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BIG updates for ABLER!

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For detailed guidance, please check Operating ABLER.

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User Flow Improvements

Tab compositions are now separated and organized by purpose

: By removing unnecessary Blender functions, ABLER is now easier to use.

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Improved Usability in 3D Environments

Tool bars on the top-left side of Viewport

: Change the selection tool and move/rotate/size objects.

For all Gizmos, please click Transform Tool on the bottom.

Tool bars on the top-right side of Viewport

: Rotate, zoom, and move the screen without a mouse.

To zoom in and out, click Zoom in/out Tool and drag your mouse up and down.

Tool bars on the top side of Viewport

: Snap becomes available. Snap enables the ability to attach objects to any location in any form.

Details on Snap

Snap is a tool that supports the removal & attachment (through the way I want) of other objects when moving, rotating, or resizing objects.

Choose which, where, and how to attach the selected object during an operation.

Affect: Select action to enable snap

Move / Rotate / Scale

Snap To: Select how you want to enable snap.

Increment / Vertex / Edge / Face / Volume / Edge Center / Edge Perpendicular

Snap With: Select which object or where to enable snap.

Object : Closet / Active
Where : Center / Median

(Ex.) If the following is set : Affect= Move, Snap To= Face, Snap With= Closet, When you move the selected object, it sticks to the 'face' of the nearest other object.

(Ex.) If the following is set : Affect= Scale, Snap To= Increment, the object stretches or shrinks by the grid's pixel when resizing.

After the object is selected, the "ground grid" is exposed when moving

The space and distance of the model are much easier to grasp with this feature, and accurate and clean object movement is possible.

Supports "Infinity Zoom"

: Infinite zoom-in & zoom-out is now possible.

Changes in how to Zoom

: The zoom-in & zoom-out now operates in the direction of your mouse cursor.

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Import, Render improvements

[General] > Import feature has improved.

ABLER currently supports all three extensions:

.skp / .fbx / .blend

If you import a <.skp> extension file, a prompt pop-up is exposed before starting, and a "progress bar" is exposed during the progress. You will be able to check the import progress immediately.

Panel UI of [Scenes] has changed.

: The Scene that I created are displayed as a list. It is easier to manage multiple Scenes at once.

Panel for [Render] has also changed.

Texture Render feature has changed. It Renders only ‘textures’ of each model.
When using High-Quality Render, please check which Scene to Render, and what Render type to use.

Full Render / Texture Render / Line Render / Shadow Render

ABLER always saves the program file before starting a Render.

If a file does not have a save history, a pop-up is exposed first that specifies the save location for that file, and if you have done so, a pop-up that asks to select the save location for the Render image is exposed first.

Progress bars are seen while Render works.

Rendering progress can be witnessed real-time.