MiEx: A modern Minecraft Exporter
MiEx is a modern Minecraft World Exporter written in Java that exports worlds into USD (Universal Scene Description), originally created for use by Bram Stout Productions to help create sets for animations. It has also been used for animations in Minecraft Live and Element Animation videos.
Full Resource Pack Support
- Uses Minecraft’s Resource Pack system for an accurate export of the world.
- Support for custom resource packs.
- Support for biome colours, including biome blending.
- Support for animated textures.
- Support for random frame offsets on animated textures.
- Support for grouping textures together into atlases in order to reduce material count.
Advanced Features
- Support for modded worlds.
- Level-of-Detail system, allowing you to export even larger worlds.
- Custom cave removal algorithm.
- Up to 3x faster rendering with ray tracers, thanks to a custom optimiser.
- Support for pipeline integration.
- Custom random noise generator for block model selection to make randomly rotated textures appear nicer to the eye.
- Support for maps in item frames.
- Support for adding a random offset to certain blocks (like vegetation) to reproduce what happens in Minecraft.
Universal Scene Description
- MiEx exports worlds out into USD so that it can be loaded into most programs.
- Exports worlds out into big chunks that are payloaded into your scene, allowing you to choose what parts of the world are loaded in, so that it wont slow down your computer.
- Ability to export certain blocks as a new instance for each occurrence of the block, making it easy to replace a specific block with a rig version of it.
- Powerful USD Material templating system.
