Upcoming features preview: disable shadow casting and video textures

[Vladan]

Thank you @wojtek for the feedback.
Non-standard dimensions, but also frame rates and application on not only flat surfaces, give us great opportunities.
Both announced enhancements are wonderful!

[Marcio_Moraes]

thank you very much, I will prepare my file

[wojtek]

Shapespark 1.13.0 including these features is out.

[nekochan]

• Shapespark 1.13.0

• Allow to edit position and rotation of lights and light probes with a 3D gizmo.

so can we rotate ? the light probes…do we need to press something to change from the move gizmo to rotate gizmo

[wojtek]

This queston has been answered in the separate thread:

How to used the new feature of the rotate gizmo for light proves and lights

Light probes and point lights do not have a notion of direction, unlike for example spot lights, so rotating them has no effect. This is the reason why the rotation gizmo is available only for spot lights, area lights and sun lights. For these light types you will notice a switch at the bottom of the screen allowing you to change between translation and rotation.

[bray]

Really like the video texture feature
Do you think there will be an alpha channel video format to use in the future?

[jan]

Unfortunately only WebM format supports alpha, but it doesn’t have wide browser support (for example Safari requires plugins to play it). We are considering adding an option to treat black video pixels as transparent, which would allow to have transparency effect with mp4.

[korop]

Sounds like a good workaround!

[tim]

That would be indeed helpful.

[jorgearq]

Excellent propousal, I hope you get it!