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2024/10/09: engon 1.3.0

interniq features, blazing browser, many improvements and fixes

  • Primary and secondary color adjustments for interniq
  • Lights adjustment for interniq
  • Browsing assets is multiple orders faster
  • Search results are sorted by relevancy

Improvements:

  • Report duplicate addon installations in preferences and in top of the panel
  • Empty sizes are preserved when converting to editable
  • Tags in browser are sorted alphabetically
  • Sizes of empties are adjusted based on dimensions of the asset when spawning
  • Informative message to refresh packs when packs are discovered but unregistered
  • Added confirmation dialog when removing all search paths
  • Snap to ground reports message if there are ground objects
  • Browser now displays number of displayed assets
  • Engon now accepts semantically split features - allowing us to create features for all assets in the future
  • Spawned material sphere (when no object was selected) is now named based on the material

Bugfixes:

  • Removing scatter removes it from the selected object only
  • Assets with auto smooth enabled don't disappear after converting to editable in Blender 4.1 and above
  • Convert to editable no longer fails if there are property groups from other addons
  • Filters are refreshed correctly after a new pack is installed when the browser was previously opened
  • All icons for asset packs should now be always loaded
  • Exiting Blender with our browser open no longer produces error in the console
  • Geometry nodes modifier are made local when converting to editable so the modifier is not lost on file reload

2024/07/19: engon 1.2.1

Blender 4.2 compatibility

Fixes

  • Fixed changing sort mode
  • Fixed icons in categories not displaying sometimes
  • Scatter UI now supports displaying and editing particles without pps_ prefix in the name
  • Corrected calling of actions after registering the addon

2024/06/11: engon 1.2.0

Changelog

  • Release notes can be displayed in preferences before or after updating
  • Spawn All Displayed - spawn all currently displayed assets in the browser - spawn entire categories or search queries
  • Spread Objects - spread selected objects on a line or a grid based on their bounding box
  • minimal required version of engon for installed asset packs - to show when engon is outdated for newer versions of asset packs
  • fixed migrating of some Evermotion asset pack materials
  • fixed Remove Duplicates to work with all asset packs

2024/04/30: engon 1.1.0

Highlights

  • Draw geometry nodes from the engon browser
  • What's new - see what is new in last version of the asset pack
  • Adjust traffiq emergency lights from panel traffiq-2.1
  • It's possible to have both preferences and engon browser at the same time
  • Add model directly to particle system if active object contains particle system
  • Vector parameters, introduced_in parameter for traffiq-2.1 release.

Other changes

  • Asset spawned into particle collection appears without needing to refresh
  • Geometry nodes assets respect spawn options collection (spawning into asset pack or active collection)
  • Default spawning texture size doesn't change when resizing textures for materials
  • UI button to enable / disable the engon keymaps and to restore to default
  • Search in All button when no assets are found inside nested category
  • Remember active particle system and instance collection object index
  • Reinstall and Update options in install dialog UI are not greyed out
  • Hide Installation Path if update is done through install (Try Updating Instead) asset pack dialog
  • Subpanels are now closed by default, as the expanded UI was unnecessarily long
  • Vector parameter is displayed on one row

Fixes

  • Fixed bake wheels rotation and steering
  • Animating scatters or selection of more than one object works now in Blender 4.0 and above
  • Convert to linked now works for objects composed of only linked collections (US signs)

2024/03/27: engon 1.0.3

Blender 4.1 compatibility: use LIGHTPROBE_GRID icon instead of LIGHTPROBE_VOLUME, use displacement_method from bpy.types.Materials, do not duplicate Cancel button if it is provided natively. Fixed previews deallocation, now previews don't hang unloaded. Fixed reloading asset packs when updating or removing if other pack_info paths point to it.

2024/03/14: engon 1.0.2

Fixed particle system assets spawning with incorrect rotation. Fixed properties reordering in panels when undoing. Fixed adding bumps modifier. Fixed migrator failing for case-sensitive file paths when relative paths were used. Workaround for spawning materials crashing Blender - material data preview is now not rendered and is a known issue. Asset packs are now refreshed correctly when opening .blend file from file explorer. Escape glob characters in pack search paths. Improved formatting of asset pack information in preferences and installer dialogs. Collapse filter groups by default. Added browser support for vector parameters. Added icon to the .blend maintenance panel, stop using the 'FILE_TICK' icon for non-saving purposes. Append Selection adds assets with (0, 90, 0) rotation. Added documentation for river, rain, and vine generator panels. Added admonition in documentation about reinstalling an asset pack.

2024/02/07: engon 1.0.1

Added the option to reinstall an already installed asset pack. Improved install flow. Link to docs in the panel. Geometry nodes modifiers have additional UI. Better asset detail and filters UX. Avoid linking the same data twice. Fixed a few cases of snap to ground bugs. Fixed randomize float. Added a missing migration rule for botaniq's Cortaderia selloana. Users can now remove scatter system even if the underlying collection is missing. Better logging and diagnostics when installing asset packs. Fixed a few cases of engon UI getting stale and not refreshing.

2024/01/11: engon 1.0.0

Initial release.