2.5.2 Hotfix
Release date 2023/9/19
Fixes
- Some crash issues
- Issue of partial model loss after multi-selection model replacement
- Issue of slow speed when saving files to network location
- Issue of abnormal material color when importing .skp file into D5
- Issue of abnormal texture UV after replacing the model with SU LiveSync
- Issue of abnormal top view of the scene with SU LiveSync
- Issue of stitching lines in the rendering image after enabling SR
- Issue of geographical sky cloud effect does not match parameters when switching scenes
- Issue of section fill color failing
- Issue of characters on path tool turning black
- Issue of slow loading of material library thumbnail
- Occasional issue of library category list not displaying
2.5.1 Hotfix
Release date 2023/8/11
Fixes
- Recent used being empty
- Custom Lut being invalid
- Brush scatter density inconsistent with 2.4
- Issue of Abnormal values when adjusting the size of grouped lights
- Issue of Loading basic model abnormally under brush status
- Issue of Projector unable to upload image format files
- Issue of Filter model results containing characters and vehicles
- Issue of Plants and paths not displaying after deleting section
- Issue of No image output after D5 SR opening
- Issue of Abnormal picture size when batch adding segments to the render queue
- Issue of Brush plants not displaying in the render results under smooth mode
- Issue of Terrain grass texture remaining in D5 after deleting the model in SketchUp
- Issue of Material selection not highlighted after real-time synchronization of models in SketchUp
- Issue of Brush plants on real-time synchronized models in SketchUp unable to pick materials
Version 2.5
Release date 2023/8/02
Detailed introduction of new features
Whatâs new in D5 Render 2.5 - News - D5 RENDER FORUM
New and improvements
Rendering
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Real-time Caustics
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D5 SR Image Rendering Acceleration (beta)
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Light source shape display
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Optimized GI for vegetation
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Improved SSS materials
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Improved edge effects of grass material
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Improved clarity of images with resolutions over 2K
Features and optimizations
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Support saving presets in Studio
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Optimized video mode editing features
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Section Tool
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Advanced Camera Tool (beta)
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Support displaying material names in brush records
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Support high-resolution screen
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Full-screen mode
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Network proxy
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Adjusted rendering preset resolution
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Optimized operations in right sidebar
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Optimized three-axis control
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Optimized installation experience
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Optimized statistics display
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Optimized D5 account management security
Assets
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New Interior Parallax assets
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New xerophyte plants
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New plant combos
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New Asian characters
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New Macrophanerophytes
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New HDRIs
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Added HD filter option
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Added car paint material parameters for vehicle assets
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Optimized effect of some plants
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Optimized movements of dynamic characters
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Optimized search feature
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Adjusted classification of materials
Workflow
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D5 LiveSync for SketchUp
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Support restoring parameters of 3ds Max lights
Fixes
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Incorrect reflection effect of glass reflected in water
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Increased the number of stage lights limit to avoid fog effect problems
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Some models failed to load after being exported and re-imported
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Some brush plants cannot be erased using the eraser tool
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The black and white colors of the images in the sky mask channel are reversed
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The black color of video sequence frames in the sky mask channel turns gray
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Multi-selection failure in Render Queue
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Tyndall effect through glass
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Incorrect colors in the sky mask channel
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Corrected some interface texts
Version 2.4.2
Release date 2023/04/07
New and improvements
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Support direct import of SketchUp 2023 files
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Optimize the logic of canceling project merging
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Clean up some assets that arenât compatible with the current version
Fixes
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Some crash issues
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Material selection unable to be canceled
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Occasional error for materials imported from SketchUp to D5
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Losing particles in render queue image output
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Noises in rendered images due to abnormal normal maps
