2.7.2

2023-04-21

• fix trim/atlas gizmos being drawn as ellipses in Blender 3.5
• fix decal orientation when placed on non-uniformly scaled object

2.7.1

2022-12-30

• fix issues introduced by 3.4's new MIX node
  • update SetupSubsets op (for trimsheet materials)
  • update decal to trimsheet material matching
  • fix related BakePreview exception

2.7

2022-11-25

• raise minimum version to Blender 3.3 LTS
• Adjust tool
  • fix panel trim decals created from Info Trim Sheets not being accessible for Panel Cycling via Adjust
• Decal Creation
  • optionally create float (16bit) normal maps
  • it's experimental, enable it in addon preferences > Decal Creation tab
  • NOTE: Atlases created from there will still only use 8-bit normals
• tweak decal library layout in Pie menu, adjusting the icon width accordingly (proxeIO)

2.6.5

2022-08-06

• fix modal HUDs being drawing off-screen in Blender 3.2.2

2.6.4

2022-06-08

• fix material matching in Blender 3.2

2.6.3

2022-04-30

• fix rare issue with sluggishness of addon preferences caused by legacy library check
• add thank you note to addon preferences

2.6.2

2022-04-24

• fix MacOS issue when registering Atlases caused by .DS_store files
• a few small tweaks and fixes

2.6.1

2022-03-15

• fix atlas creation in Blender 3.1
• fix decal-from-text creation in Blender 3.1

2.6

2022-03-09

• support Blender 3.1
• further harden asset registration by introducing concept of corrupted libraries
  • corrupted libraries are libraries containing non-decal folders
  • prevent registering and updating them
  • GetSupport tool
    • indicate if a library is corrupted
• Project
  • fix issues when target object scaled up a lot due to surface distances being returned in the object's local space
• update PIL/pillow to 9.0.1

2.5.1

2021-12-18

• fix Bake Preview in Blender 3.0
• fix adding Decal to existing Atlas in Blender 3.0
• fix issues relating to Blender 3.0's change in keymap property representation
• fix issues relating to Blender 3.0's None type material previews
• fix visual bug due to missing AO clamping in Decal Node Group
  • update supplied assets accordingly
  • update Templates so newly created Decals are fixed
  • add Fix AO Clamping debug tool, to update existing users assets

2.5

2021-11-25

• support Blender 3.0
• in Blender 3.0, introduce Decal and Trim Sheet Asset Update
  • add Update21DecalLibrary tool
  • add Update21BlenderFile tool
  • update BatchUpdate tool
• update Validate tool
• further harden asset registration
  • add additional system console output, if assets fail to register
• make Decal and Trim Sheet material deduplication more efficient, improving scene load/update performance
• properly deduplicate Trim Sheet materials, when initiating them on meshes without existing materials
• improve MyDecals library collision handling when changing assetspath
• improve RemoveOrphans tool
• improve GetSupport tool
• addon preferences
  • add option for legacy line smoothing
  • add warnings in addon prefs, if assets fail to register
• remove legacy code for Blender pre-2.93
• drop bgl module use for view3d drawing (except for legacy line smoothing)

2.4.1

2021-09-10

• TrimCut
  • adapt to 2.93.4 knife project breaking change
• PIL Installation
  • raise PIL version to 8.3.1
    • on some macos versions 8.1.0 just wouldn't install due to missing libjpeg dependency
  • install wheel before installing pillow
• fix issues on some linux systems

