Will Welker

Yes it would be cool to be able to load a custom image. Also, due to the nature of loading large chunks of data at a time, the loading progress appears to stop. Being able to load an animated gif (like a little spinning gear icon) as part of the preloader would give the appearance of activity.

I haven’t heard of anybody doing that yet. That kind of feature is probably on the list. Instancing with Puzzle blocks would be cool.

I have done some playing around with parenting empties and meshes to a ring. A hidden mesh will follow along with the size change of the ring but the snap-to function will only snap to the mesh’s location at load time. So one solution would be to make the snap-to function work on object that get their location changed by scaling of the parent object.

In the meantime, there are two possible ways that could help you:
1. Set the origin point of you ring to the location you want jewels to snap to.
Or…
2. Parent all of the jewels to the ring and hide all except the one you want shown.

I have accomplished this by creating empties. The empties can be named, numbered and grouped in Blender for easy organization. Then you place the empty where you want it in the scene and it will be available in the Puzzles object picker. This also gives you the ability to place objects like your camera at a location where there is no mesh. In this example, my empties are named with integers so I can iterate through them with simple math in the Puzzles editor.

Awesome, I will try out the new features.

Each object can have animations. So you don’t need to play the entire time line. Just the -animation of- your object.
Animate two separate objects, export your scene, then look at the actions available in the selector block drop-down list.

There is an example of this in the example apps that come with Verge3D. Look for the JavaScript Callback example. This example shows two things: calling a custom function from your Puzzles and calling a Puzzles block from your JavaScript code.
Each project has a JavaScript file named like: my_projects_name.js.
Near the bottom of that file you will find a comment that says: //add your code here.
So have a look at the Puzzles and the JS file in the example app.

If you intend to load a material from a glTF file that you have imported after runtime, I have not been able to do that yet. But there may be better ways to make your materials available. For example, you can great a ‘library object’ which has multiple materials applied to it. In this picture, the library object is visible but you can hide it as well.

You can look at the Ring example as Yuri mentioned to see how materials are moved from object to object.