March 18, 2015

What's New - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk^® VRED^™ 2016. This file highlights how to install the release and describes the software enhancements provided in the release.

Contents

• Summary of Changes in this Release
• Installation Instructions - Windows

Features

• Cloning: Cloned transformation nodes may have different transformation values
• Cloning: Highlighted Referenced Clone Object in Scenegraph
• Curve Editor: Made planar and triplanar texture projection attributes available as animatable channels
• FileIO: Added ATF CAD Import
• General: Added support for MAC OS
• General: Improved support for High DPI Displays on Windows
• Interaction: Added Customizable Navigation and Selection
• Interaction: Added Preselection highlight to render window
• Interaction: Added Show last hidden
• Raytracing: Improved raytracing performance up to 30% on AVX2 capable CPUs
• Rendering: Added fast postprocess antialiasing for realtime rendering
• Scenegraph: Added Locked Nodes
• Scenegraph: Added function to select all nodes on the same hierarchy level
• Scenegraph: New Duplicate function preserves cloning connections
• Scenegraph: Removed old Clone node
• Scenegraph: Unshare preserves internal cloning connections
• UI: Added Improved Tool Tips including ToolClips
• UI: Added Localized Product Versions
• UI: Added Tool Tips to Optimize Module UI

Improvements

• Cloning: Improved compatibility with old files
• FileIO: Added Import option Add Zero Transform function
• FileIO: Added Import option Optimize Flush Transformation Scale
• FileIO: Updated FBX SDK to 2015 Version
• GUI: Visual difference of exclusive and non-exclusive actions in menus
• Interaction: Connected Motion Factor to Arrow Key Navigation
• Material Editor: Adjusted look of locked materials in the material editor
• Preferences: Changed "Set All Default" to "Load all defaults" and "Set Default" to "Load Default"
• Preferences: Moved "Wireframe" selection preferences from Render Options preferences to Selection preferences
• Raytracing: Optimized woven cloth material performance
• Rendering: Added backplate to wireframe mode
• Rendering: Improved image writing speed
• Rendering: Redesigned Metallic Carpaint Material
• Scenegraph: Cloned nodes that occur in different cloning hierarchies can be unshared
• Scenegraph: Undo/Redo for renaming a node
• UI: Added Progress Indicator while reloading Asset Manager
• Undo/Redo: Added Undo/Redo for Selection
• Undo/Redo: Added warning for un-undo/redoable operations

Bugfixes

• Animation: Fixed Geometry caches
• Camera: Fixed Dolly Zoom only working with Field of view, not Focal Length
• CameraEditor: Fixed activation of the ICV camera when a file or asset is added to the scene
• Cloning: Fixed "flush material group nodes" inside a clone node
• Cloning: Fixed "merge geometry" inside a clone node
• FileIO: Fixed crash when loading a saved material
• FileIO: Fixed import of Inventor files
• FileIO: Fixed object names with special characters when importing Maya scene files
• FileIO: Save Selected does remember path names now
• General: Fixed orthographic camera and ViewCube mismatch
• Interaction: Fixed Drag Selection being applied to the Bounding Box and not to Geometry
• Interaction: Fixed cloned objects jumping out of their location when using optimize
• Light Editor: Fixed crash when modifying values while Group is selected
• Material Editor: Fixed unstable sorting of equally-named materials
• Materials: Fixed deleting a switch-material that is referenced in the variants from deleting all variant sets
• Metatags: Fixed undo/redo for scene tags without connecting them to a node.
• Raytracing: Fixed missing update of cloned transformation node
• Raytracing: Fixed support for line geometry as lightsource
• Rendering: Fixed different rendering appearance in New Render window
• Rendering: Fixed material preview sticking to last touched object when dragging to the environment or background
• Scenegraph: Fixed Copy and Paste Clone crash when pasting a cloned node into itself
• Scenegraph: Fixed crash after merge scene and delete nodes
• Scenegraph: Fixed missing update of cloned nodes when using "Remove Selected Nodes" below a cloned node
• Scenegraph: Made Scenegraph Nodes selectable/nonselectable
• Transform Manipulator: Fixed "Use Fixed Steps" for rotation manipulator
• UI: Added pop-up before Unshare operation to notify that is not undoable

Known Issues

• General: VRED needs to be installed into default folder but can be moved manually on MAC.
• General: Korean License Agreement dialog in MAC installer not available. Please refer to English license agreement.
• Materials: Materials tagged as Chrome in Alias are not recognized in VRED on MAC.

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Installation Instructions - Windows

Note: You must have administrator privileges on your local machine.

To install VRED 2016 on Windows - Network license

1. Download the 2016 build to a temporary directory on the workstation.
2. Double-click the 2016 exe file to open the installer.
3. Select network license and input license server name, then finish installation.

To install VRED 2016 on Windows - Standalone license

1. Download the 2016 build to a temporary directory on the workstation.
2. Double-click the 2016 exe file to open the installer.
3. Select standalone license, then finish installation.
4. Launch VRED 2016, input your Serial Number and product key to activate it.

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