Version 9.3

Improvements

3D

- Merge Coplanar Faces now handles correctly UVs.
- Wavefront I/O now reads several UVs for a given vertices.
- Lightwave Scene 9.2 format is now supported.
- Maya I/O keeps map names.
- STL import now welds confused vertices.
- Improved materials support when exchanging scenes with 3ds Max.
- Plugin 3D Photo Browser for 3DS Max 2009.

Polygon Cruncher

- Geometrical optimisation quality improved.
- UV optimisation greatly improved when textures breaks exists. Now Freeze UV discontinuities setting can't be let unactivated in most of case, which gives better optimization ratio. This setting is not anymore automatically activated when keeping UVs is selected.
- Symmetry has been improved (symmetry criteria is now based on topology, not only geometry).
- Last settings are kept for a better ergonomy.

Fixes

Application

- Non standard MP3 files can crash the application.
- Application crashes on particular images (ie. some png with exif)
- IFF files crash the application.
- HDRI files crash the application.
- Print catalogue: Printer Paper names are not correct.
- Application crashes when Corel X3 is setting up.
- Correcting 3D I/O: C4D, COB, DXF, VRML

3D

- Scene List panel scrambles thumbnails after a file save.

Version 9.2

Improvements

Application

- 3D Photo Browser is now available in x64 bits
- 3D Photo Browser is now an unicode application (asiatic or oriental languages are now supported). As a consequence, catalogue file format changed. Backward compatibilité is guaranted.

3D viewer

- Alpha channel can be used as a transparency mask. This option is available in the preference dialog (Tools > Preferences) of the 3D viewer.

Fixes

Application

- Dialogs are sometime displayed when a file is opened with 3D Photo Browser from the Windows explorer.
- Drag & drop to the folder tree has been improved.
- Batch command has been improved (result type (image or scene) is now checked, directory case is kept when recreating the folder tree, file name numeric information is kept).
- Folder tree selection disapears when the folder tree is activated by a click.
- The C char cannot be used when editing a file name.
- The browse button does not work in the Convert Files dialog.
- Reading MP3 information is very slow for large file.
- Exif support has been improved.

Image viewer

- The viewer sometime crashes when an user changes the current image from the image list.

3D viewer

- Obj parser improved: Obj failed when a scene had some objects textured and some not textured.
- Lwo parser improved for some non compliant files.
- 3DS parser improved (object without points).
- Fix: the default point of view is not correctly saved.
- The points coordinates are now checked when importing a file.

Version 9.12

Improvements

3D

- Save Scene as Image now export animation when it is used in a script. Moreover, it is now possible to select the custom point of view or the point of view defined in 3D Photo Browser.
- Improving the way alpha channel is used when printing a catalogue or exporting to HTML.
- Index point bounds is now checked at importation, improving the reading of peculiar scenes.
- DXF parser now handles planar coordinates (Polyline token).

Fixes

Application

- Correcting a display problem when using a gradient as background of the thumbnails view.
- Correcting a problem when displaying icons in report or detailled mode.
- The folder tree sometime crashes the application when a subfolder contains a zip.
- The folder tree has several problems (problem renaming an item, problem on right click contextual menu, problem on copy and paste when editing a label...)
- Selecting several folders sometime opens the temporary windows folder.
- A dialog box appears when browsing a folder containing files with a Unicode name.
- The application might crashes due to a bad implementation of hash functions.
- The catalogue does not keep the exclude file list when it contains only excluded files.

3D

- Rotation control, faces and points indexes are now displayed in OpenGL. This correct some display problems which appear on particular graphic cards.
- Generating a quad patch sometime crashes the application.
- DirectX : initialization fails when creating the DirectX device on particular computer.
- DXF: a crash sometime occurs when a file contain a closed polyline.
- 3DS: Group are created as curve when reading a 3DS file.
- 3DS: files are not read when a mesh has 10 characters or more.

Image

- Minor correction on AVI parser
- Stereo filter crashes when selecting the same image for left and right eyes. No file format appears in the dialog box.
- Noise filter doesn't modify image (it depends of the selected noise type).
- HTML preview is sometime truncated or sometime displays an unlimited number of dialog boxes.

Version 9.1

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.

Version 9.06

Fixes

• 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.

Version 9.05

Main window

New features

• 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

Improvements

• 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).

