3D Photo Browser Light Changelog

What's new in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.50

Feb 16, 2024
  • 3DBrowser features:
  • Higher status bar and larger icons for easier application launch
  • Add Shortcut to Catalogue Settings command and icon in the status bar when keep settings is on
  • Update catalogue: it is now possible to only refresh image or 3d files
  • Ghost directory, Unghost directory, Select direct folders, Select all subfolders, Expand all now work on directory selection
  • 3D features:
  • Improved 3ds Max exchange plugin and ability to save in 3ds Max format for conversion or batch processing.
  • Collada, lxo, vrml97, vrml now support unicode name
  • Texture paths dialog in preferences now add a feature to help fixing texture broken link
  • Improved: #980: GLTF now set correctly unit when reading and now correctly export in meter
  • Improved: #980: GLTF, VRML, LXO, LWO, SKP does not export correctly camera if an unit is specified
  • Improved: GLTF now react faster when changing directory (support of ShouldCancelThread)
  • Improved: #985 Wavefront format now support texture options as specified in obj specification documentation
  • Improved: sketchup now add an option to export hidden edge and export a correct default camera if no camera exists in the scene
  • Fixes:
  • 3dsmax plugin: #982 plugin close unexpectedly
  • 3dsmax plugin: #983 saving to 3dsmax format is now possible and using batch tools with an export to 3dsmax now work
  • 3D: some camera created if a scene is already opened scene and it has some user cameras
  • 3D: zoom out command is not working
  • 3D: #905 Merge files looses textures (embedded textures)
  • 3D: #980 exported GLTF files are not readable in adobe dimension or Windows viewer
  • 3D: user camera might be selected unexpectedly when reopening the viewer
  • 3D: #908 shortcuts command don't work when object tree panel has the focus
  • 3D: #922 changing scene file with next file / prev file might crash the viewer
  • 3D: #906 viewer might crash at return if polygon cruncher opened from it
  • 3D: #906 materials are missing in the viewer when returning from polygon cruncher
  • 3D: #969 YUP orbit axis is lost when switching from a camera to another one
  • 3D: #969 fix different problem with Update Thumbnail menu
  • 3D: viewer might crash if a material is missing
  • 3D: materials are not always updated in the view when modified
  • 3D: baking does not save maps in the folder if a relative path is defined
  • 3D: #968 texture path are betterly displayed in material info dialog
  • 3D: #989 updating the 3d viewer afert Polygon Cruncher can be very slow
  • 3D: #1000 adding some new selection feature to contextual menu and fix a problem with show selection only / hide selection only
  • 3D: #986 viewer does not always refresh correctly (ie when showing point and face index)
  • 3D: GLTF does now always delete temporary texture files after reading
  • 3D: #989 performance improvement (C3DLayerGeom::UpdateCache is very slow)
  • 3D: Sketchup does not import correctly sketchup GUID
  • 3D: #992: SKP crash when using Merge options from the import dialog
  • 3D: #1004: sketchup export now show 2021 and more
  • 3DB: network drive might be missing when initializing the application
  • 3DB: #973 changing folder might crash the application
  • 3DB: #902 status bar does not report correctly current display mode when keep settings is on for Catalogue
  • 3DB: 3DBrowser might crash at exif initialization
  • 3DB: 3DBrowser might crash when at initialization on Sketchup file
  • 3DB: explorer tree displays rar file
  • 3DB: #621 changing meta data might result in many refresh event on the current catalogue
  • 3DB: pusing metadata to image fails when user edit some empty meta data
  • 3DB: drop down folder incorrectly displayed the favorites
  • 3DB: #944: improvements in zip compression (right click zip on folder tree / folder compression in vignette view)
  • 3DB: #1005: invalid text in YUP for catalogue thumbnail update
  • 3DB: #974: a catalogue might be lock when updating thumbnails
  • 3DB: #966: it's now possible to cancel album deletion
  • All: combo box does not display correctly selected item in light mode
  • All: #981: notification dialog might be located on the wrong screen
  • All: #970 bottom of some letters might be incorrectly displayed in dark mode
  • All: dark mode improvements when displaying a disable static control
  • All: sliders does not have correct color in light theme
  • Setup: #971 3DBrowserContextMenu_x64.dll might not be deleted

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.21 (Dec 4, 2023)

  • Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: dark mode for 3DBrowser / Polygon Cruncher
  • Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: end of OpenGL2 support. The application uses only the most recent version of OpenGL from now.
  • Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: improved tabbed dialogs.
  • Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: end of plug-in support for 3ds Max 9.0, 2008 and 2009 as well as Maya 2008, 2009.
  • Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: texture directory settings is suggested if a texture is missing
  • Polygon Cruncher: Improved appearance of Polygon Cruncher plugin dialogs in 3ds Max & Maya
  • Polygon Cruncher: better handling of user abandonment of file optimization during batch operation
  • 3DBrowser: improved file updating. Updating is based on file size and screen visibility
  • 3DBrowser: better readability of files yet to be updated
  • 3DBrowser: improved slideshow/screensaver fluidity (since version 16.11)
  • 3DBrowser: add IPTC town, state and country will synchronizing meta data
  • Corrections:
  • 3D: potential crash of MagicCruncher when optimizing a complex scene
  • 3D: UVs verification mode not displayed. It is necessary to change the display mode for the parameter to be taken into account
  • 3D: notes don't seem to be deleted when using the note deletion tool
  • FBX: fixed problem with vertex color import
  • 3DBrowser: Potential crash when closing the application after an update

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.20 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Dark mode for 3DBrowser / Polygon Cruncher
  • End of OpenGL2 support. The application uses only the most recent version of OpenGL from now.
  • Improved tabbed dialogs.
  • End of plug-in support for 3ds Max 9.0, 2008 and 2009 as well as Maya 2008, 2009.
  • Improved appearance of Polygon Cruncher plugin dialogs in 3ds Max & Maya
  • Polygon Cruncher: better handling of user abandonment of file optimization during batch operation
  • 3DBrowser: improved file updating. Updating is based on file size and screen visibility
  • 3DBrowser: better readability of files yet to be updated
  • 3DBrowser: improved slideshow/screensaver fluidity (since version 16.11)
  • Corrections:
  • 3D: potential crash of MagicCruncher when optimizing a complex scene
  • 3D: UVs verification mode not displayed. It is necessary to change the display mode for the parameter to be taken into account
  • 3D: notes don't seem to be deleted when using the note deletion tool
  • FBX: fixed problem with vertex color import
  • 3DBrowser: Potential crash when closing the application after an update

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.11 (Sep 14, 2023)

  • 3DBrowser features:
  • The thumbnail view now scrolls more smoothly
  • It is now possible to drag and drop several folders from the folder tree
  • The search for similar files is now multithreaded. A number of problems have been corrected, making the command less effective
  • Many improvements in zip file support (fewer updates, copying to or from...)
  • The preview thumbnail for ZIP files has been improved
  • 3D features:
  • Display performance has been improved, particularly if the scene has objects with non-triangular faces
  • New selection command based on the size of the bounding box, for filtering small elements in a scene, for example
  • The delete objects command is now scriptable. Combined with the filter selection command, it is now possible to create a batch command that automatically deletes small items from a set of files
  • Reading of all text formats (wavefront, stl...) is 2 to 3 times faster
  • LWO: improved support for recognising a larger number of files
  • OBJ: the absence of a materials library no longer leads to the display of a modal dialog
  • The export dialog has been improved and now restores the default options correctly
  • The material properties dialog can be used to display faces with the selected material
  • Polygon Cruncher features:
  • MagicCruncher: improved optimisation speed when simplifying a single object (up to 6 times faster with 16 cores)
  • Fixes:
  • 3D: displaying the object properties dialog can considerably slow down rendering performance
  • 3D: the orientation of normals is not taken into account when resampling normals in the normals baking function
  • 3D: object might appear black if normal map display is enabled and no uv channel is available
  • 3D: the unify normals function does not take user normals into account
  • 3D: imported scenes sometimes contain an unnamed material
  • 3D - Sketchup: saving in sketchup format can cause scenes with many objects to crash
  • 3D - Lightwave: the interpretation of references between objects is sometimes incorrect and materials are lost
  • 3D: bounding boxes are incorrectly displayed in the case of animation
  • 3DBrowser: too many refresh of the directory panel leads to decrease performance
  • 3DBrowser: Adding an application in the Open with dialog box does not always work correctly
  • 3DBrowser: directories are not removed from the thumbnails when moved elsewhere
  • 3DBrowser: zip files can't be removed from the folder tree
  • 3DBrowser: directory panel continues to scroll when a drag and drop operation displays a dialog box
  • 3DBrowser: the keywords panel doesn't allow to add predefined keywords or to modify the keywords list
  • 3DBrowser: switching to Group mode is very slow in the thumbnails view
  • 3DBrowser: group mode causes a permanent refresh of the thumbnails display
  • 3DBrowser: moving a folder sometimes makes a copy instead of a move when the copy is made on the same disk
  • 3DBrowser: the folder tree refresh is very slow for the temporary folders directory, which can stop the application performance in some circumstances.
  • 3DBrowser: some dialog boxes sometimes create a flash between windows, due to incorrect focus restoration
  • 3DBrowser: the rename pattern of the Rename files function is sometimes incorrectly initialized
  • 3DBrowser: Updates appear more clearly
  • 3DBrowser: Display improved when using a gradient background
  • 3DBrowser: Text is misaligned in some information dialogues.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.10 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • 3DBrowser features
  • The thumbnail view now scrolls more smoothly
  • It is now possible to drag and drop several folders from the folder tree
  • The search for similar files is now multithreaded. A number of problems have been corrected, making the command less effective
  • Many improvements in zip file support (fewer updates, copying to or from...)
  • The preview thumbnail for ZIP files has been improved
  • 3D features
  • Display performance has been improved, particularly if the scene has objects with non-triangular faces
  • New selection command based on the size of the bounding box, for filtering small elements in a scene, for example
  • The delete objects command is now scriptable. Combined with the filter selection command, it is now possible to create a batch command that automatically deletes small items from a set of files
  • Reading of all text formats (wavefront, stl...) is 2 to 3 times faster
  • LWO: improved support for recognising a larger number of files
  • OBJ: the absence of a materials library no longer leads to the display of a modal dialog
  • The export dialog has been improved and now restores the default options correctly
  • The material properties dialog can be used to display faces with the selected material
  • Polygon Cruncher features
  • MagicCruncher: improved optimisation speed when simplifying a single object (up to 6 times faster with 16 cores)

