April 2024

Josh Humphreys
Josh Humphreys
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6.1.16 (April 1)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

6.1.17 (April 4)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

 

6.2.0 (April 15)

VR

๐Ÿš€ Features & Tweaks

  • You can now organise layers into layer groups by either dragging them or grouping them with the purple button in the Layers menu.
  • Holding the shift trigger while grabbing and moving sketch objects will now display a bounding box which can be used to snap to axes and the stage floor, if enabled.
  • Added a โ€˜Boxโ€™ selection mode to the Selection tool as the default mode. When you click the trigger and drag, everything within the box will be added to the selection. Hold the shift trigger while selecting to add to an existing selection.
  • Added a purple button menu to the selection tool with the following options:
    • Selection Mode
    • Bounding Box
    • Show Gumball
    • Select Groups
    • Restrict to Mirror
  • You can now duplicate objects while moving them using the Selection tool gumball.
  • Added a new Section View tool. Drawing a box with this tool selected will cause everything within the box to become temporarily invisible, allowing you to take a section view of your sketch.
  • Reworked the new user First Sketch experience.
  • Improved speed of FBX imports, particularly files containing many individual objects.
  • Improved the export of subdivision objects to FBX when the "control mesh" option is selected. Notable changes are:
    • Thickened objects export as a single mesh, whether they are baked or not.
    • Fixed a bug where unbaked thickened surfaces would not open in Alias.
    • Fixed a bug where subd surfaces with several disconnected components would not open in Alias.
    • Fixed a bug where some vertices of thickened objects on the mirror would be duplicated.
  • Added a Round Corners toggle to the subdivision edit menu. When enabled the corners of open subdivision faces will be rounded as in previous versions; when disabled these corners will be sharp.
  • Changed the appearance of subdivision creases on boundary and boundary-adjacent edges to match industry standards.
  • Baked thickened/offset subdivision objects now look identical to their pre-baked counterparts.
  • Added a Mesh Quality export option for FBX and OBJ exports that determines the complexity of objects upon being exported as meshes.
  • Moved Export out of the Save menu into its own menu.
  • Added various export option presets for different target applications such as Blender, VRED and Alias.
  • The on-controller quick Export button will now immediately trigger an export with the last-selected export settings.
  • Moved Flip Normals tool to the main tool selector.
  • There is no longer a restriction on moving objects closer to or further away from the mirror while exporting . The functionality has now been moved to a Restrict to Mirror setting to the Selection tool menu.
  • Added โ€œChoose a Presetโ€ text to rigged chassis menu when a preset has not yet been chosen.

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • You can now correctly see other usersโ€™ graphical option UI toggles on their menus in Collab according to their hardware rather than yours.
  • Made the history clock on Vive wand controllers harder to trigger by accident.
  • Fixed subdivision geometry disappearing when disconnecting an edge from the mirror while holding the shift trigger.
  • Cleaned up the positioning of the โ€˜Gumdrop Heightโ€™ slider in the Environments menu.
  • Prevented notifications overlapping when taking an instant photo in a Collab room and simultaneously uploading it to the cloud.
  • Added the minus icon to the red button when grabbing layers.
  • Fixed scaling the screenshot menu and then taking an instant photo causing the screenshot to not scale by the same amount as the menu.
  • Fixed inverted normals on subdivision toruses.
  • Fixed selecting an environment preset in Collab that has an active custom HDR causing the HDR to be disabled.
  • You can now edit the measurement value of an import in the import menu without it becoming inaccurate.
  • The thicken/offset measurement value no longer renders in front of all geometry and UI.
  • Fixed some older reference image files rotating 90 degrees on export to FBX or GLB.
  • Can no longer use the subdivision merge tool on objects more than 10,000 polygons to bypass the 10,000 polygon subdivision conversion limit.
  • Fixed Quest 3 defaulting to Quest 1 controllers when launching via Steam Link.
  • Improved message when attempting to join a Collab room on an out of date version.
  • You can now interact with the edit panel when the subdivision Separate tool is selected.
  • Fixed viewpoint previews in the Viewpoints menu sometimes being inaccurate when jumping between viewpoints.
  • You can now successfully launch an out of date Windows launcher build from an elevated permissions directory without needing elevated permissions.
  • Fixed the order of the three most recent files in the lobby being incorrect if one of them was a local file.
  • Merging a mirrored subdivision objects into a NURBS objects that sits across the mirror will no longer leave orphaned vertices.
  • Fixed positioning of Quest controllers in SteamVR being slightly too high.
  • Fixed textures applying incorrectly to thickened surfaces.
  • Fixed a case where offsetting a subd object, extruding an edge then switching to thicken could cause an invalid surface.
  • Tapping on a text entry field twice in a row in the web browser no longer causes the blue button menu to become unopenable.
  • Fixed passthrough being visible through several materials that were meant to be opaque.
  • FBX files with transparency will now retain their transparency if imported back into Gravity sketch.
  • Fixed ghost previews of NURBS surfaces remaining present when hitting the undo button when creating a surface with point mode.
  • Grabbing and duplicating every point on a subdivision object no longer leaves ghost points for the duration of your grab.
  • HDR reflections are now applied to measurement objects.
  • Fixed an issue where another user in Collab baking mirror on more than one object at once would cause all but one of the objects to become uninteractable to you.
  • Added missing Reset Weight option to the Volume edit menu.
  • Fixed period key on the sign-in keyboard within symbols section not being functional.
  • When performing an on-device export to cloud, the "Please Stand By" screen now properly dismisses before the upload to cloud is complete.
  • Fixed the level of detail slider for imported meshes sometimes having the opposite of the intended effect.
  • Fixed some menu interactions counting as placement of a point when drawing a stroke in point mode.
  • Fixed z-fighting in menus when navigating file directories of guest teams.
  • The first time you change an option in the Workspace menu in a Collab room that has a custom HDR no longer give a false notification you are uploading an HDR.
  • The view point switching UI hint over the the thumbstick now disappears when entering edit mode.
  • Multiple levels of grouping are now preserved when importing a sketch file.
  • Fixed there being no visible edit tool selected immediately after converting an object to suvdivision.
  • Fixed a case where changing the font of existing text in the 3D Text tool preview could cause overlap with the UI.
  • Fixed text sometimes overflowing its bounds on the on-controller notification when saving or exporting to a longer directory.
  • Can now open template files via recents section in lobby.
  • Fixed tooltip on Collab rooms in lobby saying โ€œClick to Open Sketchโ€.
  • Removed HDR reflections from Collab avatar preview in LandingPad Collab menu.
  • Moving an edge on a subdivision object while it is highlighted by a subd tool no longer causes the edge highlight to remain in its original place.
  • Moving font files from cloud to local no causes the app to think theyโ€™re sketch files.
  • Remove apostrophe from file name when exporting a free Collab room.
  • Fixed a case where some subdivision surfaces could fail to import.
  • Fixed certain FBX files failing to import.
  • Very large objects that are scaled down are no longer coloured completely black.
  • Thumbnails are now preserved for more file formats if moving them from cloud to local files.
  • View points in a sketch file are now imported properly regardless of the method used to import them.
  • Free Collab rooms now appear in recently accessed files/rooms list in lobby.
  • Dragging a single sketch object with a texture into the import menu no longer uploads/saves it as a reference image rather than a prefab.
  • Selection with the selection tool is no longer frequently accidentally cancelled when selecting locally mirrored objects if the controller is too near the gumball/gimbal UI.
  • The import menu now shows more than 100 files in a cloud folder.
  • Moving or scaling points with the non-drawing hand thumbstick while sliding edges or vertices no longer breaks the sliding constraints and repositions the grabbed points/edges to the position of the controller.
  • In Collab you now see other usersโ€™ shadow and quality option toggles in their menus according to their hardware rather than your own.

