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Full SculptrVR update
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Hello everyone! It's been almost a year since I've updated the release branch of SculptrVR. But as many of you know, I've had regular updates to the beta branch during that whole time. This update is HUGE. There are tons of performance improvements motivated by porting to Oculus Quest and PSVR, and well as a few new tools and other improvements. I think it's really great and I hope you all enjoy! If you encounter any bugs or just want to stop by and say hello, please join the Discord community here: https://discord.gg/qEX5ZKG <3 -Nathan
What changed
- Compatibility
- Performance
- Gameplay
- UI and audio
- Server
SculptrVR changes
Performance Improvements:
Overall mesh generation has been sped up by 50%
Memory usage is down more than 50% and some memory leaks have been fixed
File sizes are down by almost 50% (They were already so small though!)
General sculpting actions are ~25% faster
Exporting meshes is now 3x faster, and uses 30% less memory
New Stuff:
Procedurally generated landscapes
New tool: Sword tool. Place ribbons and slice sword cuts through objects https://imgur.com/UCuOToh
New tool: Snapping Cubey box tool. Place voxel-exact cubes in cubey rendering mode, or place sharp-edged cubes in smooth mode https://imgur.com/43ot3ja
Snap Mode: Pop into snap mode for geometric creation
Reference images can be opened up in game to help create
Major Improvements:
Explore mode is now accessed through a tab on your front hand
Meshes are cleaner with fewer lumpy triangles jutting outward
Better physics with particles ignoring invisible blocks and hands grabbing onto triangle-exact geometry during climbing
Show more detail with fewer frame drops thanks to better sculpture management
Ability to mirror your stamp brush, and stamps now work with mirror planes
Other improvements and Bug Fixes:
Ability to delete sculptures from within SculptrVR
Ability to push up visible detail even higher in graphics settings
Better layer highlighting while selecting layers in the panel
Fix error in OBJ/FBX export when one layer is empty
Shrink layer button pushes detail into a deeper layer and kills off any detail at the deepest level
Paste brush has a snap mode
Fix import CSV files and add ability to place spheres with a CSV
Updated to Unreal Engine 4.21 from UE4.19. This incidentally speeds up meshing by 5% due to using a new more efficient vertex format.
Glowing material slightly flickers to give it a more glowy quality
Fix bug where deleting layers would cause incorrect layer attachment when reloading
Fix a bug causing previews pedestals to be lower res
Get update messages when uploading or downloading levels in multiplayer and from the content server
Smoothing brush has a 3rd mode to smooth shape, but not colors
Fix a horrible memory leak
Optimize loading from disk and speed it up by 40%
Fix ugly artifacts on the tube brush by biasing its detail up a bit
Fix a surprisingly large number of crashes throughout the codebase
Added a Triangle-exact intersection method that is used to make climbing in smooth mode way less shitty
Improved vertex placement in mesh generation to show fewer voxel grid sampling artifacts
Fix bug raycasting into multiple sculptures grabbing the wrong sculpture’s color
Better error messages throughout the game, but especially for online/multiplayer stuff
Add a file size estimate on the back of your menu hand
Added an eye dropper hotkey on the color palette since most users didn’t realize you could eye drop whenever you open up the 3D
Source
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