Version changelog¶

Overview¶

This is a written record of the most recent upgrades we've made to our software.

The Excelsior Editor displays its Build Number at the bottom-right of the screen.

Build 128083¶

• The editor welcome screen now shows our latest blog posts and the newest videos from our YouTube channel.
• Added a YouTube button beside Documentation and Version History at the bottom-right of the editor.
• Fixed: moving between the top-menu pages no longer resets what you had set up on them. MATERIALS keeps the layers you expanded, AMBIENCE keeps the shelf you were browsing, VIEWER keeps its collapsed slots, and ENGRAVING keeps text you have typed but not yet applied.
• Fixed: each page now remembers its own scroll position, instead of jumping back to the top when you return to it.

Build 128075¶

• PRO/PRO+: Interactive Spinner packages now include a ready-to-use HTML viewer, loading progress indicator, poster image, and all required assets.
• Spinner images now use highly compressed, high-quality WebP for considerably smaller packages.
• Spinner atlases now consistently use a 4x1 layout, including correct handling of incomplete final atlases and cancelled recordings.
• Spinners can present a fast initial preview while the remaining images continue loading.
• Improved mouse and touch interaction in the Spinner viewer, including clearer drag and loading cursors.
• Spinner output now respects the scene background color and configured render resolution.
• Added separate toolbar buttons for Take Picture and Take Picture with Alpha.
• Added separate toolbar buttons for Record Video and Record Quick Video.
• Improved the Interactive Viewer SDK (v3.x.x) and deployment reliability.
• Improved viewer startup quality selection and device benchmarking.
• Improved shadow quality selection on capable Viewer devices without delaying the first rendered image.
• General stability, compatibility, and user-interface improvements.

Build 127063¶

• PRO/PRO+: Create link now saves a thumbnail when exporting the .webex scene, used for the social preview (Open Graph) card of the shared link.
• Improved editor for the MATERIAL CONFIGURATOR feature.
• More elegant presentation of the MATERIAL CONFIGURATOR choice selector in the embedded viewer.

Build 126674¶

• ESC now exits the DOF "Pick Focus Point" tool.
• Much better structure (much less noise) in gemstones.
• Much more stable glare during navigation and animation.

Build 126378¶

• Quick Render Video solution for fast (despite lower sampling quality) videos.
• New WebCodec video as an alternative to old and trusty ffmpeg.
• Turned the old bitrate slider into a bitrate vs. quality selector.

Build 126000¶

• Import/Export dressings (bottom-right toolbar).
• Improved docs.maverickexcelsior.com for the Viewer API side.

Build 125981¶

• Trimmed the excessive grayed-out options in the UI when their corresponding main toggle is off.
• Improved iconography for comboboxes.

Build 125634¶

• Support for .glb models.
• Ability to reassign layer families when importing a .glb model.
• Ability to rename layers when importing a .glb model.

Build 121770¶

• Better refresh when changing the pose or its orientation.
• Auto-center when a pose is selected in the POSE panel.
• The auto-center feature (and the "Center View" button) are mindful of non-square render aspect ratios.

Build 121157¶

• Cleaner render refresh when changing the pose or its orientation.
• New "Center View" button in the CAMERA panel.

Build 121063¶

• New and more modern-looking UI.
• New Welcome dialog, with improved drag-and-drop.
• New demo with the ability to open up to 3 customer-provided .3dm files.

Build 120907¶

• Made some adjustments to the edgetint attribute of metals, based on some new measurements from the lab.

Build 120856¶

• Added the nolabels attribute to the VIEWER panel.
• Added the autospin attribute to the VIEWER panel.
• Added nolabels support to the viewer, which is more convenient than using empty names in the VIEWER panel.
• Added autospin support to the viewer, so it is now possible to have a viewer auto-spinn from the start.
• Lifted the 7-day restriction in viewer links.

Build 120843¶

• Extended the VIEWER panel to create built-in material configurators.
• Ability to create material groups with layers with a separate material selector each.

Build 120829¶

• New camera DOF attributes.
• New camera DOF scene point-picker tool.

Build 120655¶

• Ability to create self-hosted Interactive Viewer Links!
• New Viewer Links panel in the Dashboard.
• New VIEWER tab in the Editor.

Build 120379¶

• Brand new (much more efficient) website.
• World-class CDN.
• We opened the Maverick Excelsior BLOG.
• Much improved dashboard (customer area) with more accessible billing, account details, etc...
• Fixed a bug in the orientation of shadows, which weren't always aligned with the rotation of the IBL.
• Improved SSR when used in conjunction with mirror floor.
• Improved UI (e.g., bottom toolbar icons).
• Improved Demo UI (e.g., ability to open other scenes without going back to the start page).
• Ability to control the output bitrate (quality vs. file size) in the VIDEO panel.

Build 115800¶

• Released on jsdelivr.com the first version of the Maverick Excelsior Spinner viewer: v1.0.1.
• Added a new area in the docs for the Maverick Excelsior Spinner.
• New RECORD SPINNER feature which produces a .zip file with everything needed to publish a spinner inside.
• Output images are now high-quality .jpg instead of .png. Hence, considerably smaller.
• Camera save/restore fixes an offset that was being produced by mismatching H-FOV.
• The user-set resolution is preserved now when selecting a new ambience.
• Sharpen settings are preserved now when selecting a new ambience.
• Mild sharpening is auto-enabled by default now.