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 16.00 (Apr 25, 2023)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • New: 64-bit zips support
  • New: zips decompression feature
  • Improved opening menu with 3DBrowser in Windows 11
  • 3D:
  • New: create normal map feature
  • New: generate normals feature
  • New: UV mapping visualization function
  • New: edit node transformations
  • New: pivot edition and reset XForm
  • New: improved non-modal material editor
  • New: airplane mode to move in the scene
  • New: ability to define a pivot point for rotation in orbit mode
  • Improvement: render mode and extras displays improved menus
  • Improvement: occlusion culling for point and face indexes
  • FBX / GLTF: support for PBR materials
  • GLTF: better control over map export format
  • Sketchup: options to merge components or groups on import
  • Sketchup keep instances when exporting
  • Sketchup export of cameras
  • Blender support new compression format
  • VRML: support of unicode names
  • Lighwave: various fixes
  • - 3ds Max 2024 Plugin
  • Maya 2024 exchange plugin
  • Use Sketchup 2023 SDK
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • New: create a normal map function directly plugged in Polygon Cruncher
  • MagicCruncher: improved optimization speed when simplifying a single object (up to 6 times faster with 16 cores)
  • Polygon Cruncher includes all the improvements described in the 3D section

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.80 (Jul 6, 2022)

  • 3DBrowser: new contextual menu for windows and windows 11
  • Sketchup: import and re-export keeps instances and definitions
  • Sketchup: new options to merge groups and/or definitions on import
  • Fix: refreshing the directory list may cause unwanted dialogs to appear

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.75 (May 5, 2022)

  • 3ds Max 2023 Plugin
  • Maya 2023 exchange plugin
  • GLTF: now export curves
  • GLTF: fix positioning problems that may occur on certain transformations
  • Blender: occasional crash on some files

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.70 (Feb 4, 2022)

  • 3DBrowser
  • Cursor is now a then end of the folder name when selecting a directory with keyboard in the drop down list
  • GLTF: import and export cameras
  • VRML97: reading cameras
  • Sketchup: support Sketchup 2022
  • Scene graph: changing element with keyboard does not work
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • Fix: reading an FBX file and saving it crash application
  • Image
  • Support JPEG file with improper markers

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.65 (Dec 18, 2021)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • Improvement : shortcuts are handled in a better way when double clicking on them
  • Fix: 3DBrowser might produces transparent icons for Windows task bar when png preview is enabled
  • Fix: convert image file command does not take resize into account.
  • Fix: animated gif resize and crop does not changes output image size (the source is reduced and put somewhere inside that image)
  • Fix: shortcut thumbnails are incorrect
  • Fix: Some dialog text are incorrectly aligned
  • 3D:
  • GLTF: now support lines, lines strip, lines loop
  • Faster Display Selection, Hide selection from the scene tree panel
  • Fix: curve bounding box are improperly computed
  • Fix: welding is not applied any more to curves
  • Fix: fbx export dialog can display update mode, whereas it should not be available
  • Fix: free rotation mode can change while rotating
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Fix: command line version does not handle correctly switches
  • Fix: Some options might be randomly not available
  • Image:
  • Fix: resizing / rotating / cropping then saving to PDF might produce improper image.
  • Fix: image exportation settings are incorrectly kept (jpeg compression, png compression...)

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.60 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • Zip & folder thumbnails are now only updated when shown
  • AutoRotate feature is now performed in background
  • File conversion feature is now performed in background
  • Improve current path edit field and prevent loose of focus
  • Add network folder if hidden when entered from the current path edit field
  • Fix: Setup does not write its key in the proper registry entry, making the use of plugin impossible
  • Fix: Cannot add favorite to root when a favorite folder exist
  • 3D:
  • FBX: does not modulate diffuse color and texture any more
  • FBX: uses emissive instead ambiant when defined
  • Can now modify camera FOV (Mouse wheel + Ctrl)
  • Rotation tool improved with following shortcut keys:
  • Ctrl: horizontal constraint
  • Alt: vertical constraint
  • Shift: orbital / free rotation switch - or access to rotation tool in other tool
  • Hidden face state is now shown in object property panel
  • Fix: Can't attach note for some objects (ray intersect fails)
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Fix: Batch does not take selected folder into account

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.55 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • Setup: problem with Microsoft Redistributable package.
  • 3D:
  • Viewer: the double-sided/single-sided is taking into account when it is defined in materials or objects. This improves avoid face overlapping and improves the rendering of GLTF files in particular.
  • Sketchup: some mesh appears might be hidden whereas they should not.
  • Sketchup: some texture filename might be incorrectly formated.
  • Sketchup: fix infinity value for UV on rare occasion.
  • Fix : UV, VC, Normal seams are sometimes incorrectly initialized when switching UVs, VCs, Normal settings.
  • Fix: rare crash when exporting on some formats due to too long object names.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Enabled Keep UVs and Keep VCs by default if the object has them.
  • User normals display now depends on the Keep Normals setting for clarity.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.50 (Jun 28, 2021)

  • New: normal map bumping display.
  • New: UV Checker tool.
  • New: keep default rotation axis by file format.
  • New: set the orientation or reset the point of view of one or more thumbnails from the catalog.
  • New: improved GLTF support for import and export to reduce file size.
  • New: update mode in GLTF to preserve advanced material properties and some animations.
  • New: installation of the software by major version number (several versions can be installed together). Recovery of the settings from the previous versions.
  • Improvement: better rendering in OpenGL3 (lighting, shadows and mirror, shading on the grid...)
  • Improvement: FBX import/export support normal maps.
  • Improvement: Wavefront import support normal maps.
  • Fix: image and 3D preview printing tools crashes the software.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.20 (May 28, 2021)

