Techne - The Minecraft Modeler

Techne Online Gallery

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:52:32 -0400

It’s been a long time.
This is no changelog, but I wanted to say that I’m still alive, kicking and working on Techne (Although I’m going to be on vacation the next 3 weeks).

Anyway, today I’m proud to announce that the first version of Techne Online Gallery is online!

Check it out at http://techne.zeux.me

Usage is pretty straight forward, you upload a model, provide some details (if you want to) et voilà, you got your model online and you can share it with others :)

I hope it’s useful to you and have fun!

Techne-online

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:35:36 -0500

I’m proud to announce the beginning of an online version of Techne:

You can find details here.

I will put the source-code up on bitbucket once the contest is over - I hope there will be some to help me with it :)

State of affairs

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:35:59 -0500

Just wanted to say that I didn’t forget about Techne.

I just hadn’t have the time to work a lot on it, but I have written two posts about modeling in Minecraft. You can find them under http://http://schwarzeszeux.tumblr.com/ I hope someone will find them useful and it wasn’t just wasted time :)

I’m not sure how much time I can spend on Techne over the holidays as well but I hope and think that I can give it some love and fix some bugs!

Update 1.3.0.15

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:51:23 -0500

Looks like I’m rounding a bit too aggressively, sorry about that.

I’ll have more time to work on Techne soon!

[Fixed] Problem in exporter (rotations getting rounded too much)

Update 1.3.0.13

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:16:00 -0500

If you have a 1.9 and 1.8 exporter, it’s best to reinstall Techne, they shouldn’t be there.

Ok, I’ve been really busy with RL, but I just noticed that there are some things very wrong with the exporter template.

Fixed using TechneModelRenderer instead of ModelRenderer
Fixed not exporting .render(f5) lines
Removed 1.8 exporter (if you still see it, better reinstall Techne)

Follow up on Animation-support

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:30:54 -0500

Will animation be back?

Yes, yes it will - but it will take a bit, so bear with me.

It should be better as well :)

Update 1.3.0.12

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:14:00 -0500

Thanks Groxmapper for pointing out errors in the exporter :)

[Fixed] Forgot to rewire the Copy and Paste buttons when I reimplemented that feature
[Fixed] Rounding rotations (too much)
[Fixed] setTextureSize in 1.8.1-exporter
[Fixed] Spelling mistake
[Removed] Animation-tab, should have done that sooner - caused too much confusion

Update 1.3.0.11

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:34:00 -0500

[Fixed] Using texture-offset instead of texture-size in the exporter
(sorry about that)

Update 1.3.0.10

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:03:00 -0500

Forgot to add the changed 1.8 Template to the update - you will need a farily up-to-date version of mcp. If you don’t, replace setTextureSize with func_35968_a
Opening links in changelog in default browser - as a Test, Techne’s various sites: twitter, google+, wiki,youtube

Update 1.3.0.8

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:44:46 -0500

In case you didn’t know, I created a wiki which is going to be a resource for Techne-help.
Please help me help you write some articles :)

Also, if you release a mod or model created with Techne, feel free to add it to the list, I’ve added one mod myself as an example.
If you feel your mod is big enough to warrant a new article, create one.

Fixed problem with 1.9 exporter
Added setTextureSize call to 1.8 exporter
Added “View Help”, “Irc-Channel” and “Changelog” to Help menu
Added copy and past (again)
Changed change-log :)

Last big update explained

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:09:00 -0500

I get many questions as to why feature x (mostly copy&paste) was removed, I’ll try to answer them here.

x == “Copy and Paste”

The reason I removed it in the first place was due to the fact that I rewrote the part that was responsible for selection.

While I had only one object to clone previously, even, or especially, when you had multiple boxes selected. It became a list of objects with a different kind of hierarchy than before. Deep-cloning didn’t work right away, so I opted to remove the feature instead of delaying the update.

The next update will have copy&past support included. I’ve coded it back in, did some testing and it works - however, there is one small issue that I have to check out before I can release it.

x == “Animation”

Short version:

The model was flat previously, it became a hierarchy in 1.9+.

Long version:

Changes that affect the parent affect children and Techne doesn’t have a relationship of that kind.

It looks like it does, that’s because there is a hierarchy, but only a logical one. This has several advantages when it comes to manipulating the model. The problem is that the renderer doesn’t know about it. Now I have two options, 1) fake my way through it and propagate changes manually each frame or 2) make it a hierarchy once again. Both options come at a prize, I don’t know how performance is with option one and option two opens a can of worms/bugs

x == “History” (Only got that asked once so far.)

Short version: it sucked and only worked half of the time.

I will be back once I’ve found a better way.