What's New?

Here you'll find an ongoing list of new features, fixes, and changes added to each release.

Pano2VR 8.0 beta 3

3D Models

• Default View Camera Point for model nodes
• Target Camera Camera Point
• Panorama Camera Mode
• Fly Speed
• Rotate into flight path
• Camera modes in the Edit menu
• 3D models can be viewed in Immersive View
• Updated handling for Gaussian Splats
• Improved input type handling for models
• glTF to GLB export conversion
• Optimization options for mobile output
• Option to lock a 3D model
• Capture Preview Image from the Edit menu, 3D model properties, and the Viewer’s context menu
• Improved model background images

Skin Editor

• Save As dialog when saving a write-protected skin
• 3D Camera View skin action
• 3D Camera Mode skin action
• 3D Camera Mode logic block trigger

Tour Building

• Target pointing for hotspots going to a model node
• Project custom preview can be captured from the Viewer

Tour Map

• Improved Pick Landmark accuracy when finding North
• Fix for crashes after changing the map ID and saving

Web Output

• Encryption of the output folder
• Capture Date/Time added to output with timezone fixes
• Added $(ur) placeholder for user data Capture Date

Media

• WebP support for pinned images
• Better handling for tiled JpegXL and TIFF files

Fixed

• Fix for pinned video not appearing in Immersive View
• Fix for preview images not appearing in single-resolution output
• Fix for custom preview images not appearing in the Tour Browser
• Fix for the Viewing Limits copy buttons not working
• Fix for the Type copy button under panorama properties also copying the file path and replacing panoramas
• Fix for the 3D Viewer freezing when moving a camera
• Fix for animated PNG files not animating correctly
• Fix for animated PNG child elements in the skin tree not animating
• Fix for the Show/Hide Media action not working correctly

Pano2VR 8.0 beta 2

• Fix for scroll areas on touch screens on Windows
• Various fixes for the command line and droplets
• Fix for viewing limits in model viewer
• Fix for “roll” on gyro and 3D models during transitions
• Flip mouse/touch “y” coordinate for orbit camera mode

Pano2VR 8.0 beta 1

• 8.0 beta 1 announcement

General

• New Project Wizard to help guide users in building and exporting a new project.
• 3D Model Support Pano2VR now supports 3D Meshes and Gaussian Splats. Learn More
• New skin selector that features a preview of the skin. Learn More
• New skin, Quaranta which features a minimalist design, navigation arrows, multiple theme and choice of icon style
• New project file for version 8; Version 8 project files will not open in version 7 or below, version 7 project files opened in version 8 will be duplicated and saved as version 8 project files
• North offset
• JPEG XL support

Skin

• SVG option to render as a shape in 3D
• Use Media Ended action to trigger an event after a Lottie animation has finished
• New components for splash screens for the Feather Orb, Feather Box, Material Index, Quaranta skins
• Reorganization of Triggers
• New group of Triggers: Node
• New triggers: Is 3D Model, 3D Model Type
• Additive Mode for CSS classes logic block
• Code Element now has more direct support for CSS
• The Tags trigger in a logic block now has Regular Expression as a comparison option; note that # is not needed here
• The Z-index property now has a logic block
• More options for Exposed Variables
• The Hotspot Cloner now supports multiple Tags (skin IDs separated by comma)
• Exposed properties now available for the PDF element and the External Image Loader
• Provide a custom title and preview to a skin
• Warnings for child elements now also appear at the parent level
• Use js: (as well as javascript:) to set Javascript code, for example: js: player.setMargins(0, 0, 300, 0);
• Color themes with gradients for built-in skins

Pinned Elements

• Add a mask to pinned images
• Option to hide video’s image mask when video is popped out

Web Output

• New grid menu for skins with preview images
• Hand Tracking options for VR output
• HTML File option removed; index.html file will be created at the root level of the output folder
• Output Tile Size options; default set to 1024 pixels
• Added option, Show Thumbnail Menu on Start, to Skin Configuration for built-in skin

Fixed

Issues fixed from version 7:

• Fix for ignoring unknown variables
• Fix for video element not looping correctly
• Fix for file paths when saving with assets
• Regular Expressions require # again
• Fix for Activate Media action where it wasn’t showing pinned images as a target
• Fix for a Change Element Size action which wasn’t wasn’t changing a text box’s size
• Placeholders added to ARIA text fields now present the actual text for screen readers
• Playing back an animation sequence that uses the Play/Restart action will now restart playback from the first node in the sequence even if the current node is out of sequence
• 3D Arrow Point Hotspots (component) no longer shift position when using margins
• Fix for Activate Media actions used with the Web Element
• Fix for pinned Web Element not being permeable
• Fix for an issue when copy and pasting multiple state buttons
• Fix for Trim to Last Keyframe in Animation editor cutting off projection keyframe
• Fix for Keyboard Shortcut mappings