Versions

v0.19.2

26.09.2022

Improvements / features:

🚀 Faster scene loading times

⌛ Displaying render progress for photos

⚠️ Improved error reporting for failed renders

Bug fixes:

🪲 Various significant fixes for DOF/focus

🪲 Fixed issue with custom materials resetting when swapping objects

🪲 Fixed issue with export dimensions

🪲 Fixed issue in Quick Mode with clicking of locked objects (beta users only)

v0.19.0

Improvements / features:

👯 Parallel rendering for all photo exports using a queue system

🖼️ New and improved render gallery

Bug fixes:

🪲 Quick Mode / Creator Mode switch no longer in dev options (beta users only)

v0.18.3

Quick Mode Improvements (beta users only):

🎥 Added camera position sliders

Bug fixes:

🪲 Fixed scene deletion issue

v0.18.2

Quick Mode Improvements (beta users only):

↔️ Switch between Creator and Quick Mode

👆 Improved selection of objects

🪲 Fixed render server connection issues

Bug fixes:

🪲 Fixed blurry preview for high-pixel density screens

🪲 Fixed scaling issue with uploaded objects in scene

🪲 Performance fix for HDRI thumbnails

🪲 Undo/Redo fix for advanced material settings

v0.18.1

Improvements / features:

⤴️ Uploaded objects page

🧙🏿‍♂️ Quick Mode (beta users only)

🛰️ Small tweaks for camera orbiting speed

🎨 Performance optimizations for material editor

Bug fixes:

🪲 Scene hierarchy toggle icons are now visible again on hover

🪲 Fix issue with transform gizmos not being rendered when light added or object copy / pasted.

🪲 Fix applying of material maps in scene preview

🪲 Various fixes for textures

🪲 Various fixes for model loading

🪲 Various fixes for scrubbable inputs

🪲 Various improvements of transform controls

🪲 Various fixes for focus picker

v0.17.2

Improvements / features:

🔢 Improved numeric inputs - controlling with arrow keys, scrubbable when hovering over unit suffix, real-time updating of input values during animations and scene object manipulations

🪃 Replaced model now keeps bottom alignment if the previous one was aligned

⌛ Render gallery refreshing to show progress of rendering

⚙️ Refactored model setup

🔄 Refresh uploaded asset bar after updates in material config

Bug fixes:

🪲 Fixed handling of camera field of view

🪲 Fix for template background intensity issue

🪲 Fixed camera not being updated after movement when preview overlay is enabled

🪲 Fixed renders flickering on hover in renders gallery

🪲 Fixed copying scenes from another user

🪲 Fixed connection speed testing for image streaming

🪲 Fixed render server connection timing out if image rendering takes longer

🪲 Camera gizmos are now not clickable, thus not preventing clicking through them

+ lot of internal improvements

v0.17.1

released: Released: 09/08/2022

Improvements / features:

📏 If model aligned to bottom is replaced with other model it stays aligned to bottom

🪟 Various improvements and fixes to FOV setting

🖌️ Improvements to material system - categories, removing useless parameters

Bug fixes:

🪲 Fixed issue with camera position and rotation being reset to original position after it was moved

v0.17.0

Released: 09/08/2022

Improvements / features:

🎥 Camera animation (internal testers only)

🎥 Camera gizmos now visible in the scene

Bug fixes:

🪲 Fixed issue with camera orbit when camera was selected

🪲 Fixed login issue

🪲 Fixed issue with deleted scenes re-appearing

🪲 Fixed issue with renaming scene sometimes not working

🪲 Fixed issue with wrong global rotation axis

🪲 Fixed scene name changes not propagating to dashboard

🪲 Fixed issues with asset upload thumbnail and double processing of asset

🪲 Fixed material changes of user uploaded assets not working

v0.16.2

Released: 11/07/2022

Bug fixes:

🪲 Hide duplicate and delete button in editor

🪲 Added tolerance for detecting flat objects

🪲 Center thumbnails of uploaded assets

🪲 Fix replacing of objects breaking materials and rendering

v0.16.1

Released: 22/06/2022

Improvements / New Features

📷 New batch rendering system for image exporting

🖼️ New background settings and ability to export images with transparent backgrounds ᴮᴱᵀᴬ

🔧 Improvements to model setup: adding relevant data to library assets

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed some rare issues related to undo functionality

v0.16.0

Released: 16/06/2022

Improvements / New Features

🎥 Multiple camera system

👁️ Show / Hide the scene floor

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issues with undo after adding objects

🪲 Tiny gap added when placing objects to prevent z-fighting

🪲 Fixed issues with “F” hotkey

🪲 Fixed issues with shared scene screen

🪲 Fixed issue with scene item order in dashboard

v0.15.4

Released: 31/05/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed camera rotation issue when dragging on empty space

v0.15.3

Released: 25/05/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issue with “Error fetching scenes”

v0.15.2

Released: 25/05/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed crash when clicking asset vertical tabs

