What's new in Nevercenter Silo 2023.3.0
May 10, 2023
- Feature List:
- Added new Radial Mirror modifier, perfect for making wheels, tires, spokes, gears, and any other cylindrical shape or radially-repeated shape
- Most geometry operations are now faster, especially on higher-poly meshes
- Lower memory usage generally, especially on higher-poly models
- Most undo operations for geometry changes are faster
- Undo on geometry changes does better at keeping/restoring selection
- Fixed bug in scene editor where selecting nothing could make objects temporarily un-selectable
- Fixed bug in numerical editor where certain rotation values could make your object disappear
- Fixed bug where using the Extrude modifier above a certain poly count could cause crashing on windows
New in Nevercenter Silo 2023.20 (Mar 22, 2023)
- This release features a brand new primitive, the Arch primitive, which is great for making all sorts of arch shapes, tunnels, house shapes, mailboxes, gravestones, half-pipes, and more with its flexible design and set of parameters. We have also added a new Subdivide modifier to the Modify menu. It can be applied anywhere in the modifier stack, not just at the end, unlocking lots of powerful possibilities. We've also added multi-monitor support which allows Silo to remember its window locations across monitors, so it'll remember where you put it across sessions on multi-monitor setups, along with smaller bug fixes and improvements.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2023.10 (Feb 9, 2023)
- Added Array modifier
- Added Smooth modifier
- Added Reset to Default Material in the Material Editor
- Fixed Hide Unselected to also hide locked shapes
- Fixed display text color for locked objects in the Scene Editor
- Fixed normals not being updated after Combine Objects
New in Nevercenter Silo 2022.1.0 (Jun 27, 2022)
- What's new in 2022.1:
- Added built-in time-lapse screen recording (either including only the application window or your whole desktop) so you can easily record your modeling sessions to share online. Includes options for quality and speed.
- Made manipulators hide handles pointing mostly in/out of the screen to more easily access the handles you want
- Made orthographic viewport grids have infinite draw bounds
- Fixed area and lasso selection bugs
- Fixed bug where scrolling in numerical fields wouldn’t increment/decrement values consistently
- Fixed bugs in still screenshot functionality
- Fixed slowdown bug on Windows when assigning material texture maps
New in Nevercenter Silo 2022.0 (Apr 27, 2022)
- Silo 2022 is here! Includes MAJOR fundamental improvements to the deep inner workings of Silo.
- First off, we’ve swapped in Pixar’s OpenSubdiv library to power Silo’s subdivision surfaces. This means that on high-subdivision models RAM usage can be reduced by more than 50%, and interactive edits to your subd models will work faster and smoother than ever, often dramatically so.
- Next, we’ve completely redesigned how Silo’s memory management works under the hood, which should increase the long-term stability and efficiency of Silo.
- Additionally, many tools, manipulators, and other visual elements have been refreshed with a new, more modern look. We’d love to hear your suggestions on how to further improve them, especially in terms of offering useful visual feedback. In many cases models also draw faster for higher frame rates.
- There are also several useful workflow updates like being able to highlight manipulators and geometry selections across multiple viewports without having to click to activate the viewport, and each tool options window now opens in its own window rather than reusing a common window. Numerical fields now work much better with scrolling and mouse dragging. Tons of little things like that have been tweaked and updated.
- Tons and tons of bugs have been fixed across every corner of Silo. Thanks to all those who tested the betas and reported bugs - we’ve squashed essentially every reported bug, and have noted and are considering each and every feature suggestion.
- The best part is that the large fundamental changes we’ve implemented are paving the way for us to add other awesome big things that users have been requesting for a long time. So stay tuned for more!
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.6 (Nov 17, 2018)
- NEW/CHANGED FEATURES:
- Added interoperability with ZBrush via GoZBrush support
- Misc bug fixes.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.5 (Aug 22, 2018)
- Added segmented bevel to the Bevel tool.
- Misc under-the-hood optimization/improvements.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.4 (Apr 17, 2018)
- New/Changed Features:
- Added High DPI (high resolution monitor) support on Windows and MacOS.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.3 (Mar 6, 2018)
- Added 3D text: specify font, size, resolution, depth of extrusion, and tessellation.
- Added PSD support: load .psd files directly into Silo for textures, viewport reference images, etc.
- Added live texture updating: Silo will now watch your texture files for changes and update automatically.
- Misc small bug fixes and improvements.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.2 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Added support for loading/saving of materials and textures in FBX.
