All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog.
- Fixed a regression in animation playback causing playback speeds less than 1.0 to not work.
- Added an option to convert a parent bone to bone influences in the Mesh Editor.
- Added anisotropic rotation to the shader information in the Matl Editor.
- Improved layout consistency for editors using a grid layout.
- Fixed an issue where the "Remove Bone Influences" button in the Mesh Editor did not actually remove influences.
- Fixed an issue where some materials would render with the wrong anisotropic highlight rotation.
- Added an option to remove unused entries in the Modl Editor.
- Added Modl > Rebuild from Mesh to the Modl Editor to both add missing entries and remove unused entries.
- Added Meshes > Hide Ink Meshes for hiding stage ink meshes.
- Added an option to automatically hide ink meshes to application preferences.
- Adjusted long material labels to wrap instead of clip in the Modl Editor, Matl Editor, and Material Preset Editor.
- Adjusted mesh name text boxes in the Mesh Editor to not clip.
- Adjusted texture parameter names in the Matl Editor to show the color channels used by the shader on hover.
- Moved editing of model files to a separate tab in the Modl Editor.
- Adjusted the behavior of Meshes > Show All to also show meshes instead of just models.
- Adjusted the behavior of Meshes > Hide Expressions to not hide ink meshes.
- Changed the Max Anisotropy selector in the Matl Editor to not include the None variant to better reflect in game data.
- Removed the Advanced Settings toggle from the Matl Editor and Material Preset Editor. Right click textures to rename instead.
- Removed the Advanced Settings toggle from the Mesh Editor. Advanced editing options are now always enabled.
- Removed the Advanced Settings toggle from the Modl Editor. Advanced editing options are now always enabled.
- Removed Modl > Add Entry from the Modl Editor. Add entries based on the current numshb instead.
- Fixed an issue where the texture drop down in the Matl Editor did not correctly ignore case.
- Fixed an issue where bones and the floor grid did not render properly.
- Adjusted material list side panels for Matl Editor and Material Preset Editor to support scrolling.
- Fixed an issue where emission and CustomVector3 alpha did not render in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where the CustomFloat16 depth offset parameter did not interact properly with the camera in the viewport.
- Added validation for duplicate material labels.
- Added validation for invalid sampler filter modes when anisotropic filtering is enabled.
- Added validation for mesh vertices having at most 4 assigned skin weights.
- Fixed an issue where the application would crash immediately when a sampler used nearest filtering and enabled anisotropic filtering.
- Fixed an issue where the floor grid would not blend properly with models when using debug shading modes.
- Added support for editing the near and far clip distance to the Camera Settings window.
- Added Meshes > Expand All and Meshes > Collapse All menu options.
- Added the ability to change the current frame using the arrow keys while hovering over the animation slider.
- Added additional keyboard shortcuts while hovering over the animation slider. See the wiki for details.
- Changed the color space of the color picker in the Matl Editor to be linear to be consistent with the linear float values used in game.
- Adjusted animation bar to show final frame index for all loaded animations.
- Changed the appearance of the visibility toggle icon.
- Changed the Matl Editor and Preset Editor to use a side panel to select the entry to edit as well as manually reorder entries using drag and drop.
- Moved material deletion to right clicking the selectable material label in the material list panel.
- Changed the Nutexb Viewer to make selecting mipmaps easier.
- Changed the appearance of the layer selector in the Nutexb Viewer to include face names like "X+" or "Z-".
- Changed the Render Settings window to be resizable and support scrolling vertically.
- Adjusted values to be editable in the List view for the Anim Editor.
- Fixed an issue where the Modl Editor and Mesh Editor would not correctly highlight meshes in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where the application would crash immediately when enabling wireframe rendering.
- Fixed an issue where RENORMAL material validation checks did not apply to the appropriate meshes.
- Fixed an issue where models would render with color banding artifacts in the viewport.
- Fixed a regression where the application would crash immediately when entering values in the material editor.
- Added an option to adjust application zoom with Ctrl +/- or Cmd +/-. Reset the zoom with Ctrl + 0 or Cmd + 0.
- Reduced CPU and GPU usage while the application is idle.
- Enabled text wrapping for log messages.
- Adjusted Nutexb Viewer to show the raw image color to make sRGB vs non sRGB formats render consistently.
- Camera animations will now be unloaded when clicking File > Clear Workspace.
