Verge3D 2.16 pre1 available!

WooCommerce integration

WooCommerce integration has been implemented in the WordPress plugin and in the Puzzles. See this tutorial on how to use this feature, as well as the video below:

E-commerce-related puzzles were moved into a separate subcategory of the Misc category, which in turn was moved closer to the toolbox bottom.

The upload function of the WordPress plugin now works better and also notifies if there were any errors during upload.

Puzzles

The puzzle remove object is now available for deleting objects from the scene.

The puzzle set transform now does not modify x, y or z values if these inputs are not explicitly specified (as it was before version 2.15).

The quote symbol (“) can now be used in procedure names.

The print performance info puzzle now displays how much time it took to load the scene.

Blender-specific features

The new shadows introduced in the upcoming Blender 2.81 are now supported. The new system uses the PCF algorithm instead of ESM. Since the new shadows require a lot of samples for quality shadows, they are not that feasible for efficient real-time rendering. We therefore had to optimize this algorithm and implemented an additional setting called Blur Radius to be able to tweak the smoothness.

We significantly increased the consistency of rendering of the speculars in the engine compared to EEVEE viewport.

We fixed the bug when meshes with some modifiers such as Bevel were not properly triangulated. Another fixed bug relates to the attribute optimization feature that incorrectly worked with linked materials or node groups (as in the material library). These two bugs caused loss of tangents and crippled normal mapping.

The engine now won’t crash if the currently unsupported Displacement or Specular EEVEE nodes are present in a shader.

3ds Max-specific features

The settings “Source Axis” and “aligned to Upnode Axis” are now supported for the Look At constraint.

The Spinner demo is available in the examples (the one which was used for the WooCommerce tutorial).

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