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New Features:

• Backend support for all Three.js light types. Frontend support to come. (@sdumetz)

Bug fixes:

• UI updates to improve consistency on both the front and back ends. (@sdumetz)
  • This addresses #257 as well as issues with pose UI updating for multi-model scenes
• Standard shaders now correctly read AO from only the red channel of the loaded texture.
• Opacity now correctly cached in material override settings
• Camera rotation normalized when entering and exiting tours to avoid unintended 'unwinding'
• Fix for AR not launching in Chrome on iOS

Misc:

• Dependency updates to address vulnerabilities
• Webpack config updated for faster builds (@sdumetz) (Note: Build now requires a minimum Node version of 14.15.0)
• Docker image updated to Ubuntu 20.04, Node 16.20.2 (Note: If you have an existing Voyager image you must rebuild with this release)

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New Features:

• Annotation content boxes will now truncate when clipping the Voyager container and provide a link that spawns an overlay with the full content.
  • This is in response to many reports of unviewable annotation content (including #99, #58) especially on mobile. Since we cannot guarantee the content won't clip, this will ensure it is viewable in some way. This combined with saved annotation views should handle most scenarios.
• Automatic near/far calculation can now be disabled under camera settings
• New option for intro splash screen that appears on load.
  • Enable it by adding 'Intro' text under the Collection tab in Voyager Story.
  • Useful for scenarios when the user needs important information before the experience, e.g. context for a culturally sensitive object. We do not recommend this be liberally used.

Bug fixes:

• Fix for annotation color 1,1,1 not being savable.
• Patch for grid measurement label showing up in settings.
• Crashing when loading a model with no normals fixed. Models will now have normals generated when they have a material flagged as flatShaded.
• When loading thumb and then higher level derivative, it was possible for the loading to finish out of order. The active quality level derivative will now get priority.
• Several bug fixes relating to use/configuration of annotation view during tour setup.

Feature Release: AR Code Support

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New Features:

• Support for QR (or similar) image codes that will display when the AR button is clicked on a non-AR capable device.
  • Creating these codes for the experience url will allow your users to easily scan with their mobile device and return to experience the AR.
  • To implement, add an image to the scene.svx with the usage attribute set to "ARCode".
• New in-world tool labels show values for the measurement tool and grid scale. (#213)
• Support for annotation views
  • You can now save a specific viewpoint along with an annotation at the bottom of the annotation task panel.
  • This is the view the user will transition to when opening the annotation.
  • Setting the view is optional. Without one, opening an annotation will function as previous.
  • Click 'view' to restore the currently saved viewpoint. Click 'delete' to remove the view and return to default functionality.
• Material properties now cached so material 'override' parameters can now be restored by just turning off the override option. (#237)

Bug fixes:

• Handle error in loadingManager when JSONWriter.put fails (@sdumetz)
• Grid no longer shifts when moving between Pose and other tasks in Story
• Improved zonemap blending in shader (@sdumetz)
• Audio updates
  • Controls now show when narration audio is playing
  • Starting an audio player when one is already playing will stop and reset the active player
• Fix for bad WebDAV request when dragdrop is enabled (#252) (@sdumetz)
• Enforce unique article editor image names (#169)
• Active annotations now deselect when selecting a new model in multi-model scenes

Misc:

• 'Viewer' category now on by default when creating a new tour
• Capture task 'Restore' renamed to 'View' - still restores actively saved view
• Annotations can now link to any article in the scene, not just ones on the selected model

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New Features:

• Audio task enabled for Standalone mode of Voyager Story

Bug fixes:

• Circle annotations refactored to HTML base. Improves flexibility and removes dependency on abandoned three-bmfont-text package
• New audio elements auto-select on creation
• Lighting factor application fix for directional lights (#244)
• Fix for failing runtime mode change (#246)
  • Note - this results in suboptimal memory release if destroying the component on a page. We recommend reloading new content rather than destroying/creating.
• Shader bug fixes to match Three.js r158 (replaces #247)

Misc:

• Three.js updated to r158
• Cleanup of extraneous Quill (old article editor) references

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New Features:

• Alt modifier key now snaps to 90 deg when rotating in Pose task (#207)

Bug fixes:

• Fix for objects with object-space normals not rendering correctly
• Fix for persistent blur when transitioning from Tour menu to Pose task
• Clay mode now renders accurately for UberPBRAdvMaterial
• ShadowSide can be correctly configured in Story
• Shader bug fix for materials using Sheen
• Default bounding radius added for scenes with no visible objects on load (#233)
• Cut plane bug fix for adv materials with no transmission (#234)
• Added missing alt text/caption for circle annotation images (#235)
• Constrained image proportions in annotations (#236)

Misc:

• Three.js updated to v157
• GA event added for audio playing

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Bug fixes:

• Caption files starting at time 0 now function correctly
• Overridden materials being properly updated with Three.js

Feature Release: Physically Based Materials

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New Features:

• Materials imported as Three.js "MeshPhysicalMaterial" will now respect those properties and use a derivative of that material rather than falling back to the standard material in all cases.
  • The new material (UberPBRAdvMaterial) still supports the same standard extended features (normal view, x-ray, cut plane. etc.) but opens up support for advanced glTF PBR properties like transmission and translucency.
  • This also allowed the uberPBRShader to be updated to become more in line with the current Three.js version which will ease future updates.

Bug Fixes:

• Annotation materials are now excluded from tone mapping

Bug Fix Release

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Bug fixes:

• Fix for Circle Annotation shader bug
• Add missing 'target' attribute support to annotation links
• Default links to open in a new tab
• Re-sort UI so all open annotation appears on top of closed annotations but below UI.

Misc:

• Updated fork og three-bmfont-text to accommodate shader bug fix

Bug Fix Release

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Bug fixes:

• Fix for null node bug when swapping side-by-side scenes
• Fixed bad shadow root reference when using side-by-side scenes

Misc:

• Dependency updates to address vulnerabilities
• Three.js updated to v156
  • This includes updates to ff-scene and ff-three libraries to support this version
  • Note - this includes the Three.js update to more physically accurate lighting. Until we can support this, the previously used Pi lighting factor has been reapplied.

Feature Release: Annotation Audio & Images

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New Features:

• Images can now be added to to annotations (#194)
  • Max height 120px
  • Includes entry of credit/caption line and alt text
• Audio can now be added to annotations
  • Includes custom reusable audio controls
  • Includes system-wide support for audio closed captions (Web VTT format)
• Annotation lead text character count limited to improve usability/visibility
  • Limits adjust based on inclusion of image/audio

Misc:

• Misc dependency updates to address vulnerabilities