- Fixed an issue on Windows where the main window would flash white on startup.
- Fixed an issue where some models would render as black due to incorrectly applying SH ambient lighting.
- Added an option for manually setting the UI scale in preferences to fix scaling issues on some systems.
- Added playback support for lighting animations in the viewport.
- Added playback support for camera animations in the viewport.
- Added validation for mesh vertex weights with zero weight.
- Added an option for overriding the default camera values in Camera Settings.
- Fixed an issue where the animation file name could not be properly edited in the Modl Editor.
- Fixed an issue where clicking Viewport > Reset Camera did not immediately update the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where emission only materials rendered with specular lighting.
- Fixed an issue where fog rendering would darken half the scene with no lighting loaded.
- Save as dialogs in editors default to the currently opened file's folder and file name when saving.
- Added support for stage fog rendering.
- Fixed an issue where the same folder could be loaded multiple times.
- Fixed an issue where UV animations would sometimes be incorrectly flipped.
- Fixed an issue where CustomVector8 alpha did not update properly in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where the application would log an error if the user presets.json file was missing.
- Fixed an issue where bone names would render on top of editor windows and menus.
- Fixed an issue where CustomFloat19 did not render properly for models like Olimar's helmet.
- Fixed an issue where some anim files would not read or save with correct scaling information.
- Added shader information for shadows and lighting to the Matl Editor.
- Added a Device Info window for showing information about the GPU currently used by SSBH Editor.
- Added default material presets with more consistent naming and additional alpha options.
- These presets are always available and not editable.
- Existing material presets are still editable as before from the Preset Editor.
- Added an option to create a new material in the Preset Editor.
- Screenshots save with transparent backgrounds when using supported formats like PNG.
- Increased width of UI elements in Skel Editor to avoid cutting off long bone names.
- Changed the Skel Editor modes to use tabs to be consistent with other editors.
- Modified preset loading behavior to not create a default presets.json file if not necessary.
- Select either Default or User tabs when applying a material preset in the Matl Editor.
- Replaced Albedo debug mode with Unlit mode that shows texture and material coloring without lighting or vertex colors.
- Fixed an issue where materials did not update properly in the viewport when using Matl Editor menu options.
- Fixed an issue where the floor grid would occasionally have white artifacts at the horizon.
- Fixed an issue where alpha sample to coverage did not render properly on the Metal API for MacOS.
- Fixed an issue where loading scenes with lots of materials would create too many samplers for some GPU drivers.
- Fixed a regression causing crashes when loading some large mesh files.
- Added experimental swing collision shape rendering. After adding the animation folder, assign the swing.prc and toggle visibility in the Swing tab.
- Added validation for vertex weights being normalized.
- Added support for loading folders by dragging and dropping files or folders onto the application.
- Added a list view tab to the Anim Editor for showing animation track values.
- Added validation for premultiplied shaders with a Source Color of SourceAlpha.
- Adjusted the behavior of adding folders and reloading folders to preserve toggled model and mesh visibility.
- Adjusted the behavior of reloading folders to reapply assigned animations.
- Added a tooltip explaining why editing of some Vector4 components is disabled when unused by the shader.
- Adjusted the MeshEx Editor to highlight the selected mesh in the viewport on hover.
- Fixed an issue causing the MeshEx Editor to not track changes or update properly in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where skeletal animations would not reset properly when removing all animation slots.
- Fixed flickering due to Z-fighting on double sided meshes when using debug shading modes.
- Fixed an issue where the Matl Editor would sometimes disable editing for too many Vector4 components.
- Added an option to Render Settings to toggle an infinite floor grid in the viewport.
- Added the ability to reorder entries in the Skel Editor, Mesh Editor, and Modl Editor using drag and drop.
- Adjusted the new release window to display the changelog for the newer releases.
- Adjusted the files list to show dedicated icons for different file formats.
- Fixed a crash when enabling Draw Bone Axes in Render Settings.
- Fixed an issue where hovering over an entry in the Modl Editor would sometimes outline the wrong mesh in the viewport.
- Added an option to add missing model.numshexb or model.adjb file by right clicking a folder.
- Added an option to quickly reset the camera under Viewport > Reset Camera.
- Added a heuristic for determining if a shader uses premultiplied alpha to the Matl Editor and viewport rendering.
- Improved tooltips for multiple editors and windows.
