Shapespark releases

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We have just released Shapespark 3.6.0 with the following improvements:

  • HDR sky textures can now be used as a light source when baking a lightmap.
  • Added procedurally generated clouds for the Hosek-Wilkie sky model.
  • Easier interaction in VR: controllers are now visible and can be used to point and interact with the scene.
  • Added collisions in VR when moving with a controller’s thumbstick. Controllers will also vibrate when they or the camera collide with the scene geometry.
  • When viewing the scene on a VR headset, VR mode starts automatically.
  • Added the SwitchScene extension, which allows for easy switching to another Shapespark scene.
  • Reduced Z-fighting artifacts when viewed in Chrome on PCs.
  • Fixed mesh collisions not being updated after changing their visibility from external code.
  • Fixed materials dragged onto objects having broken UVs after upload.
  • Added a vertical offset parameter for the sky horizon.
  • Improved draft baking performance on larger scenes.
  • Improved the appearance of reflection material ball previews.
  • Improved initial camera positioning on imported scenes.
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We have just released Shapespark 3.6.1, mainly a bugfix release. It contains the following improvements:

  • Reflection probes are now automatically updated when objects or materials are switched.
  • Fixed inaccurate clicks on static objects which were made animated in the editor.
  • Fixed material picker not showing up correctly in the VR mode.
  • Fixed material picker balls not being selectable when using a camera volume trigger.
  • Fixed sky distortion when camera is far away from the scene center.
  • Decreased the lower bound for the “Field of view” settings in the Camera settings tab to 35 degrees.
  • Fixed importing of scenes which contain meshes with no triangles.
  • Fixed incorrect display of materials with textures stored in atlases.
  • Fixed incorrect display of transform gizmos when switching between different light types.
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Hi, does the reflection probe update work with custom html yet? I was trying today and couldn’t seem to get it to work with Material.baseColorTexture changing. when I do Viewer.requestFrame(), do I need to add in a Viewer.updateReflectionProbes() or some command to get the reflection probes to update?

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Hi,
Currently, reflection probes are only updated when materials are changed through the MaterialPicker extension or when objects are switched using the ObjectSwitch extension.

ViewerAPI has a function setMaterialForMesh(material, mesh), which when called for a specific mesh, should trigger a reflection probe update for all probes visible from it. However, this behaviour is not officially supported. If you write custom code that relies on this function, it might break in a future update.

We are planning a new ViewerAPI, which will be more comprehensive and should also officially include what you’re asking for. But we cannot provide an ETA for its release at this time.

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The [BoundingBox] switch in [ReflectionProbes] isn’t working. Even when I turn the switch off,
it always appears as if it’s ON in the scene. I wonder if this changed in update.

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Indeed, there is a bug involving reflection probe bounding box switch introduced in 3.6.1 .
We will fix it in the next release.

For now the simple workaround is to set bounding box min & max coordinates to very large numbers (like -9999 for min and 9999 for max). It should have the same effect as disabling the bounding box altogether.

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When will version 3.6.1 be released?

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3.6.1 was already released, on 18th May.
This problem which you mentioned will be fixed in 3.6.2 or 3.7.0.
Unfortunately I can’t say right now when we will release the next version.