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Major features
Support for several Eevee/Cycles nodes was implemented. Among them Refraction BSDF, Glass BSDF, and Wave Texture. Also the Transmission input for Principled BSDF, and the Detail input for Noise Texture can now be used.
Application update procedure was simplified, as you now can conveniently update not only the engine module, but also the HTML/CSS/JavaScript templates. Be sure to backup your project before updating as this feature overwrites the files!
We ourselves used the new feature to update the templates of all Verge3D demos while also enabling the support for Internet Explorer 11 for them.
First-person controls can now be enabled in 3ds Max or Blender. A material can be assigned to serve for detecting floor collisions so that it is now possible to walk around a scene.
Blender’s City demo was updated to allow for first-person controls.
Verge3D’s WordPress plugin now supports orders sent in JSON format. It also now allows for customizing the notification email (using templates/order_email_body.php) and the admin page (templates/order_admin_form.php). In order to enable these templates in WordPress, copy them to the verge3d folder of your WordPress theme.
Thanks to a contribution from our users, we implemented the possibility to pause and resume rendering, as well as to lower the frame rate via JavaScript, as in the examples below.
app.disableRendering(); app.enableRendering(); app.setFrameRateDivider(2); // enables maximum 30 FPS instead of 60Puzzles
A bunch of new puzzles were added, including
- is visible – for checking if an object is visible or hidden
- get material – for retrieving the material of an object
- screenshot – for capturing a screenshot and returning it in data URI format
- all variable names – returns a list of the names of all variables used
- variable value by name – works as the standard variable value puzzle but without the dropdown
All object, material and animation puzzles can now work with names specified with a Text puzzle. This will be very useful if you are loading scenes on demand, when object names from the additional scenes are not available in the object selector dropdown.
The tween camera puzzle now works for the Flying camera.
For better usability, the active tab, as well as the view focus and zoom in all tabs of the Puzzles Editor are now preserved upon save, and restored after the editor is launched again or reloaded.
At the moment the WebXR specification is undergoing rapid development, with browser preview builds changing on daily basis. In view of this, we decided to disable AR puzzles until the specification is stabilized. In order to use the VR puzzles, we recommend to enable Legacy VR checkbox when creating a new project.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed crash in Blender 2.8 when the Child Of constraint is used.
- Solved the issue with aliasing when transparent background is enabled.
- gltf scenes created by third-party exporters now can be loaded in a Verge3D application.
- Fixed the black screen rendering problem on mobile Firefox.
Update 2019-02-02
Fixed the application update feature producing a 500 error when Verge3D is installed on a disk different from the disk with user data. Also a warning is now shown if an app folder has insufficient permissions to write in it. Please download the same build again if affected.Amazing update guys!
Now I can cross out first person and fremerate adjustment of the top of my wishlist ;)
Just a quick question for now; I can just call the framerate functions from the run or externalInterface right !?, but is there plans to expose the whole renderLoop in a similar way to run() so we can customize the whole render loop in one place ?
Just tested the first person camera, works quite well, but I have a couple of questions/suggestions.
The movement has the same “input lag” as the other camera modes, and the different directions “cancel” each other out, so you can’t strafe forward or backwards for instance. I managed to get around that with a similar setup as the “Asteroid game” tutorial by Dariusz with “no controls” for the camera, so I will try that with FP camera also, but i hope there is plans to improve the movement by default ?
Second it would be nice to have collision detection to the sides also, like for walls. I guess the way it is done right now is a raycast from the camera straight down until it finds the collision material, and then it “snaps” down to that surface, so maybe it could jump back to last (x,y) position if the camera does not find the material with the raycast ? I tested with a two floor setup and it seems to work fine, but with this method there would also need to be a limit to the raycast so you don’t “fall down” at the edge.
Also would it be possible to implement or expose some settings to set the height of the camera above the collision material, as the collision mesh could be moved to compensate for this it is not a huge deal, but would be nice to have.
Sorry for ranting, and this is probably things you already have in mind, but this is an important feature for my use of Verge 3D, so i thought i should mention it :)
Keep up the good work
Just tested the first person camera, works quite well, but I have a couple of questions/suggestions.
Thanks for the suggestions, they all look reasonable to me. I’ll create the corresponding tasks in our dev tracker.
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