🪲 Locked objects can no longer be moved

v0.15.1

Released: 23/05/2022

Improvements / New Features

🗑️ Uploaded assets can now be deleted from library

📷 Camera controls: Can now continue dragging outside of canvas

💯 Transform values in side panel now update in realtime

🎚️ Slider values can be input manually beyond set maximum

👍 User accounts confirm without email

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed rare crash due to raycasting of lights

🪲 Improved page loading speeds when opening new templates

🪲 Fixed some objects that were single sided

🪲 Fixed issue with left sidebar vertical tabs

🪲 Design and text fixes

v0.15.0

Released: 27/04/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Potentially improved stability of transform controls

🪲 Show templates carousel for new users with no scenes

🪲 Fixed Safari image heights in templates

🪲 No sticky camera if mouse leaves canvas

🪲 Better handling of WS close events

v0.14.0

Released: only on QA

Improvements / New Features

⌨️ Hot keys changed (and help dialog updated)

⏳ Better messaging when rendering final image

🪟 Only one tab allowed open per user

Bug fixes

🪲 Improved lots of camera issues

🪲 Reduced the number of online checks

🪲 Improved clicks on objects not always registering

🪲 Dashboard header and sidebar now sticky again

🪲 Fixed issue with % loaded labels overlaying dialogs

🪲 Fixes issue with yellow arrows in lights always showing

v0.13.0

Released: only on QA

Improvements / New Features

🔥 Faster loading of recent scenes with infinite scroll

🌈 Project files saved to disk have new naming and file extension: [PROJECT NAME].colorful

🫓 Flat objects (e.g. lights, planes) have one scale axis disabled

🔒 Locked objects can be selected (but not moved)

🧊 Bounding boxes displayed for locked and hidden objects when selected

⏳ Better messaging when servers are full

🎠. Draggable image carousel

🖼️ New photo in login screen

🔴 Improved error handling

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed janky camera zooming issue

🪲 Fixed issue with switching modes on focus picker

🪲 Can no longer modify scale of camera

🪲 Toasts no longer overlap toolbar

v0.12.0

Released: only on QA

Improvements / New Features

🗺️ HDRIs as backgrounds

🎠 Templates carousel on dashboard

🎯 Move camera to selected object

🔎 Template search

🔗 Added / fixed links in top left dropdown

🖌️ Many little design tweaks / fixes

🔴 Nicer errors

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issues with toolbar button toggling

🪲 Fixed issue with /new entry URL not being cleared

🪲 Fixed gizmo not updating with number inputs

🪲 Various fixes for focus picker

🪲 Infinite scroll loads items sooner

🪲 Various fixes for server timeout

v0.11.1

Released: 12/04/2022

Improvements / New Features

🔗 /scene/new route added

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed dropdown anchor styling and clicking issues

v0.11.0

Released: 08/04/2022

Improvements / New Features

🖼️ HDRI thumbnails in HDRI select component

🖌️ Nicer design for general select component

⏰ Render server timeout for inactive users

Bug fixes

🪲 Removed dots menu for template items

🪲 Fixed issue with shared URLs and white renders

🪲 Fixed toolbar active states

v0.10.0

Released: 08/04/2022

Improvements / New Features

👀 All scene URLs now shareable (with preview when not logged in)

💡 Higher max light intensity

❌ Scenes can be deleted

⏳ Status displayed when new servers are being spun up

⌨️ Nicer form inputs for login/register

👍 Nicer scene thumbnails for mobile

🔗 URLs changed (no longer includes /studio)

🤫 Dev features hidden

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issue with object upload failing

🪲 Fixed issue with gizmo disappearing when scaling lights

🪲 Fixed flash of old scenes on login

🪲 Crash fix when user is offline and drags in models

🪲 Fix for issue with sensitive mouse and asset swap on click

🪲 Fixed unresponsive sliders for lights

v0.9.0

Released: 24/03/2022

Improvements / Changes

⬆️ Object Upload enabled for all users

📷 Objects with cameras can now be uploaded (still gives a warning)

🖼️ Improved thumbnail generation and saving

⚠️ Warnings for large models from asset database with lots of vertices

📜 Nicer scrollbars across the app

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed bounding boxes for problematic models

v0.8.0

Released: 21/03/2022

Improvements / Changes

🖼️ Preview Overlay: New wording, improved design for switch, disabled while dragging in assets

💡 Exponential sliders for lights

⛑️ Help Center: Links to docs and shortcuts dialog

📶 New status bar modes: offline, disconnection / reconnection attempts

⚠️ Warn users (and the dev team!) when their scene is crashing server

🔑 Warning on signup if password is too short

Experimental (only available for selected users)

⬆️ Object Upload

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issue with some flat objects only showing one side

🪲 Fixed black thumbnails

🪲 Re-syncing with render server to prevent black and white scenes

🪲 Fixed (another) scene permissions bug

🪲 Safari CSS bug fixed

v0.7.0

Released: 15/02/2022

Improvements / New Features

🔒 Lock/unlock objects from object panel

🦴 Skeleton thumbnails for scenes and templates

🚀 Templates and scenes instantly show loader bar when clicked

🙅‍♂️ Transform gizmo disabled until object is loaded

📱 Mobile support for dashboard

🖼️ Faster scene thumbnail uploads (resized and compressed)

