New Beta Test Version

We released a new Beta Test version to try some new features and fixes.

If you have any problems with it let us know. (There are some relatively large changes in this Beta test version which may cause some problems until we iron the out.)

Autosave - occasionally the rendering hangs during Autosave. If you have this problem, then set Autosave to 0 to turn it off.

Download:

Download this version from: JL08 Beta

(We are not placing this Beta Test version on our downloads page until a few users have tried it out)

JL08 Beta - Dec 8, 2010

Added Material Channels to change the colors of materials after rendering
Added Planar HDRi Backgrounds
Added Contrast to the Tone Operator
Fixed bug when creating Arroway and other texture Set materials
Fix bug where lamp colors were displaying as black on lamp wizard.

Material channels:

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on December 11, 2010 at 6:31pm

The create hdri from jpg thats one background image seems to work very well, and looks to have stopped the pixellated backgrounds and reflections in windows etc we used to get. I need to play with this feature more.

It saves a lot of time and effort with creating "proper" barcket hdri's. I was also playing with setting the hdri tab to same hdri as background, but not sure what if any affect that will have. If I remember correctly one over ridse the other interms of what is reflected, agin more playing and info required here.

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on December 11, 2010 at 6:37pm

Hi Boothy

Just re read your post, I'm using the accurender one image editor, not one in beta image editor. Downloaded accurender program which is lot smaller than ours, and then created shortcut on desktop- until Al gets it updated.

I also had to reload HDRi into beta library, as I think I deleted all beta folder a while back due to problems.

Also I'm using GSU 7 still.