Fixes

• 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

Improvements

• 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...).

Fixes

• 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

Image viewer

Improvements

• Adding support for dng, arw, erf raw files formats

Fixes

• 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).

Others

• A validation period of 15 days now allows to use the software after entering a valid serial number.
• Compatibility improvement for Windows Vista.

Version 9.01

Fixes

• Fix: the software need to be reactivated when the internet connection is off.
• Fix: 3D files are not supported if DirectX 9 is not setup on the computer.
• Fix: Lightwave files with textures might be incorrectly readed.
• Fix: DirectX export fails if the scene has group nodes.
• Fix: criteria are not taken into account when performing search.
• Fix: show directory size command displays nothing.
• Fix: album area in the status bar does not work.
• Fix: empty directories are created when running an independent slides show.

Version 9.0

3D Photo Browser for Windows 98 / Window NT 4.0 is not supported any more.

Main window

New features

• Zip file are now supported. These file can be browsed and catalogues 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 read 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 > Polaroïd. This filter tranforms your image to a polaroïd 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 sigmoïdal).

3D related features

New features

• Maya files are now supported 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.

Version 8.5

New features of the main window

3D features

• Batch Polygon Cruncher: it's now possible to batch optimize a single file or a set of files. You control accurately the optimization levels you need. This command is available from the main window and from 3D viewer.
• Replace thumbnail feature which allows replacing the 3D file's thumbnail by a render image (thanks to Antonio Prieto).

Main window feature improvements

General related features

• Rename Files: file numbering is now optional when you use * character
• Catalogue update: update occurs on the selected thumbnails. It's now possible to recompute thumbnails for only a part of the catalogue.

  Image related features

• Screen capture: better ergonomics (thanks to James Palik).
• Jpeg Lossless is faster when files are located on a CompactFlash flash or a memory card.

  3D related features

• Polygon Cruncher is now available from the main window. You don't need anymore to open a 3D viewer for using it.
• Triangulate, Convert to Patch, Convert to Polygonal Object commands are now scriptable.

Image viewer

• Copy to Clipboard / Paste from Clipboard commands. These commands are a simple way to transfer image to/from third party software (thank to Yves Monnier).

3D viewer

• Adjust to Window command (thanks to Eric Caron)
• It's now possible to perform a multi selection on objects or materials. It's easier to display or hide a set of materials or objects (thanks to Eric Caron).
• Replace thumbnail feature which allows replacing the 3D file's thumbnail by a render image (thanks to Antonio Prieto).

  Import/Export

• 3D Photo Browser now offers exportation settings.
• DirectX import / export.
• Texture exportation improved for WaveFront, 3DS, VRML, Truespace format.
• Planar, spherical, cylindrical and cubic projection are now handled (thank to Eric J Bouchoc).
• Texture image path can be relative.

Fixes

Main window

• fix: groups are incorrectly displayed in group mode.
• fix: 3D Photo Browser sometime crashes (ie. when ejecting a CD) when it has been opened by a double click on a file from the Windows explorer.
• fix: album file references are lost when the album files are moved to a different location.
• fix: sometime HTML exportation saves images with an incorrect name (thanks to Barrie and its virtual clock museum).
• fix: tip of the day presentation enhancements (thanks again to James Palik)

  Image viewer

• fix: crop feature runs incorrectly when the option panel is hidden.
• fix: image preview does not work in dialogs.
• fix: it's not always possible to go to the next or previous image when deleting the current image.
• fix: option panel display choice is lost when pressing on the ESC key.
• fix: Actual size and fit on view feature sometime fails.

  3D viewer

• fix: triangulate feature crashes when an object has texture coordinates.
• fix: converting patch to polygonal object crashes.
• fix: LWS import sometime makes the application crashes.
• fix: VRML import improved (by reducing the number of point imported, and assigning the correct material to faces).
• fix: rendering mode names are incorrect.
• fix: extra information display is improved (rotation circle, face indexes...)
• fix: the left bar, on the left of the viewer, sometime stays visible, even if there is no information to display.
• fix: the render mode used when opening a viewer is the thumbnail render mode. Now the last render mode used is restablished when opening a viewer.

