Website Change Log

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#221

Week of 30 November 2020

Features :sparkles:

  • You can now embed a model with a “dark” theme (ui_theme=dark) for better visibility light-colored backgrounds

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#222

Week of 7 December 2020

Features :sparkles:

Fixes :bug:

  • Various fixes to Blender processing
  • Various fixes to glTF/GLB processing
  • Fixed uploading FBX + animation files
  • Fixed slow processing for models with many nGons
  • Fixed processing for models with Morph Geometries but no attached animation

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#223

Week of 14 December 2020

:warning: Draft models are now deleted after 30 days if they are not published.

Fixes :bug:

  • Reviewing a Store model did not work

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#224

Week of 4 January 2021

Fixes :bug:

  • Various fixes for glTF/GLB processing
  • Password reset emails were not being sent

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#225

Week of 11 January 2021

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • Updates to the way we display why a model has been disabled
  • Improved the way “copy license” text works for downloadable models

Fixes :bug:

  • reCAPTCHA broke the login page in older browsers, especially browsers embedded inside other applications

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#226

Week of 18 January 2021

Fixes :bug:

  • Deleted models could remain in collections
  • Profile “Uploads” page filters did not work reliably

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#227

Week of 25 January 2021

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

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#228

Week of 1 February 2021

Features :sparkles:

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • We streamlined the error messages related to failed model uploads, to help everyone get to useful information more quickly :nerd_face:
  • [Store] We cleaned up the way prices are displayed around the site, for more consistent formatting $X.xx :moneybag:

Fixes :bug:

  • [Data API] Updating a collection was failing if the collection contained more than 24 models
  • Viewer controls on the model page were not visible/reachable on certain phone screen sizes :iphone:

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#229

Week of 8 February 2021

:wave: We’ve started some pretty big projects related to site performance. It doesn’t make sense to list every technical change, but hopefully the website and the 3D viewer will continue to get faster in the coming months! :rocket:

Fixes :bug:

  • Student emails were sometimes not being sent the correct confirmation message on signup
  • Some inks in the notification were going to to the wrong pages
  • A couple glitches in USDZ animations were solved

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#230

Week of 15 February 2021

Features :sparkles:

  • We now (officially) support uploading models from mobile devices through the website. Just tap the up-arrow upload button from any iOS or Android device to upload files from your phone or tablet.

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Fixes :bug:

  • Duplicating a model sometimes worked as expected, but showed an error message. Now, it should only show an error message when there is actually an error.
  • The previous version of a model became unavailable to view while a new version was being re-uploaded, which was not the expected behavior

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#231

Week of 22 February 2021

Features :sparkles:

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • We changed the suffix added during model duplication from " - duplicate" to " - copy", to save some characters in model titles

Fixes :bug:

  • [Store] We fixed a bunch of small issues on the Review Your Purchase page

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#232

Week of 1 March 2021

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • We increased the maximum point cloud size from 10 to 50
  • We added the / shortcut to focus the search bar on any page

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  • Similar to the Quest 2 update a few weeks ago, we disabled Temporal Antialiasing (TAA) for the Oculus Quest 1, which should really improve rendering performance in VR on that headset.

Fixes :bug:

  • There was an issue with some USDZ files having wrongly rotated objects
  • [Viewer API] Adding a new annotation during the onload callback prevented existing annotation tooltips from loading

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#233

Week of 8 March 2021

Features :sparkles:

  • We made some changes to transparency, separating Alpha Mask into its own channel to allow more freedom in opacity rendering (masking + blending, etc.)
  • We’ve added a Sheen channel, which is useful for rendering different types of fabric
  • We’ve added UV Transformations to 3D Settings
  • We now import and export UV Transformations, more transparency types (Transmission), Clear Coat, and Sheen via glTF / GLB only
  • We added a new default HDR environment called Studio Soft (courtesy of Browzwear). It has nice neutral colors lighting the model fairly evenly from all directions:

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Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • Clicking the download icon on model previews now directly opens the download popup

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Fixes :bug:

  • The “Share” and “Embed” buttons for collections were not working.

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#234

Week of 15 March 2021

Fixes :bug:

  • Duplicating a password-protected model did not work
  • [Viewer API] The recent changes to Alpha Masking caused some errors when changing opacity channels via the API
  • [Viewer API] Muting a video texture was not occurring fast enough to stop browser’s from blocking autoplay
  • Re-uploading failed when a duplicated texture with the same name existed in 3D Settings and the new version
  • Deleting an animation and then re-uploading the model with animation caused editing 3D Settings to fail

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#235

Week of 22 March 2021

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

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

Fixes :bug:

  • 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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#236

Week of 5 April 2021

Improvements :chart_with_upwards_trend:

  • 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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#237

Week of 12 April 2021

Features :sparkles:

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

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Fixes :bug:

  • 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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#238

Week of 19 April 2021

Fixes :bug:

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#239

Week of 10 May 2021

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 :sparkles:

Fixes :bug:

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

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#240

Week of 17 May 2021

Features :sparkles:

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