- Adjusted applying a material preset to preserve sampler values when possible.
- Modified the Modl Editor to outline the selected mesh in the viewport.
- Improved rendering of spritesheet animations.
- Fixed an issue where some compressed UV transform animations failed to parse correctly.
- Fixed the graph not showing all UV transform fields in the Anim Editor
- Added an option to open or add recently opened folders under File > Open Recent Folder and File > Add Recent Folder to Workspace.
- Added an option in Matl Editor to delete materials unused by model.numdlb.
- Added a visual indication in the files list for files with unsaved changes.
- Added an option to hide or show all meshes in the viewport under the Meshes menu.
- Added a toggle for scaling vertex colors by their scale value like 2.0 for colorSet1.
- Added the ShaderComplexity debug mode for viewing estimated performance costs of materials.
- Added an option to change the preferred GPU backend from preferences or the
--backendcommandline flag. - Added an option to edit model file names to the Modl Editor.
- Modified the Camera Settings window to use degrees instead of radians for FOV.
- Improved tooltips for various editors.
- Reworked the Mesh Editor to be more compact and outline the selected mesh in the viewport.
- Reworked the Modl editor layout.
- Adjusted tooltips to only display when the mouse is not moving.
- Adjusted formatting of displayed keyboard shortcuts on menu buttons.
- Improved accuracy for animation scaling.
- Removed the incorrectly named inherit_scale field from the Anim Editor.
- Fixed an issue where the application would perform unecessary work while the Hlpb Editor is open.
- Fixed an issue assigning mesh objects with repeated names in the Modl Editor in advanced mode.
- Fixed an issue where colorSet5 texture blending didn't work properly on some stages.
- Fixed an issue where applying a material preset would not update immmediately in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue reading some custom anim files with uniform scaling.
- Added an option to add and delete constraints to the Hlpb Editor
- Added validation for model.numdlb entries.
- Add basic support for rendering animations to a GIF or image sequence.
- Improved alignment and consistenty of UI elements.
- Show a warning icon if a nutexb thumbnail fails to load.
- Adjusted disabled parameters in the Matl Editor to indicate on hover that the parameter is unused.
- Improved the display of validation errors to appear next to the effected entry or field for better readability.
- Reduced the strictness of the check for UV wrapping to avoid false positives for cases like eye textures.
- Adjusted the texture selector to prevent assigning cube maps to 2D textures and 2D textures to cube maps.
- Improved logging when importing XML material presets missing a MaterialLibrary node.
- Fixed an issue where the viewport failed to update after deleting materials.
- Fixed an issue where the current frame would be set to NaN when playing empty animations.
- Fixed an issue where animations could be assigned to the wrong model and fail to play in the viewport.
- Added rendering support for CustomVector34.
- Added rendering support for CustomVector47.
- Added validation for invalid material shader labels.
- Added support for editing depth bias to the Matl Editor.
- Added an option to remove a loaded folder in the file list by right clicking and clicking remove.
- Added screenshot saving support to Viewport > Save Screenshot.
- Moved validation warning icons to the file button itself to always show thumbnails.
- Improved default values when adding missing required parameters in the Matl Editor.
- Improved material parameter descriptions for the Matl Editor.
- Changed vector component descriptions in the Matl Editor to display on hover instead of requiring advanced mode.
- Adjusted animation looping to apply individually to each animation.
- Fixed an issue where adding missing color sets in the mesh editor would add each attribute twice.
- Fixed an issue where bone axes failed to render in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where shader and mesh attribute errors didn't update in the viewport properly.
- Fixed an issue where opening a folder didn't take into account the hide expressions setting.
- Fixed an issue where the material selector layout would break on some numatb files.
- Added a viewport background color option to preferences.
- Added a reset button to preferences.
- Added validation for not using the Repeat wrap mode when UVs are outside the 0.0 to 1.0 range.
- Added vertex skinning and mesh parenting toggles to render settings to help debug animation related issues.
- Added an option to load an entire render folder to the Stage Lighting window with File > Load Render Folder.
- Improved performance when adding new folders to an existing workspace.
- Adjusted validation error messages for clarity and conciseness.
- Changed the Matl Editor layout to always show all parameters even without advanced settings checked.
- Removed unused SHCP information from Stage Lighting window.
- Fixed an issue where canceling a folder dialog would clear the existing files.
- Fixed an issue where the Lighting Window reset button didn't work properly.