2.4

2021-07-24

• bump minimum blender version to 2.93 (LTS)
  • can be seen as suggestion for now, 2.83+ is still good, but be prepared to update if any issues arise
  • add version warning to prefs for Blender versions smaller than 2.93
• add Transfer UVs tool (side panel tool)
  • transfer decal parent's UVs to selected decals
  • transfer image textures directly connected to decal parent's Principled BSDF node to selected decals' materials
• Decal Creation
  • support info decal names from file name for info decals created from PNGs
  • support skipping the automatic decal index, that's normally added to the front of the decal name
    • this can then result in two kinds of conflicts
      • without the index, an existing decal folder with the name of the to-be-added decal exist already
      • when adding multiple decals the decal name could be a duplicate and so only the first of the duplicates will be added
    • for both there are warnings in the creation panel
    • and both cases will be skipped by the AddDecalToLibrary tool
      • if any are skipped, there will be a popup message pointing it out
  • support storing specific subset material component in the decal asset blend
  • for Simple, Subset and Panel decals: skip normal flattening if enabled, but object is not smooth shaded
  • ensure user is returned to original scene, when decal creation is finished
• Creation Panel
  • add ability to open selected user-decal(unlocked) lib in the file browser
  • improve dealing with cases where no user-decal libs are present
• Baking
  • ensure user is returned to original scene, when decal creation is finished
• make decal library visibility accessible from the 3D view via the pie menu
  • add 10 customizable visibility presets, see tooltips for details
• support hiding panel decal libraries from the Adjust tool's ability to cycle through individual panel decals
  • by default have "panel scrolling" disabled for the Example Sheet's panel trims
  • support creating panel decals without materials, when all registered panel decals are hidden from "panel scrolling"
• Slice, EPanel + GPanel tools
  • properly name the panel decal object and mesh, even when no decal material can be applied
• make addon and asset registration much more robust
  • allow addon registration without ANY decal and trim sheet libs present
    • users can now manually remove the entire assets path or any of it's subfolders and DM will still come up fine
  • disable assets path reset when user-set external assets path doesn't contain valid libraries as it's no longer required
• Atlasing
  • improve panel decal pre-packing logic
  • fix atlas repack issue, introduced in 2.3
• Adjust tool
  • add setting in addon prefs to require ALT key when adjusting decal height to prevent accidental changes
• GPanel tool
  • fix rare issue with gpencil NaN points
• fix material matching/deduplication to DEFAULTWHITE and DEFAULTMETAL materials
• change default decal height to 0.9998, slightly more surface distance to minimize clipping
• collapse modifiers in all supplied decal assets
• Update18DecalLibrary + Update20DecalLibrary tools
  • improve polling
• replace previous parenting and unparenting logic
• improve some terminal output for Windows users
• rename Init Generated UVs tool to Init Generated Coords

2.3

2021-03-24

• Decal Creation (Advanced)
  • support forced UUIDs for decal creation, allowing for iterative decal creation from geometry where each new decal will use the same UUID that's stored on the active source object
• Atlasing
  • fix unwrapping of trim panel decals when packed in REPEAT mode
• Insert
  • prevent exception when encountering custom, user-added texture in decal asset file (not recommended)
• ReApply
  • fix typo causing rare exception
• fix issue with PIL installation

2.2

2021-02-27

• add SweepDecalBackups tool
  • clean scene from decal backups after appending objects with projected and/or panel decals
• Decal Creation
  • use GPU if that's the render device set in the current scene
  • draw render device indication in panel and print it to the terminal
  • prevent residue LIBRARY_DECALS causing any problems when creating new decals
• Project, Slice, PanelCut tools - use FAST solver in 2.91+
• add basic statusbar info for all modal ops
• PIL
  • support installation on python 3.9.1
  • use version 8.1.0 going forward
  • fix issues with extremely large bakes or atlases
• force-reset assets path after manual installation with external assetspath, if no valid libraries can be found
• fix 2.93 activation issues and layout exceptions due to change in bpy.props representation before registration
• update decal resources
• update license