Version 8.32

New features

• It's now possible to visualize the content of several folders using a multiple selection in the folder tree
• Expand All feature (contextual menu, using a left click on a folder)
• Thumbnails are now antialiased when displayed in small size

Features improvements

• Main view: smooth display of the thumbnail view (background drawing is better handled)
• Preferences: it's now possible to disable the information synchronization which is done between 3D Photo Browser information and Windows summary information

3D viewer

• Opening and computing thumbnail is 40% faster
• Polygon Cruncher is 40% faster
• Object information dialog has been improved: matrix information, materials used by object and other information are now displayed. It's also possible to rename the objects
• Material information dialog has been improved: it's now possible to changed the material colors and texture files
• Less Light / More Light commands
• New view menu organization
• Fix: some objects might be invisibles on some graphics cards
• Fix: VRML import improved. Transformations are now handled
• Fix: 3DS import improved. Pivots are now handled
• Fix: 3DS is incorrectly exported when hidding objects in the scene
• Fix: Truespace import improved. Transformation matrix are better handled

Fixes

• Fix: no trial period for the software
• Fix: Open and Open With... association are not kept (Preferences / Extensions and Windows shell)
• Fix: slides show dialog stays open after slide show to simplify parameters setting
• Fix: Fixed size region does not work correctly in the screen capture tool
• Fix: screen capture tool sometime switches to full screen capture mode
• Fix: sort mode is lost when restarting the application
• Fix: cannot change the current video frame from the image list in the image viewer

Version 8.2

New features

• Stereo image: this command creates images for blue-red glasses

Features improvements

• Screen capture: better ergonomy for the screen capture command (thanks to James Palik)
• Crop (viewer 2D): it's now possible to choose a format to constraint the crop frame (thanks again James!)
• Rotate to horizontal/vertical (viewer 2D): access to options dialog has been simplified
• Read / save bitmap library has been upgraded, including a lot of fixes (tiff, bmp...)

Fixes

• Correction: 3DS import forgot matrix transformation
• Correction: 3D Photo Browser plugin for Lightwave fails
• Correction: shortcut keys associated to status bar applications are now activated
• Correction: the slides show runs on screen where 3D Browser runs (multi monitor configuration)

Version 8.1

New features

• Create slides show as an independent application (.exe) (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
• Replace the Windows desktop background image (wallpaper)

Features improvements

• Slides show: new transitions

3D Viewer

• LWS format support (Lightwave scene)

2D Viewer

• Image fits automatically the window when it is resized, using the Fit To View mode

3D Photo Browser Light

The following features are now available in 3D Photo Browser Light:

Main window

• Custom display
• Custom display preferences
• Rename a set of files
• Custom sort
• Custom filter
• Custom filter edition

Image viewer

• Rotation, resize, crop commands
• Mode & colors menu (color conversion, gamma, contrast, HLS)
• Filters menu (special effect, geometric deformation, add noise...)
• JPEG Lossless menu

Fix

• 3D Photo Browser sometimes lost file associations to a third party application
• Slides show: texts incorrectly displayed when using large fonts
• Display Directory Size: a 24 hours delay has been added between to directory size computation.

Version 8.0

Localization

• German translation have been done (all the best to Reiner Schug).
• US texts have been corrected (many thanks to David Thomas).

New features of the main window

• Application now opens quickly when you open a file from the Windows explorer.
• Display directory Size command (for 3D users and for Digital camera version).
• Fast access bar has been improved. A drag and drop area has been added. I simplifies moving files to albums or last used directories.
• Upgrade 3D Photo Browser command.
• 3D Photo Browser Light: Slides show is now available at the main level of the application.
• 3D Photo Browser Light: information window on the number of files opened with the application and new contribution mode available.

  Fixes

• Fix: Open and Open With... association are not kept (Preferences / Extensions and Windows shell)
• Fix: Better reading for images (some images are not displayed, particularly when they didn't match exactly format specifications).

Existing features improvements

• Slides show improved (fade-in fade-out transition). Viewers and main Slides show command have now the same functionalities.
• Print Catalog... has been improved: it's now possible to print several copies of an image.
• AVI export improved (settings kept).
• Switching from Search files panel to My computer panel is clearer.

2D Viewer

• RAW image format support (Thanks to Dave Coffin for its code).
• Images are now displayed with antialiasing when a reduction is performed.
• Images list is now displayed only when several images are opened.
• Slides show command has been improved.
• Close and Open 3D Photo Browser command when the viewer is open from the Windows explorer.
• Open command allows opening several files.