  • Your activations can be managed from the Mootools website.
  • It is now possible to drag files into a zip
  • Orthographic camera mode can now be used to generate thumbnails
  • Fix: too many tags appear in the tags menu.
  • Fix: when closing 3DBrowser, it sometimes stays in ghost process which prevents it from restarting.
  • Fix: when a panel is docked, double-clicking in the thumbnail window makes all panels disappear with no possibility to make them reappear.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • MagicCruncher 2 to 3 times faster.
  • Improved UV optimization. Mirror UVs are now taken into account.
  • Improved optimization of flat surfaces.
  • Possibility to manage activations from your Mootools account.
  • Save As... icon in the toolbar.
  • The Protect / Exclude border mode is not taken into account (Visual Studio optimization bug)
  • Occasional crash when entering the serial number.
  • Fix: save options are not kept.
  • Fix: icons may not appear correctly in the main window.
  • Fix: the Show/Hide Objects contextual command does not work correctly.
  • 3D:
  • File exchange support with 3ds Max 2022 / Maya 2022.
  • Fbx: added the ability to export to 2020 format.
  • Sketchup: added the ability to export to 2021 format.
  • Obj: files are now exported using the default UTF8 characters set in Windows.
  • - 3ds, directX: texture information may be lost on conversion
  • Gltf: opening a file can be very slow if the object contains many objects.
  • Preferences allow to specify larger low-resolution texture size (between 128 and 8192)
  • Clicking on an object name while pressing Alt+Ctrl displays its properties.
  • Fix: tags inserted in notes are not taken into account.
  • Fix: opening the gltf import dialog crashes the software.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.05 (Jan 30, 2021)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • 3DBrowser now save the window layout position
  • New Reset Window Layout command
  • Fixes:
  • Updating a thumbnail in a zip fails
  • 3D viewer:
  • GLTF: instanciation is handled in a better way, leading to reduced file size when importing / exporting back.
  • GLTF: reduced node number when importing a file
  • Select Parents, Select Children new commands
  • Faster selection when a scene contain a very large number of objects
  • Now keeping collapsed / expanded state before and after name filtering
  • Fixes:
  • Invalid zoom when double click on a group
  • SKP: crash when exporting scene with curves.
  • OBJ : crash in the case of a group or object (g or o) with an empty name.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Add Merge / Merge folder command
  • Save window layout / Add Reset Window Layout

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.03 (Jan 20, 2021)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • 3DBrowser now keeps selection when modifying quick filter
  • 3DBrowser keeps the Y-UP or Z-UP settings for each file
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser registration fails if software run in 3DBrowser Pro mode and vice versa
  • 3DBrowser can't run on Windows 7(missing GetOverLappedResultEx)
  • Ghostscript setup not always recognized, which make PDF preview fails.
  • 3DBrowser keeps the history of directories in case of a crash.
  • 3D viewer:
  • FBX: now using SDK 2020.2
  • OBJ: improves export of scene that contains non ascii characters in node name, texture name...
  • GLTF: improved export, embed textures in the file option, compliance with web viewers, handle texture breaks and string conversion problems.
  • 3DS: export are not correctly reimported.
  • Fixes:
  • Orbital rotation sometimes switches to free mode when opening a file.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.02 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • 3DBrowser:
  • Some dynamic menu are incorrectly handled
  • Fix icons problems with some menu
  • Albums cannot be user sorted
  • 3D viewer:
  • PLY files were never saved
  • C4D files lead to crash if a target is defined for camera

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.01 (Dec 15, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Send mail command can now send any kind of document
  • 3D Viewer:
  • Sketchup: add option for concatenating Live Components
  • 3D Viewer:
  • Update ExifTool
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Screen might be incorrectly drawn when launching the application
  • Title bar does not always reflect correctly activation
  • Two click are sometimes needed to collapse a part of the tree directory.
  • Conditional tag menu entry text is not correct
  • Fix problem related to catalog repository gathering (dialog display too many time with incorrect texts)
  • Crash sometime occurs in when exiting screen saver settings from the Windows panel
  • Some file might miss in the search due to an incorrect refresh
  • Connecting to a network drive which is not available does not lock the application for a while anymore
  • backward compatibility for tagendifexist
  • Occasional crash when editing file information, keywords or displaying properties
  • 3D viewer:
  • A crash might occurs on NVidia graphic cards in wireframe display mode with vignetting. This crash locks each time the application when opening the viewer.
  • Sketchup: Cancel and OK button are hidden in option dialog
  • Print margins are now taken into account and format paper can be selected
  • Image viewer:
  • Print margins are now taken into account and format paper can be selected

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 15.00 (Dec 2, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser main window:
  • New UI design
  • Add new viewer feature to open several viewer easily, for comparing 3d files for example
  • Larger directoy adress bar
  • Improved file extension association
  • Improved Drag & Drop file support - Dozens of minor improvements, bug fixes and stability issues
  • 3D Viewer:
  • New UI design
  • New rotation tool
  • Note features to attach specific note and point of view to meshes
  • Section cut view
  • Matcap, Normal map, vignetting, mirror display mode
  • Grid display
  • 3D features operates on the selection and not on the whole scene as before
  • GLTF import / export file support
  • Blender import file support
  • Sketchup 2021. Support image entities. Affine texture import by default
  • Many improvements on 3d import and export file support
  • Simplified 3d exportation dialog
  • Advanced name filtering on the hierarchy
  • Advanced contextual menu in the object tree panel for an easier selection
  • Mesh information dialog is now modeless
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Cf. 3D Viewer
  • MagicCruncher includes UltraMode for each similarity mode (nearly similar, similar, very similar). This gives better results when object dimension is narrow.
  • MagicCruncher option to operate on the selection or the whole scene.
  • Hidden meshes are displayed in italic.
  • Right contextual menu improved in the tree menu.
  • Image viewer:
  • New UI design with simplified access to most common features.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.60 (May 25, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • 3D:
  • 3ds Max 2021 support.
  • Fixes:
  • Sketchup version option is not taken into account at export.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.51 (Mar 23, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Cancel pending update when changing directory.
  • Better reactivity when a network connection is not available.
  • Update zip and folder vignette only when they are displayed in the view
  • A filename can now be entered in the path field
  • Drag and drop improvements. Can now drop to a directory (bug #205)
  • Uninstall dialog improvements
  • Fixes:
  • OpenGL2 does not handle multiple UV channels correctly (Bug #245)
  • Textures might disappear in the 3d viewer when rendering with smooth/flat+wireframe.
  • Lightwave: read might crash when several a material contains several layers.
  • Search / album files are now updated only once (synchronization failed when file came from a folder than does not contains catalogue file)
  • Search results were not correctly saved (bug #83)
  • Drop operation can be hidden by the main window (Bug #188)

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.25 (May 7, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Now generates thumbnails for files not recognized by 3DBrowser when possible (ie. AVI, PDF without Ghostscript...)
  • 3D:
  • 3ds Max 2020 support.
  • Performance for "Disconnect into Separate parts" has been greatly improved.
  • Wavefront OBJ: improvement of the import for files that contain very long lines.
  • Collada DAE: improvement of the import when the scene node has the same name as an other node.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.20 (Mar 26, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • 3D:
  • Sketchup: reading up to 50% faster (when the file contains textures)
  • Sketchup: less textures are generated when reading and convert files
  • SKetchup: it's now possible to choose the exported sketchup format version (many users ask us for this!)
  • Fbx: layer textures are now partially taken into account
  • Fbx: it's now possible to choose the exported Fbx version format, to embed textures or to select text / binary format
  • Image:
  • Exif : MakerNote field is not anymore taken into account
  • Raw format support has been updated through dcraw.exe (thanks to Dave Coffin)

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.15 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • 3D:
  • Maya 2019 support
  • Sketchup 2019 support
  • Better handling of relative texture paths when exporting 3d scenes.
  • Fixes:
  • Language problems under German OS
  • Toolbars might be still incorrectly displayed under circumstances on Windows 10
  • Occasional crashes when closing viewer

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.10 (Dec 21, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • 3D:
  • Merge by Materials now works with Sketchup files (when face have different front / back face materials)
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Some preferences are not taken into account (Catalogs saving option, thumbnail size...)
  • Computing thumbnails might lead to an application crash, particularly when computing is performed concurrently on different core.
  • Multi folders view does not display correctly the folders content.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • UVW might be altered when w value is defined.
  • Plugin 3ds Max / Maya:
  • Using both Maya & 3ds Max plugin at the same time is not possible (ie for sending a Maya file to 3ds Max). The fix to this problem requires reinstalling 3ds Max & Maya plugin
  • 3D:
  • Move textures option leads to a crash when exporting.
  • Light is modified when zooming, leading to darker visualization.
  • The view is incorrectly updated when objects are deleted.
  • The view is incorrectly update when materials are shown or hidden.
  • Wireframe view might be incorrect, particularly with Sketchup files (front / back face materials).
  • FBX export: UVs are sometime incorrectly assigned to materials.
  • FBX import: UVs are sometime incorrectly assigned (when a mesh has several UVs channels).
  • FBX import: object position might be wrong (when GeometricTranslation is defined on a group).

