Verge3D 3.6 pre3 available!

Blender-specific

The Sheen and Sheen Tint inputs are now supported by the Principled BSDF node.

It can be used to realistically render microfiber surfaces such as clothes.

Support for Text objects was further improved. All parameters for vertical alignment are now supported, and also the multi-line text is properly positioned.

3ds Max-specific

We optimized the internals of Physical materials a bit to load and render them faster.

Maya-specific

The Ramp node now supports more ramp types and interpolation modes.

The Sheen settings of the Standard Surface node are now supported by Verge3D.

It can be used to realistically render microfiber surfaces such as clothes.

We also fixed a recently discovered issue with UVs.

Verge3D Plugins

We simplified the syntax for defining new puzzles making it more declarative. As a result, it now requires less JavaScript to define puzzles.

<template
    color="#d4af37"
    output=""
    tooltip='Returns the product info dictionary retrieved by the "connect to WooCommerce" puzzle.'
    help="https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/puzzles/ECommerce.html#woo_product_info"
>
    <dummy>
        <label>product info</label>
    </dummy>
</template>

<script>
function code(block) {
    return ['_pGlob.wooProductInfo', Blockly.JavaScript.ORDER_ATOMIC];
}
</script>

The E-commerce plugin has been updated for new syntax so that you have a usage example. The older approach with more JavaScript still can be used. See the docs for more info.

Other improvements

Verge3D core has been synchronized with latest Three.js r124, improving the existing and adding new features. Among them: modern JavaScript syntax is now used (ES6), support for additive animation, hand gestures for VR, VSM shadows, improved performance and stability.

Also the engine .js file made more compact thanks to moving area light textures to external files, and removing some legacy code.

Bug fixes

We fixed the issue with camera offsets when using supersampling anti-alising which is turned on by the disable rendering puzzle (thanks for the report).

The detect collision puzzle can now be in-lined in other puzzles slots (thanks for the report).

We fixed the bug with special symbols used in Verge3D plugins (thanks for the report).

We fixed a bug with saving puzzles that contain non-Latin characters.

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