Verge3D 3.1 pre3 available!

Physics

Native browser technology WebAssembly (Wasm) is now used to run the physics engine. This resulted in huge performance and memory footprint gains, and halved the size of the physics engine module.

Wasm is not supported in IE 11 and in the older versions of iOS Safari, so if you need to target these browsers, use the IE11 compatibility module option which enables the JavaScript-based fallback (ammo.js).

New puzzle on before/after simulation was added. We recommend that you apply forces/velocities and detect collisions using this puzzle.

The rationale for using this puzzle is that the time loops for physics simulation and rendering run independently, producing different time deltas. With this puzzle you can better synchronize between these two loops, making the physics movement much smoother, and collision detection much more precise visually.

As you can see on the above screenshot, the get object direction puzzle can now return horizontal direction vector. This simplifies navigation in first-person view.

We fixed the previously introduced linear/angular factor option of the apply vector puzzle not working properly in some cases. Also the body control puzzle’s reset option now works as intended.

Puzzles

Puzzles for operating with vectors were added to the Numbers category, namely create vector, set/get vector value, and vector math.

VR

Rays rendered for VR controllers will now automatically adjust their length when they intersect some object.

Blender-specific

Support for legacy GLSL shaders was removed from the engine, meaning that the scenes exported from Blender 2.79 will no longer work with Verge3D 3.1.

Max-specific

We fixed the export crash related to unsupported texture maps such as Vray maps.

Maya-specific

The Parametric Models demo is available. In this app, Maya blend shapes and Verge3D puzzles are used to perform various transformations with the models.

We fixed the bug when 2 objects could have the same name.

We fixed the issue with Verge3D settings missing from the UI or added twice.

We fixed the export crash when a shading group does not have a material assigned to it.

Other improvements

Shadows can now be enabled or disabled via JavaScript API, e.g.:

app.renderer.shadowMap.enabled = false;

We fixed the bug with the screen-space reflection puzzle.

We fixed the bug when the Flying or First-person camera is parented to some object.

GLiFTeK wrote:

“loos” should be “loop”

fixed that! thanks!

GLiFTeK wrote:

Does Verge3D installer know automatically to install to that version (as well as others) when i update?

Verge3D is installed in all blender versions which it finds in your system

Thanks Simone!

GLiFTeK wrote:

where can i find that info?

here: https://www.soft8soft.com/verge3d-and-material-library-updates/