Hello,
Could we have some information about development status on version 7? Its been lately too quiet on the userlist. Info about the new features would be nice:)
The plan is to release v7 during 3rd quarter of 2009 (in September at latest). We do not have a complete list of new features available yet, and some features are still under development. Anyway, here's some quick notes: - OpenGL: new drawing modes like wire-shaded combo mode (www.realsoft.com/private/V7screenshot.jpg), significantly faster realtime drawing, better quality etc. - Rendering speed: 10-20 % speedup on average. High poly models can render up to 10 times faster! - Multi-core optimizations: rendering engine threads now share most of the scene data. This improves memory efficiency dramatically in multi-core systems. A dual core system can typically render 50 % more complex scenes, a quad core 2 times and an eight core system 3-4 times more complex scenes as in v6. - New animateable deformations and animation effects - New particle tools and effects - New 'Real3D-like' efficient and straightforward compound tools - Better Import/Export: new image and geometry formats supported, tools for making 2D projections and exporting them using common 2D vector formats (for CAD drawings) , etc. I will post a more complete list later. Kind regards, Vesa
