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Qubicle: Export Vox thumbnails not working #1

Closed Arlorean closed 7 years ago

Arlorean commented 7 years ago

Tested the Qubicle VOX export for the builtin meshes (e.g. Squirrel). Thumbnails don't show up.

Arlorean commented 7 years ago

OK. It looks like Qubicle exports a .vox file that isn't a MagicaVoxel file. It seems to be the format for the Voxlap Engine and is detailed on Ken Silverman's FAQ. Here is the pseudocode for it:

long xsiz, ysiz, zsiz;          //Variable declarations
char voxel[xsiz][ysiz][zsiz];
char palette[256][3];

fil = open("?.vox",...);
read(fil,&xsiz,4);              //Dimensions of 3-D array of voxels
read(fil,&ysiz,4);
read(fil,&zsiz,4);
read(fil,voxel,xsiz*ysiz*zsiz); //The 3-D array itself!
read(fil,palette,768);          //VGA palette (values range from 0-63)
close(fil);

In the voxel array, use color 255 to define your empty space (air). For interior voxels (ones you can never see), do not use color 255, because it will prevent SLABSPRI from being able to take advantage of back-face culling.

I'll see if I can add support for this as well as it looks easy.

Arlorean commented 7 years ago

Fixed in release v1.3 together with support for .qbcl thumbnails.