D5 2.5 beta

Ideas & Requests
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Good morning everyone,
I beta tested version 2.5 today and below are my comments on the new features and improvements

I haven’t been able to try everything yet but just a few things that I find fantastic:

  1. the new camera: finally you can set cameras that have physical parameters of rotation on the 3 directions so that you can put yourself parallel or perpendicular to certain objects. Really great job

  2. section planes: very useful and work very well

  3. new grass material: now finally the edges are full of grass and not empty, how wonderful

  4. caustics: they finally arrived and thank you very much. However, I find that they can be improved or should not necessarily need a light source to be there but once activated in the transparent material they should already appear with sunlight or hdri. However, it is already a big step forward

I will try the rest of the functions later.
Thanks D5 Team

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Thank you for the feedback and suggestions! Regarding the caustics, we will keep improving and enable the sunlight and hdri caustics in the future, please stay tuned.

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Hi @Bruce.W
thank you very much, in the tests I did yesterday with sunlight, even activating the caustics in the water material, these did not appear, but maybe I was doing something wrong. When I entered a light area on the bottom they appeared. Should the object to apply the water material to be a solid or a surface?
In any case I stay tuned for new updates. Thank you

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For the sunlight, we don’t have caustics now, but we are improving it. Now you need to place lights to create the caustics effect in your scene.

Both are ok, we will have a official tutorial about caustics when the 2.5 is released.

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Thanks @Bruce.W