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Procedural geometry

You can now easily create new solid geometry through boolean operations–a crucial procedural modeling feature typically employed in CAD systems. For that you can utilize the new puzzle, make object from, where you can select to apply union, subtract, or intersect to input objects.

The newly created objects can further be exported from Verge3D application to glTF or USDZ format. It also provides you with a way to make a cutout by clipping planes permanent.

Style constructor

This update introduces a new powerful puzzle which we called style constructor. This logic block significantly simplifies assigning CSS rules to HTML elements.

As such, new CSS rules can be created in intuitive way, sparing the artist the trouble to obtain web development skills that otherwise would be needed for such tasks. For example, the snippet below adds a blue square on top of the 3D canvas.

Similarly, we provided default properties to other HTML puzzles such as set prop, set style, event, and others. Now you can select enumerated properties (e.g., visible or hidden for visibility) from drop-downs without the need to provide them as Text puzzles as it was before. For example, the snippet below hides the blue square when the cube is clicked.

More on puzzles

The puzzle add HTML elem obtained a right-click option to quickly create the corresponding set prop puzzle for the new element.

We added the CSS property float to the set style puzzle.

The puzzle clone object can now be inserted into all puzzles accepting objects (such as snap to object, etc).

Finally, we simplified and updated some entries in the Puzzles library. We also removed the map range group from the library, as you can now do it via a puzzle from the Numbers category.

Other improvements

Based on the feedback from the community, we have added the possibility to set width, height, and background color for the custom preloader in the application settings. The width and height settings will come in handy for non-square images.

We updated the demo glTF compat by adding buttons for exporting to glTF and USDZ formats, so that you can have a usage example for the export puzzles. The buttons were created using the HTML puzzles that we just introduced.

When exporting a scene from an application that contains clipping planes, the latter will be ignored and won’t appear in the resulting file.

We removed obsolete files from the media folders of all demo applications.

We improved FAQ and the reference page for material puzzles.