October 14th, 2010Instancing Lab:
· Enjoy true instancing with items that auto-follow the terrain. Create copies of individual objects, or entire sets so as to create huge forests and rock gardens quickly and without the typical memory usage and overhead. Change the distribution and randomness by controlling the scale, density, and proportion of your selected objects.
Improved Light Lab:
· New distant, spotlight, parallel, cluster, dome and 3D fill lights are available along with settings for specularity and diffuse intensity. Also includes optimized true ambience, lens flare, and cast shadow intensity settings.
Sky Lab Improvements:
· Use the sky as a light source, add a specular map to your IBL, control shadow softness, background DOF, transparency controls, tone-map, and the ability to create and export your own HDR Images. Also includes new controls over cloud settings.
Particle Emitter:
· Create animated particles from sphere objects with control over size, gravity, and max particles.
DAZ Studio Bridge:
· Create seamless productions of environments populated with human figures, animals and other characters imported from DAZ Studio.
Improved Import/Export:
· Now you can import and export FBX and COLLADA date files, including the import of Google SketchUp models or Spore creatures.