🏷️ Dev tags for isDev templates

ℹ️ Extra info message when there is nothing to render :)

Bug fixes

🪲 No more permissions errors when making new scenes 🎉

🪲 Much more consistent thumbnail generation for scenes

🪲 Users immediately logged out if already logged out on other tab

🪲 Not displaying any initial white renders while syncing

🪲 Fixed render artefact issue related to invisible objects

v0.6.5

Released: 04/02/2022

Improvements

🚀 10x faster thumbnail loading with imgix integration

⚖️ Render server using auto-scaling load balancer

Object Upload: Completed Tasks

🔍 Front-end validation system on GLB files before uploading

Bug fixes

🪲 Can always exit export even during disconnection

🪲 Shadow casters now visible from both sides

🪲 Normal based placement tool now preserves Y axis rotation

Temporarily Disabled Features

🤫 Object Upload (soon!)

🤫 Team features hidden (until after launch)

🤫 Google sign-in hidden (until later)

v0.6.4

Released: 02/02/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed issue with duplicate render commands which was causing connection issues

🪲 Normal based placement tool now preserves Y axis rotation

v0.6.3

Released: 01/02/2022

Improvements

🔥 Cheaper materials on the front-end to reduce lag, especially for lower powered devices

📌 Sticky header and sidebar in dashboard when scrolling

🚀 Template items load in faster with Algolia and infinite scroll

Bug fixes

🪲 Rotating objects via number input working again

🪲 Fixed issue with wrong positions for objects in some templates

🪲 A few small design fixes (progress bar, spinner button, thumbnail “dots” removed)

v0.6.2

Released: 23/02/2022

Improvements / New Features

🚀 Assets search 100x faster

⚙️ Hold “s” while rotating an object to snap at 15 degree increments

🔍 Search results persist when switching between assets and scene graph

🔨 Draft assets only visible to flagged users

🔐 Login/register with Google

📈 FPS/Memory stats (dev option via main dropdown)

🔴 Autosave errors now display in status bar

Bug fixes

🪲 Focus picker maintains focus outside of focus mode

🪲 New users can always get back to confirmation page by logging in

🪲 Scale tool now handles 2D plane objects

v0.6.1

Released: 16/02/2022

Bug fixes

🪲 Focus picker working from all camera angles

🪲 All templates now visible with infinite scrolling

🪲 Render commands sent much quicker after object manipulation

🪲 Middle mouse button clicks no longer cause selections or interactions (only pans)

v0.6.0

Released: 14/02/2022

Features

🤩 Templates page with beautiful starter designs

🔍 Focus picker: Now displays icon to show current focus point

🎨 Color picker: UX now consistent across all browsers, hex text editable

🌀 App status for saving/rendering/syncing/disconnected/errors

🌈 Colorful progress bars!

💡 Intensity of HDRI never too dark/bright on front-end

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 New design for team members and team settings

🖼️ Frame tool: Auto-sizes so it doesn’t clip; preset list

⌨️ Hotkey: Deselect objects with “Esc”

🔧 Added render settings to debug panel

💯 Version number now moved to dev panel (can be toggled using top-left menu)

Experimental Features

❗ Share button pops out a non-functional (but pretty looking) dialog

❗ You’re all stuck with Nik’s non-functional (but pretty looking) memoji in the toolbar

❗ Object upload still has known issues

Bug fixes

🪲 Fixed various issues with locked/hidden objects

🪲 Various issues fixed with transform controls

🪲 Focus picker: Moving camera while in focus mode doesn’t affect focus

🪲 Fixed issue with accidental object replacement when dragging assets

🪲 Front-end / render-server model position issue fixed

🪲 Export button now works from inside focus mode

🪲 Selection of UI elements no longer possible

🪲 Frame size now properly saved for projects

🪲 Faster page loads with better implementation of next.js links

🪲 Fixed object clicking selection sensitivity issue

v0.5.0

Released: 04/02/2022

Features

🎨 New design for dashboard: header, sidebar, recent scenes and team scenes

🪑 Asset search linked to database (no more redeploys required! 🤖)

🔆 HDRI list linked to database

👁️ Transform gizmo improvement: All irrelevant parts of gizmo hide while transforming

👉 Normal placement combined with transforms: Just click and drag on the model itself to use normal placement

💯 Version number now visible in bottom corner of editor

Experimental Features

❗ Upload your own assets. This is somewhat functional but there are definitely bugs! Approach with caution and report anything strange

Bug fixes

🪲 Latest scenes now displaying properly, in correct order

🪲 Fixed various issues with normal placement tool, much more stable now!

🪲 Fixed issues with bounding box sizes and placement

🪲 Gizmo rotation arcs now update when editing rotations via number inputs

🪲 Object rotations now working via number inputs

🪲 Editor UI now only appears once data has loaded (no longer looking at an empty scene for a few seconds before it all pops into place)

🪲 Intensity of lights now better matched between front-end and render server

🪲 Fixed an app crash issue

🪲 Fixed lagging of intersection markers with transform gizmo

🪲 Fixed issue with touchpad panning on Mac

🪲 All store state properly cleared on sign-out (including teams)