Pano2VR

What's new in this version:

General and Interface:
- New Project Wizard to help guide users in building and exporting a new project
- New skin selector with skin previews
- New Quaranta skin with a minimalist design, navigation arrows, theme options, and icon style choices
- New project file format for Pano2VR 8
- Pano2VR 8 project files cannot be opened in Pano2VR 7 or earlier
- Added North Offset
- Added JPEG XL support
- Improved handling of very large PNG files
- Improved conversion of images to tiled TIFF compression formats

3D Models:
- Added support for 3D Meshes and Gaussian Splats
- Added Default View Camera Point for model nodes
- Added Target Camera Point
- Added Panorama Camera Mode
- Added Fly Speed
- Added Rotate into flight path
- Added camera modes to the Edit menu
- Added support for viewing 3D models in Immersive View
- Added center coordinates for working with off-center 3D models
- Added transition textures for Gaussian Splats
- Added glTF to GLB export conversion
- Added optimization options for mobile output
- Added option to lock a 3D model
- Added Capture Preview Image for 3D models
- Improved input type handling for models
- Improved validation for 3D model input fields such as scale, units per meter, and fly speed
- Improved model background images
- Fixed autorotation for 3D models when set to start after fully loaded
- Fixed viewing limits in the model viewer
- Fixed roll behavior on gyro and 3D models during transitions
- Fixed orbit camera mode mouse/touch Y coordinate handling

Skin Editor:
- Added SVG option to Render as Shape in 3D
- Added 3D Camera View skin action
- Added 3D Camera Mode skin action
- Added 3D Camera Mode logic block trigger
- Added Player Muted logic block trigger
- Added new Node trigger group
- Added Is 3D Model and 3D Model Type logic block triggers
- Added Additive Mode for CSS classes logic blocks
- Added more direct CSS support to the Code Element
- Added Regular Expression comparison option to the Tags trigger
- Added a logic block for the Z-index property
- Added more options for Exposed Variables
- Added support for multiple tags in the Hotspot Cloner
- Added exposed properties for PDF elements and External Image Loaders
- Added custom title and preview options for skins
- Added warnings for child elements at the parent level
- Added js: as an alternative to javascript: for JavaScript actions
- Added color themes with gradients for built-in skins
- Added splash screen components for Feather Orb, Feather Box, Material Index, and Quaranta skins
- Added support for sorting skin components using tags and weighting
- Added Save As dialog when saving a write-protected skin
- Fixed Venis and Neto skins so previous/next buttons do not appear in single-node projects
- Fixed the material_dart mobile thumbnail menu after node changes
- Fixed the Translation Cloner
- Restored placeholders for Node ID and Custom Node ID

Pinned Elements:
- Added masks for pinned images
- Added option to hide a video’s image mask when the video is popped out
- Improved handling of multiresolution pinned images
- Added automatic selection of alternative image files for pinned images
- Added JPEG XL and WebP as pinned image formats
- Added WebP support for pinned images
- Fixed pinned video not appearing in Immersive View
- Fixed Show/Hide Media action behavior

Web Output:
- Added new grid menu for skins with preview images
- Added Hand Tracking options for VR output
- Removed the HTML File option; index.html is now created at the root level of the output folder
- Added Output Tile Size options, with the default set to 1024 pixels
- Added Show Thumbnail Menu on Start to Skin Configuration for built-in skins
- Added output folder encryption
- Added Capture Date/Time to output
- Added timezone fixes for Capture Date/Time
- Added $(ur) placeholder for user data Capture Date
- Improved mouse wheel handling for more consistent zoom direction and behavior
- Fixed $(ui) user data placeholder display
- Fixed drag-and-drop opening for panoramas and video panoramas
- Fixed direct node access with custom node IDs
- Fixed an issue when config loaded before the painter was ready
- Fixed zoom to center

WebVR:
- Added support for 3D models and Gaussian Splats
- Added option to add Natural Hands
- Fixed VR node changes not updating correctly when transitions were disabled

Video Panoramas:
- Fixed video panoramas in tours
- Fixed stereo 360 videos displaying as stacked views

Tour Building:
- Added target pointing for hotspots going to a model node
- Added project custom preview capture from the Viewer
- Fixed returning from a panorama to a model via a point hotspot target view opening the wrong view

Tour Map:
- Improved Pick Landmark accuracy when finding North
- Fixed crashes after changing the map ID and saving

Fixed:
- Fixed loading cube faces with input set to Auto
- Fixed high CPU thread count on load
- Fixed crash caused by missing logic block variables
- Disabled Restore Window after crash on macOS
- Restored snow and rain effects
- Fixed regression with animated hotspots
- Fixed wrong color profile on preview cube with fly-in effects and projections
- Fixed preview images not appearing in single-resolution output
- Fixed custom preview images not appearing in the Tour Browser
- Fixed Viewing Limits copy buttons
- Fixed Type copy button copying the file path and replacing panoramas
- Fixed 3D Viewer freezing when moving a camera
- Fixed animated PNG files not animating correctly
- Fixed animated PNG child elements in the skin tree not animating
- Fixed scroll areas on touch screens on Windows
- Fixed various command line and droplet issues
- Fixed issues carried over from Pano2VR 7, including media actions, keyboard shortcuts, file paths, regular expressions, and accessibility text handling