Crocotile 3D News

v1.8.4

Hey everyone, if you missed the CrocoJam, you can now go see the results! It was a lot of fun, so if you are interested, there will be another one next month! You can find the CrocoJam submissions here: CrocoJam

v.1.8.4 (April 9, 2022)

Added: Background color/Transparency/Skybox options to the Spinning Gif panel.
Added: Unbound key bindings for Divide Triangles, Select Edge Loop, Apply Tilebrush UVs to Selected Faces. These bindings can be set in the Edit > Buttons > Edit Mode panel.
Fixed: Exporting with UV Animations option enabled would cause issues when exporting formats other than .obj (uvAnimation.txt and textures would fail to export)
Fixed: Selection Wand would sometimes select top-left corner pixel, and stop selecting other pixels.
Fixed: If an Object had no tiles, it wouldn't load properly when opening the project.
Fixed: Lights placed inside collapsed Layers wouldn't appear when Layer is expanded.
Fixed: Spinning Gif render wasn't releasing memory.

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v1.8.3

Hey everyone, there will be a CrocoJam starting on April 1st, until April 7th. You can find more details here: CrocoJam
Come join the fun and make some croco!

v.1.8.3 (March 25, 2022)

Added: Select/deselect tiles with UVs inside the tile selection area. Right-click the tileset in the Tileset panel and choose Select Tiles > Select Tiles within Tile selection.
Added: Opaque/Transparent option when resizing Tileset canvas.
Added: Set a start time for animated tiles. When placing animated tiles into the 3d scene, they will use the Start value specified in the UVs panel.
Added: Exporting models that use UV animations, will include Start time data.
Added: Duration value is displayed for the frames of UV animations when hovered over. It can be found where the Animation name is located.
Updated: Godot tile animation example
Updated: tile animation documentation.
Improved: Prefab Brush doesn't orient itself based on camera direction anymore, but you can still enable it in the Settings > Draw mode > Orient Prefab Brush to Camera.
Fixed: Releasing modifier keys before other keys would sometimes fail to trigger the corresponding action.
Fixed: Decal value wasn't being set properly when choosing Export from the Scene panel context-menu.
Fixed: Selecting nearest vertex by holding Ctrl and clicking would fail if the tile's vertices weren't visible.
Fixed: Wouldn't be able to click tiles that overlapped locked objects.
Fixed: Couldn't click through locked objects or lights.
Fixed: Imported models and prefab objects wouldn't cast shadows until they were edited.

v1.8.2

A new text-based guide has been added: Waterfall scene

v.1.8.2 (March 18, 2022)

Added: Key bindings for each gizmo mode, unbound by default. Edit > Buttons > Edit Mode > Gizmo Translate/Rotate/Scale Mode.
Added: Quality setting for spinning Gifs.
Added: Flatten vertex positions/objects against crosshair plane. Keybinding: Alt+P. Also located in Align section of Transform panel. To change the binding goto Edit > Buttons > Edit Mode > Flatten Selection.
Fixed: Applying animated tiles to non-animated tiles that use the same uv coordinates wouldn't be applied while holding Alt and left-clicking.
Fixed: Exporting instances from Instance list would have wrong location if the instance was nested inside others that weren't being exported.
Fixed: Rotating nested instances with Q,E would result with incorrect positions.
Fixed: Decals wouldn't be drawn or erased properly to the scene.
Fixed: Some pinned actions wouldn't display full shortcut when hovering mouse over them.
Fixed: Sometimes selecting a tile from tileset would result with selection having 0 width or 0 height.
Fixed: UV handles wouldn't display if they were slightly outside of view in the panel.
Fixed: Nested instances wouldn't be hidden properly if parent object was hidden via the eye icon in scene panel.
Fixed: After placing an instance with prefab brush, instance became unhighlighted in instance list.
Fixed: Light property inputs took up too much horizontal space in the panel.
Fixed: When Transform panel was open, middle clicking the 3d scene would show the scroll cursor.
Fixed: UV Animations in Theatre panel would loop if loop was set to false.
Fixed: Gif movies wouldn't utilize the quality setting.

v1.8.1

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v.1.8.1 (March 11, 2022)

Added: Animated UVs/Tiles! Check the documentation and video demonstration for more information on how to create animated tiles.
Added: Gizmo Alignment (World/Object) option. Click the button at the top of the 3d scene to toggle whether the Gizmo will align itself to the selected object or not.
Added: Uv dimension values. Displays the width and height of the uv selection.
Added: ` key binding for toggling focus of 3d viewport. To change button, goto Edit > Buttons > General > Focus 3d Panel.
Added: Option to auto-focus panels that the mouse is hovering over. Goto Settings > Mouse Auto-Focuses Panels.
Fixed: Rotating tilebrush uvs while painting new tiles into the scene could cause errors.
Fixed: Docking the side panel/animation panel would cause some dropdown menus & gui elements to stop working if the panels were originally undocked at the start.
Fixed: Undoing/redoing certain operations related to tilesets would not refresh tileset dimensions on UV panel.
Fixed: Rendering movie now hides crosshair lines and gizmo.
Fixed: Issue with binding Buttons > Edit Mode > Context Edit Menu.
Fixed: Show grid option in Painting panel now takes into consideration tilesets with unique tilesize values.
Fixed: Binding Shift key with arrow keys could bind them with incorrect order, causing them to not work correctly. Other key combinations that use modifier keys should bind correct as well.
Fixed: Exporting with a scale value below 1, such as 0.1 for example, would round up to 1. This is now fixed.
Fixed: Clicking the scrollbar in Scene/Transform panels would stop 3d viewport from being focusable, causing keybindings to stop working.
Fixed: The file select boxes displayed incorrect information for the default skybox/tilesets in the Settings panel.
Fixed: Animating cameras and camera targets would cause errors for newly created cameras/targets.
Fixed: Rendering movies would miscalculate the first frame.
Fixed: Rendering movies would fail to render if the Theatre tab wasn't open.
Fixed: In some cases, nested instances wouldn't retain their nest order correctly when placing them into the scene or using the prefab brush.
Fixed: Swapping tiles or resizing tileset wouldn't update the UVs of tiles if the user hadn't selected a tileset yet.
Fixed: Extruding edges/faces without extruding the UVs would assign the new tiles with a material that is shared between the Tilebrush.
Fixed: Extruding now incorporates random tiles if a Tile Palette is selected and Extrude UVs option is disabled.

v1.8.0b

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v.1.8.0b (February 11, 2022)

Fixed: If the default Skybox for new projects was set to Sphere, Crocotile would fail to load.
Fixed: Default image for Skyboxes wouldn't load properly if set to Sphere.

v.1.8.0 (February 11, 2022)

Added: Lights & Shadows! Read the documentation and watch the video to learn more about lights and shadows.
Added: Tileset Material Settings. You can switch between Basic and Phong (supports lighting). Phong also has a few extra properties that can be set.
Added: Key bindings for rotating camera towards cardinal directions (Unbound by default). Go to Edit > Buttons > Camera > Cardinal Rotate Left,Right,Up, and Down to bind a key.
Improved: Spinning gif resets position after rendering.
Improved: Spinning gif saves values when closing panel.
Fixed: Memory leak while drawing or erasing tiles from scene.
Fixed: Invisible cameras would prevent clicking visible cameras if in front of the other.
Fixed: Cameras should now save their animations to the project file if they have any.
Fixed: Having an instance selected for the prefab brush would cause errors if any objects were removed that the prefab brush referenced.
Fixed: Ruler wasn't set invisible when hiding the visualization lines.
Fixed: Ruler wasn't being updated if it was enabled.