  Fixes

• Fix: Alpha channel is now displayed in the thumbnails list for animated Gif files.
• Fix: playing animated Gif files works again.

3D Viewer

• Save scene as image can exports an animation.
• Show Faces Number and Show Points Number commands.
• Scenes list is now displayed only when several scenes are opened.
• Slides show command has been improved.
• Close and Open 3D Photo Browser command when the viewer is open from the Windows explorer.
• Open command allows opening several files.
• It is now possible to modify material name in the material information dialog box.
• 3D Photo Browser for 3DS Max 7 plugin.
• 3D Photo Browser for Lightwave 8 plugin.

  Fixes

• Fix: OpenGL implementation which improved compatibility with particular graphic cards.
• Fix: crash related to UV and vertexes color reading on particular Lightwave files.
• Fix: error related to 3DS Max menus when using the plugin for 3DS Max.
• Fix: 3DS Max is frozen after using the plugin for 3DS Max.

Version 7.6

New features

• Improved contextual menu
• Convert files command

Improved features

• Create AVI command allows to merge severals AVI files into a single file.
• Advanced search feature on the help file

3D viewer

• Patch support
• Convert To Patch and Convert To Polygonal Object commands (3D Photo Browser for 3D Users only)
• Texture speed has been increased when reading JPEG textures in low texture resolution mode.

Others

• 3D Photo Browser Light now allows using all commands as long as a trial period exists for 3D Photo Browser for Digital Camera or 3D Photo Browser for 3D Users.
• Application size has been reduced

Fix

• Fix: small icons are displayed in thumbnails display mode for unrecognized files.

Version 7.51

Improvements

• New : SWF file support (thumbnails and playing in the viewer)
• New : HTML file support improved (this is now possible to convert an HTML page to a bitmap file)
• New : Enlarge images to fullscreen if needed option in the slideshow dialog box
• New: F2 calls directly the Rename files dialog box if several files are selected
• New: Shift+Mouse wheel shortcut changes the filter options
• New: Show Options Dialog command (2D viewer)
• Nouveau: information dialog when switching to full screen mode

Fix

• Fix: some EXIF information are incorrectly readed
• Fix: EXIF information lost when modifying and saving an image
• Fix: summary information is not correctly written on NTFS partition (summary information are accessible using the file properties command from the Windows explorer)
• Fix: Save and Save as features were removed in the 2D viewer (3D Photo Browser Light)
• Fix: can't remove a directory from the explorer tree
• Fix: can't copy and paste a directory from the explorer tree
• Fix: JPEG compression rate not taken into account (batch command, twain import, send email, screen capture...)
• Fix: albums are not synchronized with catalogues
• Fix: capture an image screen on a second monitor fails
• Fix: crop dialog box parameters are invalid
• Fix: sometimes template settings are lost (Catalogue printing)
• Fix: background image offset in the footnote area (Catalogue printing)
• Fix: application are not removed from the Windows explorer Open With menu (Preferences, Open With Application)
• Fix: resize settings are modified when closing it, when using it in a batch command
• Fix: some dialogs are not correctly centered when using several monitors
• Fix: the move tool shorcut (Space key) does not work in the 2D viewer (P is the new shortcut to play a video)
• Fix: opening several files with Internet Explorer fails (Open With, Open With Application)
• Fix: status bar help not always displayed
• Fix: contextual help is invalid when pressing F1 in a dialog box (Screen Capture, Print Catalogue)

Version 7.5

News features

• It's now possible to define a network repository for catalogues, used when searching for files through an enterprise network
• It's now possible to define a paths list to use when searching for files
• Group display which allows to logically group files together
• Group by page display mode which groups files depending on the last print template used
• Windows files association allows to open files with 3D Photo Browser from the Windows Explorer
• New sort modes: sort by author and by category
• New columns: author and category columns
• Windows XP themes are not supported when displaying dialogs

Tools improvements

• Print Catalogue has a new ergonomy and improved features (background images can be integrated to templates, double sided printing...)