Screen Collab

๐Ÿš€ Features & Tweaks

  • Added proxy network support for macOS.
  • Added various export option presets for different target applications such as Blender, VRED and Alias.

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Improved scaling of edit points when following a VR user.
  • Fixed being able to exit a view point by clicking and dragging the mouse with the eraser selected.
  • Fixed being sometimes able to draw and move the camera at the same time.
  • Annotations are no longer sometimes visible when youโ€™re not at the associated view point.
  • Can now save a screenshot when in another userโ€™s free Collab room.
  • Fixed crash when pressing the Comment hotkey when viewing a local file.
  • Pen annotations no longer render over the top of the screenshot save menu.
  • Tool cursor is now cleared on leaving the room.
  • Fixed very small measurement objects being invisible.

 

6.2.1 (April 16)

๐Ÿš€ Features & Tweaks

  • The Section View tool now snaps to axes by default. Holding the shift trigger now allows for free rotation.

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed export presets sometimes not appearing if loading into a sketch quickly after launching the app.
  • Fixed transparent screenshot background not being transparent.
  • Fixed a case with the Gravity Sketch Launcher which could cause it to fail to update the client to 6.2.

 

6.2.2 (April 17)

 

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed not being able to snap the rotation of images and text objects to axes unless the objects are close to the axes.
  • Fixed not being able to anchor the environment torch in Collab.

Screen Collab

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Temporarily disabled macOS proxy support to troubleshoot connection issues on some networks.

 

6.2.3 (LP Launcher Build Only) (April 18)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the LandingPad build would sometimes fail to display in the headset when launched via Quest Link.

 

6.2.4 (April 18)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed different files with the same name sometimes sharing the same locally cached thumbnail.
  • Fixed an issue that caused some creases on creased subdivision objects that were created via a baking or Separate action to persist permanently in Collab.
  • Prefabs made by grabbing and dropping sketch objects into the import panel now correctly retain layer group information.
  • Restrict to Mirror option no longer restricts the movement of unmirrored objects.

Screen Collab

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Guest Team room exports saving to personal files.

 

6.2.5 (April 19)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed being unable to load sketches containing uncreased subdivision objects

 

6.2.6 (LP Launcher Build Only) (April 22)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the LandingPad build would sometimes fail to display in the headset when launched via Quest Link.

 

6.2.7 (April 24)

VR

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with normals of subdivision surfaces joined at the mirror which gave the appearance of imperfect surface continuity.
  • Fixed an issue preventing you from performing more than one merge operation per subdivision object in Collab.
  • Fixed the HDR Reflections setting not being properly respected on sketch load until editing a setting in the Workspace menu.
  • Using the selection tool to move an object that was created via duplication with Return After Copy enabled no longer causes the first movement to be reset.

 

6.2.8 (April 30)

VR

๐Ÿš€ Features & Improvements

  • Single-sided imported meshes are now automatically double-sided on import.
  • Added haptic feedback to the Crease, Separate Edge and Edge Cut subdivision tools.

๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

  • Improved appearance of normals on creased subdivision edges.
  • Fixed syncing of light rotation when anchored and using a preset environment in Collab.
  • Fixed being unable to slide points on ink and strokes.
  • Fixed invisible strokes still being exported when they were made invisible through being part of an invisible group.
  • Fixed file format tags in the export menu being transparent when in passthrough.
  • Improved Collab networking conditions on some networks.
  • Made camera movement smoother on Please Stand By screen when tethered.

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