v.4.7 Release (June 15, 2020)
Features
- Added keyable actions (cross-sections) for camera animations
- Added adjustable camera focal lengths and angle of views
- Added Render Video presets customized for various use-cases
- Added variable bitrate encoding for video rendering
- Added interactive vertical cross-section tool using two points
- Added ability to define cross-section planes by copying existing sections
- Added option to create multiple sections with predefined quantities and intervals
- Added support for digital terrain models (.asc)
- Added walk navigation mode on terrain models
Optimizations
- Accelerated point cloud processing by up to double the speed
- Introduced a more intuitive interactive preview of cross-sections
- Added customized views of cross-section plane and section preview
- Enhanced robustness of section creation independent of camera viewpoint and data size
- Streamlined the switch to shaded view
- Introduced tiling when generating orthophotos (no need to adjust performance settings prior to the computation)
- Introduced material assignment by drag & drop
- Introduced material assignment through Object List
- Undo & redo support for keyframe-related operations
- Added shortcut (SPACE) to play & pause animation preview
- Introduced section export as DXF
GUI
- Redesigned Camera Animation window
- Redesigned Render Video window
- Redesigned Cross Section window
- Redesigned Orthophoto window
- Updated Render Options for Splat Surface Rendering
- Introduced default camera objects
- Moved camera settings from Preferences to Object Inspector