2D Viewer

• Videos or animated GIFs can be played in the viewer
• Possibility to open several images in the same viewer
• A list clearly displays images which are opened in the viewer and their layers
• This list also display thumbnails from video file or animated GIF
• Image extraction from video file or animated GIF
• It's now possible to select the thumbnail to use for displaying a video file in the 3D Photo Browser main window
• Images files can be drag & dropped in the viewer
• Zoom in/out is now centered on the mouse position

3D Viewer

• Improved Lightwave import/export. Vertexs colors are now supported.
• Improved exchange plugin with 3DS Max
• Improved stability when reading/writing 3D files
• Possibility to open several scenes in the same viewer
• A list clearly displays scenes which are opened in the viewer
• Scenes files can be drag & dropped in the viewer

Polygon Cruncher pour 3D Photo Browser

• Fix: Save as command

Others

• Fix: sort by 3D objects type, by materials, by faces and points number has been corrected
• Fix: Saving images in TIFF format
• Fix: crash when opening the album contextual menu
• Minimize 3D Photo Browser in Systray has been improved
• Keywords and categories are now saved in a separate keywords.prefs preference file

Version 7.03

3D Photo Browser Standard

The standard release has changed. It contains all the Pro feature (batch command, screen capture, print catalogue...) but does not allow anymore to view or open 3D files. This version is now dedicated to digital camera users, or graphic designer.

New features

• Preferences are now saved for every users.
• Préférences: it's now possible to minimize 3D Photo Browser in the systray.
• Always visible mode for 3D Photo Browser main window
• New options are available when right clicking on the 3D Photo Browser icon (task bar or systray).
• Activate Custom Sort Automatically which allows to choose the default sort order mode or an existing custom order when opening a directory.
• Number of images setting has been added to Create Avi File... command

2D Viewer

• Crop command has now a dialog, which can be opened by pressing on the O key.
• Crop command is now scriptable, and can be included in a batch command.
• 2 new modes are available for the Resize command, when it's included in a batch command.

3D Viewer

• Low resolution textures setting allows to specify the maximum image size to use.
• Enable vertexs colors is now more accessible and has been included in the toolbar. It's also possible to display simultaneously textures and vertexs colors.

Others

• Fix: registering the application when user have limited rights.
• Fix: windows position when using several monitors.
• Fix: information import/export when a field contains carriage return.
• Fix: categories are lost when selecting several files.
• Fix: genres are lost when selecting several MP3 files.

Version 7.02

Features improvements

• Shortcuts to images, scenes or audio files are now displayed and can be used in most of features.

Viewer 2D

• Lock zoom feature added
• Constraint ratio when zooming

Viewer 3D

• Truespace export
• VRML 1.0 import / export
• 3DS Max now export UV channel (using the plugin for 3DS Max)
• Lighting improvement
• Texturing display improvement
• Reading texture for Wavefront OBJ

Others

• Fix: catalogue not always saved, making unrequired update when reopening it.
• Fix: search in CD-Rom catalogue, when CD is not inserted in the driver.
• Fix: Polygon Cruncher: sometimes there can be a long delay between the moment when the optimization computation is done and the moment when the optimization slider is displayed.
• Fix: Lightwave export on large model.
• Fix: error concerning ole32.dll when launching the application on NT4.0
• Fix: option Use default point of view does not work in the update dialog box (F4).
• Fix: Show only common extension does not work in dialog box.
• Fix: normal orientation when importing/exporting Lightwave file.
• Fix: normal orientation when importing/exporting Wavefront OBJ file.
• Fix: normal orientation (import/export) for 3DS file.
• Fix: materials exportation for 3DS file.
• Fix: 3DS exportation when an object has textures and faces with more than 4 points.
• Fix: normal orientation when importing/exporting DXF file.

Version 7.0

New features

• HTML export from your images, 3D scenes or files. Predefined HTML templates library and possibility to edit your own HTML templates.
• Information and keyword panels to quickly edit files information.
• Properties panel for a fast access to files properties.
• Search for files panel to create albums from search criteria. Search results can be updated at any time when needed.
• Read and save information from the Properties/Summary dialog (Windows explorer) when your files are on a NTFS partition.
• MP3 information edition (album, title...)
• Export/import information, keywords and properties to/from a database.
• Album creation. An album contains references to files located in different directories.
• 3D Photo Browser specifics folders in the My computer tree to have a fast access to your albums, search results and CD-Rom catalogues.
• Contextual help. Press F1 opens the help file at the right heading.
• Files attributes modification (read-only, hidden attributes) and possibility to update the creation and last modified date from the file properties panel.
• Light version: advertisements have been removed.
• Light version: Polygon Cruncher for 3D Photo Browser is available from the light version.

