Release 0.8.7 (1.21.70.22)

[bryhaw-ms]

Read the previous release notes here

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Summary

Hello and happy preview day 🥳! We are now on 0.8.7 (1.21.70.22), as of Thursday, February 5th, 2025.

As a reminder of Editor API support:

• Editor Extensions overview article and API reference documentation on learn.microsoft.com
• Starter Kit: Contains the compiler tools and various libraries required to get started making Editor Extensions
• Samples created by our team to jump-start your own Extension creations

Additionally, if you're new to the Editor GitHub this week, we encourage you to join the Bedrock Add-Ons Discord #Editor channel!

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Block Inspector

Block Inspector allows you to view block states and customize specific properties of blocks. This is incredibly useful to fine tune block details.

BlockInspector.mp4

*Note that not all properties are customizable for all blocks.

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Entity Inspector

Similar to the Block Inspector Tool, the Entity Inspector allows you to view and modify properties of entities giving more control over things like variants of the entity.

EntityInspector.mp4

*Note that not all properties are customizable for all entities. To see your changes, un-pause entities under World Options->Pause->Entities.

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Modal Overlay Pane

We added a new IRootPropertyPane.createModalOverlayPane API function, allowing the creation of IModalOverlayPane to display on top of the pane content, giving more flexibility on the UI of panes. Each pane supports one active modal overlay at a time, but it can own multiple modals. Modal overlays can be managed through the root pane's setActiveModalOverlay function or the overlay pane's show and hide functions

ModalOverlay.mp4

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Full Change Log

• Added Block Inspector tool which allows you to view block states and permutations of blocks
• Added Entity Inspector tool which allows you to view and modify entity components
• Added a new IRootPropertyPane.createModalOverlayPane API function, allowing the creation of IModalOverlayPane to display on top of the pane content. Each pane supports one active modal overlay at a time, but it can own multiple modals. Modal overlays can be managed through the root pane's setActiveModalOverlay function or the overlay pane's show and hide functions
• Fixed an assert encountered on client disconnect from dedicated server and re-entry into a world
  • Fixed block picker UI dialog persisting after a client disconnect from a dedicated server

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