- Fixed an issue where loading lighting files would create errors about loading empty paths.
- Fixed inconsistencies in sorting for opening folders vs reloading the workspace.
- Fixed an issue where resaving a skeleton would incorrectly transpose the transforms.
- Added a graph viewer tab to the anim editor for graphing animated values over time
- Added a field of view (fov) option to the Camera Settings window.
- Added an option to match order from a numshb file in the Mesh Editor.
- Added options to manually reorder bones or match a reference nusktb in the Skel Editor.
- Added a window for viewing and editing vertex attributes to the Mesh Editor.
- Added remaining fields to the Hlpb Editor.
- Added validation errors for duplicate mesh subindices, which can lead to incorrect skin weights in game.
- Added validation errors for numshb files for missing required attributes.
- Added validation for model.adjb file entries.
- Added lighting window to Menu > Stage Lighting for loading files in the viewport for lighting, luts, and cube maps.
- Added the MeshEx Editor for editing model.numshexb files.
- Added an option to automatically hide expressions to application preferences.
- Added an option to generated missing model.adjb entries in the Adj Editor.
- Added an option to display bones in a hierarchy tree in the Skel Editor.
- Added controls to the animation bar to control playback speed and looping.
- Changed RGBA channel toggles to use toggle buttons to be more compact than checkboxes.
- Adjusted the layout of the Hlpb Editor to be more compact.
- Improved UI layout and consistency.
- Adjusted loading a model folder to automatically load model.nuanmb animations.
- Adjusted the material selector to show an error icon next to materials with errors.
- Fixed an issue where hiding a model folder had no effect when using debug shading.
- Fixed an issue changing the unk type for orient constraints in the Hlpb Editor.
- Fixed an issue where saving a numshb file would sometimes result in incorrect vertex skinning in game.
- Fixed scaling of invalid attributes and invalid shader checkerboards for high resolution screens.
- Fixed an issue where a bone could be parented to itself in the Skel Editor, causing errors when saving.
- Added an Anim Editor for editing track flags.
- Improved application framerate and responsiveness. These changes mostly benefit devices with integrated graphics.
- Disabled editing Vector4 components in the Matl Editor that are not used by the shader.
- Improved rendering accuracy for specular and anisotropic specular.
- Fixed the scrollbar not appearing in the Preset Editor window
- Fixed default stage lighting values causing rim lighting to be disabled.
- Fixed a crash when opening a new folder with the Matl Editor open.
- Fixed a crash when resizing the window to be as small as possible.
- Fixed a rendering issue where CustomBoolean4 failed to toggle indirect specular in the viewport.
- Fixed an issue where some materials would incorrectly render as having specular lighting.
- Fixed an issue where validation errors failed to update when opening folders or reloading the workspace.
- Added wireframe rendering to debug shading.
- Added bone axes rendering for showing accumulated bone world orientations.
- Show the effected meshes in the viewport when hovering over a material in the material selector.
- Added additional fields to Hlpb Editor
- Available animations are grouped by folder in decreasing order of affinity with the model folder. This allows assigning animations from any folder.
- File > Save in editors overwrites the original file. Use File > Save As to save to a new location.
- Improved accuracy of nuhlpb rendering for orient constraints.
- Fixed various issues with the slider control such as clicking updating the value.
- Fixed the #replace_cubemap texture having no thumbnail in the material editor.
- Removed the system console on Windows.
- Added the ability to add the current material as a preset from the Matl Editor.
- Added the Material Presets Editor to Menu > Material presets based on the Matl Editor UI.
- Added adjb files to the files list.
- Added the Adj Editor for editing model.adjb files.
- Added validation errors related to adjb files and RENORMAL materials.
- Added a light mode theme.
- Added the ability to duplicate materials in the Matl Editor.
- Added a camera settings menu.
- Added an application icon.
- Added links to the Github wiki for editor menus.
- Added missing parameters when editing samplers in the Matl Editor.
- Added a link to the material parameter reference to the Matl Editor.
- Added a UV test pattern option for UV debug modes to better show texture orientations.
- Added a preferences window for selecting light or dark mode.
- Added the ability to import material presets exported from ssbh_data_json, Cross Mod, or MatLab.
- Added an option to remove duplicate materials to the Matl Editor and Preset Editor.
- Improved layout of validation error messages when hovering over a file.