Features improvements

• Rename automatically associated files when renaming a file.
• Copy/move/delete automatically associated files.
• Automatically add the extension when you rename a file and when the new name does not contains an extension.
• The Custom filter mode now accepts wildcards (i.e. l*.gif displays gif files that begin with the l character).
• Slide show feature allows text edition for displaying information during the screening. It also plays associated audio files.
• Lowercase / uppercase name has been improved and can only modify file extension if needed.
• Rename files can add lowercase extension when needed.
• Application and viewers open faster using pre-calculated information.

Image files support

• JPEG compression ratio is retrieve for an optimal used of the JPEG file format.
• Keep profiles during data processing (icc, iptc, exif information) for JPEG, TIFF, PSD... files formats.

Viewer 3D

• Polygon Cruncher V6.0

Display

• New toolbar arrangement.
• New icons.

Others

• Improvement: popup menus for Previous and next directory and Batch processing features.
• Modification: Ask for update and do not update catalogues mode have been removed from the preferences.
• Fix: keyboard shortcuts fails sometime in the main window.
• Fix: latent period after renaming a file.
• Fix: text might be incorrectly displayed in Custom display mode.
• Fix: Rotate to horizontal/vertical. Options accessible pressing O key are now taken into account.
• Fix: Audio files update is done only once time.
• Fix: crashes on some IFF files
• Fix: non recognized Lightwave files (for examples, files which contains a procedural texture, which type is value)
• Fix: index bounds checking for Truespace file format. Faces are no more created twice.
• Fix: Wavefront import supports files which have negatives faces index values.
• Improvement: texture reading improved in 3D viewer

Version 6.1

New features

• Screen capture
• Animated GIF creation feature

Others

• Fix: fast access toolbar display
• Fix: last tool is now correclty restored in the viewers
• Fix: random crash on very large directory
• Fix: keywords edition does not work when several files are selected
• Fix: crash when creating AVI with specific CODEC
• Fix: crash on some Lighwave files
• Improvement: Create AVI feature now handles the current selection and the order of images.

Version 6.0

New features

• Extra large thumbnail mode.
• Custom display mode.
• Customizable files filter feature.
• Tooltip customization features.
• Thumbnails zoom features in the main window (Larger / Smaller thumbnails function). Large icons display mode is now obsolete and has been removed.
• Audio files support (mp3, wav, mid...)

Features improvement

• Print contact sheet allows the use of rich text format.
• New way of working for the fast access toolbar. It gives access to 25 applications and it is displayed only when needed.
• Properties... dialog box improvement. It's now possible to change the current edited file for a quick edition. Thumbnail and information about each files is displayed when several files are selected.
• New tags: conditionals tags, tag Kind of file, tag Name without extension... (tags are used in print contact sheet, custom display text, and tooltip text in preferences).
• Tags organization improved.

Files support

• Better reading and writing for Lightwave format (now support UV mapping for both reading and writing).
• UV maps are now exported for 3D Studio and Lightwave file format.
• Better reading for images (in release 5.51 some images were not displayed, particularly when they didn't match exactly format specifications).
• Wavefront file (.obj) format is now supported.
• JPEG files preview is three times faster.

Display

• Improved presentation for the thumbnails window
• Customizable display for the thumbnails window (background images, texts color, opacity settings...).
• Better legibility for Tips of the day window.
• Full screen new feature (for the main window).
• Hide navigation pane new feature (Split feature has been removed)

2D viewer

• Delete file new feature.
• Rename file new feature.
• Canvas size new feature.

3D viewer

• Delete file new feature.
• Rename file new feature.
• Enable texturing feature.
• Polygon Cruncher icon access.
• New preferences setting: Activate accumulation buffer

Others

• Memory requirements for viewing a directory has been divided by 2.
• Left pane width is now restored when you run 3D Photo Browser.
• Filter mode, sort mode and selection information are now displayed in status bar.
• Favorites can be created by drag & dropping directories on the favorites window.
• Drag & drop support improved (it's now possible to drop email attached files to the 3D Photo Browser window)
• Fix: Polygon Cruncher for 3D Photo Browser crashes when scene has an hierarchy or patches
• Fix: 3D viewer might crashes on some graphics cards in wireframe mode
• Fix: Toolbar command (Window menu).
• Fix: A custom sort mode is sometime created when dropping files in an external application.
• Fix: thumbnails window scrollbar position is reinitialized when the directory content is externally modified.
• Fix: bad directory for saving images in Twain Importation.
• Fix: * joker in Rename files.
• Fix: AVI file creation in Create AVI file.
• Fix: access to directory which contains obsolete .obv file.

