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Shapespark 2.7.0 is out with the following changes:

  • Improved ambient occlusion. Ambient occlusion is now a separate feature from ambient light, and is applied to the total light a surface receives, not only to the ambient part of the light, which makes the effect much more visible. Furthermore, the intensity of ambient occlusion can be controlled with the Intensity setting.
  • Fog. The Sky tab has new settings allowing to enable fog effect in the scene and control the fog color, density and distance from the camera.
  • Protected scenes. An uploaded scene can now be made protected, in which case Shapespark generates a secret that must be included in the scene URL for the scene to be opened. Knowing a scene name or having a public scene URL is insufficient to open a protected scene.
  • Custom icons on extension triggers. Trigger configuration now offers the possibility to upload a custom icon in addition to selecting one from the pre-defined list.
  • Interaction prompt. The prompt is an animated banner shown after the scene has been loaded to indicate that the scene is interactive. It can be enabled in the Viewer tab.
  • Video meeting improvements:
    • Custom avatars in 3D meetings. Such avatars can be configured in collaboration with the Shapespark team and are available only in the Premium plan. More details can be found in the announcement.
    • Synchronize scene changes made with the Switch objects extension between meeting participants.
    • Use Simulcast technique to adapt video resolution to the participants’ internet connection bandwidth.
    • Limit the size of the participant list and make it scrollable to make the user interface less crowded on small screens.
  • Allow to disable panning in the orbit mode. The Orbit mode settings now include a checkbox for this.
  • Exporters’ improvements fixes:
    • Export SketchUp group name as Shapespark object type name.
    • Export SketchUp component instance name in addition to component definition name. The Shapespark object type name is now created from joining the two names.
    • Prevent light names conflicts when Shapespark lights are copied between SketchUp models.
    • Fix removing a material map in 3ds Max not being applied to a Shapespark scene on scene update.
  • Make video textures added in the editor tile if they are of power-of-two dimensions.
  • Block exporting a scene from SketchUp, Revit or 3ds Max exporter if there is already some operation, eg. bake, in progres for the scene. This prevents simultaneous scene modifications that could potentially lead to scene corruption.
  • Add viewer API functions for VR mode management:
    • Viewer.vrEnabled - checks if the VR mode is enabled,
    • Viewer.enableVr - enables the VR mode,
    • Viewer.disableVr - disables the VR mode.
  • Cloud editor leaves beta.
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