Scenery – Spatial Experiencesv1.1.21

What changed

• New featureAdded spot, point, and directional lights with customizable properties and shadows.
• New featureNew scene placement options including automatic, viewer-placed, or marker-anchored.
• UXObjects are now automatically named upon creation and can be renamed.
• PlatformAdded a Minimum OS Version setting to manage experience availability.
• New featureNew scripting functions to create and control lights at runtime.
• UXAdded controls to hide UI buttons and context menu objects.
• PerformanceImproved placement stability and surface detection logic.
• PlatformFixed interface panel responsiveness and text scaling on Apple Vision Pro.
• PerformanceFixed a bug where large numbers were incorrectly parsed in certain locales.
• PerformanceFixed scripted animations to be smoother and pause correctly.

Original release notes

Lights, and scenes that can start on a wall or a table rather than only on the floor.

NEW

Lights. Add a spot, point or directional light from the Add menu, each with its own colour, brightness, reach and falloff, placed and aimed with the usual gizmo. Spot and directional lights cast shadows. The scene's built-in dynamic light now has a switch of its own, so you can work with only the lights you placed.

Choose where a scene starts. A new Placement section decides how a scene finds its place in the real world: the viewer places it, the experience places it automatically, or a printed marker anchors it. Pick the surface it targets, set a minimum size so a scene won't land somewhere too small to hold it, and viewers who don't have the marker to hand can place the scene themselves.

Objects are named when you create them. A new object arrives as "Object 1", ready to rename and to find from a script. Names stay put when you reorder the scene.

Say which OS version an experience needs. A new Minimum OS Version setting under Platforms tells viewers on older systems that an experience is unavailable, rather than opening it and leaving parts of it missing.

Lights from a script. createSpotLight, createPointLight and createDirectionalLight build lights at runtime, so a lamp can pulse or a beam can sweep while a scene plays. Scripting runtime 0.3.0.

More control per scene: hide the pause and capture buttons, turn off the placement confirmation, and hide objects from the context menu on iPad as well as Mac.

FIXED

Placement is steadier throughout. A scene waits for the kind of surface it asked for while one is in the room instead of settling for whatever is in view, finds the floor before placing rather than after, no longer strands the placement indicator in mid-air, and no longer puts wall content at your feet.

Interface panels on Apple Vision Pro respond to input again. Buttons inside a panel receive taps, panels take the corner radius you set, and a panel that sizes itself to its content grows to fit text filled in later.

Typing a large number into a field no longer changes it. In locales that group thousands with a period, 1000 read back as 1.

Scripted value animations are smooth again, and they pause with the experience rather than jumping ahead.

Sound stops when you leave an experience instead of playing to the end of the clip.

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