v1.7.1

What's Changed

• Add maven-publish plugin to gradle.build file to fix jitpack.io artefacts.

What's new

v1.7.0

What's Changed

• Don't send empty mesh objects to Bullet
• Add Getter in PhysicsChunkPagerState
• Update version of Caffeine to 2.8.8
• Add extra null checks in Chunk class

What's new

• Make default blocks registration optional by @Ali-RS in #62
• Precompute the Quaternions by @vxel in #64
• New Cylinder shape with customizable radialSamples, top and bottom radius

Full Changelog: v1.6.4...v1.7.0

Blocks v1.6.4

Bug fixes:

• Add an extra check in PhysicsChunkPager to not generate a collision mesh for empty meshes.

Blocks v1.6.3

What's new:

• upgrade Minie to version 3.0

Blocks v1.6.2

Bug fixes:

• Changed the scope of the faceVisibleFunction to static on the Chunk class. See this forum post for more information.

Blocks v1.6.1

Bug fixes:

• ShapeRegistry and TypeRegistry don't update in FacesMeshGenerator when setting them in BlocksConfig. See #54

Blocks v1.6.0

❗ The changes in v1.6 are not backwards compatible with previous versions of Blocks!

What's new:

• upgrade Minie to version 1.7
• adapted the center point of all block shapes to rotate them in all possible directions
• moved all shapes to a dedicated package
• add square cuboid shape
• add multipass shader for the fluid material
• created new standard in block naming
• add a sky to the examples
• add a new material type that supports an overlay color
• add a BlockFactory to create blocks from a block definition or block definition file
• add #load() method in BlockRegistry to register block(s) from file
• removed deprecated Chunk#clean(), ChunkCache#getChunk(), ChunkResolver#getChunk() methods
• changed the values of the Direction enum to use less ambiguous values (eg. NORTH instead of BACK, EAST instead of RIGHT, ...)
• add a utility method in the Chunk class to check if a chunk contains a block at a location
• add a ChunkManager#setChunk() utility method to have the ChunkManager manage a chunk
• add a ChunkManager#getBlockCenterLocation() utility method to get the center of a block
• make Sim-Math library visible to applications using Blocks
• Change the visibility of the TypeRegistry#combineTextures() method to public
• add leaves blocks

Blocks v1.6.0-alpha

❗ The changes in v1.6 are major an not backwards compatible with previous versions of Blocks!

What's new:

• upgrade Minie to version 1.7
• adapted the center point of all block shapes to rotate them in all possible directions
• moved all shapes to a dedicated package
• add square cuboid shape
• add multipass shader for the fluid material
• created new standard in block naming
• add a sky to the examples
• add a new material type that supports an overlay color
• add a BlockFactory to create blocks from a block definition or block definition file
• add #load() method in BlockRegistry to register block(s) from file
• removed deprecated Chunk#clean(), ChunkCache#getChunk(), ChunkResolver#getChunk() methods
• changed the values of the Direction enum to use less ambiguous values (eg. NORTH instead of BACK, EAST instead of RIGHT, ...)
• add a utility method in the Chunk class to check if a chunk contains a block at a location
• add a ChunkManager#setChunk() utility method to have the ChunkManager manage a chunk
• add a ChunkManager#getBlockCenterLocation() utility method to get the center of a block
• make Sim-Math library visible to applications using Blocks
• Change the visibility of the TypeRegistry#combineTextures() method to public
• add leaves blocks

Blocks v1.5.1

What's new:

• add constructor in Chunk class. See #48

Bug fixes:

• fix compatibility issue with JDK9<. See #49

Blocks v1.5.0

What's new:

• upgraded Minie to v1.6
• use vertex lighting in default block materials
• updated Fluid-pbr material
• added Fluid material
• removed deprecated water materials, the Fluid and Fluid-pbr materials should be used instead
• changed the default colors of the water block
• added a FluidDepthFilter and test application
• add unittests for BlockRegistry, TypeRegistry and ShapeRegistry

Bug fixes:

• fallback to loading the material file in the default theme, when a material file is not found in the current theme.