreMeshUpgrader/ OgreMeshTool to generate LODs
• Option to clean up xml files after conversion
• Animation Tutorials (Node/ Skeletal/ Pose)

Bugfixes

• Fix for Error when Exporting a Shape Key's Normals (#56)
• Replace asserts with error reports when tools return with non-zero status
• Inhibit export of any user properties when not selected
• Make Enum Material properties have non-empty default value. Empty Material property values used to break Mask Tools 1.6 addon on Blender 2.9x if we have Ogre Exporter also installed.

v0.7.4

Features

• UI Overhaul
  • Arranged the options into sections that go into boxes with their own title and icon
  • Improved some of the descriptions which were not very descriptive of the options purpose
• Support for node animation
• Support for Particle systems
• Option to use OgreMeshUpgrader/ OgreMeshTool to generate LODs
• Option to clean up xml files after conversion
• Animation Tutorials (Node/ Skeletal/ Pose)

Bugfixes

• Fix for Error when Exporting a Shape Key's Normals (#56)
• Replace asserts with error reports when tools return with non-zero status
• Inhibit export of any user properties when not selected

v0.7.3

Features

• Add option to disable user preferences
• Missing xml to mesh converter as warning, not critical error.

Bugfixes

• allow use some special char (/|?*) in material names (but not in filenames)
• Revert "Fix issue #35"
• Update release version
• fix zeros normal on some blender mesh

v0.8.0

Support for Blender 2.80+