2.1

2020-11-27

• Decal Assets update to 2.1
  • add emission strength input for decal and trim sheet node groups (including for Blender 2.83 and 2.90)
  • replace Texture Coordinates(UV) node with UVMap node in all parallax node trees
  • add Update20DecalLibrary tool
    • update 2.0.x decal and trim sheet libraries libraries to 2.1
  • update Update18DecalLibrary tool
    • update 1.8-1.9.4 decal libraries to 2.1
  • add BatchUpdate tool
    • update all 1.8-1.9.4 or 2.0.x legacy decal or trim sheet libraries in the assets path in one go
    • directly from the addon prefs, or from the update panel
  • support importing 1.8-1.9.4 or 2.0.x legacy decal or trim sheet libraries
  • add Update20BlendFile tool
    • update blend files containing 2.0.x decals and trim Sheet materials to 2.1
  • update Update18BlendFile tool
    • update blend files containing 1.8 - 1.9.4 decals to 2.1
  • update Decal Example resources to use the new 2.1 decals
  • update Validate tool for legacy decal detection from a 2.1 perspective
  • improve process of assets path change, including renaming the legacy MyDecals library
• expose trim uv layer (Trim Unwrap) and secondary uv layer (Box Unwrap) to addon preferences
• explicitly use 'Atlas UVs' UV layer for atlased decals
• adapt to 2.91 API changes
• prevent crash when undoing after adding a decal to a scene from the asset loaders
• prevent potential high resolution bake issues due to default PIL.Image.MAX_IMAGE_SIZE being too small
• prevent importing Atlases as Decal/Trim Sheet libraries
• fix noise in Example Sheet's normal map, causing minor distortions on highly reflective trim sheet materials
• remove Update14DecalLibrary tool
• clarify license

2.0.1

2020-10-16

• Project
  • UV transfer - match UV layers by order, not name, to prevent issues in non-english Blender versions
• Info Decal Creation (from Images and Fonts)
  • prevent decal UV layer names other than 'UVMap' in non-english Blender versions
• Update18DecalLibrary
  • fix exception when updating decals, that don't use an index
• Trim Sheet Creation Panel
  • tweak layout to show Trim Sheet Textures section also when in import mode
• AddDecalsToAtlas
  • fix poll
• InitTrimSheet
  • improve poll
• use system's default encoding instead of utf-8 for debug output

2.0

2020-09-03

• add Create/Import Atlas tools
• add Use Atlas tool
• add Join Atlased Decals and Split Atlased Decals tools
• add Export tool
• add Init/Import/Duplicate Trim Sheet tools
• add InitTrimSheetMaterial tool
• add Setup Subsets tool
• add UnwrapTrim tool
• add UnwrapToEmptyTrim tool
• add AdjustTrim tool
• add TrimCut tool
• add AlignDecalToEdge tool
• add QuadUnwrap tool
• add BoxUnwrap tool
• add MirrorTrim tool
• add Stitch tool
• add Update18DecalLibrary tool
• add Update18BlendFile tool
• Decal Creation
  • support baking emission for simple, subset, panel and info Decals
  • fix rare texture size rounding issue
• Decal Baking
  • support emission bakes
• add Join and Split tools
• Adjust
  • add Emission mode (E key) to adjust emission strength use X and C for 10 and 0 presets
  • change Parallax mode to D key and reset with X the to the amount stored in the Decals blend file
  • in AO mode (A key) use C key for 0 preset
  • fix UV stretch exception when going across 0
• MatchMaterial
  • support transmissive materials
  • support emissive materials
• Insert
  • support batch inserting entire libraries with ALT
  • prevent raycast errors when objects scaled to 0 are present
• Validate
  • support trim Decals
  • support decal versioning
• FixTexturePaths
  • support instant decals
  • support trim sheets
  • support instant trim sheets
  • support UUID based path reconstruction
• improve Remove Decal Orphans tool
• expose ReRenderThumbnails developer tool
• Texture (Un)Packing
  • support unpacking in local relative folder as a fallback or forced with ALT
  • support Trim Sheets and Trim Decals
• support ALT navigation for all modal tools
• update Examples blends + Decals
• update Decals
  • support emission and emission maps
  • support normal blending
  • add alpha input to info decal groups, useful for weathering or simply making decals transparent
  • use Principled PBR's alpha socket instead of mixing with transparent shader
  • split nrm_alpha and color_alpha into normal, color and masks maps
  • support parallax for panel decals
• add Example Trim Sheet
• add Example and Aircraft Decal Atlas
• preferences
  • point assetspath to assets, not assets/Decals
  • add ability to restore keymaps, if the user ends up deleting some
• prevent issues for users not using an English Blender
• Pie Menu
  • enable for edit mode and UV editor
  • show trim sheet libraries
  • optionally show Trim and Split tools
  • add emission indicator in decal thumbnails
• Sidebar
  • main panel
    • add toggles to collapse/expand defaults/tools/utils
    • add toggle to hide/show decal node trees
  • add Atlas and Trim Sheet creation to creation panel
  • add Atlas to export panel
  • help panel
    • add warning if file is unsaved, before loading Example files
• add Trim Sheet panel to Material Properties
• remove DECALmachine context menu

