3D Photo Browser Light full changelog

Viewers no longer systematically hide the explorer window. However, it is possible to restore the previous behaviour in the preferences by checking the checkbox ‘Always display in front of the explorer window’
A new type of favorite has been added: multiple directory selection, which allows you to display the files in a set of directories with a single click
Multi-directory selection is much faster
If a mapped drive is disconnected, 3DBrowser now reconnects it automatically
The ‘Open file directory’ command now opens a new tab when you right-click on a multi-folder view
Change: Ctrl+W closes the current tab. This shortcut replaces the ‘Open in Windows Explorer’ shortcut which is now Alt+X
Fix: The directory sorting mode available for albums is lost when exiting the album
Fix: Right-click > New Directory now displays an icon
Fix: improved explorer refresh during certain operations
Fix: multi-folder view does not lose directory selection when changing tabs or activating a tab other than the explorer panel

USD/USDZ improved: composition, better handling of materials, UV/VC/Normals improved support, instantiation, etc.
Improved scene merging functions
3DBrowser plugin for 3dsMax 2026
Maya 2026 file support plugin
Warning message in the update dialog to prevent unnecessary thumbnail recalculations
Improvement: better 4K support when the main monitor has a resolution higher than 92 DPI
Improvement: Collada now exports textures through the library_images tag, which allows collada file to be imported in Blender and other software
Improvement: better material management in the baking tool, especially when the low-resolution object has only one default material
Fix: Collada transparency export issue
Fix: better support for files in CMYK mode (PDF in particular)
Fix: occasional but recurring crash when updating a catalog containing many 2D files, depending on the max number of threads defined for 3DBrowser
Fix: Occasional crash when playing Lightwave scenes (LWS)

Browsing folders, Albums, multi-folders view and disk access speed has been greatly improved.
3D viewer opens faster whatever the resize texture map options.
Check available memory to avoid saturation when calculating thumbnails simultaneously.
Search panel now warns if search folder is invalid.
Explorer tree shows right menu even if click is not performed on the folder name.
Exception does not produce any more dialog box
The browsing history is no longer lost if the application opens on a directory that is not available (network or external directory).
Fix: The application sometimes stays active after computing thumbnails for Windows Explorer.
Fix: Text and icons are too large if Windows main screen is not 96 DPI (DPI awareness)
3D fix: merge by materials sometime crashed
3D fix: the application may crash on intel graphics cards.
2D fix: PDF files now display a white background.
2D fix: Jpeg auto rotation fails on network drive
Explorer fix: Zipping file selection is sometime written in the wrong place.
Explorer fix: Albums always synchronize their content even if no changes occured
Explorer fix: 3D album files which have a catalog thumbnail point of view always refresh when opening album.

- Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: dark mode for 3DBrowser / Polygon Cruncher
- Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: end of OpenGL2 support. The application uses only the most recent version of OpenGL from now.
- Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: improved tabbed dialogs.
- Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: end of plug-in support for 3ds Max 9.0, 2008 and 2009 as well as Maya 2008, 2009.
- Polygon Cruncher/3DBrowser: texture directory settings is suggested if a texture is missing
- Polygon Cruncher: Improved appearance of Polygon Cruncher plugin dialogs in 3ds Max & Maya
- Polygon Cruncher: better handling of user abandonment of file optimization during batch operation
- 3DBrowser: improved file updating. Updating is based on file size and screen visibility
- 3DBrowser: better readability of files yet to be updated
- 3DBrowser: improved slideshow/screensaver fluidity (since version 16.11)
- 3DBrowser: add IPTC town, state and country will synchronizing meta data

- Dark mode for 3DBrowser / Polygon Cruncher
- End of OpenGL2 support. The application uses only the most recent version of OpenGL from now.
- Improved tabbed dialogs.
- End of plug-in support for 3ds Max 9.0, 2008 and 2009 as well as Maya 2008, 2009.
- Improved appearance of Polygon Cruncher plugin dialogs in 3ds Max & Maya
- Polygon Cruncher: better handling of user abandonment of file optimization during batch operation
- 3DBrowser: improved file updating. Updating is based on file size and screen visibility
- 3DBrowser: better readability of files yet to be updated
- 3DBrowser: improved slideshow/screensaver fluidity (since version 16.11)
Corrections
- 3D: potential crash of MagicCruncher when optimizing a complex scene
- 3D: UVs verification mode not displayed. It is necessary to change the display mode for the parameter to be taken into account
- 3D: notes don't seem to be deleted when using the note deletion tool
- FBX: fixed problem with vertex color import

3DBrowser features:
- The thumbnail view now scrolls more smoothly
- it is now possible to drag and drop several folders from the folder tree
- the search for similar files is now multithreaded. A number of problems have been corrected, making the command less effective
- Many improvements in zip file support (fewer updates, copying to or from...)
- The preview thumbnail for ZIP files has been improved
3D features:
- Display performance has been improved, particularly if the scene has objects with non-triangular faces
- New selection command based on the size of the bounding box, for filtering small elements in a scene, for example
- The delete objects command is now scriptable. Combined with the filter selection command, it is now possible to create a batch command that automatically deletes small items from a set of files
- Reading of all text formats (wavefront, stl...) is 2 to 3 times faster
- LWO: improved support for recognising a larger number of files

3Dbrowser features:
- The thumbnail view now scrolls more smoothly
- it is now possible to drag and drop several folders from the folder tree
- the search for similar files is now multithreaded. A number of problems have been corrected, making the command less effective
- Many improvements in zip file support (fewer updates, copying to or from...)
- The preview thumbnail for ZIP files has been improved
3D features:
- Display performance has been improved, particularly if the scene has objects with non-triangular faces
- New selection command based on the size of the bounding box, for filtering small elements in a scene, for example
- The delete objects command is now scriptable. Combined with the filter selection command, it is now possible to create a batch command that automatically deletes small items from a set of files
- Reading of all text formats (wavefront, stl...) is 2 to 3 times faster
- LWO: improved support for recognising a larger number of files