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A thing I begged Soft8Soft not to do. Its one of those things you get when a company tries to make something easier for new users. Instead of new users learning to select the correct export they cause confusion for those that have other uses for the default GLTF exporter…UGH.

AR/VR/MR/XR…all great… with the best tools for these experiences already available to anyone wanting to go down that road. Having watched the growth of these things since the early 1980s I can say….its has always had potential, but has yet even today to become main stream.

There are lots of unique use cases where the hardware and software are sold as a product to an end client as a solution but the volume is very low. VR Surgery is one such example, but the solution is in the $millions$. Manufacturing also has some specific use cases but the volumes are very low too. Boeing has been using Hololens for years and still has problems with their system. The infrastructure alone is $millions$.

Apples Vision Pro is having marketability problems, same with HoloLens and others that should have been able to make a large push. Good quality tech is still out of reach for the general public and the majority of public users still do not use it as a primary method of visualization. One day…maybe but serious technological hurdles have to still be met such that the cost of entry is affordable, its used as the primary visual tool by the public and does overcomes all the current issues that exist in current products.

We build AR/VR/XR/MR experiences and we dont use V3D for any of it. V3D is a great intro to the space and kinda fun to do it. But if you want to make money at it…and have the best experiences…you have to use other tools.. Products life Vuforia have ownership over so many patents and hold those patents tight so the cost to create something great comes with a very high price tag. But so does your ability to charge the client. Verge3D is a tool and a good one. Turning my best screwdriver into a jackhammer…makes no sense. I may need a jackhammer but I bought a screwdriver and a good one. When I need a jackhammer I will buy one. When I need good AR/VR/etc…. you use the right tool.

However if you are trying to create an AR/VR/MR/XR on a budget comparable building a website on WordPress…good luck, its just will not work for Enterprise class solutions or anyone trying to reach all a clients customers nor will have good OS / browser / device compatibility…ugh.

Anyway…like I said if they make features that are easy for them to do. Great. If not… I would not waste any time on it.

Visualizer…. it may seem that I like to contradict everything you are saying but its not the case. I enjoy and respect your posts. Soft8Soft has stated they get their inspiration of direction from these forums so when ever there is a post that I feel may take Soft8Soft primary away, I like to provide a different perspective to balance things out.

3D object recognition would be great !! If its easy but thats the kicker. To do it well and to make it cross platform is a big deal. Companies like Vuforia know and have strong IP and patents to insure they have the market very cornered. The overall problem with XR in general is that the market is segmented in what it allows to ocur on its devices. Apple is very restrictive and Android is not. Developing mobile apps for public consumption and professionally supported…means finding a solution that allows you to develop once and deploy in both arenas. Unfortunately in the webgl world Apple and Android just dont see eye to eye. XR on Apple works but getting users to engage with having to download an XL viewer…its just not worth the effort for a user and not worth developing or paying for as a client when you already off put half your customer base. Until this problem is resolved I dont think we are going to get alot of necessity for AR, MR, XR. And its not a Soft8Soft issue its a bigger outside of their hands.

I think if Soft8Soft soft can provide the functionality easily and efficiently…and make the features not required to be created in the basic build process of a v3d app…then why not but if takes a lot of effort, that effort could be making the base functions of the app that much better. Improving its core foundation and updating its code base to be ready for the evolution to WebGPU.

Sirhc….Verge3d is a great tool. It does a lot of things very well, but it will never do everything you need as a developer. Just like you don’t keep one tool in your tool box and expect it to cut wood, weld and hammer in nails….we can’t expect V3D to do everything we as a developer can imagine. At some point you have to find other tools that fit in your tool box and with good choices you can integrate them into your V3D workflow.

Its the Shopping Cart icon on the left side of the screen when you are in the Verge3d App Manager.

to create a HTML text form that a user can use to enter the code:
https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/puzzles/HTML.html#add_HTML_element

to find your individual codes within you part number:
https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/puzzles/Text.html#find:~:text=Examples%3A-,%23,-get%20letter

Your order code number has a specific format. First two letters are model number so you can separate your order code by saying first two letters are the model number….letters 5 and 6 are accessories. Since 7 and 8 are also acessories and I have no idea how many accessories you are going to have you will have to create some logic that will determine the position of the first and second dash and then calculate the number of letters and then divide by two to get the total count of accessories. Then you can loop through them to get the individual accessory codes.

No problem… glad I can help. This forum has helped me so much it’s the least I can do. I am still learning too.