New Beta Test Version

Testing New Beta Version

Jan 11, 2011

We are making the new Beta Test version available only to Beta Testers until we get some feedback and are able to stabilize it better.

Use this new Beta if you want to test the new Render Farm, or want to try the new nXtImage editor.

Otherwise, just use the stable version.

You can download this Beta Version from: Downloads

This has a couple of interesting features:

Combined Image Editor

We have combined the IRender nXt Post Processing and the nXtImage Post Processing into a single interface.

You can switch to "nXtImage" mode after rendering by clicking the FX icon and selecting the Image Effects tab.

(You will be asked before it switches - because this can take several seconds)

The old icons - Lighting Channels, Tone Operator and Material Channels will work in "Render" mode - without converting to nXtImage format. However, Depth of Field, Haze, Vignette and Glare require that we switch to nXtImage format - which requires that we save and reload the nXtImage file.

Once you switch to nXtImage format, all post processing features are available at the same time.

However, if you click the re-render button, you will switch back to "Render" format.

See: Image Editor for the latest documentation on this.

Try this out and let us know what you think.

Render Farm

Rich has interfaced the new Render Farm.

You can download the Render Farm from: http://www.accurender.com/page/nxt-render-farm

You can test the Render Farm onup to two Farm Machines.

(Currently you have to install the Render Farm on your SketchUp machine as well. However we will be fixing this in future versions)

Our documentation on how to use the farm is here: Render Farm

See also: Testing New Beta test Version

Let me know if you get a chance to test it. There are still a few rough spots, and thanks for "volunteering" to be our guinea pig for this.

I can download it, both the Beta and the new Stable posting.

What are you seeing?

Alain Bonnefoy said:

Ok Rich but it seems there is again a problem with the download link.

Regards,

Alain

Rich Hart said:

We posted a new Beta, KA28, with these fixes:

Fixed some bugs we found in the nXtImage editor affecting material channels

Fixed a problem with the "Add to Model" button in the Select Material to Place or Edit dialog

Fixed the install to warn the user if a reboot is necessary after the install

We have also placed this same version as the new Stable download.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on January 31, 2011 at 12:50pm

It download and opens for me on 2 machines here, with IE, FireFox and Google Chrome.

Is anyone else having trouble downloading this file?

Alan, I can just send you the file if you'd like.

Alain Bonnefoy said:

Strange, download is done from http://www.mediafire.com/file/k1sm15wch993svv/IRender_3_KA28nxt.zip.

But clicking on Download doesn't start it (with firefox 3.6) and if I use "Save to.." I get a 0 bytes archive.

I'm going to use I.E. to see. Same with IE !?!

Regards,

Rich Hart said:

I can download it, both the Beta and the new Stable posting.

What are you seeing?

Alain Bonnefoy said:

Ok Rich but it seems there is again a problem with the download link.

Regards,

Alain

Rich Hart said:

We posted a new Beta, KA28, with these fixes:

Fixed some bugs we found in the nXtImage editor affecting material channels

Fixed a problem with the "Add to Model" button in the Select Material to Place or Edit dialog

Fixed the install to warn the user if a reboot is necessary after the install

We have also placed this same version as the new Stable download.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on February 1, 2011 at 2:39am

Hi Rich,

Sorry for the time shifting ;)

It's ok for me today !?!

Thanks,

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 3, 2011 at 4:13pm

KB03 - 2/3/2011

We uploaded a new version, KB03, of both the Stable and Beta releases to fix a problem with RPC object rendering when running on a 64 bit machine.

We also added a checkbox to the support dialog, to switch to 32 bit rendering if you encounter another issue with the 64 bit batch renderer.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 4, 2011 at 5:15pm

KB04 - 2/4/2011

We uploaded a new version, KB04, of both the Stable and Beta releases to fix a problem with animations when running on a 64 bit machine.

We also removed most of the toolbar buttons on the animation rendering dialog that should not be used when animations are rendering. We left the Options button on the toolbar, but even it should not be used to change options during an animation, only to query the settings.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 7, 2011 at 11:41am

KB07 - 2/7/2011

We uploaded a new version, KB07, of both the Stable and Beta releases to fix a problem when using the Reset button on the Tone Operator dialog, when not editing a nXtImage.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on February 9, 2011 at 4:06pm

KB09 - 2/9/2011

We uploaded a new version, KB09, of both the Stable and Beta releases to fix a problem where an erroneous black line was being drawn at the top of the Render Wind