In VR mode stairs climbing is disabled while walking to improve performance, but it should work while using the teleport. The problem can be if there is some geometry at a head level above the stairs that will block the camera path. In such cases you may need to teleport more than once to get to the bottom of the stairs. Can you share a link to the scene that has this problem?
@Random in this scene you need to set the Walk on flag also for the ground floor, not just stairs. Otherwise if you teleport from the stairs to be above the ground floor, the teleport it not able to check the height above the ground and is not able to update it.
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We’ve just released Shapespark 1.13.0 with the following list of changes:
- Allow to edit position and rotation of lights and light probes with a 3D gizmo.
- Support for video textures provided as MP4 and OGV files.
- Allow to bake a scene with selected objects not casting shadows on the surrounding objects. This enables hiding and replacing objects in the scene using the existing Hide in views option without the hidden objects leaving dark shadow spots.
- Enable 360 panorama pictures generated in the Shapespark editor ( P key) to be recognized as 360 photos when posted on Facebook.
- Objects in the editor’s Objects tab can now be sorted by name, as an alternative to the default sorting by size.
- Fix incorrect Hide in views behavior in the editor. Previously, hiding objects of a selected type could have lead to hiding parts of objects of another type as well.
- Fix texture file selection issue when the selected file is from the current scene’s textures/raw subdirectory.
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Awesome!
So far I just tried light position improvement and it is so much better! A lot easier and more accurate.
Is there a possibility to add a clone/duplicate light function in future? Also, group editing would be nice as well. (Editing properties for multiple lights at same time).
Thanks a lot!
Have you tried creating multiple instances of the same light (in the Instances panel of the Lights tab)? This would allow you to create multiple identical light sources, with properties like strength or size changed for all of them at once.
There is also a light naming convention which allows you to import lights from a 3D file (eg. FBX, DAE) as instances of a single Shapespark light: Any way to create lights externally (withhout sketchup) - #10 by wojtek
Thanks,
Instances tab is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Somehow I’ve missed it.
We’ve just released Shapespark 1.14.0 with the following list of changes:
- A Revit add-in for exporting models to Shapespark. The add-in is installed automatically when Shapespark is installed or updated.
- Improved VR-mode support for gamepads and VR controllers:
- Switch to previous and next views with controllers.
- Walk with controllers.
- Change height with controllers.
- Disable gaze teleport if a controller is detected.
- A water material with animated waves.
- Add acceleration while turning left/right with keyboard and gamepad to make the camera movement smoother.
- Support for saving screenshots in the viewer with the p key (not only in the editor).
- Enable 360 panorama pictures generated in the Shapespark editor ( p key) to be recognized as 360 photos by Google Photos.
- Faster exports from SketchUp to Shapespark for models with large number of textures.
- Fix video textures loading problems on iOS devices.
- Fix VR screen freeze on mobile Chrome for scenes with video textures.
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Very nice improvements👍🏼
Thanks for google photos recognition 
How can I use the water material? 
Can I insert lights directly from revit? 
The water material needs a normal map for the wave types. Is this a real normal map which is here required or just a height map?
you can switch between the material types to have access to the settings:
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No, but we are considering adding such a feature in one of the future versions.
Currently, only the Sun position is imported from Revit.
This is a real normal map. You can find the built-in water-waves normal map in the raw\textures subdirectory of a scene, if the scene uses this texture.
Okay. So can we then expect that normal maps for other surfaces will also come soon?
Very nice update!
Screenshot function works great, very useful.
What is the maximum resolution for the screenshot?
It seems that I’m not able to generate panoramas over 4K resolution.
Looks like browser’s memory limit most likely.
The maximum resolution depends on a system. Memory limit is one factor that can limit the resolution, maximum render buffer size is another. According to: http://webglstats.com/webgl/parameter/MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE about 30% of systems do not allow to render to targets larger than 4K.
Unfortunately not. We still do not have short-term plans for using normal & bump maps with static baked lighting (more info in this post: Normal maps in Shapespark - #4 by wojtek).
The water material already uses normal map, because in this case the dynamic lighting (reflections based on light probe images) is prevailing, so they work well even without static baked lighting support.
Improved VR-mode support for gamepads and VR controllers:
- Switch to previous and next views with controllers.
- Walk with controllers.
- Change height with controllers.
- Disable gaze teleport if a controller is detected.
I recently had the opportunity to see a scene in virtual reality with the new driver update, just excellent !! The possibility of moving smoothly through space with control is a great advance, I really thank you
Could you share a video showing this? And what device used please?
We’ve just released Shapespark 1.15.0 with the following list of changes:
- Location-dependent camera settings. Allows to set different camera exposure in different regions of a scene. Especially useful for mixed exterior-interior scenes to prevent overexposed exterior or too dark interior.
- Switch to the Basis Universal texture compression format which reduces the scene download size. The three separate compressed formats for different device types (DXT, ETC1, PVRTC) are no longer generated.
- Switch VR mode to use the WebXR browser API instead of the older WebVR API. The switch fixes skewed render scale in VR mode that made room dimensions feel unrealistic on some devices. VR mode now requires HTTP’S connection (WebXR requirement).
- Enable material picker to work in VR mode.
- Automatically adapt VR mode camera height to match the user eye height if the VR device provides such information.
- Request access to orientation and motion sensors when the user enters VR mode on an iOS 13 device. The user no longer has to change Safari settings prior to entering VR mode (such settings change is still required on earlier iOS versions).
- Improve self-hosting bundles format to work out-of-the-box with more HTTP server configurations.
- A larger selection of icons to be used on clickable anchors in scenes.
- Improve numerical slider in the editor.
- More intelligent model updates to facilitate creation of custom importers.
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Great work guys, a lot of nice improvements!
A question:
Will a scene generated with the new version of Shapespark work with the previous version of the viewer? (walk.min.js)
Thanks