http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37418&th=6878#msg_37418 - We fixed a bug with certain model pages having a broken layout.
- Shop page descriptions no longer support javascript or iframes, to prevent abuse.
- Some people's carts that were showing an error message when viewed have been fixed.
- We fixed small visual bugs throughout the site.]]> pete 2011-10-27T01:22:55-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37430&th=6878#msg_37430 GWMT 2011-10-27T04:17:06-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37433&th=6878#msg_37433 pete wrote on Thu, 27 October 2011 01:22
- Shop page descriptions no longer support javascript or iframes, to prevent abuse.

This has broken my menu and the specific descriptions of the category pages.
Will you propose an alternative?
It would be easy to move the javascript I wrote (or a better version you can wrote ) in your side, and give us access to some IDs or CLASSes to get an equivalent result. This would furthermore bring some consistency to the shop.
You can also have alook at what Mctrivia did here.
What do you think?

]]> Magic 2011-10-27T05:44:58-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37434&th=6878#msg_37434 Ring & Link garlic bulb hanger jumps about when spining. (actually all of the models that I checked jump about when spining)

[edit] another thing... colour models show up in the 3d viewer

]]> stop4stuff 2011-10-27T06:34:01-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37438&th=6878#msg_37438
I agree a zoom function would be useful, but only if it doesn't slow it down at the initial load stage.

Andrew]]> ancientbuzzard 2011-10-27T09:06:58-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37450&th=6878#msg_37450
How about the option to define an offsite shop? I plan to make my own portal to shapeways now that I know I can transfer people to shapeways with stuff in there cart. would be great if I could define 4ddice.com as my shop and the see my shop link went there.

Maybe to prevent abuse you make it a manually checked thing first off and I can write you a spider that can periodically check peoples web sites for stuff you don't want to be linking to.]]> mctrivia 2011-10-27T12:30:14-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37453&th=6878#msg_37453 Youknowwho4eva 2011-10-27T13:07:04-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37461&th=6878#msg_37461
But it is really pointless to upgrade this if you guys don't make the button to switch to 3d view MUCH more obvious. New visitors to this site do not notice the small cube and have no idea they can view these models in 3d. Even just putting a "3-D view" label next to the button would help.]]> bluelinegecko 2011-10-27T13:51:26-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37466&th=6878#msg_37466 stonysmith 2011-10-27T14:55:11-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37468&th=6878#msg_37468
Try looking at a tall model like the one I posted earlier, & then say it's ok... might work for small models, but not for the large ones

The background blue colour is too dark for proper contrast too, but that's probably just me.

Hey ho.

]]> stop4stuff 2011-10-27T15:59:50-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37471&th=6878#msg_37471 mctrivia 2011-10-27T16:14:46-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37475&th=6878#msg_37475 Good job.

Since months ago all my models have a rotating "3D" Gif
ex:


- i've posted about it many times - it helps customers grasp and visualize the design better and FAST.


The new viewer -

Pros:
* Fast loading - extremely better then the old Java viewer
* Fast rotating - a bit jittery but ok by me.

* Zero risk to our STL files against hackers (a set of pictures is loaded not the actual stl data)


Cons:
* No zoom
* White is rendered as gray when viewing full color sandstone design


I still think the icon for the 3D viewer should have a text "3D viewer" - first time visitors/search engines traffic dont dwell on every link on the model page they find and this could help the spontaneous buy mode.






]]> dizingof 2011-10-27T17:14:08-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37477&th=6878#msg_37477 mctrivia 2011-10-27T17:24:32-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37502&th=6878#msg_37502
@McTrivia: you mean make the 3d viewer default? It is quite a bit of a download, which is not something you want as default.

@Dezingof: like the rotating gif idea. Also really like your material. Perhaps we should offer renders in different materials? We are working on zoom!

@stop4stuff what browser do you use? No jumping around in the browser we tested with.

Pete

]]> pete 2011-10-28T01:37:09-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37510&th=6878#msg_37510

Paul]]> stop4stuff 2011-10-28T05:33:35-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37511&th=6878#msg_37511 ]]> Magic 2011-10-28T05:35:28-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37525&th=6878#msg_37525
I have generally two renders for my models, an 'as delivered' render (the models come in three parts) and a fully assembled render. Would it ever be possible to choose a different render for 3D viewing? The fully assembled render would look better, in my particular case.]]> Bunrattypark 2011-10-28T09:30:36-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37598&th=6878#msg_37598 @pet renders in different materials would be awesome for customers but probably a server-intense job

]]> dizingof 2011-10-29T17:20:17-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37611&th=6878#msg_37611
IE8/9 issue is not with all models therefor we missed it - no purpose (small joke: come on guys FF rocks )
We will hope to release fix with next weekly release

@Bunrattypark: ok good feedback, we'll look into it

@dizingof: well we have the CPU horsepower (kinda) but the biggest challenge is great material definition for Blender. Help is more than welcome!