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Serious aliasing in material ID channel from sequence
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Video material not playing from the first frame
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Wrong namings for vehicle paths
Version 2.4
Release date 2023/2/22
Detailed introduction of new features
New and improvements
Rendering
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New D5 GI
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Improved material emissive effect
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Subsurface scattering material
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Z-depth channel
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Vegetation Cull Distance
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Blend amount setting for grass material textures
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New preview modes to control image quality
Features
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More frame rate options for video rendering
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Improved two-point perspective view
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Camera focal length
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Support switching between horizontal/vertical FOV
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Drop models on the ground
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Support creating curve/linear paths for the path tool
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Support setting fixed spacing distance for vegetation path
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Support custom combination of vegetation, characters, and other models
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Support opening the file location of maps imported by D5 Converters
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Support reading the north offset parameter from .skp files
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Support closing D5 Render automatically after render queue is finished
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Support opening .abc files directly from the welcome page
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Support opening the Preference from the welcome page
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Support clearing auto-saved backups and imported models
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Improved scatter tool with better effects and compatibility with hedge assets
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Improved random offset effect for vegetation path
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Improved model replacing feature for the path tool
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Improved search and filter functions of the object list
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Improved camera movement in video rendering
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Improved coordinate axis spatial position
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Improved display effect of the rotation control
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Action tips in the viewport
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Open D5 help center directly from the top right corner of D5 Render
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A shortcut icon is created for .d5a files
Productivity
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Support AV1 encoding
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Support QSV encoding
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Open the welcome page faster
Assets
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New hedge assets
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New commonly used arborous plants
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New static and dynamic Asian characters
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Subsurface scattering materials and models
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New dynamic transportation assets
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Backdrop planes
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New dynamic water particles
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Support adjusting the color temperature of interior parallax
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Improved movement effect of some dynamic characters
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Improved quality of some vegetation models
Fixes
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Grass does not fully appear in the rendering result
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Crop error when rendering images of small sizes
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Incorrect effect of car lights in the reflection
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GI behaves abnormally when an object is far away from the origin point
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The eraser wrongly erases assets on all surfaces
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The eraser can not erase plants on vertical surfaces
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Plant materials are not highlighted when being selected
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Incorrect adsorption relationship of rotation axis at 90° and its multiples
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Wrong attenuation radius unit of rectangular and strip lights
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Light group hierarchy sync error of D5 Converters
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Thumbnails have black edges when adding materials to the local library
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The model position changes when dragging axis to duplicate
Version 2.3.4
Release date 2022/10/19
New
- D5 Render Educational accounts supported
Fixes
- Error saving .abc files to the local library
- Effect settings occasionally disappear after rendering videos in render queue
Version 2.3.2
Release date 2022/8/31
New
- A notice that Material ID is not supported in the Outline mode
Fixes
- Some HDRI was blurry when rendering in the render queue
- Some materials went missing after starting sync with D5
- The slow-down caused by a large scale of grass materials
- The failure to reset the size of models after Smart Placement
- The possibility of some qualified hardware failing in the hardware test
- The jump of HDR sunlight in the keyframe animation
Version 2.3
Release date 2022/8/12
Detailed introduction of new features
New and improvements
Rendering
- Round Corner
- Limit color bleeding option
- Thickness simulation for single sided transparent materials