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.50 (Oct 12, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Merge by Materials now works with Sketchup files (when face have different front / back face materials)
  • Fixes
  • Some preferences are not taken into account (Catalogs saving option, thumbnail size...)
  • Computing thumbnails might lead to an application crash, particularly when computing is performed concurrently on different core.
  • Multi folders view does not display correctly the folders content.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • UVW might be altered when w value is defined.
  • Plugin 3ds Max / Maya:
  • Using both Maya & 3ds Max plugin at the same time is not possible (ie for sending a Maya file to 3ds Max). The fix to this problem requires reinstalling 3ds Max & Maya plugin
  • Move textures option leads to a crash when exporting.
  • Light is modified when zooming, leading to darker visualization.
  • The view is incorrectly updated when objects are deleted.
  • The view is incorrectly update when materials are shown or hidden.
  • Wireframe view might be incorrect, particularly with Sketchup files (front / back face materials).
  • FBX export: UVs are sometime incorrectly assigned to materials.
  • FBX import: UVs are sometime incorrectly assigned (when a mesh has several UVs channels).
  • FBX import: object position might be wrong (when GeometricTranslation is defined on a group).

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 14.20 (Jul 10, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser
  • New OpenGL viewer with improved performances and faster reactivity for huge meshes.
  • 3ds Max 2019 plugin.
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • New OpenGL viewer with improved performances.
  • MagicCruncher is now x8 time faster.
  • Sketchup 2018 file support
  • Lightwave 2018 file support
  • Lightwave 2015 and before files are readed faster
  • Wavefront files are readed faster.
  • Faster triangulation
  • Better handling of relative / absolute path when converting 3D files.
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Slide show / screen saver might crash when using random display mode.
  • SKP reduces the number of imported materials
  • DXF : bug correction. Do not export anymore quadrangle when this is not needed
  • FBX: some UV textures are loosed when reading (bad channel number assignation)
  • JT: concurrent reading crash.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.75 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Copy and paste image in browser explorer or image viewer now handles alpha channel
  • Image Drag & Drop now handles images that have an alpha channel, making convenient dropping images in 3DBrowser from a web browser for example
  • 3D:
  • Fbx: nurbs entities are now supported (converted to polygonal mesh)
  • Fbx: Autodesk Revit materials are now handled. These materials are correctly assigned to the objects, which make easier material edition in a third party software. Revit material properties are set to default values as Revit encrypt these information. Anyway, in save update mode, which is available after optimizing a revit scene with Polygon Cruncher for example, all revit materials are kept with their properties.
  • Fbx exports in version FBX 2014 format (not 2016) in order to make it compatible with older tool.
  • Sketchup: Sketchup 2016 is now supported.
  • Image:
  • DCRaw update to V9.26 for a better support of RAW digital camera images.
  • FIXES:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • 3ds Max 2016 plugin: improvement around the plugin stability, but random crashes still occurs. This is due to a bug that has been introduced in 3ds Max 2016 (notified to Autodesk), which make 3ds Max crash randomly when loading file from script.
  • 3D:
  • Fbx: mesh positions are bad for FBX files that come from Maya files.
  • Fbx : update saving mode loses material assignation.
  • Cinema4D: some specific files leads to a crash.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.71 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • 3D:
  • Fbx: FBX 2016 file format is now supported
  • FIXES:
  • 3D:
  • Update mode disappears when exporting a file (FBX, Collada...)

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.7 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Add an option that allows catalogue saving in Zip. This saving is not anymore automatic if the setting is not checked in preferences.
  • Status bar new information about folders, hidden and excluded files
  • 3ds Max 2016 support
  • Maya 2016 file support
  • 3D:
  • Skp: Updating Sketchup lib
  • Lxo: updating modo lib. Improving instanciation support and advanced texture search.
  • FIXES:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Fix: potential crash or lock when changing folders
  • 3D:
  • C4D: potential crash with invalid indexes

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.62 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Sketchup 2015 support
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Fix: mouse wheel actions are now conform to conventions
  • Fix: the application sometime freeze without reason
  • 3D Module:
  • Fix: changing the current file sometime leads to a crash
  • Fix: texture cutout is not always correctly shown on patch meshes
  • Fix: object might be badly positioned on a 3ds export if their matrix has a reflection
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Fix: application sometime crashes when changing optimization optimization selection

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.61 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Fix: thumbnails display / file preview might be missing on Windows 64 bits system, when opening a file selector dialog box in a 32 bits application.
  • 3DBrowser Light:
  • Fix: application crashes when right clicking on a thumbnail in multi-folder mode.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Fix: optimize might crashes when scene has polygon which triangulation is particular.
  • Fix: some object might disparears (rarely) when opening the optimizer.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.6 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser:
  • Print Catalogue feature has been greatly improved (alpha support, margins and elements size information, better zoom and preview and many bug correction).
  • New catalogue print templates are provided.
  • Print feature in the image viewer now takes care of the alpha channel if alpha exist and alpha preview is turned on.
  • Print feature in the 3D viewer now prints a larger image in a better resolution
  • WIA Import is now called Image Importation and adds support to WIA 1.0 and WIA 2.0. Twain support is coming back and has been included in this command.
  • 3D:
  • FBX 2015 has been integrated
  • DXF import has been improved and is now based on FBX SDK support and Mootools DXF import code.
  • C4D import has been improved (better instantiation support, better handling of the shown/hidden flags)
  • OBJ: now exports the -d parameter in material file and allow a better support when exporting to 3ds Max which considere materials as transparent.
  • Fit on view feature has been improved to work whatever the window format and does not truncate the scene in some particular case.
  • Image:
  • PDF: better PDF support.
  • Better support for 8 bit gray file with alpha channel.
  • Autocrop can now remove transparent background
  • Fixes:
  • Send by email command was broken
  • C4D: part of the hierachy might be missing and update mode can lead to a crash.
  • DXF: cannot save in DXF
  • Image:
  • Image printing can be impossible depending on the saved preferences

