Release Notes

3.0.3

Published: December 12, 2016

• Fix bug related to shaded mesh objects having wrong material properties calculated
• Fix twitchy smoothed Position/Rotation tracks
• Upgrade Jogl Libraries
• Move View controls to their own menu
• Performance enhancement for better multi-thread raytracing on many-core processers

3.0.2

Published: June 27, 2015

• Reduced memory use for raytracer.
• Bug fixes.

3.0.1

Published: January 19, 2015

• Bug fixes and minor UI improvements.

3.0.0

Published: September 23, 2013

• Animation can be previewed directly in the main window.
• Added support for Groovy scripting language.
• Refactored raytracer to be usable from scripts and plugins.
• Replaced Text script with a much better Text modelling tool.
• Changed the behavior of the Rotate View tool to be more intuitive.
• Lots of improvements to implicit objects.
• Render settings are saved as part of the scene.
• Added "Detach Points from Bone" command.
• Bug fixes and UI improvements.

2.9.2

Published: October 21, 2012

• Optimizations to reduce memory use.
• Bug fixes.

2.9.1

Published: Feburary 19, 2012

• Textures and Materials window lets you reorder textures and materials.
• Color chooser window now displays gradient bars.
• Java Media Framework is no longer required to save Quicktime movies.
• A few new textures and materials in the library.
• A few bug fixes and minor UI improvements.

2.9.0

Published: November 5, 2011

• Major UI changes to the windows for managing textures and materials, assigning textures and materials to objects, and editing procedures.
• A library of textures and materials is now included with the application.
• The raytracer supports progressive rendering.
• Added "rendered" display mode.
• Can use SVG files as image maps.
• Added options for how many rays to use to sample gloss/translucency and soft shadows.
• Some bug fixes.

2.8.1

Published: January 3, 2010

• Lots of bug fixes.

2.8.0

Published: December 12, 2009

• Added compound move/scale/rotate tool in the main scene window.
• Camera filters can be edited and reapplied after an image is rendered.
• Added depth of field filter.
• Noise reduction filter is now a standard camera filter.
• Cameras can be set to render images with a parallel projection.
• Lots of minor enhancements and bug fixes.

2.7.2

Published: April 19, 2009

• A few bug fixes.

0.0.0

Published: April 21, 1999

The very first line of code was written (in Vec3.java).