Pete

]]> pete 2011-10-30T00:08:51-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37614&th=6878#msg_37614
@pete: You might try the Blender Open Material Repository - I have not used it extensively, but it may be a good jumping-off point. http://matrep.parastudios.de/]]> TurtlesAreCool 2011-10-30T04:34:31-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37621&th=6878#msg_37621
Google crome is the only browser to pass Acid 3, but IE9 and Firefox both get a score of 100%(which is not a pass because they get a few errors in running the test)

Browser compliance for HTML5(source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers\)
Google Chrome 341/450
Mozilla Firefox 313/450
Apple Safari 293/450
Opera 286/450
Internet Explorer 141/450

well they aren't doing so well in HTML5 so far but they are usually behind. Personally Firefox is my favorite.]]> mctrivia 2011-10-30T14:09:34-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37624&th=6878#msg_37624
I'm certain there are renderes for blender with textures options that produce realistic images - Bart surely knows about them.






]]> dizingof 2011-10-30T14:40:19-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37628&th=6878#msg_37628
I'm not particularly fussed about my own experience with 3D view and ther IE anomalies, but the ~18% of visitors to my model pages might be... so being blase about browser choice is not a good show is it?

Paul

]]> stop4stuff 2011-10-30T16:03:56-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37631&th=6878#msg_37631
@stop4stuff you did notice my "joke" reference?
We did test the 3D viewer on IE7/8/9 and as said on the test models, we had no problems. On certain other models you guys have found there are, so we are fixing ok?

In general we do test extensively on Chrome (Win/Linux/Apple), Firefox (Win/Linux/Apple), Safari, IE 7/8/9, Opera, but also on iPad iOS3/4/5, also iPhone and Android etc so you can see balancing quality and speed is quite tedious.

Pete]]> pete 2011-10-30T17:47:53-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37936&th=6878#msg_37936
@dizingof: I like the idea of the gif, how do you create this?

What would be nice to have the possibility to get a snapshot of the item from another angle for use as default image.
The snapshot should result in the same colors and feeling of the default one to have it easily mixed with the real default images.
Since the uploaded stl is maybe more orientated to printing it may not be suitable for viewing.]]> woody64 2011-11-04T14:47:13-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37953&th=6878#msg_37953
I only see the 3d icon on about 15 of my models. It's missing from the rest. Doesn't seem to be by upload date or such.]]> stonysmith 2011-11-04T17:10:00-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37955&th=6878#msg_37955 woody64 wrote on Fri, 04 November 2011 14:47


@dizingof: I like the idea of the gif, how do you create this?





You can use your renderer if it has this option then use any free gif maker to bind the frames to one gif.

]]> dizingof 2011-11-04T17:18:25-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37967&th=6878#msg_37967 We are rendering all models for use with the 3D viewer this will take some time (weeks....) as we are rendering over 150,000 models!]]> pete 2011-11-04T20:03:13-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37970&th=6878#msg_37970 http://gickr.com/
]]> erckgillis 2011-11-04T20:22:33-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=37973&th=6878#msg_37973 pete wrote on Fri, 04 November 2011 20:03
We are rendering all models for use with the 3D viewer this will take some time (weeks....) as we are rendering over 150,000 models!

I didn't realize that it was a separate process. NO WORRIES.. take as much time as you need.]]> stonysmith 2011-11-04T20:30:40-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=38064&th=6878#msg_38064 pete wrote on Fri, 04 November 2011 20:03
@stonysmith
We are rendering all models for use with the 3D viewer this will take some time (weeks....) as we are rendering over 150,000 models!


Would be great to have a possibility to do that also manually by designer request:
- Would give us the possibility to add the most needed/popular ones
- Would also overcome your cpu limitations

Maybe you remember the changed default image, which are still not updated for all (I think you have stopped it due to cpu costs).
Looks still ugly on the pages and the only way to deal with it from designer side is to upload the 3d file once more.

Woody64]]> woody64 2011-11-06T13:01:59-00:00