- Outline mode
- AO (ambient occlusion) mode
- Level of Detail (LOD) switch
- Adjustable sun disk radius in Geo and Sky
- Color space transfer function for editing maps
- Optimized Cloud effect: thickness, density, and height
- Optimized Fog effect: height, falloff, and start distance
- Optimized Grass material: new templates, height, density, and trim
- Manual focus for DOF effect
- Enhanced denoising algorithm
- Optimized Material ID channel for linked materials
Features
- Switch between world and local coordinate systems
- Sync pivot from modeling software
- Support continuous selection with material picker
- Support selecting materials behind other objects with material picker
- Animation control for dynamic models
- Smart placement of models
- Optimized orientation of plants on path tools
- Optimized vehicle path: left/right-hand drive, random color, light
- Support path tools for animal models
- Support adjusting parameters for multi-selected objects
- Support changing the stacking order of decals
- Support importing material maps in .tif /.tiff /.tga
- Support multi-selecting and batch importing PBR textures
- Support opening the file path of maps
- Support flip horizontal for HDRI
- Show estimated time remaining when rendering
- Support automatic change of brush radius adaptive to the screen scale
- New options to the menu: New Project, Open, Recent
- Optimized model replacing feature
- Optimized support of Alembic (.abc) models
- Optimized selection logic for grouped objects
- Optimized input slider
- Adjust the logic for lock operation
- Adjust the logic for multi-select operation
- Optimized interface of the benchmark test
Productivity
- Support Intel Arc graphics cards and Xe Super Sampling (XeSS)
- Optimized scene statistics tool
- Added notifications for lack of space on the disk
Assets
- New high-quality static vegetation assets
- Crops assets
- Vine assets
- Succulent assets
- Interior Parallax assets
- New dynamic Asian characters
- Landscape assets for exterior scenes
- Stage light, downlight, and spotlight assets
- New landscape ground and wall materials
- New fountain and waterfall particles
- Optimized frequently-used vegetation assets
Fixes
- Incorrect water reflection under fog and volume light
- Incorrect cloud effect in video rendering caused by keyframes
- Failure to load maps due to long file paths
- Unexpected collision between objects and models on paths
- Limited angle of random direction for models on path
- Limited filter list that is restricted inside D5 window
- Absence of thumbnails for some models in path property
Version 2.2.1
Release date 2022/5/31
Detailed introduction of new features
Whatâs new in D5 Render 2.2.1
New and improvements
Rendering
- Improved quality of photo rendering
Feature
- Add a Color Intensity parameter to further brighten materialsâ Base Color
- Optimized movement slowing effect of the Spacebar
Assets
- Add new Building materials for architecture
- Add new Water materials
- Add basic shape models including plane, arc, cone and more
- Add new Arabian character models
- Optimized facial expression and body movement of character models
Fixes
- Same models may get lost after merging projects
- Layers may be missing or duplicated after merging projects
- Unable to undo entering values of the model size
- Fail to customize or update thumbnails in local library
- Incorrect effect of Displacement materials
- Panoramas occasionally rendered with ghosting problem
- Some crash issues
Version 2.2
Release date 2022/4/18
Detailed introduction of new features
New and improvements
Widget
- Merge Project beta
- Projector
- New Rotate parameter for Stage Light
Rendering
- Weather System: Rain and Snow
- New effects: Tint, Vignette, Chromatic Aberration
- Improved accuracy of emissive materialsâ attenuation
- Improved GI effect on vegetation assets
- Stronger color contrast of Material ID channel
- Optimized default tone mapping settings
Feature
- Layer Management
- Custom Shortcuts
- Brush Records
- Direct import of skp2022 models
- Support HDRI in .exr format
- Support Follow Focus for DOF effect
- Keep the original coordinates of imported models
- Optimized sort order of Object List
- Keep the parameters of the last rendering
- Statistics tool stays on once activated
- Optimized camera movement acceleration
- Add a âCancelâ button when updating assets in a scene
Productivity
- Lower memory usage for large scale scenes
- Optimized real-time reflection efficiency of multiple light sources
- Enhanced performance of Object List
Assets
- Display selected assets when assets tools are activated
- Add a special mark for new assets
- Add scaling and other adjustable parameters for Particles
- Add âDynamicâ and âLeft-hand driveâ controls for vehicles
- Add Decals assets
- Add Snow models in Landscapes category
- Add Terrazzo, Wall tiles, Roof tiles and more Water materials
- Add static vehicle models
- Optimized character modelsâ motion animation
- Optimized vehicle modelsâ efficiency
Workflow
- Optimized file association logic for D5 Converters
Fixes
- Colors on materials looking different from those in the palette
- Incorrect effect of frosted glass in reflection
- Dynamic animation of curtains starts on a random frame instead of the first one
- Missing sun bloom effect in rendered video
- Incorrect display of downloading progress in the Assets Library
Version 2.1
Release date 2022/1/12
Detailed introduction of new features
New and improvements
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Widget
- Advanced Image Rendering
- Advanced Video Rendering
- VR beta
- Stage Light
- Color Grading
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Rendering
- D5 GI takes a step further with global illumination accuracy
- Orthographic view image rendering
- Adjustable sunlight intensity in Geo & Sky
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Feature
- Auto-Save
- Language Setting: English and Chinese
- Direct import of SketchUp 2021 files
- Adding d5a models grouped with lights to local library
- Beginnerâs Guide
- New shortcuts for switching render quality, display mode and navigation mode
- LUT effect preview available on hover
- Optional channel map rendering
- Rendered files naming improved
- Model/Material Selecting Tool improved
- Animation camera curve improved
- Display of system information
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Productivity
- Enhanced Smoothness
- Improved archive stability
- Improved NAS I/O
- Alert on insufficient capacity
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Assets
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Added Customizable Assets
- Supported changing clothes for static Character models
- Supported choosing lights on/off, driver, and car paint color for Vehicles
