Verge3D 3.8 pre4 available!

Blender-specific

You can now use light probes of Reflection Plane class, for which we supported all the settings offered by Blender. As a result, you can now implement real-time mirrors or floor reflections!

See how it works in the updated Load Unload demo.

We have upgraded the Floor constraint – it now works with inclined surfaces, thanks to the Use Rotation option supported.

See what Blender constraints and options are available for use with Verge3D in this doc page.

The graphics quality of the Ring demo was improved with refraction. Also the auto-rotation feature was added.

We added a new setting to the Object Properties panel, named Fix Ortho Zoom. You can use it to make your ortho camera properly work with objects parented to it, so that they don’t move when the user zooms the camera.

We fixed the bug with incorrectly working Sensor Fit / Auto introduced in a previous preview build.

3ds Max-specific

The graphics quality of the Ring demo was improved with refraction. Dynamic text is used to show the price. Also the auto-rotation feature was added.

Maya-specific

The Global Illumination demo previously available for Blender and 3ds Max Verge3D flavors was ported to Maya.

We also ported the Ring demo to Maya.

The colorCorrect node is now supported with all its settings.

Other improvements

The print performance puzzle (or P-P-P quick keys) now outputs potentially problematic issues in regard to performance. For example, on the screenshot below, the shadow map appears to be too big (4k) which may result in slower rendering.

We optimized the engine performance on Intel hardware thanks to using a simplified sRGB conversion technique in WebGL shaders.

We also optimized the file size of the engine runtime (v3d.js) thanks to removing unused JS code and shaders.

We improved the quality of FXAA when HDR rendering is enabled.

The limit constraint and copy constraint puzzles now have options distance and transform respectively.

Ray casting (used in when clicked, when hovered and ray cast puzzles) now works significantly faster for batched objects (obtained by applying the batch geometry puzzle) thanks to using acceleration structures.

We improved the stability of HiDPI rendering.

We fixed the puzzle add annotation – the name field now works properly in all cases.

We fixed engine crashes on older versions of iOS 11-12. Also the USDZ exporter now properly works on iOS 12-13.