Verge3D 2.17 pre1 available!

Wordpress plugin now supports international characters in WooCommerce product attributes.

We got rid of those annoying “fakepath” warnings thrown by WebGL’s shader compilator in the browser console on Windows.

The engine now properly works in Chrome’s headless mode, which makes it possible to render 3D graphics on the server side.

The User Manual now utilizes fonts that are consistent with the website’s. There were some other stylings as well.

Picking/raycasting no longer selects objects scaled down to zero dimensions.

It is now possible to use CSS codes to set material color, including hexadecimal codes, RGB/HSL values and color names.

The event property puzzle now provides the target.value option. With it, you can retrieve values from <input> elements which the user interacts with.

Particularly, you can obtain CSS color code from a color picker implemented as a color-typed <input> element and paint an object.

You can now dynamically change CSS properties located inside a @media block typically used to create different layouts for various desktop and mobile screen resolutions. This is possible thanks to an optional slot added to the set CSS rule puzzle.

Fixed speculars rendered incorrectly by some older Mali GPUs (e.g. found on Samsung Galaxy S6).

The App Manager will no longer be suggesting to update to unstable preview builds.

3ds Max-specific

Fixed some issues with 3ds Max materials not rendered properly on some devices.

Blender-specific

We fixed crashing of the addon related to exporting glTF-compliant shaders.

The Tangent output of the Geometry node is now supported which you can use for creating anisotropic effects.

Blender 2.81’s Voronoi, Bump, Clamp and Map Range nodes are now supported.

The exporter will now use simple placeholders with the following shader nodes: Ambient Occlusion, Bevel, Object Info, Hair Info, Particle Info, Vertex Color, Volume Info, Principled Volume, IES Texture, Musgrave Texture, and White Noise Texture.

The Windows version of Verge3D for Blender is now distributed with an installation wizard. Therefore, configuring script path manually is no longer required. You still need to activate the Verge3D add-on in Blender preferences.

After installing, you can launch the standalone App Manager (i.e. without running Blender first) using a desktop icon or from Windows’ Start menu.

That’s it for now. Keep us posted on how all this works for you!

GLiFTeK wrote:

What does “placeholder” for those nodes mean?

we just added some simple code to allow the exporter handle those nodes instead of crashing – a proper implementation of the node will follow in the future

GLiFTeK wrote:

Does using headless chromium allow us to possibly generate text based textures and normal maps, server side to save client side processing?

I think this is possible.

GLiFTeK wrote:

What else could this feature help with?

for example, you can take screenshots on the server and store them in a database, or generate PDF quotes for the user

here it is https://www.soft8soft.com/get-verge3d/