Releases: lasa01/Plumber
Releases · lasa01/Plumber
Plumber 1.0.1
Improvements
- Added support for Blender 4.0. (Fixed material importing not working)
Plumber 1.0.0
The addon has been rewritten and renamed to Plumber!
Comparison to io_import_vmf 0.6.9
Improvements
- Major performance increases: typical VMF map import time reduced from 5-30 minutes to 2-30 seconds.
- Manual game configuration no longer required: the addon automatically detects installed Source games on Steam.
- No longer depends on other addons to import models: a built-in MDL importer has been implemented.
- No longer caches anything on disk.
- MacOS support in addition to Windows and Linux.
New features
- MDL importer with animation support.
- Game file browser: easily import MDL/VMT files straight from game files without manual extraction, or extract any files/folders.
- Option to remove animations or animations and armatures from dynamic props to prevent problems when exporting maps outside Blender.
- Option to merge solids into one mesh object per brush.
- Option to import unknown VMF entities as empty objects.
- Support for 4WayBlend materials.
- Support for $layertint1 and $layertint2 parameters in materials.
- Support for Vindictus props.
- Fixed brushes being smooth shaded in Blender 3.6 (made brushes look wrong)
Missing/removed features
- Enhanced QC importer: removed due to the new MDL importer.
- Enhanced AGR importer: missing.
- Reusing previously imported data: missing.
Internal improvements
- Switched to custom VDF (Valve KeyValues) parser, which fixes the current parsing issues.
- Game files are no longer indexed, and are instead searched for on-demand, leading to better performance.
- Importer is now multithreaded.
- Importer backend and Blender glue code are now separated, possibly allowing reusing the backend for other projects.
- Mostly written in Rust for better performance.
Changes to Plumber 1.0.0-rc2
- Changed default import settings: texture format back to PNG and brushes back to separated
Plumber 1.0.0-rc2
The addon has been rewritten and will be renamed to Plumber.
This is a release candidate, please report any bugs you may find.
Also see release notes of previous beta versions for differences to io_import_vmf.
Hopefully there's no more bugs so 1.0.0 can be released.
Improvements
- Added option to import textures as PNG
- Internal improvement: any thread can load any asset types, there's no dedicated material+texture loader thread anymore
- Internal improvement: generic asset processing & caching
Bugfixes
- Fix possible invalid geometry in overlays (could have caused eg. Blender crashes with modifiers)
- Fix a possible race condition with prop import, leading to errors when importing some props
- Fix brushes being smooth shaded in Blender 3.6 (made brushes look wrong)
- Fix brush origin not being at center when using separate option
Plumber 1.0.0-beta4
The addon has been rewritten and will be renamed to Plumber.
This is a beta release, please report any bugs you may find.
Also see release notes of previous beta versions for differences to io_import_vmf.
Improvements
- Add file name filtering to the game file browser.
- Directly open import dialog when a full file path is pasted into the game file browser.
- Add a recent directories list to the game file browser.
- Add support for 4WayBlend materials.
- Add support for $layertint1 and $layertint2 parameters in materials.
- Add a workaround for updating addon on Windows without restarting Blender.
- Add "Detect from gameinfo.txt" button to preferences.
- Add support for Vindictus props.
Bugfixes
- Fix "file not found" errors due to paths sometimes having multiple sequential slashes.
- Fix game file browser not working with a trailing slash in the path.
- Fix hidden solids or entities causing errors in VMF parsing.
Plumber 1.0.0-beta3
The addon has been rewritten and will be renamed to Plumber.
This is a beta release, please report any bugs you may find.
Also see release notes of previous beta versions for differences to io_import_vmf.
Improvements
- Make sure imported asset names stay consistent between manual and automatic imports.
- Allow creating setting presets for importers.
- Add scale setting to mdl importer.
- Add vtf importer.
- Verify that native code and python code versions match on addon startup.
- Add option to import unknown vmf entities as empty objects.
- Show an error in console when trying to import models with unsupported external animations in .ani files.
- Detect local asset search paths when importing models/materials that are in a Source-like directory structure.
Bugfixes
- Fix missing library folder failing game discovery.
- Fix wrong gameinfo.txt being detected sometimes.
- Fix vmf embedded files directory not being detected when using game file browser.
Plumber 1.0.0-beta2
The addon has been rewritten and will be renamed to Plumber.
This is a beta release, please report any bugs you may find.
Also see release notes of previous beta versions for differences to io_import_vmf.
Improvements
- Add path info to game discovery errors.
- Allow importing VMFs using game file browser.
- Add game file browser to 3D view sidebar.
- Improve game file browser interface.
- Add file extraction functionality to game file browser.
Bugfixes
- Fix recursive patch materials being unsupported.
- Fix game discovery errors stopping discovery process.
- Fix file system opening error on missing VPK file (changed to warning).
- Fix incorrect $detail in materials.
- Fix inaccuracy in material blend data.
- Fix being able to browse outside game files using game file browser.
- Fix some out of bounds errors when reading certain models.
- Fix some panics when reading certain models.
Plumber 1.0.0-beta1
The addon has been rewritten and will be renamed to Plumber.
This is a beta release, please report any bugs you may find.
Improvements
- Major performance increases: typical VMF map import time reduced from 5-30 minutes to 2-30 seconds.
- Manual game configuration no longer required: the addon automatically detects installed Source games on Steam.
- No longer depends on other addons to import models: a built-in MDL importer has been implemented.
- No longer caches anything on disk.
- MacOS support in addition to Windows and Linux.
New features
- MDL importer with animation support.
- Game file browser: easily import MDL/VMT files straight from game files without manual extraction.
- Option to remove animations or animations and armatures from dynamic props to prevent problems when exporting maps outside Blender.
- Option to merge solids into one mesh object per brush (enabled by default for better performance).
Missing/removed features
- Enhanced QC importer: removed due to the new MDL importer.
- Enhanced AGR importer: missing, best way to reimplement this is still under consideration.
- Reusing previously imported data: missing, will probably be added back later.
Internal improvements
- Imported texture file format is now TGA instead of PNG for better performance.
- Switched to custom VDF (Valve KeyValues) parser, which fixes the current parsing issues.
- Game files are no longer indexed, and are instead searched for on-demand, leading to better performance.
- Importer is now multithreaded.
- Importer backend and Blender glue code are now separated, possibly allowing reusing the backend for other projects.
- Mostly written in Rust for better performance.
