What's New?

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

Pano2VR 8.0 beta 1

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

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

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

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