Hello @wojtek
In your last point, you said you have removed orange border from editor’s viewport.
Is it the same issue I had raised here - Full-page Shapespark iframe - #6 by nishantambekar
Thanks.
Yes, it sounds like it’s the same issue.
@wojtek , these are amazing updates! Thank you for the hard work 
Especially I love the featue for rotating objects as it makes scenes more active and dynamic
Agree! Amazing update! 
Is possible the 3D object can spin or rotate between a specific angle, and a specific axis?
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Hello wojtek
I’m glad that shapespark has added the rotation function, currently it can only rotate in one direction, will a later version add the option for users to rotate the model clockwise or counterclockwise?
@haruhime The number input for rotation speed has some problems accepting negative numbers, which we will fix, but you should already be able to enter negative numbers with some effort (try for example pressing & dragging the mouse button on the number input or enter a positive number first and then add a ‘-’ in front as the last step)
@shyan supporting rotation around any axis/angle is larger effort and we don’t have plans to do it soon. The scene storage format doesn’t have information where is the center of an object. Rotating around the UP axis (yaw rotation) was easiest to support, because it works well with an approximate rotation point at the center of an object bounding box, but other axes do not work well with such approximation.
Oh! So that’s it, thanks a lot!
I like your question @shyan , Shapespark users would get a rotation - opening / closing doors in the future.
Shapespark 2.5.2 has just been rolled out:
- Stereo panorama. The screenshot function now allows to generate stereoscopic 360 panoramas in addition to regular flat panoramas.
- Allow to crop the minimap to an area relevant for the scene visitor. This allows the minimap to focus on the interior and ignore the exterior objects.
- Allow to copy color from a scene element in the color picker. The color is copied between the same scene element types: light color picker allows to copy color from another light, material color picker allows to copy color from another material, and trigger color picker from another trigger.
- Revit exporter improvements:
- Support for Revit model groups. A model group is exported as a hierarchical Shapespark object: the group becomes a parent object and group elements become the object’s children.
- Support for Revit 2023.
- Make the camera auto-climb speed adapt to the horizontal camera speed. This prevents the auto-climb function from walking into a wall on a steep staircase.
- Replace Noto Sans font with Open Sans in the viewer and editor UI. Include the Vietnamese character subset in the font.
- Fix number input controls in the editor to allow entering negative values from the keyboard.
- Allow to configure the object rotation speed with greater precision (0.001 revolutions per second).
- Fix extension configuration issues when trigger properties were changed while the trigger position was not set yet. Such issues led to scene corruption if the scene with broken extension configuration was saved.
- Fix load error when a scene is opened in an Android app which has a built-in browser, for example: Facebook Messenger or WeChat.
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hi, where is the stereo panorama/ screen shot function?
You need to press a p key in the Shapespark editor and set mode to 360 stereo panorama:
Shapespark 2.5.3 is out with the following changes:
- Multi-material edition. The Material tab now allows to select multiple materials and edit properties of all the selected materials at once.
- Revit exporter improvements and fixes:
- Strip numbers that Revit adds automatically to linked model names. Now, if a model is linked a few times in a project, all links use the same name in Shapespark.
- Fix an imported CAD model being rendered black when the Mirror transformation is used on the model.
- Fix failing export if a Revit project contains a model group without any exportable elements.
- Use WebGL2 on iOS devices. Viewer on iOS device can now leverage centroid sampling to reduce lightmap aliasing artifacts. WebGL2 had already been used by other platforms.
- Fix double-clicking in the editor viewport not navigating to the clicked point. The double-click navigation was broken in the previous release.
- Expose global variables corresponding to URL hash viewer options. The global variables can be modified from custom JavasScript code (for example placed in a
body-end.html):- WALK.FLIP_MOUSE corresponds to #flipmouse,
- WALK.AUTO_PLAY corresponds to #autoplay,
- WALK.HIDE_PLAY corresponds to #hideplay,
- WALK.SHOW_HELP_ON_LOAD corresponds to #help,
- WALK.GAZE_IN_POINTER_LOCK corresponds to #gazeinpointerlock,
- WALK.NO_GAZE_TELEPORT corresponds to #nogazeteleport,
- WALK.VR_LO corresponds to #vrlo,
- WALK.VR_HI corresponds to #vrhi,
- WALK.MOBILE_HI corresponds to #mobilehi.
