enenra / space-engineers-utilities

A Blender 4.0+ addon to streamline working on assets for Space Engineers.

Space Engineers Utilities

A Blender 4.0+ addon to streamline working on assets for Space Engineers.

Features

Blender

• Full Blender 4.0+ support using collections to organize models.
• Simple Navigation to easily edit models one collection at a time.
• Robust error handling and extensive feedback to help you avoid issues further down the road and inform you if and what is the problem.
• Full support for multiple scenes per BLEND file.
• Set the grid scale to preset Space Engineers values to easily see the size of your model.
• Get notified of updates to the addon via update notifications.

Modes

• Use Bounding Box Mode to define the bounding box of your model.
• Mirroring Mode allows for easy setup of mirroring for blocks.
• By using Mountpoint Mode the user can define the mountpoints on a block in a straightforward manner.
• Use Icon Render Mode to easily create icons for your blocks in the style of vanilla Space Engineers blocks.

Import

• Import Space Engineers FBX files through the addon to automatically display its materials in Blender.
• Structure Conversion functionality allows for easy conversion of BLEND files created with the old 2.7x plugin to the new format.

Materials

• Displays most vanilla Space Engineers materials directly in Blender.
• Contains Material Libraries with most vanilla materials, ready to apply to new models.
• Create your own Space Engineers materials.
• Create your own Material Libraries.

Empties

• Subparts are instanced into other scenes to show how the model will look ingame.
• Easily create and manage empties for different purposes by selecting from exhaustive lists.

Export

• Define LOD Distances to set from which distance your LOD models are displayed.
• Export simultaneously to large and small grids.
• Directly export to MWM-format, ready to be loaded into the game.
• Additional definitions are exported to a CubeBlocks file.
• Full support for creating character models and character poses & animations.

Installation

Please follow the installation guide.

Credits

• Stollie - So much general help but also writing everything character, export and MWM-related, which I wouldn't have been able to do at all.
• Harag - Writing the original Blender SE plugin as well as adjusting the FBXImporter. A lot of code in this addon is based on his.
• Wizard Lizard - For hours of testing as well as writing the SE Texture Converter to save us all from having to deal with batch files.
• Kamikaze (Blender Discord) - Writing the original remap_materials()-function and generally helping out constantly by answering a lot of questions.