State of Play June 2026

New:

• WORKING 64-BIT .gr2 OBJECTS EXPORT FOR MODDING !!!
• Vast improvements in Jedipedia's File Reader and World Viewer.

About Blender versions, support, and related:

• We only "officially" support LTS (Long Time Support) versions of Blender for our tools : that is, Blender 3.6 LTS, 4.2 LTS, and 4.5 LTS, so far.

  (5.2 LTS will be released this month. As 5.0 and 5.1 didn't break anything*, hopefully 5.2 won't, either. We'll see)

  Before asking for help, make sure that you have them updated to their latest minor number versions (the version's third number. For example, 3.6.23 was the last 3.6.x ever released).

• If you are on 4.0.x or 4.1.x, see if you can move to 4.2 or higher, as those two series were extremely transitional and problematic. If you have to keep 3.6 around, make sure of using the last one: 3.6.23. Some early minor versions had a bug that broke our shaders.

Remember that you can have several Blender versions at once in your computer: they keep their settings and add-ons isolated from each other.

* It kinda did, though: the ZG SWTOR Tools's "custom shaders" (a variation of our shaders that make tinkering easier and also add some extras) used a trick for feeding normals to DirectionMaps in an almost circular way that 5.0 rejects, showing the material as black. It's been corrected now, but old projects using the previous version of the material need those noodles to be deleted, or the material to be regenerated.