Verge3D 2.12 pre2 available!

HTML window puzzle was added to access the window object, which is required to be an input by some HTML event puzzles. Particularly, you can now create a resize handler for the browser window.

An HTML-based alert message template is now available from the Puzzles library.

You can use this template to quickly setup a privacy warning for your app, for example (as we did in our Custom Image demo).

Fixed Dictionary puzzles crashing when their input slots are vacant.

3ds Max’ installer picture was updated.

Removed the Google+ option from the social share link puzzle as this web service is no longer available.

Fixed Blender crash when the Export Custom Properties checkbox is enabled.

While the state-of-the-art WebXR undergoes heavy changes, we have added some improvements for the legacy WebVR implementation. Particularly, WebVR controllers are now supported (based on game pads).

Also the end VR session puzzle was added to programmatically exit the VR mode. We also fixed the resize issue manifested upon exiting the VR mode.

Finally, we added the JavaScript method Detector.checkNativeWebXR() that allows a programmer to detect whether a VR app is running on top of WebXR or legacy WebVR.

[3ds Max only] Improved Clear Coat support. This feature now produces similar results compared to 3ds Max.

Particularly, the Coating Bump Map input for physical material map is now supported.

[Blender only] Fixed export parameters not working properly when multiple scenes are present in a blend file.

[Blender only] Settings for selecting which collections to export have been added to Blender UI. You can use them to ignore assets that you don’t want to be exported (such as high-poly models, Cycles setups, etc).

The Story Height parameter is now supported for the FPS camera to allow for navigating through multi-floor buildings.

3ds Max:

Blender:

Fixed export crash with asset compression enabled for very big exported files.

[Blender only] Supported the Gradient Texture EEVEE/Cycles node. Despite its name, this node does not occupy a texture slot in the WebGL shader, and thus can be considered as an effective replacement for images.

Animate param puzzle that wraps the Tween.js library in now available.

The puzzle offers all 31 easing modes (pictured), duration, repeat and yoyo settings, and the update and complete callbacks.

The new puzzle works with numbers, lists and dictionaries.

Puzzle that enables supersample anti-aliasing (SSAA) is now available. It can significantly increase the rendering quality at the expense of performance. To compensate the performance loss, you can use it only when your scenes stay static. You can detect when the user moves the camera or objects using the when moved puzzle and disable SSAA at this moment.

In addition to that, you can disable rendering when your scene is static by using another new puzzle called disable rendering (and resume with enable rendering), thus saving batteries on mobile devices or laptops, and getting rid of cooler noise on desktops.

The combination of the aforementioned puzzles can drastically improve user experience so consider adding them to the relevant parts of your Puzzles scenarios.

Advanced timer puzzles were added in addition to the existing puzzles from the Time category. As a result, you can cancel a timer at some moment by referring to it via name.

Ring demo was converted for PBR materials (so far only Blender version).

3ds Max 2020 is now supported. Support for 3ds Max 2015/2016, which did not offer PBR pipeline and are no longer available for downloading from Autodesk website, is now considered obsolete and will be removed from Verge3D soon.