Korman 0.06 Released!
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:50 pm
... One year later, a marauding Korman 0.06 has appeared! Korman 0.06 represents 126 commits and approximately 4,600 lines of code changed from the previous version. Please note that this version of Korman requires Blender 2.79 to function--also files saved with Korman 0.06 should not be opened with versions of Blender lower than 2.79, even if Korman is deactivated. There are loads of amazing new features and fixes available in this release. The two major new additions are the ability to generate Ladders from a template by using the new Add > Plasma > Ladder operator. Additionally, fields that required you to select reference objects will now only list valid objects as suggestions . Furthermore, the Korman installer now supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Blender 2.79, and it will automatically select any appropriate Blender that it finds installed. If you have an older version of Blender installed, be aware that the installer does not know that the minimum version is 2.79!
Changes in this release:
Please remember that Korman is still in beta (that's why the first number in the version is a zero)--don't shoot if there are bugs! In particular, I would be wary about utilizing the ability to set the gravity in a subworld. The gravity setting does different things on different engines and may not necessarily work the way you think it should
Changes in this release:
- Added the Journal modifier
- Added the Ladder generator and Ladder modifier
- Added the Subworld modifiers
- Added the Swim Surface modifier (swim regions)
- Added support for 64-bit Blender builds to the installer
- Added support for emissive materials
- Added support for normal maps
- Added support for specular materials
- Fixed an issue in which animated lights could crash Uru: Path of the Shell
- Fixed an issue in which animations with unused axes could crash the exporter
- Fixed an issue in which certain opaque materials would not block line-of-sight
- Fixed an issue in which environment map reflections could be wrong
- Fixed an issue in which Exclude Regions could not function as intended in Uru: Path of the Shell
- Fixed an issue in which detail blending could fail to function as intended
- Fixed an issue in which invalid nodes in a Plasma node tree could crash the exporter
- Fixed an issue in which lightmaps could overwrite user textures
- Fixed an issue in which setting the opacity of a texture could cause the texture to be always transparent
- Fixed an issue in which the environment map color could not be set
- Fixed an issue in which the installer could not locate recent versions of Blender
- Fixed an issue in which the Opacity Fader modifier could not function as intended
- Fixed an issue in which WAV sounds could crash the exporter
- Fixed several issues in which procedural modifiers would not be handled correctly by the exporter
- Fixed several issues in which Python nodes could fail to function as intended
- Improved convex hull collision generation
- Improved fields that require other objects to be specified
- Improved the display of Python node attribute values
- Improved the exporter to show progress during the export process
- Improved the Plasma Toolbox utilities for working with Plasma Objects
Please remember that Korman is still in beta (that's why the first number in the version is a zero)--don't shoot if there are bugs! In particular, I would be wary about utilizing the ability to set the gravity in a subworld. The gravity setting does different things on different engines and may not necessarily work the way you think it should