0.17.0-preview

Added

• Blender 3.4 support
• blender-feat: Material baking
• blender-feat: displacement maps baking
• blender-feat: AO baking for materials
• blender-feat: implementing orthographic size for camera
• blender-feat: Adding texel density setting for baking

Changed

• blender-change: bake modifiers in Edit Mode
• blender: Making deduplication of meshes optional
• blender-opt: optimisation to avoid making unique objects when the source object is the same.
• blender-doc: update docs to include all new material baking settings
• blender: use all available UV layers in Edit mode
• blender: updated UI to show materials panel. Reordered panels and removed Unity Project panel
• blender: added cancel and reset modes to increment progress. Used reset mode when resetting and cancel mode when cancelling
• doc: update Table of contents with Blender Installer page

Fixed

• blender-fix: export normals correctly in edit mode, taking polygon smooth into account
• blender-fix: dangling pointers on Mesh data
• blender-fix: avoid copies of linked duplicates
• blender-fix: fix for materials not referencing correctly and smoothness map being roughness.
• blender-fix for crash on empty material slots.
• blender-fix: Fix for crashes when instantiating curves through geonodes
• blender: geometry node fixes