Released 18th June 2025
Cycles Photorealistic Render Engine
- Overview: Introduced a new render engine delivering photorealistic visuals with easier lighting and faster processing.
- Key Functionalities:
- No need to use photographic or VR lights.
- Faster rendering times.
- More accurate lighting simulation.
Improved Orthographic Camera Mode
- Overview: Orthographic plan view now allows more detailed editing directly against walls.
- Key Functionalities:
- Snap items to walls.
- Reference items to walls.
- Decorate walls in plan view.
- Mouse scroll wheel now changes view depth.
Mouse Scroll Wheel Controls
- Overview: Full scroll wheel support added across all input modes for navigation efficiency.
- Key Functionalities:
- Scroll to zoom camera in and out.
- Hold scroll wheel to pan the view.
Smaller Video Files
- Overview: Video generation now produces significantly smaller files using a new format.
- Key Functionalities:
- Output format is now .mkv.
- Reduced file sizes with no loss in quality.
Lighting Wizard Improvements
- Overview: Enhanced user access and toggling for VR scene lighting.
- Key Functionalities:
- Access by right-clicking a light and selecting Properties and then Lighting Wizard.
- Wizard opens with the current light selected.
- Toggle all VR lights on or off for the entire scene.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where News Feed links opened inside Virtual Worlds instead of your default browser.
- Fixed crash when generating video files.
- Resolved crash when stored pricing system was not found.
- Fixed crash when selecting pack items in the Collections dialog while in Drag mode.
- Resolved crash when tiling recess walls.
- Fixed wall panels connecting incorrectly to the top of tiled areas.
- Restored missing blue recess symbols in 2D plans.
- Resolved issue preventing deletion of tile pattern units.
- Fixed replaced lights losing illumination settings.
- Fixes a crash when deleting recessed tile walls
- Fixes an issue with elevation views in Orthographic mode