Shipped features and fixes, newest first.
Previs surfaces draw the sides your model gives them. Each surface of a previs model now shows exactly the sides its own material says, in both the Drawing and Materials looks. A surface made one-sided, like a ceiling or a roof, shows only from the front, so looking down from above shows the venue inside instead of a white lid. Surfaces made two-sided still show from both sides, and screens follow the same rule.
No charge for a website read that failed. When Foveate reads a website for your brand kit or your projects and the read fails before any page comes back, that read is no longer charged.
Paid web searches stay within the limit. An assistant turn that looks several things up at once now runs no more paid web searches than its limit. Any searches past the limit use the free search instead.
Research on a person can't spend the same credits twice. Starting research on two people at the same moment, or pressing Research twice, now sets the credits aside for each run before it starts. Two runs can no longer both count on the same balance and take it below zero.
The right firm's track record. Two companies whose names differ only by a word such as "Partners" or "Construction" no longer share saved research. A client's page shows the engagements found for that client's own company.
The Files tab on Home shows your whole list at once. It used to show a first handful of files as if that were everything, then fill in the rest, and cards could change places while it did. Now the list arrives complete and in its final order. While it's on the way you see placeholders where the cards will be, so nothing jumps.
Coming back to Home is instant. Home remembers your full list of files between visits, not just the newest few. Return to it and every card is there straight away, then quietly updates if something changed.
Every card uses a small picture. A form's cover, a deck's preview or a 360 tour's first scene is now shown as a small copy made for the card instead of the full-size original, so the grid fills in faster and uses far less data. The first rows load first; the rest load as you scroll toward them.
Previs models are drawn in the walkthrough style. A previs now opens as a clean drawing: white surfaces with crisp ink lines on every edge and outline, on paper in light mode and on dark grey in dark mode. Every picture is kept. Videos and images on screens and materials play in their own colours, overlays still show, and textures that come with your model, like pixel maps and signage, stay on.
The previous look is one switch away. In the viewer's settings, Look offers Drawing and Materials. Materials is the look you had before, with the environment light, ambient occlusion and reflections. The choice is saved with the previs, and share links show the look you picked.
The drawing is lighter to play. It skips the environment light and the post-processing passes, so heavy stages draw with far less work per frame. When you select or hover a part, its lines turn blue.
Uploaded models are compressed. A model you upload to a previs is now compressed in your browser before it uploads. Every part and material keeps its name, so screens and material tracks still find their surfaces. Textures are kept and saved as high-quality WebP, no larger than 4096 pixels on a side. Textures with transparency stay exactly as they were. A venue model with nine PNG textures went from 7.2 MB to 1.3 MB. The Optimize Model button does the same and keeps every name too.
Models with spec-gloss materials show their colours again. Models exported with specular-glossiness materials, common from SketchUp and Sketchfab, uploaded with blank white surfaces. They're now converted when you upload them or press Optimize Model, so their colours and textures show. Materials keep their names.
Merge parts. A new Merge parts button in the model panel joins a model's parts by material and draws repeated parts, like rows of seats, as one. A large stage can go from thousands of parts to under a hundred and play much faster. Every mesh a screen track uses stays separate under its own name, in every cue. So does every mesh you've hidden, pinned or renamed. The model you had before is kept in the model's versions, so you can restore it.
A deck in a multi-step request opens Generate Deck too. Ask Home for several things at once, like a project with a kickoff deck and an intake form, and the project and the form are made as before. Then Generate Deck opens for the deck, so you pick its template, style, brand and fonts like any other deck. It starts in the new project, with the deck's planned sections already in its description and the pictures you attached. In the plan, the deck's step has an info icon that says so.
Ask for several things in your own words. A request like "a project with a kickoff deck and a client intake form" used to open only the deck, and the project and form were never made. Home now sees every item you ask for, including a new project, however you describe them, and makes them all. A request for just a deck still opens Generate Deck straight away.
3D models still go in as live pages. A walkthrough the request made from a model you attached is added to the deck's description as a live page, so it lands in the deck when you create it.