1.9.4

2020-06-16

• Insert - rebuild decal texture paths completely every time they are brought into the scene
• FixTexturePaths - update rebuilding of decal textures paths in existing blend files

1.9.3

2020-06-03

• ensure PIL can be registered in 2.83+ at start up
• prevent undo related crash bug in 2.83+
• prevent issue when unregistering
• fix EPanel freeze/crash in 2.82+
• fix Adjust UV stretch issue

1.9.2

2019-12-13

• fix cropping of L images for decal creation
• fix 2.82 exception when calling pie menu or quick insert

1.9.1

2019-10-22

• remove ability to create info decals from JPGs
• redo image and font loading for decal creation, due to changes in 2.81
• fix issues when creating EPanel edge-only object from decals
• fix occasional decal creation crash in 2.81, when alternating between info decal creation from image and from font
• fix uv issue Project tool, for non-English Blender versions
• fix issue in Validate tool
• fix exception caused by CTRL projecting with mirror mods present
• fix potential issue in the Material Match tool
• fix exception in Slice/EPanel/Gpanel, try to ensure the panel width is never 0

1.9

2019-09-04

• Add Bake tool
• Add PanelCutting + RemoveMeshCuts tools
• Add RemoveAllInstantDecals tool
• Add new Example blend files
• Select tool
  • support selecting all decals of the selected type
• RemoveMeshCuts tool
  • add ALT selection(instead of removal) mode
• Epanel tool
  • add SHIFT mode: mark edges as MESHCUT edges
  • add CTRL mode: delete edges immediately
  • add ALT mode: convert selection to edge-only object
    • can be combined with SHIFT or CTRL keys
  • support local view
  • automatically parent edge-only object
  • support single object selection, and option optional forced target
  • remove custom normals, if present
  • create backup object when run from object mode
• ReApply tool
  • don't change blend_method when auto-matching material
• Adjust tool
  • don't change blend_method when changing panel decal material
  • change blend method per decal-material, not per decal-type-material
• InitGeneratedUVs
  • use non-evaluated mesh by default
• DECALmachine panel
  • add EPanel to Tools section
• fix issue with ReApply when used on projected decals with mirror mods
• fix issue in Create when prefs.edit.use_enter_edit_mode is enabled
• prevent issues in relation to decal type collections and multiple scenes
• fix issue with DM's default material no being selectable in DM panel when Auto-Match is set to Material
• fix redo issue due to poll being too strict in ClearDecalProps tool
• fix faceidx out of range errors when panel decals have mirror mods

1.8.7

2019-08-04

• add EPanel tool
  • can be used on edge selection in edit mode or from edge object in object mode
  • in edit mode it's accessible from the context menu
• add RemoveDecalOrphans tool
• add ClearDecalProps tools
• add InitGeneratedUVs tool
• Create tool
  • add Batch (Info) Decal Creation
  • support local view
  • fix issue with Decal Creation using the Flatten Normals option in combination with existing custom normals
• ReApply tool
  • add two-sided panel decal auto-material-matching
  • fix issue when reapplying/auto-material-matching projected decals
• Match tool
  • draw panel side indicators
  • make DM default metal material matchable
• Adjust tool
  • keep existing panel decal material matches intact when changing panel material/type
  • improve cursor screen wrapping
• Project and Slice tools
  • clear residual custom normals on projected and sliced decals
• Insert tool
  • make surface snapping optional when bringing decals into the scene
• Pie Menu
  • avoid potential performance issue (on Windows only?)
• remove Debug Panel and move its tools into Utils sectino of main DECALmachine panel
• enable eevee material backface culling for decal materials to avoid flipped decals going unnoticed
• avoid keymap conflicts between BoxCutter and DM, when either Pie is mapped to a different key
• fix GPanel crash

