we have decided to make another intermediate revision available mostly due to a couple bugs
fixed. The most crucial was a crash bug when one was saving and loading img.thea buffer
with previous revision 382/383. The buffers saved with those revisions have a fault that
no revision will be able to handle them. So, it is recommended to move on to new revision 387
in order to restore proper saving of the img.thea buffer.
Even more, another bug was related to 3ds file import; there were some problems in latest
revision 383. Some meshes were imported incorrectly - this was happening with some 3ds
files only. Now, this is fixed.
Of course, we couldn't leave you without any new features added. And our major feature is
also a technology announcement. We have added camera response function support, along
with several functions to select. This way, you can have easy display change of the image
that matches various camera profiles as given by the manufacturers.
Another feature added in post-processing is glare effect. The glare effect does not include
diffraction (at this early implementation aperture/obstacle maps are not used) but it is simple,
nice and fast.
Something not to forget regarding navigation. In several cases, when you are inside a house
interior for example, you want to look around but this is not easy because you always end up
orbiting around distant objects. This situation can now be handled; using the mode control key,
which is the key m by default, you can switch from orbiting around clicked position to
looking around. So, if you are inside an interior, press m and look around by pressing
mouse middle button. Press again m to use a clicked object as your orbiting center.
The new revision 387 can be found in the usual thread:
http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtop ... =61&t=1849
best wishes
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