- Supported scaling and other adjustable parameters for Particles
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Added 2D Character assets
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Supported filtering dynamic models
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Supported Favorite for Particles
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Supported Favorite and Recent for Brush, Eraser and Path
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HD tags on high-poly assets
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Optimized âAligned to Terrainâ to draw on any surface
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Optimized Asset Library interaction
- Recent list supports up to 60 records
- Support category expanding/collapsing
- Optimized page number position
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Fixes
- Unable to select certain models after scaling or flipping
- Some invalid shortcuts
- Errors of some archived lighting
- The update issue when assets are attached to main models
- Unexpected orientation change of brushed vegetation when reopening the file
- Grass material out of model
- Loss of opacity map when a .d5a file is saved to local
- A random bug that Asset Library needs redownloading after updating D5
Version 2.0
Release date 2021/9/28
Detailed introduction of new features
New and Improvements
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Feature
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Redesigned UI
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A new Path Tool for Vegetation
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Path Tool: moving characters and vehicles
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Copy and paste maps among materials
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Duplicate video clips
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Video material up to 200 MB
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Number of scenes up to 1000
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Custom LUT/IES/HDR sorted by name
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Optimized the camera movement when rendering videos, making it smooth and steady
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Directly read Geo&Sky system parameters from SketchUp
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A new tool to get scene resource data
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Added download workflow plugins for Welcome page
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Added download demo scenes for Welcome page
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Rendering
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3D Grass material
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New element for the weather system: Clouds
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New element for the weather system: Winds
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Added a Temperature parameter for emissive materials
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Supported up to 16K export for photos and panoramas
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Added Channels for panoramas
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Improved the accuracy of Fog effect
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Enhanced the occlusion of vegetation
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Productivity
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Supported FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) technology
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Optimized the method to open saved files
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Material maps are compressed for lower consumption of video memory
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Static Mesh can be used to improve performance
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Optimized the artificial light sources. Scenes with numerous lights shall no longer lag
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Supported network drive storage (NAS)
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Assets
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Supported Search and Favorite feature
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Optimized categorization and added secondary category
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New setting Preferences is added to migrate online and custom resources
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Added animal models such as fish, birds, butterflies, cats and dogs
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Added interior furniture and accessories
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Added particle assets such as fountains, waterfall, smoke, fireflies, etc
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Added Nature category including Low Poly Trees, dead trees and stumps, rocks and fallen leaves
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Added outdoor models for architectural scenes
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Optimized the movement and actions of character models
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Fixes
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Fixed the bug that DOF effect appeared different in preview and render
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Fixed the issue that Volume light displays incorrectly under Two-point perspective
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Fixed the bug that glass makes the sun go low-resolution
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Fixed the bug that geo&sky appears abnormally yellow
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Fixed the shadow-disappearing issue for big scenes
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Fixed the video flickering problem caused by small structures
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Further fixed the problem that some archives failed to load
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Fixed the bug that multi-selected models can not be filtered correctly
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Fixed the bug that the light source did not change color with the color picker
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Fixed the channels exporting failure when the mouse is in brush style
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Fixed the shortcut key conflict that kept playing video
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Fixed the crash issue due to unsuccessfully downloaded assets
Version 1.9.0
Release date 2021/5/25
New and improvements
Features
