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New version

Fixes
  • No more crashes!!!


Updates and Improvements
  • Updated and reorganized controller-attached UI
  • New file browser UI
  • Improved sculpt brush behaviors
  • New Oculus Rift and HTC Vive controller designs
  • New VR work environments (including plane and simple scenes)
  • Plenty of new materials that you can now choose from (including matcap)
  • New base models/templates to start with


New features Brand new sculpt brushes
  • Clay buildup/Carve brush with alphas
  • Trim brush
  • Improved “Move brush”
  • Regularize brush for topology and polygon density manipulation
Access to new brush modifiers
  • Brush size (set value on slider or use controller buttons)
  • Brush strength (set value on slider or use the pressure sensitive trigger)
  • Brush falloff
  • Brush resolution (set tessellation value or turn tessellation on/off)
Others
  • Turn mirror plane on/off
  • Add reference image to scene
  • Use model decimation and subdivision


Changes Object context menu accommodates the following features:
  • Model context menu: Decimate, Subdivide, Change material
  • Image context menu: Lock, Unlock, Delete
Controller-attached Options menu accommodates the following features currently
  • User preferences: Hand dominance, Show polygon wireframe, Show mirror plane
  • Environment: Choose from a wide variety of VR environments
  • Screenshot: Take a screenshot of your creation (Location: Documents/ShapeLab/ScreenShots)
Controller-attached File menu accommodates the following features currently
  • New (discard current project and start new creation)
  • Quick Save (Location: Documents/ShapeLab/QuickSaves)
  • Import Model (import OBJ files)
  • Add Image (add reference image to scene)
  • Export (export in OBJ)
  • Exit
Temporarily removed features
  • Painting tool
  • “Draw in the air” sculpt brush
  • STL export/import
  • Windows Mixed Realiy Support (coming in mid November)


Plans
  • The next update can be expected before the Holiday Season, which will include further optimizations, performance improvements, UX/UI fine-tunings and a few additional features.
  • We are planning to release a big update at the end of Q1 2021. Stay tuned for more exciting information.


We will be continuously improving Shapelab and we appreciate your feedback at every step of the development process. Contact us via email ([email protected]) if you...
  • would like to use the previous version of ShapeLab
  • would like to become a tester or to share your thoughts and ideas on the current update.
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