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.51 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Easier registration process (information about serial number, activation)
  • Easier update process.
  • 3D
  • C4D : reading improvements (taking care of cache information, better support of visibility state...)
  • SKP : now supporting complex faces!
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Many bug fixes (thanks to users that send crash error reports!)
  • Batch: correcting a crash that occured when using Setup Unit Command
  • Batch : correcting a crash that occured when using batch several time.
  • Search: correcting a crash that might occured while searching
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • The version number was not updated, leading to a registration problem.
  • 3D
  • Correcting a crash that might occured on files without UVs.
  • SKP: sketchup file support was incorrectly setup for x64 bit version of software
  • 3DS: correct exportation of the scale factor.
  • DAE: now supporting 3ds Max URI format.
  • VRML: problem with the cube primitive.
  • Others
  • Correcting a bug leading to a crash when reading 3DBrowser older catalogue formats.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.5 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • Polygon Cruncher is now able to optimize extra large meshes (bigger than 115 Million of polygons!)
  • Polygon Cruncher now optimizes all instances of a mesh in the same way.
  • 3D
  • FBX file support.
  • Cinema4D file support.
  • Sketchup import/export has been rewritten and now supports Sketchup 2014 files.
  • Sketchup now supports front and back materials without duplicating polygons.
  • Collada has been highly improved.
  • LXO file support has been highly improved.
  • Lightwave now find texture files in most of the case.
  • DXF file support has been rewritten.
  • 3D engines now support instanciation.
  • Unity and scale factor are now taken into account for most of parser.
  • Unity and scale factor dialog.
  • Collapse mesh by material new feature.
  • Merge confused points has algorithm has been rewritten and now includes a channel optimization
  • Merge faces now removes duplicated faces.
  • 3D viewer left panel split position is now saved.
  • Select All / Invert Selection / Reselect new commands
  • Show All / Invert Displayed Objects / Reshow Objects
  • 3ds Max 2015 plugin is now included
  • Maya 2015 plugin is now included
  • Bitmap
  • WIA image acquisition has been improved.
  • Twain support has been removed.
  • Video file reading is now performed using the default application.
  • Fixes:
  • 3DBrowser
  • Error windows now only appears only when a crash occurs.
  • Many bug fixes (thanks to users that send crash error reports!)
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • Batch optimization did not take into account merge faces and merge points settings
  • Batch optimization did not take into account weld factor.
  • 3D
  • Wavefront fails when file contains very large lines.
  • Vrml97 textures path were not correctly read.
  • 3ds: mesh position was not always correct when exporting.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.11 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Application
  • Favorites opens with a simple click
  • Improving stability by taking care of crash report errors
  • Improves error report user experience.
  • Video and audio extensions are not associated to 3DBrowser by default any more
  • Improve Open File with 3DBrowser as it might fails when called from an external application (ie 7Zip)
  • 3D
  • Add support for Maya 2013 SP2.
  • 3ds Max: improving normal conversion
  • Sketchup: front / back materials are handled in a better way
  • 3D Viewer displays scenes faster and improves speed when changing material show/hide state.
  • Bitmap
  • Update ExifTool version. It corrects a bug that can make metadata retrieval fails.
  • Update Digital Camera Raw support and add new raw file supports (RW2, MEF, NRW...)
  • Fixes:
  • Application
  • Open / Save file selector dialog crashes the application under some particular computer configuration.
  • Show / hide toolbars removes the menu.
  • opening several files from explorer fails when Recycle Viewers is unchecked in the preferences.
  • Deleting a file in the viewer jump to the next file even when operation is canceled.
  • The selection in the thumbnail view is not updated when the current file is changed from a viewer.
  • Correct a bug related that occurs when clicking on the Explorer thumbnail preview checkboxes in Preferences / Extensions and Windows Shell.
  • Commands are not called when a toolbar is in floating mode (undocked).
  • Batch commands are not opened when called from the menu.
  • 3D
  • 3ds Max 2014: normals are incorrectly supported.
  • 3ds Max file exchange plugin might crash in some circumstance. The stability has been improved.
  • Merge Objects sometimes loses UV texturing.
  • Merge Objects loses double face material properties (Sketchup files).
  • Texture with path containing the / character might not be loaded.
  • planar / spherical... texturing is sometime loses when performing specific 3D operations.
  • The reset to default button is sometime shown even when default settings are selected in the 3D Exportation options dialog.
  • Collada import: imports sometime crash.
  • 3DS export: texture are renamed to 8.3 dos format when Move Texture to folder is checked in the exportation options.
  • Wavefront import: long lines might be stripped, resulting in a loading failure.
  • Import VRML97: textures which names contains the / character lead to loading failure.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.1 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Application
  • Metadata: reading metadata using multithread with exif tool. This result is improving thumbnail computation.
  • Preferences: tooltips now show the same text that the one which is defined for the custom view mode
  • Preferences: preference display settings has been improved.
  • Preferences: extension association dialog has been improved and association schema under Windows 8 has been improved
  • Main window: Improvement in the folder tree multiselection with Ctrl key.
  • Main window: fast file filtering is now removed when changing current folder
  • Main window: contextual menu in the tree folder now shows zip compression command
  • Setup: the application now appears in the Windows default application dialog.
  • Setup: Setup is larger for a greater comfort
  • Setup: shortcuts are created in a way that avoid double icons when pinned to Windows 7/8 taskbar
  • 3D
  • 3ds Max 2014 plugin is available
  • Maya 2014 plugin is available
  • Now reading Open Inventor files (iv files)
  • Exportation: exportation dialog now allows to move associated textures to a particular folder.
  • Viewer: Restore user defined point of view in 3D viewer when opening a file.
  • Vrml97: now handling correctly normals, uvs, vertex colors (per face / per indexes)
  • Vrml97: now support box, sphere, cone, cylinder primitives
  • Vrml 1: now support box, sphere, cone, cylinder primitives
  • Vrml 1: now handling transform nodes
  • Bitmap
  • CMYK bitmap are now correctly displayed
  • Viewer: image printing now include an option to print at real size when image resolution is defined.
  • PDF is now limited in size when opening in the image viewer (image were sometime very large)
  • Polygon Cruncher StandAlone
  • Option dialog is larger
  • Fixes:
  • Application
  • Main window: focus is correctly restored when using prev/next directory
  • Main window: file shortcut thumbnails are not recognized correctly.
  • Main window: the thumbnail view does not reset the scroller position when changing the vignette size.
  • Main window: this is not possible anymore to move thumbnails position when using group mode. This previously result in the loss of the user custom sort.
  • Main window: updating catalogs might crash using Catalog Update command
  • Main window: sort correctly file names when displaying the content of several folders.
  • Main window: updating shell explorer thumbnail sometime freezes 3DBrowser when using Update Catalogs feature
  • Main window: searching files from search panel sometime crash the application. Flickering has been reduced when displaying found files. Founded files are updated in order to see the thumbnails
  • Main window: Print catalog command does not show correctly header and footnote
  • Main window: Printing can lead to a crash if default printer has been removed
  • Main window: custom extension filter text is corrupted by fast file filtering text
  • Main window: zip files can now be deleted from tree folder
  • The crash dialog only appears if a useful file can be sent
  • Albums: take care of the excluded file list when opening several folders.
  • Albums: albums no handle correctly the user custom sort order.
  • Preferences: catalogue repository preferences fixes (it was not working)
  • Preferences: preferences draw transparency thumbnail setting was not taken into account.
  • Viewers: application shortcuts are not display correctly when opening the viewer directly from Windows Explorer.
  • Viewers: Prev/Next image does nothing if a file is not recognized.
  • No more Tip of the day dialog at startup
  • 3D
  • Viewer: it now displays "Scene List" instead "Image List"
  • Viewer: it now reflects correctly material changes
  • Exportation: exportation dialog is sometime incorrectly displayed.
  • Sketchup: Sketchup.exe now automatically exit after a given period of inactivity
  • SKetchup: correct a path problem for sketchup that make file not always readed under x64 bit OS
  • Sketchup: Sketchup.exe does not create plugin directory any more.
  • Sketchup: scene is sometime badly exported (triangulation is now performed before exportation)
  • Sketchup: face with different material on front and back are now supported without creating extra faces.
  • Sketchup:randomly crash
  • 3ds Max: Importing normal in 3ds Max can lead to a crash.
  • 3ds Max: Importing vertex color in 3ds Max is now supported
  • Vrml97: now support wrl97 and vrml extensions
  • Ply: exportation fails when scene has UVs
  • Truespace: UVs were incorrectly exported
  • Wavefront: uppercases in some files make some files to be incorrectly readed.
  • Bitmap
  • Viewer: Show Image Sequence shows nothing when image size is too large. Improving the text display.
  • Viewer: can now use the zoom feature when cropping
  • Viewer: image with alpha channel are now correctly displayed when zooming.
  • PDF: files are now shown through Ghostscript even if the path contains unicode characters.
  • Viewer: Resize command does not handle correctly use the largest/smallest dimension when batch resizing images.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.02 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Application:
  • It's now possible to rename a folder from the thumbnail view
  • Zip archive for folders is now created in the parent directory of the compressed folder
  • Fixes:
  • Application:
  • The crash dialog displayed something has been removed

