BlockyRenderer:Version History

1.5.0 (2026-10-18)

The user interface is now in English.

• Commands, views, settings, quick picks, messages, preview, timeline and properties panel are in English. So are the hover texts and snippets of the JSON schema (Cube, Box, Group).
• Numbers in the timeline and speed list use a dot as decimal point (0.25×, 1.50 s).
• New icon for the extension.

1.4.0 (2026-10-18)

A Blocky Renderer tab in the Activity Bar, and files can open in the renderer only.

• New Blocky Renderer tab in the Activity Bar. The model browser and the node tree move there from the Explorer, now named Models and Nodes. Both views are always present. Without content they show a hint and a button for a new model.
• Commands on the views: right-click a model for preview, 3D editor, renderer and source. Right-click a folder for a new model in it. The Nodes view offers 3D editor, preview and source for its model.
• New editor Blocky Preview (3D) for .blockymodel and .blockyanim: just the renderer in its own tab, with model and animation lists and the timeline. Open it with Open in Renderer Only. See Renderer Only.
• New setting blockyRenderer.openFilesIn (text, editor, viewer) and the command Open Blocky Files In…. It sets workbench.editorAssociations.

1.3.0 (2026-10-07)

Animations: the preview plays .blockyanim files on the matching model.

• Opening a .blockyanim opens the preview like a model does, also with the title bar button, Ctrl+K V or Ctrl+Shift+V.
• Model search through server JSON files that name model and animation together, and through the folders above the animation. The model with the most animated nodes wins.
• Model list with the candidates and Other model… for all models. A manual choice is stored per animation in the workspace.
• Timeline with play, slider, frame and seconds display, speed from 0.25× to 2× and loop. Keys Space, arrow keys (ten frames with Shift), Home and End.
• Hint when the animation moves nodes the model does not have.
• All five tracks: position, rotation, stretch, visibility and UV offset.
• Cursor in the animation outlines the node in 3D. A click in 3D selects its tracks in the text. Text changes apply at once.
• Animation list in the preview of a model, with a search across all animations of the workspace.

1.2.0 (2026-09-30)

The Blocky Editor and new models.

• New command New Blocky Model…: a cube with the starter texture <Name>_Texture.png, a cube without texture or an empty model.
• Empty .blockymodel files created in the Explorer get a block-sized cube. New setting blockyRenderer.newModelTemplate.
• Start with a Cube button in the preview of an empty file.
• JSON schema for .blockymodel with hover help, validation and completion.
• New editor Blocky Editor (3D) with keys Delete, Ctrl+D, H, F2 and Esc in the 3D view.
• New node tree Blocky Nodes in the Explorer: add box, quad and group, rename, duplicate, show and hide, delete.
• Shared selection between node tree, 3D view and text.
• Properties panel for name, position, rotation, offset, size, stretch, normal, visibility, double-sided and shading.
• Changes touch only the affected spot of the file. Numbers are rounded to 6 digits, new nodes get a free id and name.

1.1.0 (2026-09-29)

Model browser.

• Blocky Models list in the Explorer with all .blockymodel files, grouped by folder.
• A click or the arrow keys show the model in the preview, the focus stays in the list.
• Command Open Model Browser and a refresh button. The file watcher keeps the list up to date.
• Show Source on the list entry and in the title bar of the preview.

1.0.0 (2026-09-29)

The first version of Blocky Renderer.

• 3D preview for .blockymodel files beside the JSON text, like the Markdown preview. Opens automatically, or with the title bar button, Ctrl+K V or Ctrl+Shift+V.
• Shows unsaved changes. Keeps the last valid state while the JSON is broken.
• Reloads when a script rewrites the model or texture.
• Cursor in the text outlines the node in 3D and shows its pivot. A click in 3D selects the name in the text, hovering shows the name path.
• Texture found by naming rules in the model folder, or picked from all PNGs in the folder.
• Shapes box, quad and none with offset and stretch. UV layout with mirror and angle. fullbright is drawn self-lit.
• Grid in block size 32 with a block outline and axes at the origin.