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MagicaVoxel Changelog

What's new in MagicaVoxel 0.98.2

Apr 20, 2017
  • Bloom:
  • click the button in Bloom section to calculate bloom effect when any rendeirng setting has been changed
  • it has its own progress bar, and uses the same number of samples on the top
  • adjust the weight with the slider, it will not restart rendering
  • it will enable "Camera->ACES" automatically
  • Bokeh:
  • it has larger aperture size for DOF (depth of field)
  • HDR Emissive Material:
  • formula is changed to "Emit * (10 ^ Power)"
  • "Glow" is only used to enhance Bloom and Bokeh effects
  • Pause Rendering and Instant Feedback:
  • click Image->"||" to pause progressive rendering
  • enable "Sample->GI"
  • every change of material will be immediately displayed in viewport
  • *expensive option, higher end GPU recommended
  • Sky Background:
  • enable "View->Back" [CTRL+B] to display sky as background
  • the fading ground into horizon is controled by "Fog" slider
  • for real fog, enable "Fog" firstly
  • Ground Material:
  • now you can use "Alt+LButton" to click the ground, and then assign "Metal" material to it
  • Pixelated Rendering:
  • turn off "View->AA" to disable Anti-Aliasing and set image size small (128, e.g.)

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97.5 (Oct 1, 2016)

  • Ground is changed to infinity large in all camera modes
  • Optimized shaders by removing unused branches
  • Fog Scattering: can scatter all types of lights (Sun/Sky/Area):
  • only works in Pers/Free camera modes
  • works for glass/metal materials (can get reflection/refraction from sun light)
  • surface can also be lit by scattered light
  • can create light shafts
  • can create background with small fog density
  • fog color mainly depends on light color and in-scattering color

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97.4 (Jul 20, 2016)

  • New Emissive Area Lighting:
  • Emit->Power : Radiant Flux for Area Lighting
  • Emit->Glow : Energy loss on closer surface
  • Emit->Total : Total power for all voxels or power density
  • Hints:
  • requires "GI" option enabled for advanced effects
  • only supports Cubic/RG/RE voxel shape
  • for small but strong light source (e.g. point lights), use Emit->Total
  • recommended using lower image resolution (e.g. 640x480) when adjusting parameters
  • for better quality of final image, recommended using more samples (e.g. 5000)
  • not very robust for this version (has several potential artifacts)
  • if it is still too dark, do not forget to use Post->E to increase exposure
  • Fix several artifacts for "Glass" material

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97.3 (Jul 20, 2016)

  • New Metal/Plastic Material with GGX NDF
  • Post Effect:
  • Post->E : Exposure, when the scene is too dark, you can increase this
  • Post->V : Vignette
  • Camera->G : Gamma Correction
  • Pick up Sun/Sky Color from Palette
  • Better Quality of Soft Shadow
  • Sample->GI : on the top right, enable stochastic sampling for better indirect illumination
  • it's slower (~50%) and noisy (requires 3000+ samples)
  • use it for indoor scenes, larger exposure, or final render

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97.2 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • New CMD "odir" : export all models in current folder, e.g. "odir obj"
  • Palette "ALT+DRAG" : swap palette color without changing model, make it easier to organize palette
  • Fixed a bug in .qb export
  • Export->bake : bake voxel mesh with ambient occlusion and soft shadow :
  • Example on Sketchfab
  • must support the built-in renderer, if program crashed, recover model from "cache/"
  • it may take from several seconds or half a minute, depending on machine, model, and sample number
  • set sample number, direction and intensity of light sources in renderer mode
  • config->bake->perface : bake per face (pixelated) or per vertex (smooth)
  • config->bake->ambient : constant ambient color to make scene brighter
  • config->bake->gamma : for app with gamma correction, set it to 2.2 to avoid color washed out

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97.1 (Mar 5, 2016)

  • New Marching Cube Export [Export->mc] : export your voxel model as Marching Cube meshes (.ply)
  • Camera Control : use middle button to move camera
  • Cache Folder [cache/] : program will automatically backup model before quitting program or rendering model
  • Obj Export Pivot : fixed bugs for obj pivot, you can also set your custom pivot in config.txt->file_obj
  • Palette Command : add command [pal mask] to mask out unused color in palette
  • fixed a little bug of rendering with orth/iso camera, still not very robust though
  • New Voxel Shader:
  • support GLSL based shader script to generate your custom volume
  • shaders are in the new folder shader/
  • try typing [xs wave] in console to start
  • basic command format is : xs [shader name] [arg0] [arg1] [..]
  • if you want to run the shader multiple times in one run, use : xs [num] [shader name ] [args...]
  • New Brush Option:
  • [V]oxel Mode : 3D(Volume:Cube, Sphere), 2D(Flat:Square, Disc), Su(Surface, only operates on surface)
  • -add hotkeys 1-9 to set brush size quickly
  • [C]enter Mode : suport both square and circle shape now
  • [P]attern Mode : can choose using either original model color or current palette color;
  • -can be applied on erasing and painting now

New in MagicaVoxel 0.97 (Jan 27, 2016)

  • Enhanced Brushes, Improved UI and File System
  • Save and Open dialog for all Palette, Model, Export, Screenshot files
  • Face Brush : extrude surface by dragging with various modes
  • Voxel Brush : has been integrated with Cube and Sphere Brushes, working with mirror and axis modes now
  • Circle Brush : center voxel of circle is not operated; support even diameter size
  • HUD : voxel coordinates, volume size, face layers, circle radius are displayed in console now
  • Camera : add X+RButton to select camera focus center, and yellow button to toggle auto camera focus
  • Export : fixed obj export and more config options for isometric and 2d sprite export
  • Render : Light->0 is changed to pure color model; the ground in orth/iso mode will be infinity large
  • multiple improvement for ui

New in MagicaVoxel 0.96.3 (Jan 27, 2016)

  • Matter->Glass : new transparent voxels with refraction and attenuation

New in MagicaVoxel 0.96.2 (Jan 27, 2016)

  • Matter->Sel : per palette material setting (use Alt+LButton or LButton to select material)
  • new Emissive material; perfect mirror reflection (Rough = 0); over 8 light bounces
  • folder path setting in config file; bug fixed for .obj export

New in MagicaVoxel 0.96.1 (Jan 27, 2016)

  • Export->iso : new isometric sprites export
  • Export->obj : color based mesh simplification for .obj format
  • Model List : drag 'n drop folder to model list to change its root path

New in MagicaVoxel 0.96 (Jan 27, 2016)

  • renderer supports various voxel shapes ( Lego, Marching Cube, Sphere, Cylinder ) and rounded corners, colored grids
  • camera supports stereographics projection, radial distortion, Escher Droste effect
  • use F5/F7 to save/load current camera
  • performance improvement and bug fixes