Shapelab News

Optimizations/Improvements/Fixes

• Clay buildup/Carve brush optimization
  
• Move brush optimization
  
• Minor performance improvements
  
• Bug fixes
  

New

• Partial Windows Mixed Reality support (Export can be done by using "Quick Save". Will be fixed soon.)
  
• Use alt-brush (secondary brush): Keep pulling the Secondary Controller Trigger to activate your alternate brush.
  
• Configure alt-brush (secondary brus): Keep pulling the Secondary Controller Trigger while selecting another brush from the brush palette
  
• Global Regularize tool: To change mesh resolution, regularize and even out topology globally by subdividing and decimating the surface.
  
• Brush modifier configurations are applied to each brush separately
  
• Brush alphas are visualized on surface
  
• Cursor indicates brush falloff
  
• Open/close brush modifier UI with the “Secondary Controller Down” button/stick
  

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.

• New environment: Steampunk
• New feature: Preventive auto-undo feature implemented.
• Bug fix: Model loading screen on the tablet could freeze before.
• Bug fix: Undo feature could cause crashes.
• Bug fix: Other minor fixes.

• New Halloween-themed Scene, and Templates. (Booo!)
  
• App identifies and warns the user when the imported 3D object is not watertight and can’t be edited.
  
• Fixes around Undo and Vertex painting related crashes.
  
• Ability to abort or cancel the import process of a 3D file. (Ongoing development)
  
• Updated progress bar: App shares certain information about the import process.
  
• App warns the user if the import process is expected to take long.
  
• Minor rendering related bug fixed.
  

- New Draw Brush: Draw in the air, connect and merge
- Improved Erase: Create holes, cut through objects
- Show/Visualize Polygon Mesh
- Polygon Counter
- Camera: Take Screenshots from any angle
- Virtual Desktop: View your desktop in the application