- Added a combined Diffuse and Ambient color picker to the Material Editor (to save time when setting both fields to the same color).
- Fixed Save Selected Objects to only save selected objects in FBX.
- Fixed Save Selected Objects to only save out relevant materials in all file formats.
- Fixed an issue with Revert to Autosave filenames.
- Fixed scrolling and selection bugs within the Scene Editor.
- Updated Scene Editor to open expanded by default.
- Updated Load Into Scene to select and highlight newly-added objects.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.1 (Dec 12, 2017)
- New/Changed Features:
- Added smoothing groups/hard edges with smooth shading.
- Fixed rare Autosaves bug.
- Misc under-the-hood optimization/improvements.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.02b (Sep 28, 2017)
- New/Changed Features:
- Windows High-DPI displays are now fully supported.
- Updated popover behavior based on user feedback.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.02 (Sep 1, 2017)
- New/Changed Features:
- Fixed FBX bugs and improved FBX loading speed.
- Fixed a rare issue leading to white/black screen on startup on some systems.
- Retina support on MacOS.
- Enabled standard Windows 10 scaling for high-DPI monitors. (This scales appropriately to system settings but may appear blurry.)
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.5.0 (Aug 21, 2017)
- New/Changed Features:
- Collada and FBX format support (import and export).
- Completely updated modern, cleaner interface styling.
- Simplified buttons editor for easier custom interface design.
- Updated drawing code with in-app anti-aliasing setting.
- Added menu item to reveal custom primitives folder.
- Custom primitives folder can now include nested directories.
- Newly loaded files are now automatically framed in the viewport.
- New presets for color settings.
- Updated presets for mouse settings.
- Various other interface streamlining and improvements.
- Fixed bug some users experienced with selection when anti-aliasing was enabled.
- FACT file import/export bug fixes.
- STL file import/export bug fixes.
- Fixed some tools reverting to the wrong manipulator.
- Fixed some manipulators allowing incorrect selections.
- Many error messages moved to pop-ups to make it more apparent when something goes wrong.
- Images always saved with correct extension even when missing from file name entered.
- Improved many error messages for clarity.
- Moved to 64-bit-only on Windows, greatly reducing crashes.
- Added menu item to reveal preferences folder.
- Object properties window now always shows shape properties (in addition to component properties).
- Texture seam display is now per-object.
- Texture seams can now be marked using highlighted edges.
- Cleaned up internal code.
- New app icon.
- Lots of other bug fixes.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.4 Beta (May 14, 2017)
- Collada and FBX support.
- Cleaned up internal code.
- Bug Fixes.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.3.1 (Jan 30, 2015)
- New/Changed Features:
- Data directories have changed (for a better launch experience for users coming from Silo 2.2 and earlier). NOTE: This data directory change will require that users re-register Silo. Your same Silo 2.x registration information will work; please email [email protected] if you cannot find it, and we can look it up for you.
- Windows versions are now large-address-aware, this is particularly helpful for 32-bit users when running on a 64-bit windows. Silo can now use 4 GB of RAM instead of just 2 GB.
- Windows 64-bit native version. The 64-bit version can handle larger meshes due to availability of more than 4 GB of RAM, the same as the Mac OS X and Linux versions which are already 64-bit native starting in Silo 2.3.
- The black-window issue on Linux has been fixed, which was caused by European numeric locales. Silo now forces a US/UTF-8 locale on launch. Some distros may still setup the locale incorrectly, so if you use a non-US locale and run into issues, please let us know at [email protected] what distribution / locale you are using.
- A cut tool crash has been fixed.
- Alt/option key handling on OS X has been fixed. This fix was made available early in version 2.3.02 for Mac OS X as well.
- It is now possible to delete empty objects in the scene editor.
- Exported OBJs should play much better with Substance Painter.
- Context menu placement on OS X with multi-monitor setups should be fixed.
New in Nevercenter Silo 2.3 (Jan 30, 2015)
- New/Changed Features:
- Moved to more modern Qt 5.x
- Linux support (RHEL/CentOS 6, recent Fedoras, recent Ubuntus have been tested; not all distros will work)
- 64-bit support for Mac OS X and Linux
- STL import
- Bug fixes
- Old data from Silo 2.2 and before may reside in the "Silo Data" folder inside "My Documents". This old data may cause issues as the newer Silo will try to use it as-is. If you run into missing icons, key bindings, or other issues, please rename Silo Data to something else. Silo will recreate the folder with the new default Silo 2.3 data, and you will be able to set up your preferences after that from within Silo.