Version 5.51

New features

• New catalogue printing tool (replace the old printing module)
• Batch command processing which allows images or 3D scenes files format conversions or modifications
• Send email features which include a resize and image format conversion feature
• WIA images importation which allows to get images from a digital camera or a scanner (Windows ME/XP)
• TWAIN importation to retrieve images from a TWAIN device (scanner...)
• Custom thumbnails sort order
• Split/merge file feature
• New features in 2D and 3D viewers (Polygon Cruncher, print feature...)
  

Thumbnails and catalogues management improvement

• Fast catalogue reading
• Fast catalogue update when copying files from one directory to another one
• Information are kept (author, comments...) when you move or copy files from one directory to another one
• New management for viewer windows, which allows to open several viewers with automatic windows recycling if necessary
• Picture-taking date sort
• Now possible to view all files in thumbnails mode (recognized and unrecognized files)
• EXIF information (issued from digitals cameras) are now read and write
• Search feature improvement
• Better reactivity when changing current directory during a catalogue update
• Select language feature under Windows NT/XP
• HTML, MPEG file preview
• Bug correction when opening catalogue on a CDRom
• JPEG Lossless features improvement (additional information such EXIF are kept)
• Memory needs reduce
• Faster viewers openings

Shell integration

• Now possible to open files in external application using mouse with Shift and Control keys
• 3D Photo Browser fast access has been added in the task bar

Interface

• Tools menu new organization
• New menu presentation which includes functions icons

3D Viewer

• Polygon Cruncher is now included to the viewer (need a specific license)
• Print scene feature
• Save scene as an image feature
• Scene hierachy is now supported
  
• Texture are now displayed by default
• ESC key now cancel full screen mode
• Menu access using right mouse click
• New formats are supported :
  • UV support for 3DS and Truespace formats
  • Lightwave importation improved, Lightwave export is now supported
  • Cinéma 4D, DXF are now supported (read/write)
  • 3DS export
  • 3DS Max 5.x support

2D viewer

• Print image feature
• JPEG Lossless improved (only applied when you want it)
• Ask for save dialog box when image has been modified
• ESC key now cancel full screen mode

Others

• Registration improved and now integrated to the application
• Current sort mode is now used to slides show files

Release 5.1

• Technical support from the software
• New setup for installing/uninstalling 3D Photo Browser
• Uninstall options
• Bugs corrections

Release 5.0

3D Photo Browser

File reading

• A lot of new files formats are supported (JP2, FPX, AVI, PCD, TTF...)
• Thread independent file update
• All files can be displayed in the view whatever file type
• Automatic file update when a change occurs in another application
• Create folder function
• Rename function can now rename a folder
• Large and small icons display mode
• Progress bar displayed in status bar
• File number displayed in status bar

File browing

• Parent folder function
• Folder history (next / previous folders list)
• Sort files function
• Automatic update of folders tree when a change occurs in another application
• Folders Drag & drop
• New icons in toolbar (View mode, File filter...)
• Show columns menu
• "Window navigation" function
• More information are displayed in tooltip when you move the mouse above a thumbnail

Shell integration

• "Open" function which runs application associated to the selected file type
• "Open with..." function which displays all applications associated to the selected file type
• Hot keys to open application which have a 3D Photo Browser fast access
• Fast access parameters and working directory can be defined
• Automatic recall of an application when it was opened with a fast access
• 3D Photo Browser activation/deactivation hot key

3D Photo Browser plugins

• JPEG Lossless support : "Rotate 90°", "Rotate -90°", "Horizontal flip", "Vertical flip", "Others modification" plugins
• Create an AVI plugin
• Uppercase/lowercase file name plugin
• "Rename file" plugin

Interface

• New buttons for resizing My computer and Favorites windows
• Toolbars in My computer and Favorites windows
• Space between thumbnails has been reduced
• 3D Photo Browser splash screen window

2D viewer

2D viewer is completely new. It's now possible to edit your image in the 2D viewer. Features of the previous release have been kept.

