Changelog

🚀 New Features

• 3D Preview: You can now visualize your map art in 3D directly in the browser before exporting. This helps in verifying the stair-casing effect.
• Command Generation: Generate /setblock or /fill commands to directly build your pixel art in the game without downloading map files.
• Staircase Mode: Support for height-based shading (staircasing) to achieve much richer color depth using surface height variations.

⚡ Performance

• Web Workers: All image processing and color matching operations have been moved to Web Workers, ensuring the UI remains responsive even when processing large 4K images.
• Optimized Algorithms: Improved the speed of LAB color matching and dithering algorithms.

🛠️ Improvements

• Better Palette Control: Filter blocks by version (1.12, 1.16, 1.19, etc.) to ensure compatibility.
• UI Refresh: cleaner interface for the editor and settings panel.

🎨 In-Browser Editor

• Pixel Editor: You can now manually edit your converted pixel art directly in the browser.
• Tools: Includes Pencil, Eraser, Bucket Fill, and Eyedropper tools.
• Layers: Basic support for viewing original image underlay.

🧠 Core Algorithms

• LAB Color Space: Switched from simple RGB matching to CIE LAB color space for much more accurate human-eye perception matching.
• Dithering Support: Added Floyd-Steinberg and other dithering algorithms to smoother color transitions using limited Minecraft blocks.

🎉 Hello World

First public release of Minecraft Image Converter, a tool to convert any image into Minecraft map art.

✨ Features

• Image Conversion: Upload PNG/JPG images and convert them into Minecraft blocks.
• Multiple Versions: Support for Minecraft Java 1.12+ and Bedrock Edition.
• Map Download: Download the generated art as a .dat map file ready to be placed in your save folder.
• Preview: Basic 2D preview of the converted result.