1.8.6

2019-06-27

• Decal Defaults
  • add toggle for decal texture storage
    • pack: textures are saved in the blend (heavy blend files, that load everywhere)
    • unpack: textures are not saved in the blend (light blend files, that load on computers with the same decal asset folder)
  • can be (un)toggled at any time
• Project tool
  • clear existing uvs and make sure the decal has only one uv map
  • make sure faces of projected decals have material index of 0, otherwise joining decals may mix up materials
  • fix issue when finding target
  • fix projection preview drawing being in xray in modal mode, due change in default Blender behavior
• Slice tool
  • clear existing uvs and make sure the decal has only one uv map
  • improve direction vectors in default(float) mode
• Insert tool
  • allow adding decals on evaluated geo (such as on mirrored parts of objects)
• Pie Menu
  • increase panel width precision to 3
• Preferences
  • fix broken decal asset libraries ui list, due to API change
  • update decal resource links
• update matching of default-white material/None material
• fix issue when removing old version and installing new one in the same Blender session
• various raycast and performance improvements

1.8.5

2019-05-20

• fix Decal Creation issues, due to recent depsgraph changes

1.8.4

2019-05-20

• fix Slice not clearing materials, due to recent depsgraph changes

1.8.3

2019-05-18

• fix recent depsgraph issues
• improve raycast and raycast performance

1.8.2

2019-05-13

• add GPanel
  • panel decal creation from grease pencil strokes
• update PIL to 6.0.0
• improve PIL installation
• add extra, temporary debug output for decal creation, likely only related to Oscuart addon exception
• fix material match issue introduced in Blender 8f71a84496a9/27d097e92d54 (May 13th)
• fix raycast issue where decals were not aligned properly on modifier geometry

1.8.1

2019-04-25

• add update check
  • appears in pie menu once update is available
• work around issue in Unwrap (alternative mode) and Decal Creation, due to open Blender bug
• fix rare panel decal UV over or under stretching in Slice and Unwrap
• fix Normal Transfer defaults not being enforced by Shrinkwrap
• optimze addons check on preferences - about page

1.8

2019-04-06

• completely rewrite DM for Blender 2.80
• redo Project tool, add new Shrinkwrap variation
• redo Slice, add new super robust "float slice", massively improve "topo slice"
• redo Instant Decal creation, add 3 new ways to create Info Decals inside Blender
• redo pie menu completely, add sidebar panels
• support unlimited decal libraries
• add new raycast Decal insertion
• add new Re-Apply tool
• add new modal "Adjust-everything" tool
• add new automatic material matching
• add new scene-wide default settings
• take full advantage of Eevee incl. real-time parallax
• hide decal materials and textures
• improve integration with GroupPro, Batch Ops, Hard Ops and MACHIN3tools

