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New E-learning demo
We’ve recreated the E-learning demo as an entirely new app from which you can learn how to assemble a table fan (currently Blender only, 3ds Max and Maya ports are on the way). It features responsive mobile-friendly UI fully designed in the 3D suite, a draggable timeline, voice over for each step, and integration with SCORM-enabled learning management systems.
Puzzles
New puzzle–stop animate param–is available. You can use it to cancel a working animate param puzzle at any time. For usage example, see the new E-learning demo where it is used for turning the propeller animation on and off.
Another new puzzle–connector slot–allows you to group puzzles together, so that you can do various actions with them in bulk. This might help a lot in regard to the copy/paste function that only works with single puzzles. It can also come in handy for moving puzzles around, commenting, or saving to the library. Thanks for suggesting this on the forums.
The puzzle drag move now works with parented objects (a long-awaited feature indeed). As a result, you can make draggable sliders, scrollbars and other UI elements that are parented to the camera or other objects.
Loader puzzles for sounds and videos can now be added to Lists to use them in bulk as an input to other audio/video puzzles. You can even mix sounds and videos in the same list. Also the puzzle stop sound no longer crashes with files whose playback has not started.
More improvements
We simplified installation for unprivileged users on Windows (i.e. without admin access). Now the installer automatically chooses the home user directory to install into, instead of trying to unpack to Program Files. Thanks for bringing this up on the forums.
Blender:
3ds Max:
Maya:
The feature Fit to Camera Edge has obtained a new option, Point, in its Fit Shape drop-down. If you select this option, the object will position itself relative to its center, as if it were a sizeless point. Also the Sphere option now positions objects more accurately. Finally, Fit to Camera Edge now supports multi-material objects.
Blender:
3ds Max:
Maya:
The performance profile puzzle (alternatively, P-P-P hot keys) now prints about whether ambient occlusion (GTAO) is enabled for the scene or not.
There were various minor UI tweaks in the settings panel of the App Manager.
Maya-specific features
Maya Noise node now correctly works with WebGL 1.0.
Programmer’s features
We started refactoring some parts of the engine code to use more of the modern ECMAScript 6 features such as modules, async/await operators, and arrow functions. Particularly, modules are now used in JavaScript code generated from Puzzles (so
visual_logic.jsis now a module).We ensured that in the case when multiple Verge3D applications are embedded in the same web page, you can work with Puzzles API independently of other instances. Also the application templates–”Standard Light”, “Standard Dark”, “Blank”, and “Embeddable” for React and Vue.js–were modified accordingly.
Bug fixes
We fixed the Puzzles issue when asynchronous calls are used in loops. Thanks for reporting this on the forums.
We fixed a series of memory leaks occurred upon calling the application‘s
dispose()method, as well as in some other cases. Thanks for letting us know about this problem on the forums.The setting HiDPI Compositing which is assigned to individual objects now correctly works with multi-material objects, such as used for 3D-modelled UI.
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