Flamingo Beta 25 Available

Flamingo NXT Beta 25 is now avalable to download.

http://download.rhino3d.com/Flamingo/nXt/beta/download/ 

New updates in this build include:

• Adjusting image when render is complete was broken,this is now fixed.
• Hooking up Lock Tone Operator control in the Image Adjustment pane
• Fixed bug with ground plane not using the default material when turned on but unassigned.
• Fixed soft shadowing on spotlights. Light radius was hardwired to 1/2 the cone radius and the value specified in the properties dialog was being ignored
• Changed number of decimal places and change increment in numeric controls in the image adjustment pane
• Added option to light browser to let you select objects in scene then have the light browser select the corresponding items.
• Removed JPEG option from Save Bitmap file dialog when saving 32 bit images since JPEG does not support alpha channel.
• Added utility method for saving bitmaps, special cases JPEG images setting the quality level to 90, users were complaining the .NET default compression was too high.
• Fixed a few memory leaks
• Converted render display image to use less overall memory
• Crash protected a few places in the meshing code
• Fixed: The indirect lighting method that is named “On” should be named “Interior”. The other method named “Gather” should be named “Exterior”.
• Fixed: The “Sun” only tab has the Sky intensity and the Sky channel on it. It should not. There is a “Sun and Sky” tab that should have these controls and currently does.
• Removed “Sun channel” control from the Lighting/HDR (sky) tab.
• Added “Planar HDRI” to Environment tab background options
• Added blurriness controls to the transparency tab in the Advanced Material Editor.
• Fixed: When changing the background type in the Environment tab the background controls bellow the intensity should change to reflect editing the current background type.
• Fixed: The ground plane controls in the environment tab, do not update when opening a model.
• Light browser context menu was not getting initialized properly before displaying
• Added lock aspect ratio control to the Control Panel, Render tab when specifying custom width and height.
• Fixed localisation bugs.
• Fixed crash bugs.
• Tuned up material editor tree control to display information about the parent branch when adding branches to the material tree.
• Modified the Flamingo numeric control to select the contents when tabbed into
• Tuned up the Advanced Material/Texture/Properties/Advanced page
• Added Planar HDRI page to the Control Panel/Background
• Fixed a bunch of bugs with the existing Control Panel/Background controls, they were not updating when a new model was created or opened
• Changed default intensity values for lighting presets, HDRI is 20 all others are 1
• Added a ”>” button to the light browser to display properties in an attempt to make the properties option more discoverable.
• Made a bunch of fixes and clean up in the Background/Image control