3D viewer

3D viewer is completely new, tools are now more accessible (menu, shortcuts...). Features of the previous release have been kept.

Release 4.0

• 3DS Max 4.x is now supported
• Lightwave 6 parser improved
• Delete/Copy/Move files operations on 3D Photo Browser explorer
• Directory content modification notification

Here is the list of 3D Photo Browser 4.0.3 new features/improvment:

New files formats support

• Read new 2D files formats: ico (windows icons), cur & ani (windows cursors)
• Read RLE bmp

Here is the list of 3D Photo Browser 4.0 new features/improvment:

New files formats support

• Read new 2D files formats: psd, iff, gif et tga parse improvment (256 colors mode)
• Fast files reading (memory read)
• 2D file conversion new feature. Following formats are supported: tiff, jpeg, tga, bmp...
• Conversion and exportation of Lightwave, Amapi, Truespace files to 3DS Max
• Lightwave 6 file format now supported
• Lightwave 5 multi layered files now supported

3D Photo Browser shell integration

• Add an Open with 3D Photo Browser menu in the Windows explorer
• Fast application access new features. Open files in 3D Photo Browser with the application you want.
• Files rename function

3D Photo Browser catalogues

• Local path support which allows to move/rename directories which contains 3D Photo Browser catalogues (ie: in order to record catalogues on a CD-ROM)
• Possibility to record catalogues in each directory which contains recognized files or in the 3D Photo Browser catalogues directory
• Smaller catalogues size
• Possibility to only record 2D or 3D thumbnails in the catalogue
• Fast catalogues display

Favorites

• Automatic favorite creation improved (automatically sorted using the short directory name, the hard disk and files type contained by the directory)
• Favorites menu simplification

Viewers

• Possibility to use a single viewer to display files
• Possibility to switch from a thumbnail to another one from the viewers
• Full screen mode
• Better viewer positioning in independant mode
• Viewer are now open by a single click on the thumbnail
• 3D Viewer:
  • Performances improvment (scene is now organized by objects)
  • Complete preferences
  • Textures display
  • New toolbar
  • Selection menu in the Materials and Objects list

Others

• New slide show feature which allows the files contained in your favorites folders to be displayed
• Scan computer feature improved (files search can be done in directory and it's sub directory)
• Search results window improved (it's now possible to open a viewer on a find file from this window)
• Explorer window improved (better network support)
• New current directory edit box in the main window
• Filter which allows all files, 2D files or 3D files only to be displayed
• Tip of the day feature
• Less restricting demo mode
• Adaptation of the 3D Photo Browser plugin for Lightwave 6.0
• New features to buy, register, or get technical support
• Icons improvment (better lisibility)
• New 3D Photo Browser preferences
• New help file using the new Windows help system

Release 3.0

• New recognized 3D file format: Truespace, Amapi.
• 2D files format are know recognized: tga, bmp, tiff, jpef, rla, dei, pic, zpic
• Improved OpenGL viewer:
  • New rotation controler.
  • OpenGL preferences (wireframe color, semi-transparent mode...)
  • Improved performances.
• New 2D viewer:
  • "Zoom" tool, "Move" tool …
  • Layers image display feature
• New favorites:
  • It's now possible to have several favorite directory level.
  • It's now possible to rename favorites.
• New icons.
• 3DS Max 3.0 plugin support.

Release 2.0

• New OpenGL viewer:
  • Smooth view.
  • User defined smooth angle settings.
  • Smooth & Wireframe view.
  • Flat & Wireframe view.
  • Pan, zoom and rotation tool bar.
  • Objects informations.
  • Materials informations.
  • Show/Hide features on objets and materials.
  • 3DS Max file support
• 3D Photo Browser plugin for 3DS Max.
• Improved 3D Photo Browser plugin for Lightwave:
  • Drag and drop.
  • Launch 3D Photo Browser from Lightwave.
  • Load/Save feature synchronized with 3D Photo Browser.
• New triangulation algorithm for better objects display in OpenGL.
• Objects and favorites are now name sorted.
• Tab key swap between favorites and explorer.
• Ctrl+Tab key minimize 3D Photo Browser.
• Small tool bar icons preferences setting.