Hover "From board" to see the board's name. A deck made from a board shows "From board" beside its title. Hover it and it names the board, as the board is called now, even if it was renamed after the deck was made. Click it, as before, to open the board or update the deck from it.
A comment on a video remembers the moment. Drop a comment pin on a video on a slide or a board and the video pauses on the frame you're looking at. The comment box shows that moment, like "▶ 0:12". Press the × beside it to post the comment without the time.
Or comment from the Comments panel with the video selected. Select a video and open Comments: next to "On Video" the panel shows where the video is as it plays. Start typing and the video pauses there, and that moment is saved with your comment. The × beside the time leaves it out.
A Comment button in the toolbar. Select a widget, a frame or several things, and press Comment in the toolbar. The Comments panel opens with your cursor in the comment box, and the comment is about what you selected. On a video it's left at the moment in view.
Jump back to that frame. Opening a video comment takes the video to its moment and pauses there. That works from the pin, from the comment in the Comments panel, and from the time in the comment itself. The Comments panel shows each video comment's time next to "On Video".
See comments along the video. Hover a video and its comments show as marks along the timeline under it. Hover a mark to read who left it and what it says. Click it to go to that moment, which also opens the comment when it's a pin.
Bigger video controls on boards. On a board, the controls under a video (play, sound, the timeline, quality and full screen) are now one and a half times their size, so they're easier to read and hit as you zoom around. Decks keep the size they had.
The video's length shows while it plays. The timeline under a video used to read 00:00 for the length of some clips. It now shows the real length.
Select files, then act on them together. The Files tab on the home page has a new Select button beside the grid and list switch. Turn it on, click the files you want (or Select all), and a bar at the bottom of the page shows how many are selected. Press Escape or the X to stop selecting.
Move a batch of files into a project. Move to project opens the same project picker as a single file, files every selected file there at once, and offers one Undo that puts each file back where it was.
Delete a batch of files. Delete asks once, lists what it will delete, and removes the selected files you created. Files someone else made are left as they are, and the confirmation tells you how many.
A template is the layout, and the brand is the look. In Generate Deck you can now pull in a brand and pick a template, and neither replaces the other. The template's slide layouts keep their structure, and the brand repaints them in its colours, accent and typefaces, with its logo and photography. Picking a template no longer turns the brand off, and pulling in a brand no longer leaves a template's own colours in place.
Pick a template wherever you start a deck. These now open Generate Deck, where you choose the deck's template, style and fonts before anything is built:
A deck the assistant writes for you opens in the review with its outline already in place, so you only pick the look and press Create. A written proposal still goes on the Foveate Proposal layout, word for word.
Your brand, one click away. If your brand is saved in the Library, Generate Deck now offers Use my brand where you describe the deck, and lists it in the review's Style menu. There's no need to import it again first.
Style stays open with a template applied. The Style menu in the review now has an entry for the template's own look, next to the brand, your other decks and the built-in styles. Any of them can be laid over the template's layouts, and switching repaints the preview straight away.
Change the fonts after you pick a template. The Fonts section in the review is now a control. Choose a Headings font and a Body font, from the faces already in the deck, the brand's and the template's, or search all of Google Fonts. Your choice goes on every slide and is kept in the deck you create. The reset button goes back to the style's own fonts.
Photos from the firm's own website, by project. Ask the deck assistant for the right images from a firm's website for a named project, and it now finds that project's own page on the site and pulls the photos from there, instead of only the home page.
Image searches no longer hang. A web photo search stops after about a minute and shows what it found by then. If it finds nothing in time, it says so and offers Try again. When a source takes too long, the assistant says so and suggests another way to find the photos instead of waiting.
Close the window and your render keeps going; the finished film is there when you come back. In a 3D walkthrough's Render with AI window, a render you started keeps running after you close the window. When it finishes, a message says it's ready, with a Show button that opens the window on the finished film. Opening the window yourself shows it too, instead of an empty form. The film is also saved to your Library and History as before.
