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Composite Products

Verge3D now offers integration with WooCommerce’s Composite Products plugin. This powerful tool for creating web configurators for e-commerce have been repeatedly mentioned on the forums by Verge3D users. Check out this live demo to get an idea what this all is about.

In the demo linked above, the customer can configure each of 2 components separately. The 3D scene should accurately reflect what is going on in the store. For that we have implemented a new puzzle called product component which returns data about the parts of the composite product as configured by the shop visitor.

We upgraded the demo Simple Configurator to support composite products so that you have a usage example – just download it from the asset store.

Please note that both components in the demo – drawer top and legs are themselves variable products. However, you can imagine a simpler scenario where you just add or replace components instead of configuring them – e.g. changing the camera body or lens for a digital camera. In such a case you would just use show and hide puzzles like in the Scooter demo.

Why use Composite Products? Unlike with the built-in WooCommerce’s variable products feature, the number of possible variations does not spiral out to gazillions when adding more product options. Also the shopping process can be divided in steps, conditioned, and represented with various layouts to further improve customer experience.

Elementor

Verge3D now natively supports Elementor, a popular framework for creating web pages in WordPress. You can easily add 3D web apps to the page by dragging and dropping the Verge3D widget onto it. This allows editing in a visual manner as the 3D graphics become immediately visible in the page editor.

Blender-specific

We optimized the Firstperson Camera demo so that it now uses way less video memory and also loads faster.

We have added a preliminary support for Blender 4.0 Alpha which was released a few days ago.

3ds Max-specific

The node HDRi Environment now works with Verge3D and 3ds Max 2024.

Maya-specific

We significantly improved the rendering of Standard Surface shaders, making them much more consistent with Maya viewport. This was achieved by correcting the way how Specular Color and Specular Weight work, and by supporting the IOR parameter.

We ported the previously released Virtual Reality demo to Maya. Try it for yourself by opening this link in your Oculus or HTC Vive browser or watch the screencast video. The sources for this demo can be downloaded from the Assets Store. See the detailed info about this demo in this blog post.

Cube and Planar reflection probes, as well as Clipping planes, now work properly with working units other than centimeters (cm).

The Code-Based template no longer crashes at the moment when a new app is created out of it. This also affected Verge3D Ultimate.

We fixed the bug occurred when the node Float Constant is used in a material with any of its other params animated.

Other improvements

We reworked the Augmented Reality demo to use just Puzzles for the HTML elements – “Enter AR” button and the warning messages. This makes it less confusing to figure out how it works since no custom HTML and CSS code is added to the page template anymore.

We further improved search in Puzzles’ drop-downs – a feature introduced in the previous Verge3D preview. Particularly, the search terms are now highlighted, and there were various UI fixes and improvements the search algorithm as well.

We fixed the bug with VR reticle which could not be turned off after re-entering the WebXR session. Thank you for reporting this on the forums.

Verge3D apps no longer crash in older Safari browsers (before version 13, found on really old iPhones).

We have expanded some sections of the User Manual including Creating Mobile Apps, WordPress Plugin and App Manager to document new features, and updated some old info.