Feature Release: AR Enhancements

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New Features:

• Support for wall-mounted objects in AR
  • Experience is modal (set in scene file) - wall or floor based
  • AR intro text changes to identify mode
• Scale display in AR
  • Indicator appears when scaling to show integer scale factor from base
  • Tracks to edge of window when model is off screen
• Support for pre-scaling AR models
  • Some models are much too big for a good indoor AR experience. You can now add an AR scale factor so the models appear at a reasonable size.
  • Pre-scaled models will flash scale indicator immediately on load

Bug Fix Release

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Bug fixes:

• Added functionality to shift truncated tour stop titles on click (#116)
• Help screen style fixes for mobile aspect ratio
• Article style tweaks to better match article editor

Feature Release: Help screen

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New Features:

• A help screen has been added for the main UI that outlines navigation controls and main menu icons.
• This update involved redesigning the language button for a more intuitive UI.

Feature Release: GA4

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New Features:

• Transition to Google Analytics v4
  • Custom events follow new paradigm and naming scheme.
  • Example pages replace old embed code with new GA4 format
• Call-to-action indicators added to tour and article menus
  • Based on UX review

Bug fixes:

• Pose transformations now apply correctly to existing annotations #84

Misc:

• Misc dependency updates to address vulnerabilities

Bug Fix Release

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New Features:

• Articles can be reordered in the Story interface (per node) (#212)

Bug fixes:

• Fix for broken multilingual article creation via optimized update paths
• Deleting multilingual articles now deletes all alternate language assets

Misc:

• Added better description of 'articles' folder paradigm to documentation

Feature Release

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New Features:

• Added support for <sup> and <sub> tags in annotations
• Added support for animating light position
• Hawaiian language UI option
• Added prompt to encourage user to interact with the scene
  • Enabled by default, can be disabled by setting the 'prompt' attribute of the Explorer component to false.
  • Disappears when user interacts
  • Disabled if navigation is also disabled

Bug fixes:

• Fixed odd drag/drop behavior (#200)
• Changed pointer to 'grab' when over interactive 3D window
• Fix for language changing race condition (#211 @sdumetz)
• Fix for inability to delete the last tour in a scene

Bug Fix Release

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New Features:

• Support for all Three.js Standard Material properties (@sdumetz)
• Image captions enabled in article editor (found on image details panel)
• Added API function to open an article based on ID (#192)
  • setActiveArticle()

Bug fixes:

• Lights now auto-position and scale based on scene units. (#88)
  • Light helpers also scale
• Shadow scale and quality auto-adjust to scene size/units. (#8)
• Article put/get mime type standardized (#202)
• Fixed odd drag/drop behavior (#200)
• 'doubleSided' material property override responsiveness fixed
• More responsive Story header (@pakrettt)

Misc:

• Added documentation/example for setActiveArticle()

Drag/Drop Feature Release

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New Features:

• Decoupled drag/drop functionality from Standalone mode so that it can be used in conjunction with a backend filesystem
  • This feature is enabled by adding the 'dragdrop' attribute to your Voyager Story component
  • Enabled by default in Standalone mode
  • Important - Voyager does not handle access control so enabling this feature increases the importance of securing your server-side I/O.

Bug fixes:

• Linked names between article asset and object to address #193
  • Changing an article asset name will update any URIs referencing it
  • Bad article URIs display an error message to the user
• Disabled asset tree drag/drop in standalone mode
• Fixed #157 by filtering 'scene-default' snapshots from loaded files
• Fixed issue where model navigation was blocked by open annotations
• Enabled text selection in articles to address #175
• Updated html list styles so article editor better matches published content

Misc:

• Added documentation for dragdrop API attribute

Bug Fix Release

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Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug with dispose getting called on objects in a bad state on multi-scene pages.

Feature Release

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New Features:

• Logo and spinner graphics now customizable (#160)
  • Added new default non-Smithsonian logo/spinner
  • See documentation for how-to walkthrough
• Additional attributes now animatable in tours
  • Material roughness value
  • Material metalness value
  • Slicer color
  • Reader position

Bug fixes:

• Fixed memory leak with shadow casting lights

Misc:

• Misc dependency updates to address vulnerabilities (Three.js to v0.149.0)
• Added documentation for logo/spinner customizing