Desktop app is finally here (in beta form)! If you are late to the party, here is a quick video on where we want to take the desktop app during this beta period.

We are launching of desktop app (check out all of the phases here for more information)

Phase 2, which involves local support, is pushed back into May. We will give a more firm date on those shortly.

With all that said, there are still some outstanding items we want you all to be aware of during launch so here is a catch-all list of things we will be continually whittling down as we move closer to full launch

Lastly, I want to take the time to shout out the community for helping guide us by answering all of our questions, testing (you know who you are out there!), and providing amazing feedback.

With desktop development well underway, we are ecstatic to show a look into the first major release. Introducing the reimagined asset viewer!

With this new viewer, you get so much more room to view the model, more space to view activity, comments, and versions, plus more advanced viewport controls arriving soon!

If you want to get an early look into the desktop app, and help provide some feedback on the upcoming features, you can sign up here for the beta!

Greetings! While preparing for our desktop release, we've cleaned up a number of smaller bugs that needed to be squashed, made some visual improvements to optimize your mudstack experience, and have made additional improvements in preparation for other new features coming later in Q1 such as Annotations and our revamped asset viewer.

Welcome to the new year! With the new year comes a big desktop push, so a majority of our improvements will be getting us prepared for that. If you would like to be part of our test releases and feedback sessions for Desktop, head on over to our discord and send us a message!

Hey everyone! This release is going to be a fairly quiet one, but also an important one. Check below to see what was done under the hood!

Greetings! We have just released some significant improvements to our user experience and navigation revolving around the usage of accounts, workspaces and user profiles.

We’ve also cleaned up some bugs and some improvements on our backend.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

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Hey y'all! While we are prepping up for some larger releases in the coming months we have also resolved some requests from our community. Below is a synopsis of some of those changes.

Better late than never they say! We officially launched mudstack exactly 1 month ago on Sept 15, and we're a little late in publishing this changelog. Going forward, we hope to be sharing more regularly and promptly what we've been up to. This changelog covers everything that was released during our official launch.

We updated our website with clearer messaging around the value proposition of mudstack— digital asset management, version control and collaboration for artists.

We also introduced our first pricing plans— Starter (free), Indie (from $15/user/month) and Enterprise.

We realized that a lot of people were hesitant to give us their email addresses to sign up before getting a better sense of what mudstack had to offer. It was a clear issue with our previous website but we wanted to remove as much friction as possible from the process of evaluating mudstack for a new user, which is pretty much everyone.

Now you can create a playground workspace with 1 click and get a very good sense of what mudstack has to offer. We haven't seen too many other examples of SaaS apps allowing this sort of experience before.

Previously, when you signed in to mudstack, you got..... 🥁 drumroll please.... a terrible, blank experience.

Now, we give you a starter workspace with some assets. Each asset has some activity, so you can quickly get a sense of what information can be got from an asset on mudstack— it's version and change history, the discussions around the asset, the review approvals and change requests.

We also added in tutorial videos and checklists so you can start to feel comfortable in mudstack in minutes.

There was very little in the UI that was left untouched, as we took in feedback about usability issues and fixed tons of bugs— big and small.

For users on our paid plans, we now have roles and permissions in place so teams can better manage who should have access to specific content. With new viewer and external contractor roles, it's easy to invite internal and external collaborators and control what content they have access to. We also have the ability to create and manage multiple workspaces (and accounts), so you have full control over how you structure your teams.

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It's been a long journey to get here and there's a long way to go! Thanks to everyone who's been with us so far and hope you'll stay and continue to get value out of mudstack!

We are super excited to share our new release with everyone!

This release has been a long time coming, and builds on months of feedback.

For this release, we completely overhauled our User Experience and Interfaces. We noticed that there were significant pains when it came to feature discovery, searching, tagging, managing versions and attachments, as well as just generally navigating through the app.

After spending hundreds of hours at the drawing board, we broke through with a completely new design for mudstack. We feel it is a massive improvement, and includes numerous requested features, such as:

Library Favoriting

Asset Favoriting

Filter Faceting

Image Viewer Controls (color channels, image size, filtering)

3D Viewer Controls (view mesh metadata i.e skeleton, normals, wireframe, uvs)

Ability to start and stop 3d animations

Improved Asset Details Navigation

Improved Library Navigation

Code/Script Viewer

and so much more....

We hope this release improves the experience for our users. We are really happy with it so far, and are excited for what's coming down the pipeline next (hint hint: notifications, task management, asset workflows).

Stay tuned for more updates,

Jordan and the mudstack team

We are excited to announce that we now support Targa File previews.

Additionally, we have added a few pieces of functionality to Image Previews on the Details pages.

When hovering over an image, you will now see a Settings Icon. Clicking this icon will allow you to select preview settings for this asset. These settings do not yet persist, and will revert on refresh.

Using the new settings, you can manage the preview scale, image filtering(sampling), and isolate specific color channels in the image preview (R,G,B,A).

We look forward to gathering more feedback and continuing to improve on our asset preview experience.