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Added Geo&Sky system controlled by Time and Latitude/Longitude
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Press
Z
to quickly focus on the model -
Press
F11
to hide the right-side Inspector panel in the window -
Extended Model Replacement feature to support replacing with models in Asset Library
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Foliage Material template(Double-Sided)
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Supported Color adjustment for plant assets
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Supported separate adjustment for Sky Light and Background Light Intensity
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Added the Light Radius parameter for Point Light and Spotlight
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Added mapping for Emissive Light Intensity
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Added Transparent Material Channel Map for rendered images
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HDRI automatically scales according to scene
Rendering
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Optimized the emissive effect and improved the accuracy of irradiation
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Optimized Water Material effect
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Optimized the Fog reflection effect, added the Sunlight Tindal effect support for specular reflection
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Added glass reflection to specular reflection in rendering results
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Another upgrade for the global illumination
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Expanded range of video roughness
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Curtain material supports penetrance effect
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Optimized the calculation efficiency of plants in large scenes
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Great improvement in rendering efficiency
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Improved Low-quality effects in editing mode
Productivity
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Supported Shift shortcut to accelerate value change in the Mouse Drag Input Box
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Supported RGB, HSV, and HEX modes, as well as an on-screen Color Picker for color controls
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Supported multi-selection and group setting of IES files for Spotlight
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Optimized HDR, LUT, IES file selection control
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Supported separate settings in different scenes for LUT
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Optimized the effect of Plant Brush and Scatter Tool
Assets
- Added 412 Asian Plants
Fixes
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Fixed the crash caused by oversized HDR files
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Fixed the Space key conflict in previewing videos and slowing down the playback speed
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Fixed the missing light color parameter error caused by multi-selection of light sources
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Fixed the issue of Shift key malfunctioning (unable to copy) after light source multi-selection
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Fixed the failure of saving projects due to Light sources with a too big attenuation radius
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Fixed the issue with HDR switching
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Fixed the Depth of Field effect on transparent materials
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Fixed the Fog glowed in low ambient light
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Fixed the white edge on the glass in some output images
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Fixed the issue of some plants disappeared in the reflection
Version 1.8.1
Release date 2021/3/11
New and Improvements
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Supports .abc animation format import
BETA
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New Scale Tool for models
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Supports hue, saturation, brightness and contrast adjustment when editing Base Color
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Input box supports mouse dragging and arrow keys for precise adjustment
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Supports Brush in Recent Use of D5 Assets Library
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Auto-generates model thumbnails for the Local Library
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Remember whether to hide elements for each scene
Fixes
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Large Scene files failed to be loaded after saved
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Abnormal emissive effect
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Render Queue saving error
Version 1.8.0
Release date 2021/1/22
NEW AND IMPROVEMENTS
Feature
- Dynamic Particle Assets
- follows HDR for sunlight
- Multi-selected models can be aligned with source coordinates
- Invisible in Raytracing option added for materials
- AO Mapping of materials
- Lens flare effects
- Camera motion control
- Camera Z-axis rotation
- Model group supports video keyframes
- d5a model group supports exporting and saving to the local library
- Different HDR settings for different scenes
- The Real-Time toggle is available for different preview qualities
- D5 Converter-SU/Revit/ArchiCad supports light sync
- D5 Converter-3DS MAX supports live sync Beta
Rendering
- GI accuracy enhancements
- Denoiser enhancement in video rendering
- Multiple reflections available in video rendering
- Optimization of fog parameter settings
Efficiency
- Optimization of the plant brush tool
- Optimization of plant collision
- Significant improvement on rendering efficiency of large, plant-filled scenes
- Adjusted menu bar
- Adjusted some interface details
FIXES
- Undo and redo errors for list operations
- Brightness range error for Spotlight IES
- Normal map failure
- Unexpected changes for selected items in the resource list
- Library list display failure
- 4K monitor adaptation
- D5 Converters - synchronization failure for large scenes
- Misaligned UV for Displacement materials
- Partial map missing for imported skp files
Version 1.7.1
Release date 2020/11/20
OPTIMIZATION:
- HDR sampling optimization - Enhancements have been made to HDR details, with improved importance sampling to create more realistic effects of HDR lighting.
