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• Free Updates
• Beta Access
• Commercial Use

Minecraft Projects Using Avoyd

• Paradisia, Elvíria, Mythósia, Panteão, Divinória and more by kintsukuroi
• Exowrath, Ancient by Meowbeard
• Annwn, Silcco by illyrio
• City of Atheria by Tazluh
• Beijing Daxing International Airport, Asian Castle, Atharia, City Of Tuats by shadowESH

Features

• Extremely long view distance
• World size up to 260 000 voxels in any direction
• Create voxel art from Minecraft worlds and explore them
• Cameras
  • First person camera for exploration
  • Arcball camera
  • Orthographic projection with isometric presets
  • Saved cameras for quick navigation
• Edit Tool
  • Add/remove individual voxels or shapes (sphere, box etc.), paint etc.
  • Edit or protect part of a model with Material Masks
  • Reference grids, constraints and symmetry planes
  • Randomise size and materials
  • Cut/Copy/Paste voxels and entire worlds
  • Undo/redo
• Materials
  • Up to 65 536 materials
  • Physically based properties: diffuse, metallic, emissive, and transparency with refraction, absorption and scattering
  • Presets: metals, glass (coloured, smooth and rough), water, ice, cloud, smoke, fire etc.
  • Create custom Materials
• Light and Atmosphere
  • Physically based parameters
  • Presets: neutral, dawn, day, dusk, night, deep space, haze, fog etc.
  • Procedural generation
• Render
  • High quality CPU path tracing with OIDN denoising
  • High Dynamic Range .hdr and OpenEXR .exr (Avoyd 0.14+), .jpg and .png output
  • Custom image size and aspect ratio up to 16k x 16k pixels
  • Depth of field
• Import
  • .vox from voxel editors like MagicaVoxel.
  • .mca maps and .nbt schematics made with Minecraft or WorldPainter.
  • .jpg .png .tga as heightmaps and materials (colour palettes).
  • Raw 3D Binary Arrays.
• Export
  • .vox for voxel editors like MagicaVoxel, Qubicle, voxel game engines like RPG in a Box, IOLITE, games like Teardown, Idu.
  • .obj mesh, .mtl materials and .png textures for 3D modelling tools like Blender, and game engines like Unreal, Godot and Unity.
  • .hdr and .exr for image editors like GIMP or Darktable, .jpg and .png.
• Misc
  • Repair some .vox files using import/export.
• Documentation
  • Online Tutorial and User Documentation
  • Tutoriel et contrôles en français
  • Changelog
• System Requirements
  • PC Windows
  • Mouse and Keyboard
  • Minimum specification

Release History

• Avoyd 0.20:
  • New Shine Sun Here tool helps lighting scenes for rendering. Right click a location on the map and select "Shine Sun Here" to move the main light to shine on the area. It is the inverse of "Move Sun Here".
  • Reference Grids: visual references for precise editing
  • Isometric renders: new 30 deg Isometric camera presets in menu "Tools > Cameras" section "Arcball Camera"
  • Fixed denoised render: denoising an image with Auto Save turned on should no longer result in the saved image having some pixel corruption.
• Avoyd 0.19:
  • Export to Mesh with Blender-compatible OBJ PBR materials in textures
  • Export to game engines Godot and Unreal 5 via Blender
  • Improved import material palettes from images and heightmaps
  • Fixed .vox import offset in flipped models, and in rare cases missing or extra voxels
• Avoyd 0.18:
  • Voxel Editor new tool modifier called Material Masks. Masks are useful for editing or protecting some parts of a voxel model. They're inspired by 2D masks you can find in image editing software, but in 3D, and they apply to voxel materials.
  • Move Sun Here feature: in the main view right click and select "Move Sun Here" to move the sun to the mouse location.
  • Import and Repair some .vox files: support for loading some forms of corrupt MagicaVoxel .vox files and retrieving as much useful voxel data as possible.
  • Up to 1.5x faster rendering performance with improved power saving.
• Avoyd 0.17:
  • Renderer: adds Atmosphere Volumetric Shadows (sun rays).
  • Renderer: faster, better renders especially for transparency and reflections.
  • Editor and Movement: Improves edit cursor motion and camera movement.
• Avoyd 0.16: This version has a new file format which is not compatible with previous versions of Avoyd. It can still open files from any previous version.
  • Adds Minecraft Import with custom Materials. Not included in the Demo
  • Adds Minecraft 1.20 blocks.
• Avoyd 0.15.1:
  • Fixes Minecraft Import bug that caused 16x16x16 holes. Sections filled with only one block type and no block data in the region file are now imported correctly.
• Avoyd 0.15:
  • Export to MagicaVoxel .vox. Not included in the Demo
  • Renderer: fix denoising.
• Avoyd 0.14:
  • Renderer: support for Radiance HDR RGBE images (.hdr). Not included in the Demo
  • Renderer: support for OpenEXR 16bit and 32bit float image export (.exr). Not included in the Demo
• Avoyd 0.13.2:
  • Adds "lit" block state: light-emitting blocks are mapped to one material that is lit, and one that is unlit depending on their state. This fixes redstones, candles, campfires, furnaces, smoker.
  • Fixes the materials emissive values in Avoyd to be as close as possible to the blocks light level in Minecraft.
  • Adds blocks: light, honey_block, lava_cauldron, powder_snow_cauldron, water_cauldron.
  • Up to 10x faster .mca import.
• Avoyd 0.12.3: Adds over 60 missing materials for blocks: mangrove wood, mud, packed mud and mud bricks, sculk, honey, candles, froglights, frogspawn, reinforced deepslate, copper, vines, roots and more. Reordered and grouped blocks by types, and homogenised properties.
• Avoyd 0.11.0: Structure File Import.
• Avoyd 0.8.15: Adds blocks such as moss_block, tuff, deepslate etc.
• Avoyd 0.8.11: Fixes Minecraft maps from versions 1.13 up to and including 1.15 no longer have occasional incorrect columns of blocks.
• Avoyd 0.8.10: Supports Minecraft Version 1.18 maps.
• Avoyd 0.8.8: Transparent materials (water, glass) support in the CPU path traced Renderer (available through Menu Render).
• Avoyd 0.8.6: Exports to polygon mesh (.OBJ).
• Avoyd 0.8.3: Supports extended world heights between -2048 to +2032 blocks (previously 0 to 255).
• Avoyd 0.8.0: Emissive blocks torches, lava etc voxels emit light when rendered. Likewise, metals, water, glass etc. reflect light.
• Avoyd 0.7.5: Imports 'The Nether' and 'The End' dimensions as well as the normal 'The Overworld' dimension.
• Avoyd 0.7.2: Importer supports Minecraft chunk changes made in MC v1.13 and v1.16.
• Avoyd 0.1.2: Imports Minecraft region files (*.mca).

