The new Beta today is the first peek at Version 3..
(Actually if you have been downloading new versions and Betas you have already seen almost everything that's new in 3.0).
We hope to release it Monday as we announce our next rendering contest. This years rendering contest will require that your rendering use many of the new 3.0 Features.
Here is a summary of the new features (implemented since 2.0 was released)
Highlights
New Plant and Material libraries
| New Plant and Material libraries
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| Over 6,000 materials and 40
RpTreeMaker
plants.
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Materials from new library. |
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Arroway Textures
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Arroway Textures
is a manufacturer of high-res textures, which are used in many
areas of digital visualization, e.g. architecture, design and art.
Arroway has made about 100 low-res versions of their textures available to IRender nXt users.
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Room with Arroway Textures on walls and floor. |
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Material Wizard
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| The IRender Material Wizard makes it easy to create and edit materials.
Most common rendering settings for materials can be made quickly in the Material Wizard.
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Default tab of Material Wizard. |
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Panoramic Views
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| A Panoramic image is created by rotation the camera while rendering to create a full 360 x 360 degree image.
Clients can view the flash movie made from the Panoramic image.
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Panoramic image of interior created bu IRender nXt. Model courtesy of Boothy.. |
| Depth of Field
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Depth of Field
and Focal Distance settings create renderings with areas in sharp focus and areas out of focus.
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Depth of Field set to 1.0, Focal Distance 100' |
Other New Features
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Customize Toolbar
to use just the Icons you want.
- New, optional, rendering settings dialog to review settings just before rendering.
- Added
Gather Indirect Lighting method
- Added Monte Carlo and Gather reflection to individual objects
- Added setting for Automatic Sky Saturation (used or Daylight portals)
- Cut the time required to extract a model by 50%
- Added Automatic
Daylight Portals
for transparent surfaces (with Interior/W sun preset)
- Materials and other settings can be set directly during the rendering process, and then restored to the SketchUp model.
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Foreground Images and Watermarks
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Clay Rendering
- automatically create an all white rendering.
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Sky Saturation
- ability to set the amount of color in Automatic Skies.
- Added support for 2-point
Perspective
- Added Self Glow to the
Material Wizard
- Added displacement maps for advanced bump effects.
- Added Draft
Render Quality
which renders about 4 times faster with some loss of image quality.
- Added
Glossy Reflection
- Added
Fresnel Reflection
- Added new plant types and ground cover to
RpTreeMaker
Trial Version
Version 3.0 has a new 30-day trial version.
If you have tried it before and want to try it again, or if you are trying it out for the first time, visit
Downloads to download the latest version.