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 12.00 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Application:
  • Catalogues are open faster. This allows to browse large folder more quickly.
  • Directory change is now possible even when a preview is being computed. It is not necessary to wait the end of the preview calculation.
  • Adding a new feature that provide a fast filtering of the files. This feature displays the files that contain a given text in its metada or in the filename.
  • File metadata (jpeg images particularly) are now read or write using exiftool.
  • Open With Explorer new feature to open the selected files in an explorer window.
  • New dialog for updating the current catalog. The Scan directories feature has been removed and the feature has been merged with Update Catalogs feature.
  • Right click on a folder now give a simplest menu. The feature Display Directory Size has been added in the menu.
  • Previous /Next / Parent Folder features are now available in the main toolbar.
  • New feature to show or hide the transparency on thumbnail of images.
  • Fast application access toolbars are now available in the image and 3D viewers.
  • It's now possible to open a lot of files in the viewer without waiting.
  • The thumbnail selection is kept when closing a viewer.
  • Keyboard shortcuts for Edit Information / Edit Keywords / Properties / Search now allow to retrieve the directory panel by pressing the key a second time.
  • File preview now work when opening a file selector in an external application.
  • Open With dialog now displays more application that can handle the selected file.
  • It's now possible to drag and drop a file to the fast access application toolbar.
  • A default file name is given to images paste from the clipboard in the thumbnails window.
  • Enter key now opens 3DBrowser when opening a file from the explorer(Ctrl+Enter to exit the application without opening 3DBrowser)
  • Right and left arrows now cycle through the viewer opened files (when several files are opened with a viewer).
  • Files are now sorted by name in the viewers.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • New Progressive optimization mode which takes into account the respective number of faces of each objects. Object with few faces are optimized last and are kept even at high optimization ratio
  • New modes for optimizing UVs, vertex colors and normals. Points which are on UV seams, normal or vertex colors boundaries are no longer "frozen". This removes the spider web effect which appears at high optimization ratio in previous versions.
  • New mode for keeping the material boundaries. Points that belong to the boundaries are no longer frozen.
  • The line of symmetry is no longer frozen when optimizing using symmetric mode, thus avoiding a spider web effect along this line.
  • A new setting allows to stop automatically the optimization when face deletion produces bad results.
  • Adding Auto Calculate feature for Polygon Cruncher.
  • Improved optimization for planar surfaces.
  • Selecting the discontinuities for vertex colors has been improved.
  • Memory requirements have been reduced by 30%
  • New display mode for viewing the optimization constraints.
  • Improved interface, improved tool tips. It is no possible to deactivate tooltips.
  • 3D:
  • Plugins for 3ds Max 2013.
  • Plugin for Maya 2013.
  • Improved Collada I/O.
  • LXO format support.
  • VRML97 format support (read only).
  • Sketchup format support (now read and write).
  • 3DS import now supports material or texture name longer than 13 chars.
  • Material conversion has been improved when getting scene from 3ds Max.
  • Add the Update mode when saving a file. This mode update the original file. It modifies only the geometry and keep all other information (animation, materials...). This mode is available for LXO, Collada, XSI.
  • New normal calculation which result in an improved display.
  • Print feature now propose automatic setting features.
  • A default file name is given to the scene imported from 3ds Max.
  • Default background color is now a grey color.
  • Image:
  • It's now possible to view an image and its transparency (alpha channel) on a checker.
  • New feature to display a numbered image sequence smoothly.
  • New feature to display the first and the last image of the image list.
  • Print feature now propose automatic setting features.
  • Bmp, ico, cur format are now betterly handled.
  • The white frame around the image has been removed.
  • Default background color is now a grey color.
  • Fixes:
  • Application:
  • Custom file sort is now working again.
  • The crash dialog displayed something has been removed.
  • 3D:
  • The point and face number was incorrect when the scene has some patch.
  • Patch conversion now display objects correctly.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 11.04 (Oct 24, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Update Catalogue (Ctrl+U) feature now allows to update the Windows Explorer thumbnails.
  • Catalogues files are now completely hidden when hidden files is selected in the preferences settings.
  • Exif is now supported for TIFF files.
  • Pdf, ps, eps, ai (and many vectoriel formats) are now read and written through the free software GhostScript.
  • Fixes:
  • File description (keywords, title...) were sometime lose when moving files.
  • Album synchronisation was not always correctly performed.
  • Application sometime crashed when exiting.
  • Double click on the top left icon thumbnail sometime opened a menu with incorrect entries.
  • Clicking on task bar Exit Application menu led to a crash.
  • The application locked several folders making their deletion impossible from Windows explorer while its opened.
  • Explorer Thumbnails:
  • Several 3D Photo Browser instances were sometime launched.
  • No more messages are displayed while updating thumbnails
  • The application was sometime locked when updating the thumbnails.
  • Zip thumbnails are generated at the correct size.
  • 3D:
  • 3DS export might crashed when generating UV.
  • 3DS Max plugins didn't update meshes when they belong to hierarchy.
  • Bitmap:
  • Image with non latin characters were not be readed /saved.
  • Tiff files sometime crashed due to some particular exif information.
  • Polygon Cruncher 9.12:
  • 3ds Max plugins didn't update objects after optimization, if they belong to a hierarchy.
  • Checking / unchecking optimization checkboxes (selection panel) led to a crash.
  • Checking / unchecking optimization checkboxes (selection panel) made object disapear.
  • Frozen faces display was incorrect in the viewer.
  • Toolbar button state was not always updated.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 11.03 (Jul 8, 2011)

  • Updating the thumbnails leads to a frozen application

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 11.02 (Jul 5, 2011)

  • Application:
  • Add Buy application feature and a direct shortcut to application registration web page.
  • Seach feature on file name (simple mode) and canceling a search has been improved.
  • A single dialog box is displayed when some files are missing in an album.
  • 3D:
  • Sketchup support now works under 3D Photo Browser x64 bits.
  • 3ds Max plugins now works for both x32 and x64 bits version of 3D Photo Browser. This means that you can run 3ds Max x32 bits and send a file to 3D Photo Browser x64 bits (and vice versa).
  • Same things for Maya plugin.
  • 3ds Max 2012 plugin support
  • Maya 2012 plugin support

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 11.01 (Apr 30, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • 3D:
  • Wavefront : reading performance has been improved.
  • Material name is now sort alphabetically..
  • 3DS: object scale is now keep when reading and saving a 3ds file.
  • Updating the thumbnails in 3D Photo Browser now generates a refresh of the Windows Explorer thumbnails.
  • Fixes:
  • Application:
  • Explorer: a thumbnail computed for the explorer are not cached for 3D Photo Browser.
  • XP: thumbnails are not displayed in Windows Explorer.
  • XP: some toolbars are missing in the viewer and in Polygon Cruncher, making the feature unusable.
  • Zip thumbnails are always recomputed each time a folder is opened.
  • Exporting the information crashes the application.
  • 3D:
  • Faces are incorrectly sorted when reading files, resulting in a possible degradation of the viewer performance.
  • Collada: names contains illegal characters making the exported file not being readable in third party application.
  • Viewer: the rotate control is not correctly drawn.
  • 3D animation can't be played.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 11.00 (Apr 12, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Application:
  • Add search file similarity feature for finding similar images or duplicated files.
  • Windows File Explorer now displays 3D Photo Browser thumbnails.
  • Improved preferences dialog for file association with the application.
  • Add Windows 7 task bar shortcut support for a direct access to most popular folders.
  • Twain feature has been improved (support of relative path and automatic folder creation)
  • Fast access window (Tab key) is more readable
  • 3D:
  • Sketchup file support (reading)
  • XSI Softimage file support through Crosswalk 2011.5 (reading / writing)
  • Select tool, which allows to get information on the selected object.
  • Zoom Selection new feature.
  • Transparency is fully supported as well as color modulation.
  • Improved preferences for supporting OpenGl extensions.
  • Lightwave import optimization (number of created materials and UV channel has been reduced) and handles correctly simultaneous UV and vertex colors channels.
  • Wavefront I/O now support material transparency.
  • Maya and 3ds Max exchange plugin requires less memory and allow exchanging bigger files.
  • Material dialog allows to edit ambient, diffuse, transparency, specular and smooth factor.
  • Face and point indexes are now displayed with a shaded color.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Memory optimization and memory bottle neck suppress. It's now possible to optimize bigger meshes.
  • The multiresolution mesh generation step is now faster.
  • Optimization is now performed on the selected object, when you open Polygon Cruncher from a 3D viewer.
  • Image:
  • Add liquid rescale feature
  • Add Exr HDR image file support.
  • Support of the latest raw format (thanks Dave Coffin!)
  • SVG file support.
  • Others:
  • Upgrade dialog has been relooked.
  • Add full fullscreen mode (!) and a button for canceling the full screen mode.
  • mproved crash support reports.
  • Fixes:
  • Application:
  • Fix: tooltips are not displayed in some circumstances.
  • Fix: the multi folder view does not work when the 'Save Catalogues in the catalogues application directory' preference option is set.
  • Fix: files are sometime incorrectly sorted when using group mode display
  • Fix: zip thumbnails are updated permanently.
  • 3D:
  • Fix: Collada import might fails on particular files (ie. when visual_scene_instance is incorrectly defined)
  • Fix: cubic mapping gives incorrect results
  • Fix: lightwave import might crash due to an incorrect projection value and invalid UVW creation.
  • Fix: lightwave scene import does not release memory correctly.
  • Fix: some scenes are permanently updated in the 3D viewer, resulting in a slow display.
  • Fix: mesh with reflection matrix are incorrectly lighten.
  • Fix: directX import might fails with particular files.
  • Fix: maya normals are incorrectly imported.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Fix: the lock point setting is sometime reset
  • Image:
  • Fix: crop area of the crop feature is incorrectly displayed.
  • Fix: the OK button of dialogs might be disabled under certain conditions.
  • Fix: the move cursor is not displayed in preview control of dialogs.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.61 (Oct 8, 2010)

  • Improvements
  • Application
  • Compact is a new display mode which shows thumbnails without file names.
  • Fast application access bar has been improved (at the bottom of the screen): new access to filter / display / sort menu. New way for handling the thumbnails size settings.
  • New dialog for defining the current catalogue settings (Read only mode and keep display settings option).
  • Restore the previous display position when reopening a recently browsed folder.
  • Right click on a favorite folder now shows its sub-folders.
  • Windows task bar Application icon shows the progression state.
  • Faster JPEG thumbnail preview.
  • 3D viewer
  • Improving Collada support.
  • KMZ file support.
  • New predefined point of views (isometrics). It is possible to define the angle view.
  • New commands: move with keyboard (Shift+arrow) and rotate with keyboard (Ctrl+arrows)
  • Improved 3D preferences management.
  • Improved contextual help.
  • Image viewer
  • Remove Red Eyes command.
  • Improved contextual help.
  • Improved displayed feedback (Crop, rotate to horizontal)
  • Image operation have been parallelized on multicore computer.
  • PSD layer preview support.
  • Improved RAW (and similar format) file support. Faster reading.
  • Improved JPEG export dialog.
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • Polygon Cruncher is now available as a stand alone application.
  • Fixes
  • Application
  • Split / Glue file command has been corrected.
  • The application is more reactive when browsing slow devices (CD-Rom, network folder...)
  • Improved Drag and drop icon display.
  • The viewer crashes when displaying faces which have vertex colors and which have more than 3 points.
  • Double side face lighting when double side display is checked in the preferences.
  • Sending a 3ds Max scene from 3D Photo Browser to 3DS Max might lead to a crash
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • Incorrect Collada file update after a collada optimization.
  • Image
  • Thumbnails generated by the shell have now a correct aspec ratio.
  • Images which name contains particular characters (unicode) can now be read.
  • Reading 1 bits BMP file has been corrected.
  • Alpha channel is lost during particular operation (ie. rotation).

