Alpha 5.3

Alpha 5.3

• Added Blender 2.79/2.8/2.9 blender plugin:
• Bugfixes

Installing the Blender plugin:

1. Ctrl + Alt + U > Add-ons > Install (from file)
2. Select riistudio_blender.py
3. Once enabled, open the add-on options and set RiiStudio Directory to the folder with RiiStudio.exe in it

Special thanks to BillyNoodles for updating the plugin to work in Blender 2.8.

Alpha 5.2

Alpha 5.2

UI

• Material: Added Displacement Mapping UI

Importer

• Automatically search for .png images in the same directory as the .dae/.fbx

Renderer

• Performance optimizations
• Support previewing materials switching XLU/OPA without reloading model

Misc bugfixes and performance enhancements. Written BMD files may be about 32-64 bytes smaller now.

Alpha 5.1 (Hotfix 2)

Alpha 5.1 (Hotfix 2)

Importer

• Importer: Warn when a texture is not a power of two.
• Importer: Default texture is a checkerboard again

Misc

• BRRES: Fixed writing issues
• Core: Keep the crash report open rather than instantly closing

UI

• Material name was sometimes displayed as "TODO"
• Fixed the cross icon to be an X not a religious symbol
• Sampler: "Transform Model" now restricted to valid selections

Alpha 5.1 (Hotfix 1)

Alpha 5.1

UI

• Right Click > Open With > RiiStudio.exe is now supported
• Automatically unhide cursor when alt-tabbing.
• Fix certain textures appearing black

BRRES

• Fixed issues with imported files being opened with noclip.
• Fix rotations being interpreted as radians rather than degrees.

Renderer

• Made preview of texture scale/rotate/translate options 100% accurate.
• Fixed rendering accuracy of self-occluding translucent meshes.

Many performance and stability enhancements. RAM usage should be considerably lower on files with a long undo history.

Alpha 5.1

Alpha 5.1

UI

• Right Click > Open With > RiiStudio.exe is now supported

BRRES

• Fixed issues with imported files being opened with noclip.
• Fix rotations being interpreted as radians rather than degrees.

Renderer

• Made preview of texture scale/rotate/translate options 100% accurate.

Many performance and stability enhancements. RAM usage should be considerably lower on files with a long undo history.

Alpha 5.0

Alpha 5.0

Updater

The updater automatically checks the Github releases page.

Model Importer

• Automatically configure vertex alpha materials.
• A "model tint" can be configured. This uniformly tints all vertex colors to that color.
• Ability to exclude specific data (like vertex colors).
• Many stability improvements

BRRES

• Fixed bone flags being calculated incorrectly.
• Fixed misc bugs in editing color channels.

BMD

• Fixed reading vertex colors with formats RGBA4, RGBA6 and RGB565.
• Misc bugfixes

UI

• Windows: Added an application icon
• Scroll wheel adjusts mouse speed
• Hide mouse cursor in the viewport
• Pixel: Fixed "Custom" preset sticking
• Stages: Fixed dropdown sticking in "Constant" and not switching back to Uniform

Misc

• Added support for editing posteffect.bfg files.
  • They control fog in Mario Kart Wii.
• Rewrote texture encoders from scratch.
  • Grayscale encoders now use a smarter (luminosity) function to reduce RGB to an intensity based on the human eye.
    We perceive green about 4x stronger than red, and about 2x stronger than blue.
• UI: Right Click -> Add New
• UI/Mesh: Display negative numbers properly
• UI: Fixed resizing mipmaps
• UI: Don't allow windows to be closed
• UI: Only allow moving windows by dragging the title bar
• Many other bugfixes and improvements

Alpha 4.0

Alpha 4.0

Improved the transparency UI: quickly switch between configurations (No more "128, GreaterOrEqual, etc")

• Opaque - Material has no transparency. Standard setting.
• Stencil Alpha - Transparent pixels are either invisible or opaque. Good for fences and other cut-outs.
• Translucent - Total control over alpha. Good for tinted glass and textures you can see through.

Automated merge process. Materials from the old model will not be overwritten. Right click > replace a model file.

• New materials will still be created if necessary
• This is an experimental feature. Let me know if you come across any bugs

Specific mip map levels can be exported.

• Importing mip-maps is currently windows-only.

If you forget to add some textures, a default texture will be used

Misc

• An (X) will appear on sampler tabs now. Closing it will delete the sampler. Shaders will be automatically corrected
• Support reading little endian BMD/BDL (will be saved as big endian)
• Various stability improvements and bugfixes

Alpha 3.0

Available at https://riidefi.github.io/RiiStudio/

Importing

• DAE, FBX and OBJ files can be imported as either BMD or BRRES models. Simply drag one onto the window.
• Transparent textures are automatically configured.
• High-quality mipmaps are automatically generated.
• Various optimizations: Duplicate material merging, bone collapsing, automatic correction of flipped normals.

File Formats

• Experimental support for BRRES saving.
  • Files with more than one bone cannot be saved, yet. (That means no models imported with BrawlBox)
  • If you encounter any issues, let me know. I'm working on a comprehensive test suite. Ideally, the tool will be able to rebuild every Nintendo file we have with 1:1 accuracy.
• KMP files can be read and rebuilt. Editing is only proof-of-concept. Code for U8 and SZS have been added, although they are not hooked up to the frontend yet.

UI

• TEV stages can now be removed by closing their respective tabs.
• Importer warnings are now displayed to the user.
• Various usability improvements to Headers mode in the Property Editor.
• Before, using a slider would pollute the history list with intermediate states. Now, history entries are only recorded when the mouse button is released.
• Pressing CTRL in the viewport previously locked the mouse in a hidden state. This was confusing, so it was removed.
• Improved selection logic to be more standard. Before, selection was local to each folder. Now, only one selection may exist in an editor; selecting a texture while a material is already selected will clear the prior selection.
• Changed the default theme
• Embedded the theme editor in the main toolbar

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where altering the the Alpha Comparison settings in a material would not update the preview.
• Fixed a bug where unused mip levels would not be read.
• Fixed a crash when models used two vertex color channels.
• Fixed a bug where updating N materials caused N^2 shader recompilations.
• Various stability and performance improvements