What’s new in Spline

New features, improvements and fixes across the 3D editor, Hana and the runtimes.

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New outline and toon layers

This update introduces new outline and toon layers, along with a new snapping system and UX improvements.

Changes

  • New outline layer!
  • New toon layer!
  • New snapping system and UX.
  • New option to snap objects to the grid.
  • You can now change transform for multiple objects at once from the sidebar.
  • Fixed issues that were preventing resize from some point of views.
  • Fixed offseted selection in desktop application.
  • Fixed issues with cloner and material assets.
  • Fixed issue of geometry collapsing when using the 'Merge Geometries' feature.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Backdrop primitive and shape inspector fixes

This update fixes issues with the Backdrop primitive's angle during resize and resolves problems with the Shape inspector not showing after exiting vector tools.

Changes

  • Fixed issue with Backdrop primitive's angle not remaining constant during resize.
  • Fixed issue with Shape inspector not showing after exiting vector tools.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Chrome OS support and minor fixes

This update enables partial support for Chrome OS devices and includes various minor bug fixes.

Changes

  • Enabled partial support for Chrome OS devices.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Mouse event trigger and vector tool fixes

This update adds a new mouse event trigger option and fixes issues with the vector tool in multi-user collaboration sessions.

Changes

  • Add new mouse event trigger option (Passthrough/Stop at Object).
  • Fixed issue with vector tool in multi-user collab session.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Resize and event rendering fixes

This update fixes issues with resizing in multi-user collaboration sessions and improves event rendering in runtime exports.

Changes

  • Fixed issue with resize in a multi-user collab session.
  • Fixed issue with user-triggered event not rendering in runtime exports.
  • Improved export runtime API.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Context menu and dragging issues fixes

This update resolves issues with the context menu not recognizing selected objects and fixes dragging color stops in depth/gradient layers.

Changes

  • Fixed issue with context menu not recognizing selected objects sometimes.
  • Fixed issue with dragging color stops in depth/gradient layer.
  • Fixed usage of depth layer with many color stops.
  • Improve usage of React exports with Next.js.
  • Fixed Geometry.js error in code exports.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Soft shadows and depth layer fixes

This update introduces soft shadows with blur and penumbra settings and fixes issues with depth layers.

Changes

  • New: Soft Shadows with Blur and Penumbra settings.
  • You can enable or disable Soft Shadows from the Global Settings.
  • Fix incorrect results when adding color stops to depth layers.
  • Fix issue with inspector modifying wrong object after blurring the input.
  • Minor improvements in outliner.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Face drag controls and boolean fixes

This update improves the placement of face drag controls and fixes various boolean-related issues.

Changes

  • Improved placement of face drag controls for resize & scale helpers.
  • Fix visibility buttons for booleans.
  • Various boolean bug fixes.
  • Fix canvas not having dimensions sometimes in the React export.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Loading issues and subdivision fixes

This update resolves issues with infinite loading of previous tabs and allows updates to the subdivision level of non-parametric objects.

Changes

  • Fixed infinite loading of previous tab when creating a new file from the menu.
  • Fixed ability to update subdivision level of non-parametric objects.
  • Fixed issue on modeling tools when using the edge selection and loop cut tool.
  • Minor improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New Backdrop object and camera fixes

This update introduces a new Backdrop object and resolves issues with orbiting and panning the camera in public URL scenes.

Changes

  • New Backdrop object.
  • Fixed orbiting and panning camera when hovering in public URL scenes.
  • Fixed reverting scroll event transition after completing the transition.
  • UX improvements in vector tools.
  • Minor improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Group pasting and responsive export improvements

This update allows pasting objects inside groups and improves responsive export behavior.

Changes

  • New: you can now paste objects inside groups.
  • Improved responsive export behavior.
  • Improved vectors bending tool UX.
  • Fixed issue with old files that could not be opened because of missing phong angle property.
  • Fixed issue with camera rotation and target being wrong.
  • Minor bug fixes.

State transition delay and export fixes

This update introduces options to customize state transition delay and resolves various issues when exporting scenes.

Changes

  • New options to customize state transition delay.
  • Fixed issues and improvements when exporting scenes.
  • Fixed flat shading and flipped normals issues on Subdiv objects.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Visibility and shadow properties editing

This update allows editing multiple objects' visibility and shadow properties at once, along with small UX improvements in vector tools.

Changes

  • You can now edit multiple objects' visibility and shadow properties at once.
  • Small UX improvements in vector tools.
  • Fixed bug with empty name objects.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Camera handling and gradient fixes

This update resolves issues with handling the active camera and fixes gradient issues on the Depth layer.

Changes

  • Fixed issues handling the active camera with states.
  • Fixed gradient issue on Depth layer.
  • Fixed visibility of inactive buttons on selected objects in the outliner.
  • Fixed multiple issues on vector tools.
  • Allow to control camera orbit on vector tools.
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Minor improvements.

Vector tools and animation fixes

This update fixes multiple issues on vector tools and resolves problems that prevented certain scenes from playing animations.

Changes

  • Fixed multiple issues on vector tools.
  • Fixed issue that prevented certain scenes from playing animations.

Fixed issues with big image assets

This update addresses an issue with scenes using large image assets and includes minor improvements.

Changes

  • Fixed issue with scenes using big image assets.
  • Minor improvements.

New Toggle event parameter and various fixes

This update introduces a new 'Toggle' event parameter and resolves several issues related to selection, exporting, and boolean objects.

Changes

  • New "Toggle" event parameter to enable the object going back to previous state next time it triggers.
  • Fixed selecting issue while scrolling.
  • Fixed export issue with postprocessing and frames with non-responsive size.
  • Fixed normal vector issue on boolean objects.

Export issues and event handling fixes

This update resolves issues with exports, including scrollbar problems and invisible text, while allowing events to run multiple times.

Changes

  • Fix exports scrollbar issues.
  • Fix exports with postprocessing issue.
  • Fix issues with invisible text in exports.
  • Allow to run an event more than once.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Boolean animations and performance improvements

This update fixes boolean animations and improves performance related to boolean scripts in exports, along with minor UI enhancements.

Changes

  • Fix boolean animations.
  • Fix dependency to boolean scripts in exports.
  • Added a bundled vanilla.js export zip that is equivalent to former web content export.
  • Improved boolean performances.
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New Boolean modifier and outliner improvements

This update introduces a new Boolean modifier for creating boolean groups and adds responsive presets to the frame size selector.

Changes

  • New: Boolean modifier! Now you can select two or more objects to create boolean groups from the sidebar inspector.
  • Add responsive preset to frame size selector.
  • Improvements in the outliner tab navigation.
  • Fix issue with team deletion.
  • Fix issue of outliner not updating size on window resize.
  • Minor improvements.