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.05 (May 11, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Application:
  • Design improved, using latest MFC package.
  • Follow the UAC guidelines (Vista, Windows 7), simplifying life of user which has no administrator rights.
  • Reading / saving catalogue is faster. Catalogue size is smaller.
  • Adding popular folders list and easier access to favorites
  • Files not recognized by 3D Photo Browser which are in a zip can be opened by a double click.
  • album references to missing files are not automatically removed any more.
  • Application shortcuts has been improved (the shortcut list can be sorted and it is not modified ane more when updating the software)
  • Improving the drag & drop area
  • The current folder is displayed in bold in the folder tree.
  • 3D:
  • Adding Collada files support (*.dae)
  • The viewer now displays antialisaed lines (wireframe display, for example).
  • The viewer now supports transparent materials.
  • 3ds Max plugins are now able to update files which is particularly useful when using with Polygon Cruncher for 3D Browser.
  • Information related to material and faces are more complete in the information panel.
  • Improving 3D preferences (utilisation du PBuffer)
  • Image:
  • Using the latest dcraw version for a better digital camera raw support.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Optimization has been greatly improved. Normal inversion is now extremely rare and polygon are better equilibrated.
  • Optimization is more than 2 time faster.
  • Optimization requires less memory (approximately 25% less).
  • Optimizing textures does not require anymore to lock points, giving better results.
  • Normal interpolation gives smooth results when optimizing normals.
  • It's now possible to lock point position in the advanced panel.
  • Polygon Cruncher now try to update files after optimization when this option is supported by the parser (3ds Max, Maya, Collada). This allows to keep more information (materials, animation...)
  • Others:
  • Maya 2010, Maya 2011, 3ds Max 2010, 3ds Max 2011 plugin support.
  • Fixes:
  • Application:
  • Opening file has been improved for some kind of file (exe, html...)
  • Drag & dropping a file does not change the current folder
  • Bitmap:
  • Watermark plugin fails if resize ratio is set to 100%
  • The Exif tag menu now displays correct entries.
  • 3D:
  • Lightwave: improvement on computing the texture mapping (planar projection)
  • Wavefront correction: a full check of index overbounds is performed. Textures are now correctly exported when several maps exist on the same object.
  • The object information dialog box reports incorrect matrix value.
  • UV Map are now generated using less memory
  • Bounding box computation correction
  • The rendering image feature now take into account the rendering mode selected from the dialog.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Browsing log file fails in batch module

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.04 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • Improvements
  • Application:
  • Zip commands allow to create a zip from a selection, a directory or a directory and sub directories.
  • 3D:
  • Support for 3ds Max 2010
  • 3DS plugins have been improved and allow to update a scene imported to 3D Photo Browser and re-exported to 3ds Max. This allows to preserve more information particularly when using Polygon Cruncher from 3D Photo Browser.
  • Patch conversion for objects which have quadrangular faces has been improved.
  • Corrections:
  • Polygon Cruncher might crash when optimizing scene which include group.
  • Patch conversion might lead to a crash.
  • The application opens 2 viewers when the Do not recycle viewers is checked when clicking on a file from the Windows explorer.
  • Zip browsing might fails when a zip contains another zip.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.03 (Mar 31, 2009)

  • Application:
  • Batch command can be run from a command line.
  • Drag & drop now follows Windows specifications: files are copied by default (and not moved any more) when they are drop to a folder located on a different drive.
  • Image:
  • Now supporting latest RAW image formats (cr2, crw...)
  • 3D:
  • OpenGL extensions are now disabled if the graphic card does not correctly support it.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Optimization improved for x32 bits version.
  • Optimization improved for x64 bits version.
  • Optimization quality are now the same between x32 and x64 bits versions.
  • Fixes:
  • On particular meshes, the x64 bits optimization creates flipped faces and lead to a bad vertex distribution over the optimized mesh.
  • Lightwave 5.x import sometime crashed.
  • The software sometime crash when it is closed.
  • Some particular MP3 files crash the application.
  • Screen capture crash the application at startup when "Run screen capture at startup" is checked.
  • Adding a fast application shortcut does not work when the application is added using the Other... button from the application selection dialog box.
  • The license is now deactivated only if the software is completely removed from the computer.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.02 (Feb 17, 2009)

  • Application:
  • Application sometime crashes when it exits.
  • Rotate To Horizontal and Crop commands crash when they are exited using the close dialog icon.
  • Image:
  • Some BMP (DIB type) are incorrectly readed.
  • Some EXIF information are incorrectly readed and might cause a crash.
  • 3D:
  • Dynamic exchange with 3ds Max: normals creations might crash the application if an object also has UV textures.
  • Wavefront: some UV textures might be missing.
  • Wavefront: some meshes might be missing when converting to this format.
  • PBuffer initialisation might crashes the application when opening a 3D viewer.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Normals optimisation has been improved when Optimize Texture and Optimize Normals are both checked.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 10.01 (Jan 28, 2009)

  • Improvements
  • Application:
  • Simplified search mode which allows to make a search based on file name and content very easily.
  • Search list has been improved (Network preferences). It is now accessible through the search panel.
  • Categories are now sorted. Pressing return key is not longer needed for validating a category.
  • Progress dialog when automatically rotating jpeg files of a folder.
  • Adding Paste in contextual menu.
  • Back and forward features are clearest in contextual menu.
  • Files are now decompressed when they are drag from a zip.
  • Tree folders does not look for zip files on removable media (faster display).
  • The title bar now gives information on the version and the license status.
  • Improving the file association. Association are now done for the current user. Default Application choice has been added int the Extensions and Windows Shell preference settings. Finally, the Open With Application command simplifies the file association settings.
  • Improved full screen mode and windows positionning when using several monitors.
  • NTFS information is now saved in Unicode.
  • Deactivating the application when uninstall it.
  • Image viewer:
  • Tool Display Numbered Sequence which allows to view a rendered image sequence for example.
  • Add a cancel button on the JPEG, GIF, PNG option dialogs.
  • 3D:
  • A particular thumbnail point of view can now be defined for each file format.
  • Global / local coordinates support.
  • User specified normals support.
  • Maya 2009 support. Fastest loading when reading Maya object.
  • ASCII Maya file support (was not accessible through save as in previous version).
  • New PLY binary export.
  • Animation support (3ds format, lightwave scene).
  • LWS import improvements (hierachy support, faster loading...)
  • Wavefront / STL / 3ds Max / Maya user normal support.
  • Vertex colors support in dynamic exchange (Maya / 3ds Max plugins)
  • Normal and bounding box display.
  • Polygon Cruncher:
  • Memory management greatly improvements: this is now possible to optimize larger files.
  • Adding normal optimization.
  • Improving the batch module (merge faces and vertex settings simplified, log files, normal support...)
  • Fixes
  • Application:
  • Screen capture does not work correctly when using it on a several monitor configuration and when a monitor has negative coordinates.
  • Left panel display improved (keeps the minimized state when switching the panel / shown when pressing F6 or F3 keys).
  • Thread lock improved, removing potential dead lock.
  • A bad message is displayed when a new version is ready.
  • A Windows cannot find the file... is displayed sometime when opening a file from the Windows explorer.
  • Image:
  • Improving exception support when reading image (application might crash before...)
  • 3D:
  • Patch conversion might lead to a crash.
  • Fix in Lightwave parser. A crash might occurs on particular lightwave 5.x format. UV/VC are correctly saved when a same material is shared by several meshes.
  • Vrml fix (last face might be invalid and this can lead to an application crash).