1.4.2a

2018-01-15

• fix MACHIN3tools Shading Switch related decal transparancy issue

1.4.2

2018-01-14

• added ReconstructPanelCutter tool
• added 'Remove Decal' property to ExtractSource tool, also clear parent
• added Principled BSDF support to WStep()
• added Edit/Commit Normal Source tool
• exposed base material parameters in DM Preferences
  • adjusted decal materials according to those preferencess when inserting decals and when slicing
  • updated InitBaseMaterial() to take parameters
• added MACHIN3tools Material Viewport Compensation support to InitBaseMaterial
• added 'Remove Decal' property to ExtractSource as well as clear parent
• added interpolation type selection to WStep properties
• added option to allow hard edges to WStep, which adds 2nd DataTransfer and mask existing hard edges using a vertex group
• added SufaceFix tool, Edit/Commit Surface Fix tool and Unlink tool(space bar menu only)
• added threshold value to control duplicate vert removal in Material Cut
• added option to mark edges Freestyle in Material Cut
  • added ConvertFreestyletoSeam and ConvertSeamToFreestyle operators (spacebar menu)
• simplified DecalRotate into single operator for CW and CCW rotations
• added axis option to DecalRotate in object mode
• added higher quality decal textures of decals02_32 - decals02_37
• inverted most supplied info decal textures to be white and set the invert slider in their decal materials to 0
• updated MACHIN3shaders(unity3D) to include 'Blend Surface Normals' parameter and change info decal transparency to opacity
• improved or re-added curvature in supplied panel decals textures
• added 'Combine all-to-one' option to DECALBakeDown
• added Assign Unique Materials option to Decal Exports
  • added "Treat Freestyle edges as seams" to export options, if Assign Unique Materials is turned on
• added option to create 'DM_non-decals' group in ExportGroup for convenience
• exposed atlas padding value to DM preferences
• added 'Suppress Decal Name' option to DM create preferences for Batch Decal Creation
• added 'Normal Alpha Tolerance' option to create preferences
• improved batch decal creation sorting
• updated color profiles in DECAL_create.blend for 2.79
• fixed info decals creation issue in 2.79 where texture assignment and thumbnail generation would fail
• fixed nrm_alpha map atlas quality issue when scaling decals in atlas or when using atlas downsampling
• fixed issue with Match Material replacing materials of supplied decals with materials of custom decals
• fixed exception in DECALexport when non-mesh objects are part of the selection
• fixed exception where atlas could not be laid out due to missing texture
• fixed exception and added warning in Panelize on closed meshes
• fixed DecalProject uv issue when pivot was not set to bounding box center
• fixed ExportGroup exception when blend file is saved to new name after atlas has been packed
  • prevent export group creation from going forward in this case and open the new export folder, so you can copy the json and png files over from the old one
• fixed exception in export group creation when disabled mods on decals can't be applied
  • in case of M3_copied_normals mods being the issue, the export groups target object will be added as the normal source and the mod will be applied
• fixed subtractor decal material input socket sorting
• fixed slice tools showing up in pie in edit mode
• fixed info decal shader(in MACHIn3shaders for unity) issue with metalness not working as expected with transparency

1.4.1a

2017-09-24

• catch the most frequent errors resulting from improper installation and provide terminal output info about how to solve them
• added GroupPro connection

1.4.1

2017-09-20

• rebuilt Match Material completely
  • added operator properties to match either Material or Subset or both (Material 1 and 2 in Panel Decals)
  • supports matching any of a target objects materials, by choosing a material socket id from the operator properties
  • supports matching Principled BSDF and Glossy BSDF shaders
  • avoids creating duplicate materials and finds existing materials that match the criteria
• added Update Decal Nodes tool, to update scenes created before 2.79 to support Principled BSDF decals
  • runs automatically on pre 2.79 decals, dropped into a scene via the Asset Loaders
• Decals created in 2.79 will use the Principled BSDF shader
• removed Get and Set Material tools, as Match Material does the same now and does it better
• Init Base Material initiates a Principled BSDF base material in 2.79
• added filmic 2.79 support
• added Topo Slice twist offset parameter
• improved Panel Transition panel section selection logic
• changed export triangulation quad method to FIXED
• moved HOps fix over to HardOps - update to 'Hard Ops 0093 - Neptunium' to use DECALmachine 1.4.1
• fixed export related issue with decals projected on material decals
• fixed Remove Decal Mode for panel decal assets
• fxxed Rotate Decal not working ing edit mode for some users
• fixed MaterialCut and PanelTransition not working properly in 2.79
• fixed issue with assetpaths resisting change
• fixed Rotate UVs option not working for some users
• fixed empty material slots issue in (W)Step

1.4a

2017-08-30

• added consistent scale parameter to prefs, making the unit scale compensation optional
• fixed wstep exception, when no HOps is installed
• adjusted wstep behaviour for when no HOps is installed

1.4

2017-08-29

• created complete decal export pipeline
  • decal atlas creation
  • use existing atlas Solution
  • automatic decal UVs according to atlas packing
  • export targets:
    • Unity3D - MACHIN3
      • decal shaders: plain, textured, info, panels
    • Unity3D - bac9
    • Unreal Engine 4
    • Substance Painter
    • Sketchfab
    • Unpacked
  • bake decals down
• added w-step - a custom vertex normal workflow
• added float slice
• added draw slice
• added panelize tool
• added keymap settings to preferences
• added operator properties to the main tools
• added automatic parenting of projections and slices to their targets, incl for decal- and cutter backups/sources
• support scene scale/unit settings
• added remove decal mode
• improved material cut
• keymapped gpencil pie to 'CTRL+D'
• added win32 PIL, thanks to Jordan
• fixed project and slice(panel_unwrap) to always remove existing uvs
• fixed main DM pie, to only trigger object and edit modes
• fixed issue with non-tangent base normal maps from instant decal creation
• fixed black/dark ao issue in instant decal creation related to hidden geometry
• fixed issue with remove duplicates replacing custom decals
• fixed panel transition issue when panel strips were split