- Fog Effect - Boost Volumetric Light and Exponential Height Fog quality to easily create the Tyndall Effect and Aerial Perspective Effect.
- Assets library categories - Assets Management Function and so on.
- Self-illumination effect - Improved self-illumination sampling algorithm, to achieve MeshLight effects as in offline-rendering.
- Window custom zoom
- Thumbnails of scenes display
- D5 Converter - Workflow sync plugins
- Launch D5 Render from D5 Converters
- Optimized the efficiency of synchronization
- Sync scenes from SU/ArchiCAD/Revit
FIX:
- Bloom effect bug in output images
- the issue with two-point perspective in video multiple clips
Version 1.6.2
Release date 2020/8/20
New features
- Education Edition
- Top view display mode (shortcut T)
- Wireframe display mode
- Multi selection function with the mouse (CTRL)
- Search function in scene resource list
- Character Motion Rate Matching Switch in Video
- Light source keyframe switch in video
- Video Timeline Zoom (ALT)
- Alpha Channel Output
Adopts NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling 2.0 (DLSS) technology (beta)
- 1. Improve graphic quality in editing mode
- 2. Boost video rendering speed (2K and 1080p) about 2X
- 3. Reduce GPU memory usage
Requirements: RTX card + latest version of graphics driver
Switch toăDLSS onă
Optimizations
- New filtered items for plants, people, etc.
- Improved plant dispersal efficiency
- Replaced the display of artificial light sources
- Optimized the style of import resource list
- Adjusted the model grouping rotation way
- Optimized keyframe adsorption experience
- Adjusted some UI details
- Illumination no longer affects the axes
- Optimized real-time transition experience
- Increased video rendering speed
- Improved stability
Fixed
- Errors in which model units are displayed inconsistently
- Light source display error caused by Shift copy operation
- Occasional crash in exporting panorama
- Black block issue in material ID channel map
- Renders with jaggies and black lines in two-point perspective mode
- Custom size display error in exported images
Version 1.5.1
Release date 2020/4/20
New features
Optimizations
- Real-time performance improves
- GI calculation improves
- Mirror reflection enhanced
- Stripe light remade
- Image and panoramic resolution increased to 8K
- Support switching light sources during video editing
- Graphics card memory optimizes during image rendering
- Light sources added high light intensity parameters
- Optimized the rectangular light style and parameters
- Support materials UV locking ratio
- Preset initial viewing speed based on model size
- Updating the exterior HDR environment mapping
- Thumbnails are automatically generated for materials saved in ăMy Assetsă
- Partial UI detail adjustment
Version 1.5.0
Release date 2020/4/9
New Features:
- Added model library
- 76 vegetation and ground assets
- New tools of brush and eraser
- 60 stone and ground materials
Optimizations:
- added coordinates control for scene objects
- support multi select and group in scene management tray
- optimized animation duration setting
- enhanced UI visual details
- support 2K animations
- Improved animation quality ,free of flickering and moire
- Enhanced stability for 4K rendering under low video card memory condition
- Automatically output stitched panorama
Fixed:
- Fixed material pickerâs indication highlight problem
- Fixed animation path problem
- Fixed bugs and crashes
Version 1.4.1
Release date 2020/2/27
New Features:
New features:
- camera clipping plane
- using lookup tables (LUTs) for color grading
Optimizations:
- post processing parameters recover
- artificial light parameters adjustments
- auto-exposure improvements
- default tone-mapping adjustments
- emissive light quality enhancements
- global illumination quality enhancementsïŒprevious project might dim a bitïŒ
- glossy reflection enhancements
Fixed:
- white mode effect
- volumetric light effect
- UV mapping artifacts of .skp imported models
- displacement materials artifacts of .fbx imported models
P.S. 92 new PBR materials are available now, a gift from @TextureBox to D5 community.