Verge3D 2.13 pre2 available!

New Shadows

Blender 2.8 users can now enjoy native EEVEE shadows! Yes, you can now setup shadows directly in Blender viewport (in ESM mode) and they will appear in the browser as is. We’ll be tweaking them a bit but they are already stable enough to give it a try with your applications.

Considering high fidelity (and good performance) of the new shadows, we’ve decided to enable shadows by default in Verge3D export settings.

SSR

A puzzle for enabling screen-space reflection or refraction is now available for creating computationally inexpensive yet quite realistic dynamic reflection and refraction effects.

The reflection effect works with Physical materials in 3ds Max or Principled BSDF or Glossy BSDF materials in Blender. The refraction effect works with Physical materials in 3ds Max or Refraction BSDF materials in Blender.

Matcaps

Matcaps (“material capture” textures) can now be used with EEVEE/Cycles materials via the Mirror Ball projection option of the Environment Texture node.

Other features

A new puzzle called “get objects from” is available. With this universal puzzle you can:

• get the list of objects contained in a group thus making it iterable
• convert the output of the all objects puzzle to a list thus making it iterable
• find objects of a kind (e.g. cameras, lamps, annotations, etc)
• get children of some parent object

Verge3D WordPress plugin now uploads applications asynchronously which speeds up the upload process and also fixed the maximum upload size issue.

In addition to that, the WordPress plugin now provides an id to the application container element, namely “v3d_iframe”, to make it possible to access this element from Puzzles or JavaScript.

Fixes

We fixed bloom artifacts when lamps are present on the scene.

The App class API reference was updated to include all methods available in this class.

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