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.31 (Sep 16, 2008)

  • Intelligent sort for textual information in the thumbnails view (strings are sorted by number then sorted by string).
  • WIA Import now import image from a scanner.
  • More complete information in the error report.
  • Reading DDS files (DirectX)
  • It is now possible to add all the subdirectories of a given folder in the texture path and LightWave scene path tabs of the viewer preferences.
  • The 3d viewer init faster when the scene has a lot of meshes - fixed
  • The dialog box "The server is busy..." appears frequently - fixed
  • The x64 bits version sometime freezes when using the tree folder view - fixed
  • The screen capture tool sometime crashes when starting capture - fixed
  • Catalogue update sometime freezes the software - fixed
  • Auto rotation features does not work with non JPEG files (ie. PNG) - fixed
  • Lightwave import crashes frequently when reading UVs - fixed
  • 3ds import is slow when the scene has a lot of meshes - fixed

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.11 (Sep 28, 2007)

  • 3D Patch support, Convert files feature, SWF support, Video playback, TWAIN & WIA importation, Polygon Cruncher access, contextual help

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.1 (Jun 26, 2007)

  • 3D viewer
  • New features
  • Tools > Merge Coplanar Faces: this new command merges coplanar faces. You can also define a limit angle to merge faces which are nearly coplanar. This command is scriptable.
  • Maya 8.5 file support (read / write).
  • Polygon Cruncher
  • New features
  • Tools > Merge coplanar faces command in Polygon Cruncher viewer.
  • Merge faces option in Polygon Cruncher batch dialog.
  • Fixes
  • Improvement: add an entry to Polygon Cruncher forum in Help menu.
  • Fix: creating the tree folder sometime crash the application.
  • Fix: the character is not correctly handled when reading obj files.
  • Fix: clicking on the browse button in batch optimization dialog sometime leads to an infinite loop (Polygon Cruncher).
  • Fix: the custom sort order is lost when exporting a slides show.
  • Fix: images are not displayed in the Create Animated Gif dialog box.
  • Fix: buy 3D Photo Browser command is missing.
  • Fix: the link to compare different 3D Photo Browser release is invalid.
  • Fix: DirectX export fails when it is selected as default export format in the batch optimization module.
  • Fix: DirectX import fails when face indexes are stored on 32 bit values.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.06 (May 31, 2007)

  • Improvement: folder preview are computed only when user choose to display folders.
  • Fix: Help > Activate command is enable even if no valid serial has been entered.
  • Fix/Windows Vista: the software sometime crashes when browsing folders.
  • Fix/Windows Vista: the selected language is not taken into account.
  • Fix: an invalid folder name makes the application enter in an infinite loop.

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.05 (May 26, 2007)

  • Use transparency to display thumbnails of 3D scenes and images with an alpha channel.
  • Preferences > Display: Use transparency for displaying thumbnails
  • Automatic checking online for new upgrade.
  • Preferences > Others: Check online regularly for an upgrade
  • Preferences > Display: it's now possible to define a gradient for the background color.
  • A double click on the left panel name allows to switch from one panel to the other (ie. from the explorer panel to the properties panel)
  • The folders are now drawn using Windows thumbnails preview.
  • Print catalogue: transparency information are taken into account (if printer allows it).
  • Internal improvement on the folder panel
  • Fix: zip files are not correctly handled in the tree view.
  • Fix: the software handles incorrectly large files (> 90 Mb)
  • Fix: a custom sort order is sometime created when moving contiguous thumbnails.
  • Fix: searching for keywords has been improved (searching for a complete keyword not for a part of a keyword).
  • 3D viewer
  • Preferences > Display: it's now possible to select an alternative OpenGL mode, which can solve problems on specific graphic cards (ie ATI Radeon).
  • Tools > Update Thumbnails now takes care of the current scene zoom factor.
  • Better support for decompressing textures for scenes which belong to zip.
  • File > Save Scene as Image: the feature now includes an alpha channel when the image format handles alpha channel (TGA, PNG...).
  • Fix: LightWave reader improvement. A problem relative to layer hierachy has been corrected. This problems randomly crashed the application. Reading bad files has been also improved.
  • Fix: Improvement on HDR file support.
  • Fix: DirectX fails to initialize on some computers.
  • Fix: scene is not always correctly displayed when we zoom too close to the objects.
  • Fix: under particular circumstances, topologic and geometric cleaning might crash the application (Merge points feature, export polygon cruncher optimization).
  • Fix: merge points feature sometime gives incorrect result when using 0 as merging factor.
  • Fix: the "Plugin server not found" is displayed when using the Lightwave plugin
  • Adding support for dng, arw, erf raw files formats
  • Fix: Modes & Colors plugin is not setup (feature negative, gamma, contrast are missing).
  • Fix: white balance is not performed on raw images.
  • Fix: particular raw images are incorrectly readed.
  • Fix: mouse wheel is inactive (zoom, goto next / previous thumbnails with Ctrl).

New in 3D Photo Browser Light 9.0 (Apr 6, 2007)

  • New features
  • Zip file are now supported. These file can be browsed and cataloges like any other folders.
  • New folder access window. This window contains sub folders of the current folder, recent browsed folders, favorites and albums. You get access to this window using the Tab key.
  • Files which are incorrectly readed are now excluded from the catalogue. This gives a better stability to the software.
  • Technical support has been improved. This is possible to send an error report.
  • Thumbnail icons are now active. Thumbnail contextual menu have been rearranged. Hide icon preference has been removed.
  • Deselect all, Invert selection, Copy path, Paste image new features.
  • Improvements
  • Drag and drop feedback improved.
  • Maximal thumbnail size increased. Simplified control on the thumbnails size. The extra large thumbnail preference has been removed.
  • Images related features
  • New features
  • HDRI file format support .
  • RLA / RLF format support.
  • Automatic JPEG file rotation (thumbnail automatic rotation or image automatic rotation).
  • Main Window > Tools > JPEG > Use shooting data feature which transfers the current shooting date to the file modified date (JPEG files).
  • Viewer > Edit > Filters > Colors > Add a Watermark / Retrieve a Watermak which allow to add an invisible signature to your pictures (scriptables).
  • Viewer > Edit > Filter > Colors > Sepia. This filter gives your images a sepia tone (scriptable).
  • Viewer > Edit > Special effects > Polaro�d. This filter tranforms your image to a polaro�d snapshot (scriptable).
  • Viewer > Edit > Special effects > Drop Shadow. This effect adds a shadow under your images (scriptable).
  • Viewer > Edit > Special effects > Sketch. This filter sketches your images (scriptable).
  • Improvements
  • Screen capture: screen capture tools greatly improved. particularly, it's now possible to preview your capture before saving it.
  • Preview speed increased.
  • Viewer > Edit > Modes & Colors > Contrast improved (contraste sigmo�dal).
  • 3D related features
  • New features
  • Maya file are now support by a dynamic exchange. Maya should be setup on the computer. This gives the possibility to use Polygon Cruncher on Maya files.
  • STL file support (reading ASCII and binary files, writing binary files. VisCam, SolidView, Materialise Magics variants are supported).
  • Viewer > Tools > Invert Normals command.
  • Viewer > Tools > Unify Normals command.
  • Viewer > Tools > Merge Points: weld near or confused points.
  • Improvements
  • Option which allows to generate a conversion report when save a scene.
  • Lightwave object files are betterly find when reading LightWave scene (it's now possible to set relative path in the Preferences > Lightwave directories tab).
  • It's now possible to set relative path in the Preferences > Texture directories tab.
  • OBJ file support improved (now supporting faces which have many points).
  • 3DS file support improved (null object are now taken into account).
  • Preferences improved: it's now possible to define custom OpenGL settings.
  • Performances improved (normals computation, connections graph...)
  • Supporting unix or apple OBJ and DXF files.
  • Fixes
  • Fix / Batch Polygon Cruncher version: exclude borders mode does not work.
  • Fix / Batch Polygon Cruncher version: creating a file fails when the target directory does not exists.
  • Fix: LightWave fails when object has faces which materials does not exist in the scene (ie. default material).
  • Fix: Truespace exports too many materials.
  • Fix: search result is incomplete when user specifies EXIF criteria and the search directory does not already contains a 3D Photo Browser catalog file.
  • Fix: thumbnail type is now updated when catalog is updated.
  • Fix: reading TIFF files with a TIF extension.
  • Fix: 3D Photo Browser now displays the Open with an Application dialog when no application is associated to a given extension.
  • Fix: file selector loses the current directory when clicking on Display only common files checkbox.
  • Fix: file selector does not display any files whan All kind of files is selected.
  • Fix: importing information from a text file sometime fails.
  • Fix: capture has a black area when capturing a window which borders are out of the screen.
  • Fix: search pannel is not dynamically resized.
  • Fix: folder name is not correct when you right click on the main window background.
  • Fix: navigation toolboar disappears sometimes when you resize left panels.
  • Fix: Wave filter cuts a part of the image.
  • Fix: improving Implode dialog settings (negative values now simulate an image explosion).
  • Fix: converting object to patch makes textures and vertex colors invalids.