1.3.5b

2017-06-07

• auto-set cycles and auto-switch to material view when inserting decals
• fixed decal create exception when scene has no world
• fixed panel unwrap exception when panel decal geo is hidden
• fixed thumbnail rendering issue related to non-png file ending setting in render panel
• added experimental, alternative PIL for linux
• simplified Readme.md and Readme.html
• added local copy of full documentation in ReadtheDocs format

1.3.5a

2017-05-19

• fixed batch decal creation bug when encountering filename with illegal characters
• fixed filmic related batch decal creation bug
• added panel decal resolution options, useful for repeating elements in panel decals which require more length
• clarified and extended installation instructions
• switched CREATE_decal.blend to CPU rendering

1.3.5

2017-05-10

• 5 new panel decals
• added Init Base Material tool
• changed panel unwrap from EVEN to LENGTH, allowing for regular repeating patterns in paneling
• added panel decal material choice for decal slice/knife
• decal creation: added instant panel creation
• decal creation: fixed info decal batch creation, when filmic is not installed
• decal creation: improved alignment of decal plane to source geometry when baking
• improved Asset Management check to make sure its activated before DM, before exposing AM related settings
• decal creation: improved height map mid level adjustment
• decal creation: added 'replace last' checkbox, to overwrite last decal of category
• decal creation: exposed ao samples
• decal creation: exposed height contrast and parallax value for finer depth control
• added CustomDecals library for user created decals
• added uv rotation support to decal rotate tool (in edit mode or image editor)
• decal creation: fixed pink thumbnails with gaffer addon and similar
• decal creation: fixed thumbnail resolution percentage

1.3c

2017-05-06

• bug fix in relation to custom script paths being set but not used

1.3b

2017-05-06

• added a warning on windows and macos, when trying to create decals using an unsaved blender scene

1.3a

2017-05-06

• added custom addon path support, thanks Ted
• switched the macos PIL to a precompiled version for python 3.5 instead of 3.6

1.3

2017-05-05

• dropped 2.77 support
• new simplified decal creation guide
• various cleanup and restructuring
• new modal adjust decal height tool, replacing the old decal push and decal lift
• decals with mirror modifiers already applied can now be projected properly
• added DECALcreate pie menu
• insert buttons above asset loaders for quick re-import of the last decal
• simplified custom decal creation: batch decal creation and instant decal creation
• added PIL python library requirement for automated processing and curvature map creation
• 7 new subset decals
• added the_box sample scene

1.2b

2017-04-25

• version bump in addon meta data
• additional info in the usage section of the readme, about the asset loader

1.2a

2017-04-25

• 2.77 decal creation hotfix to solve exception in saving decal blend
• no more unnecessary hiding of the original mesh when projecting on it

1.2

2017-04-24

• unpacked sample scenes
• added addon preferences to allow switching of the native path or the AM library
• decal_rotate always uses the active_element pivot now and sets it back to what it was before afterwards
• inserted decals always move to the cursor location, with AM they'd only do this when nothing was selected
• when using the built in asset loader, there won't be duplicate material instances with 0 users accumulating anymore as is the case with AM
• decal slice should now always be able to assign the decal panel material, no more dependence on AM
• safety checks for get_material and decal_project
• added decal creation guide and improved Readme(html), no more missing line breaks under windows
• added decal creation template files and helper scripts
• merged decals03 with decals02, as they are both subset decals
• default asset location in the addon folder, can be changed to use the AM library path, if you want
• some pie menu restructuring for the asset loader, there are 4 previews for 4 decal categories now
• added native asset loader, based on HOps tech, thanks guys!
• file split and source restructuring
• cleanup

1.1

2017-04-18

• added decals03 library category: decals based on Hard Ops assets
• added sample assets: the crate, the barrel, the egg

1.0

2017-04-17

• initial release