Website Change Log

[james]

Week of 22 March 2021

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Improvements

• The model embed code generator was missing some optional, but recommended, attributes on the iframe element

Fixes

• Opacity settings in glTF/GLB uploads was sometimes not processed correctly
• Textures in glTF/GLB uploads were sometimes not processed correctly
• Morph animations in glTF/GLB uploads were sometimes not processed correctly

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[james]

Week of 5 April 2021

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Improvements

• We’ve changed the way we handle models with more than 100 materials, and also reprocessed all “legacy” models that still had more than 100 materials. Instead of merging everything into 1 empty material, we “clamp” the materials at 100 and try to preserve the most important.

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[james]

Week of 12 April 2021

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Features

• We heard you. You can now filter downloadable models by specific licenses, including free vs. paid

Fixes

• Several fixes for USDZ creation
  • Rotations were sometimes incorrect in animated models
  • Emissive textures sometimes became bright purple
  • Skinned meshes were sometimes scaled incorrectly
  • Normal maps were inverted

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[james]

Week of 19 April 2021

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Fixes

• UV Texture transforms applied in 3D Settings and then exported to glTF were only being applied to the base color texture

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[james]

Week of 10 May 2021

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A lot of work lately has been focussed on performance and security, as well as features specific to Sketchfab for Teams, so the changelog might seem a bit thin.

Features

• We have a new page about AR on Sketchfab

Fixes

• Large images embedded using Markdown could sometimes overflow the model description area

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[james]

Week of 17 May 2021

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Features

• [Viewer API] Version 1.10

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[james]

Week of 31 May 2021

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Features

• We’ve added support for uploading USD files!

Fixes

• There was an issue with 3D Settings when using Baked AO ground + Alpha Mask

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[james]

Week of 7 June 2021

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Improvements

• Processing of textures should now be much faster

Fixes

• @ mentioning people in comments is no longer case-sensitive
• “Save View” failed on models with a disabled animation

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[james]

Week of 14 June 2021

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Features

• You can now delete comments from other people on your own models

Fixes

• Links in annotations and model descriptions that included “@” (e.g. Google Maps links) were not working correctly
• Links to email addresses in annotations and model descriptions that contained multiple nodes in their country-code second-level domain (e.g. .co.uk) were not working correctly

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[james]

Week of 21 June 2021

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Improvements

• Processing of Blender files is now much faster
• Processing of Collada (.dae) files (and especially SketchUp exports) is now much faster
• Animations that are deleted or disabled in 3D Settings are no longer exported to glTF / USDZ

Fixes

• [Data API] The isPublished parameter was ignored during PUT /v3/models/{uid} (i.e. it was not possible to publish a draft model while reuploading it)
• The automatically generated glTF did not correctly handle materials from Alembic (.abc) source files

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[james]

Week of 28 June 2021

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Fixes

• [Data API] The max_filesizes filter when searching for models to download was sometimes returning models larger than specified
• UV mapping in some Blender uploads was not processed correctly

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[james]

Week of 5 July 2021

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Improvements

• We now detect the unit of measurement used in FBX uploads for use in glTF, USDZ, and app-free AR.

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[james]

Week of 19 July 2021

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Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games! You can read the official announcement here, and learn what this means for you and you account here.

[james]

Week of 26 July 2021

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Fixes

• When logging in via OAuth from an external application, the window did not properly show what account you are currently logged in to
• It was not possible to re-like a model after unliking it via the V3 Data API

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[james]

Week of 16 August 2021

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Improvements

• We’ve made some changes to Refraction to make it less laggy

Fixes

• Changing your email settings showed an error even when it worked correctly

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[james]

Week of 6 September 2021

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Improvements

• The “Additional File” archive for Store models now has a 2GB limit instead of 1GB

Fixes

• Filtering models by max_filesizes in the V3 Data API was not working as expected and returned models bigger than the limit
• We fixed a couple typos in the Viewer API documentation regarding the assignMaterial function

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[james]

Week of 13 September 2021

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Improvements

• We updated the embed model code popup to include new attributes to make VR (WebXR) work

Fixes

• The timeline on our about page was broken

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[james]

Week of 20 September 2021

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Improvements

• Various improvements to the search filters

Fixes

• The viewer was not working in Safari 15 on macOS (WebKit Bug Report)

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[james]

Week of 11 October 2021

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Features

• We made some big updates to our plans

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[james]

Week of 18 October 2021

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Fixes

• iPads were not being properly detected as compatible with app-free AR

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