# 2021.1.0 - January 6, 2021

Environments

`Preview`, `Admin-FTS`

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### Player

**Improved Player Loading** experience is here: the Threekit player now displays an image snapshot of the product and loads the 3D visualization in the background. This means that Shoppers will see product visuals sooner and will not feel like they’re waiting as long.

The snapshot will use the active camera and configuration to match the 3D visual experience so that it’s seamless. Snapshots are generated if one doesn’t exist when the player loads. Snapshots are regenerated when an Asset is updated.

*Note:* if a Catalog Item's referenced Asset is updated, the Catalog Item will need to be resaved to generate an updated snapshot.

It is turned on for all users within the Threekit platform and has to be enabled where the player is used externally using the following parameter:

```shell
showLoadingThumbnail: true   
```

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### Catalog

**Catalog Item thumbnails** have been added to the Catalog Item listing page to match the Asset listing page. Now you can see what the Item is before clicking it.

These are generated the same way Asset thumbnails are generated: when you view a Catalog Item if a thumbnail doesn’t exist, Threekit generates it. If the underlying visual asset has been updated, Threekit will regenerate the thumbnail.

### Performance

**Asset prefetching optimization** will result in faster loading times for 3D visualizations that have a lot of dependent requests by requesting multiple assets at once, caching their responses, and process additional responses and adding them to the cache. Performance improvements depend on the number of requests and can range in improvements of a couple of seconds to tens of seconds.

### Bugs / Cases

GL6278 - Player visuals don’t comply with attributes & rules. → Part of GL 6300\
GL6230 - Materials on assets don’t act as expected. → Part of GL 6300\
GL6272 - Editing asset metadata affects asset’s rules. → Part of GL 6300\
GL6295 - Attribute hiding not working properly\
GL6274 - Error involving materials with initial configuration and material swapping → Part of GL 6300\
GL6404 - Configuration backend API error\
GL6240 - Loading/launch times have increased significantly\
GL5871 - “Renders” button changed to “Render”\
GL4233 - Unable to create condition with Asset Attribute not equal to null\
GL6268 - VRay Camera/ Asset rule broken\
GL6237 - Embedding an asset with showConfigurator set to false breaks initialConfiguration\
GL6191 - Asset with same tag appear as attribute values when creating renders\
GL6039 - 2FA prompt focus/enter\
GL5907 - Cant’ scroll the left menu in admin\
GL5717 - Scrollbar on QR Code\
GL4716 - Open cloned model in new tab\
GL4246 - `page` query parameter not working in list views\
GL6306 - viewing apps in platform cause 500 error