Tutorials and User Documentation

How to

• Import a Minecraft map or a structure into Avoyd
• Explore a map in Avoyd
• Change the Scene Lighting and Atmosphere
• Render a Minecraft map using Avoyd
• Render: Tutorial video + Transcript
• Render FAQ
• Optimise Voxel Meshes for Games Using Blender and export them to Unreal, Godot, Unity

How Minecraft blocks are represented in Avoyd, and how to modify them

• IMPORTANT: if you 're using an older version of Avoyd, reimport your maps in the latest release to update the blocks materials.
• Avoyd does not use textures, but the materials used in Avoyd match the Minecraft default materials as closely as possible: their colour is based on Minecraft textures averages and they have specular reflection and emissive properties where relevant (water, glass, metal, lava…).
• Each block and most of their variations are mapped to a material in Avoyd. We've mapped the vast majority of Minecraft Java Edition blocks to the appropriate materials settings in Avoyd
• For Minecraft versions prior to 1.13 (the flattening) we now use both both block Id and data value to assign the correct namespace Id to a an imported block. For versions post 1.13 we directly use the namespace Id provided
• To modify the default materials properties in Avoyd, open menu 'Tools > Materials'. Pick ‘Minecraft’ from the Material Type drop-down. Click on the colour swatches to edit the materials properties.
• You can make specific block types (for example barrier) invisible in renders by making the material entirely transparent. In Tools > Materials, select the material and set its parameters as follows:
  • Colour = White (R=255 G=255 B=255)
  • Metallic = 0
  • Smooth = 0
  • Emissive = 0
  • Surface Transmission = 1
  • Absorption Length = 1,048,576
  • Scatter Length = 1,048,576
  • Phase = 0
• If you have Avoyd 0.16.0 Full or above: to reuse your material alterations in other maps, save them as a template with File > Save Templates > Materials. When you import a Minecraft map, select your custom materials template and it will overwrite the defaults.

Limitations

• Avoyd does not export to Minecraft: you cannot re-export any edits you make to a map in Avoyd back to Minecraft.
• Avoyd does not support Bedrock. It only supports Java Edition maps.
  
• Avoyd does not support schematics import.
• Avoyd does not use textures nor block models so all the Minecraft decorations, half-blocks, steps, objects such as torches etc. appear as full voxel blocks made of a single material in Avoyd.
  If you need to render the Minecraft block models and textures, use Chunky instead of Avoyd. See this guide covering the basics of setting up and using Chunky.
• Avoyd cannot hide block types. As a workaround, either delete the blocks manually using the Edit Tool, or make the block material invisible before you render the scene. We intend to add block hiding in the future.
• Avoyd only runs on Windows PC.

Tips and Tricks

• Once imported, save the Minecraft map as an Avoyd world file. This will enable you to open it faster and use it as a paste brush.
• To learn the basics of editing in Avoyd, we recommend you follow the step by step tutorial and watch the basics of editing video. The user interface has evolved since but it's very close and it is still a good place to start.
• Tune the Graphics properties under Settings > Graphics. Increase the Graphics Quality to improve details in the distance. Note that this reduces the performance.
• All controls and keyboard shortcuts are listed in menu Help > Controls and in the online documentation.

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