Cubik Studio

Version 2.9 is now available for download!
It is adding MANY new (small and big) features and fix several annoying bugs...
The new features you should not miss are the support for inverted elements, the easier UV editor, the customizable keys for several commands, the Schematic exporter, the possiblity to drag&drop a file directly in Cubik window to open it (on Windows), the support of DDS and TGA files for textures and a better Cubik file browser! Be sure to check all of that!

We sincerely hope this new version will please you and be sure that we'll continue to improve the software.

New features and improvements:

• Added "Invert Normals" option to element settings
• Added new "Inflate" function for elements
• New element now uses first available texture instead of using "texture" which can be missing
• Disable views rendering while converting voxels to elements and while optimizing elements (to boost process speed)
• New "Move to top" and "Move to bottom" options in elements list and meshes list
• Keyboard arrows can now move UV on UV editor
• Voxel selection is now refreshed after the use of a tool, improving all voxel tools
• Faster and more accurate line tool on textures and on voxels
• Added line thickness for pixels and voxels line tool
• Increased maximum texture size to graphic card max texture size / 2 with minimum 512
• Improved color selection and color palette sync
• New function "Remove alpha" for Mesh texture menu
• Primitives are now using same material and shaders as elements (so meshes can be exact same colors as elements)
• Skin preview is now using same material and shaders as elements
• Picture Importer now supports DDS format
• Picture Importer now supports TGA format (truecolor only, both RLE and RAW)
• Improved PNG Import dialog
• Implemented a preview panel to Cubik Browser
• Cameras are now saved in .cubik format + Fixed bug with grid settings not loaded from .cubik format
• Implemented shortcuts for paths in Cubik filebrowser (%minecraft%, %staxel%, %stonehearth%, %steam%, %backup%, %app%, %data%, %desktop%, %appdata% and more...)
• Added "Include elements name" option to Minecraft format
• Added Schematic Exporter
• File > Save menu now acts exactly like Save as if never saved before
• Minecraft JSON format supports inverted elements
• Fixed .java format
• Exported PNG now fully support transparency (and are faster to render)
• Implemented drag&drop of file in Cubik Studio window (Windows only)
• Added option "Large" to grid settings, so the grid is nearly infinite
• Added option to toggle background size
• New menu item "Browse last save/export Folder" in "Tools" menu
• Left Shift and left Ctrl are now behaving exactly like right Shift and right Ctrl!!!
• Rotate mode is now set by default to key 1 and Scale mode is now set to key 2
• New options in advanced preferences to customize keys for Scale, Rotate, Clone, Pan, Focus
• Added new Minecraft model type "Map" (used by schematic importer and exporter)
• Numeric input fields are now scrollable to increment/decrement value
• Force save logs in case of error/assert/exception
• Open folder where logs file is only one time in case of error/assert/exception
• Added logs for OS, CPU, RAM, VRAM, Shaders Model, Max texture size
• Improved InputField UI component
• Expandable Model Properties dialog
• Simplified options text of Voxel setup dialog
• Simplified text for grid settings dialog
• Removed bdcraft email from Cubik error messages (forum url is visible instead)
• Modified some error messages to be more understandable (hopefully)
• Better formatted debug logs

Bugs:

• Fixed bug with texture edited externally
• Fixed bug with decimals when exporting Minecraft .json format
• Fixed crash of Cubik FileBrowser on some systems (because of a bug in DateTime class port to Mono), that crash prevented the file browser window to be closed
• Fixed bug with Cubik filebrowser when displaying root/logical drives
• Fixed Bug: Maximizing a view then going to Preview breaks the views
• Fixed bug with "Avoid bleeding textures" option in model properties
• Fixed bug with window moved outside of visible screen (because of bad value for windowX or windowY)
• Fixed bug with broke F2 shortcut (Rename selection) introduced in 2.8
• Fixed bug with delete function in Elements or Meshes lists
• Fixed bug while extruding PNG with optimized elements
• Fixed bug with "Enable Symmetry" menu which didn't work
• Fixed bug of "Customize textures" dialog which was added to history even when cancelled
• Fixed bug with partly hidden popmenu on Hidpi screens
• Fixed bug after deleting an element, preventing to select new elements in views
• Fixed several errors with elements list functions
• Fixed UV of inverted element
• Fixed bug with importable files format directly opened with Cubik which was displaying registration dialog
• Fixed bug with inverted down face
• Fixed bug with bad undo/redo wrongly added to history
• Fixed display bug with multiline input filed

How to rotate elements in the new version?

How can you select multiple elements in the newest version? Previously you could draw a selection box with RightControl, can't figure out how to do it anymore and can't find anything in the preferences either.


@floriskn I had the same problem but figured it out. For some reason all the custom keys were reset/changed to something else, you need to set the rotate mode key again in preferences->advanced.

tutorials-f4/how-to-set-the-customizabl ... t1496.html

floriskn wrote: 25 Feb 2018, 18:31 How to rotate elements in the new version?

Keys have changed to [1] (alpha or numpad) for rotate and [2] for scale. You can change that to any key you want (even previous keys). Read the short tutorial on the subject: tutorials-f4/how-to-set-the-customizabl ... t1496.html

McMakistein wrote: 25 Feb 2018, 23:30 How can you select multiple elements in the newest version? Previously you could draw a selection box with RightControl, can't figure out how to do it anymore and can't find anything in the preferences either.

To select multiple elements with a selection rectangle, just use Shift + left click
To select multiple elements one by one, use Control

will there be an option in the future to have damage detection when exported with a command ?
please it will make it way easier to create "infinite" textures/models in minecraft thanks - cool_monsters

How do you move the rotate point of a cube?

The rotating mod hotkey change made me unused

Windows 7
convert voxel to elements
program show black screen and displays the text in a place where he points the mouse and does not hide