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We’ve just released Shapespark 2.6 with the following changes:
- Cloud editor (beta). You can now edit and bake scenes directly in the cloud, by using the cloud version of the Shapespark editor. More details can be found in the announcement.
- Support for 3ds Max 2023.
- Automatic camera path calculation to avoid passing through obstacles when switching between views and navigating with the minimap. The feature is enabled by default for new scenes, and for existing scenes enable it with the Auto path option in the Camera tab.
- Material UV transformation. Allow to configure UV scale and offset for a material to adjust the UV mapping.
- The Lights and Objects tabs now allow you to select multiple items and edit properties of all the selected items at once. The Materials tab already had support for multi-edition, but this version enhances the feature by making multiple materials selectable also by clicking in the editor viewport.
- Minimap improvements and fixes:
- Allow to set model rotation in the minimap.
- Anti-alias the minimap image.
- Allow to set the minimum and maximum camera distance for orbit and top views.
- Add fixed camera height mode that maintains constant height above objects with Walk on option enabled. The Camera height option becomes available in the Camera tab after enabling Auto climb .
- Allow to copy text color between anchors in the color picker.
- Allow to automatically rewind Audio extension or video texture tracks each time the track is played.
- Allow to share audio track together with the screen track during a 3D meeting screen sharing. The feature is supported only in the Chrome browser.
- Show Meeting projection screen trigger also in the editor to simplify the trigger positioning.
- Fix material picker texture application issue in the editor for repeating textures.
- Fix material picker 3D meeting state synchronization issue that led to meeting interruptions.
- Fix light markers flickering in the scene editor on certain platforms.
- Viewer API improvements:
- Allow to enable/disable minimap.
- Allow to register multiple listeners by
Viewer.onNodeTypeClicked.
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Outstanding update!
I haven’t had a chance to review all the features, but UV transformation and Automatic camera path calculation are super useful.
Keep up the good work!
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Hi @wojtek ,
I am not getting the prompt to update my version to this latest release. Is there any way to force update the desktop app?
Thanks.
@nishantambekar, your account had particular beta version assigned. Please restart Shapespark one more time - it should update to 2.6.0 now.
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Shapespark 2.6.1 is out with the following changes:
- Improvements for troubleshooting meeting issues:
- Connection quality indicator. The meeting control panel now includes a three-level quality indicator showing the current quality of the meeting connection.
- Meeting connection preflight test. The viewer performs a short connection tests before the participant joins the meeting to detect critical connection issues, for example a firewall blocking the connection.
- Exclusive option for audio/video-related extensions. The Audio, VideoTextureControl and VideoStream extension have a new option Exclusive that allows only one exclusive extension to be playing at a given moment. If an exclusive extension is playing while the visitor clicks a trigger of another exclusive extension, the playing one is paused.
- Look around smoothing for walk views controlled with a mouse or touchscren.
- Several fixes and improvements to automatic camera path computation, including:
- Improve path precision when there are large non-colliding background objects in the scene, for example a custom sky sphere or planes with 2D images of the surrounding.
- Fix teleport executed through the viewer API not being instant for maxTime = 0.
- Fix cutout textures not being detected when imported in the scene editor. This led to inconsistent texture look between the edit and view modes.
- Fix type of imported lights being impossible to change because of the linked property
not reacting to clicks. - Fix performance problems in scenes where visibility of large hierarchies of objects was controlled by the Switch objects extension.
- Fix desktop application not remembering the folder of the last selected file for model or texture import. The issue occured only on some systems where Shapespark was installed long-time ago.
- Fix inconsistent font use in the desktop application.
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We’ve just rolled out Shapespark 2.6.2 - a bugfix release with the following changes:
- Make the SketchUp exporter include light roll (rotation around the lighting direction). This enables adjusting ligjt roll in SketchUp for lights that are later changed into non-axially symmetric in Shapespark, for example: an area light, or a point light with an IES profile.
- Fix looking around using keyboard that was broken in the previous release.
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