- Errors when loading or saving the presets.json file show in the application log.
- Adjusted the layout of the material editor to be more consistent.
- Changed the material preset selector to not be resizable to avoid text wrapping.
- Selected meshes and models in the mesh list render an outline on hover.
- Changed the widget for editing float values to more clearly indicate the value and be easier to use.
- Adjusted the UI for improved layout consistency.
- Changed the Vector4 labels in the Matl Editor to be more descriptive in normal and advanced mode.
- Adjusted keyboard shortcuts on MacOS to use the command key instead of ctrl.
- Always show the render pass selector in the Matl Editor.
- Wrap coordinate values outside the 0.0 to 1.0 range for UV debug modes similar to a repeat wrap mode.
- Animations are automatically associated with individual model folders and assignable from the Animations tab instead of the Files list.
- Models will show up in debug shading modes or selected outlines even if no material is properly assigned.
- Moved material presets and application settings to an application data directory. See the README for details.
- Added vertex color, nor channels, and prm channels to render settings.
- Added the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+O for adding a folder to the workspace.
- Added support for cube maps and 3d textures to thumbnails and the Nutexb Viewer.
- Added the ability to edit the billboard type to the skel editor.
- Added a validation check for invalid nutexb texture formats such as a nor texture using Bc7Srgb instead of Bc7Unorm.
- Added the ability to hide fighter expressions with Meshes > Hide Expressions.
- Added an option to hide the UI panels.
- Changed the meshes list to better show that meshes are hidden when the parent folder is hidden.
- Adjusted the file list to show a warning icon for files with validation errors instead of only in the editors.
- Modified the behavior of open folder to open folders without model files and not skip animation or texture folders.
- Reduced GPU usage while the application is minimized.
- Fixed a rare crash when opening Nutexb files with invalid dimensions.
- Fixed inaccurate UVs when rendering models with sprite sheet params.
- Fixed an issue where all materials had alpha testing disabled in the viewport and matl editor.
- Fixed rendered colors for the texture "/common/shader/sfxpbs/default_diffuse2".
- Fixed an issue where some emissive materials would incorrectly render as having specular shading.
- Fixed a crash when minimizing the window.
- Added skeleton and bone name rendering to render settings.
- Added basic, normals, bitangents, and albedo debug shading modes.
- Added a nutexb viewer for viewing textures.
- Changed the material shader label to always be editable.
- Simplified the process for renaming materials.
- Fixed scaling of red and yellow checkerboard rendering.
- Fixed col texture blending causing incorrect albedo color on some models.
- Fixed inaccurate blending of alpha for transparent materials.
- Fixed an issue where files that failed to open displayed as missing.
- Added an option to reload files in the current workspace.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for open folder and reload workspace.
- Added the ability to hide entire folders in the mesh panel.
- Added an indication for which values are modified by an animation in the animation panel.
- Added error descriptions for missing mesh attributes to the material editor.
- Added support for saving files in the mesh editor.
- Added color channel toggles to render settings.
- Added a help menu to link to resources on GitHub.
- Added an application log menu to show program and file errors.
- Adjusted UI elements and spacing and improved the editor UI.
- Adjusted panning and zooming speed to scale correctly with the current zoom level.
- Modified CustomVector0 in the provided presets to always allow texture alpha.
- Changed the application font for better readability and language support.
- Adjusted folder names to no longer show suffixes like "c00.0".
- Fixed the current frame text box resizing during animation playback.
- Fixed display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in text.
- Fixed a potential crash when opening and animating models with bone cycles.
- Fixed a potential crash when animating models with invalid nuhlpb entries.
- Fixed an issue where rendering nuhlpb constraints would lead to incorrect bone orientations.
- Fixed an issue where stage ink meshes would incorrectly show a yellow checkerboard error.
- Fixed consistency of the viewport background color.
- Improved rendering of glass materials for better rendering accuracy.
- Fixed check for new updates.
- Material presets can be applied from the matl editor. Add and edit presets in the
presets.jsonfile. - Added the ability to delete and rename materials in the matl editor.
- Added application logging for warnings and errors.
- Increased font contrast for improved readability.
- UI adjustments for improved usability.
- Fixed menus not closing properly when clicking a menu item.
- Fixed a potential crash if a file has errors on saving.
- Fixed "Add Folder to Workspace..." not updating the viewport models.
First public release!