March 18, 2015

What's New - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk^® VRED^™ Professional 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

• AmbientOcclusion: Added Ambient Occlusion Calculation based on Scene Lighting
• Analytic Rendering: Added more evaluation methods
• Assets: Improved Environment Assets
• Assets: Improved Geometry Assets
• Cloning: Cloned transformation nodes may have different transformation values
• Cloning: Highlighted Referenced Clone Object in Scenegraph
• Cluster: Added Native Infiniband support
• Cluster: Improved cluster node license check out
• Curve Editor: Made planar and triplanar texture projection attributes available as animatable channels
• FileIO: Added ATF CAD Import
• General: Added Editible Metatags
• General: Added support for MAC OS
• General: Improved support for High DPI Displays on Windows
• Interaction: Added Customizable Navigation and Selection
• Interaction: Added New Selection Modes
• Interaction: Added Preselection highlight to render window
• Interaction: Added Select Object behind
• Interaction: Added Show last hidden
• Interaction: Added new options to create Clipping plane
• Interaction: CTRL-SHIFT-G is shortcut for "Create Shell from Selection" if only surfaces are selected
• Overlays: Added new Web-Overlay Generator
• Python: Added "runSequence(name)" command to run a sequence
• Python: Added Command for "Clear undo/redo stack"
• Python: Added Command for "Remove selected nodes"
• Python: Added Python command to check if a node is cloned
• Python: Added Virtual Camera
• Python: Added command for getMotionFactor
• Python: Added command to change the size and position of the render region
• Python: Added threading support to python interpreter
• Python: Updated to Python 2.7.8 and added PySide support
• Raytracing: Added Denoise Filter
• Raytracing: Improved raytracing performance up to 30% on AVX2 capable CPUs
• Rendering: Added fast postprocess antialiasing for realtime rendering
• Rendering: Added support for Oculus Rift DK2
• Rendering: Improved AxF Support
• 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
• Scripting: Added Python command to clear the content of the Script Editor
• Scripting: Added python command to remove attachments
• UI: Added Improved Tool Tips including ToolClips
• UI: Added Localized Product Versions
• UI: Added Tool Tips to Optimize Module UI

Improvements

• Asset Manager: Fixed reloading of cloned geometry assets
• Asset Manager: Improved reloading multiple occurrences of the same geometry asset
• Assets: The saved environment information of an asset material will now be recognized
• 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
• General: Added different sizes of the camera response curve editor
• 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
• Python: Added Python command for setting the selection-mode
• Python: Added command to generate preview image
• Python: Added command to list Clip animations
• Python: Added command to move variant sets to variant groups
• Python: Added command to toggle render region
• Python: Added live webcam streaming
• Python: Enable creation of variant groups via python
• Python: Improved movie player
• Raytracing: Optimized woven cloth material performance
• Rendering: Added Baking of Full Global Illumination
• Rendering: Added backplate to wireframe mode
• Rendering: Added debug mode
• Rendering: Added preference option to enable/disable glFinish call after swap buffers
• Rendering: Added support for up to 8 shadow casting lights in OpenGL (Windows only)
• Rendering: Improved image writing speed
• Rendering: Readded support for Sim2 HDR Display
• 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: "View In New Renderwindow" now opens in front of VRED UI
• 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
• Asset Manager: Fixed lost asset references in the subtree of the saved asset when overwriting an existing asset
• Asset Manager: Fixed ungrouping of materials when loading a geometry asset into the scene
• 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
• Cluster: Fixed rendering artifacts when using the Skylight environment for lightning
• FileIO: Fixed Save Package for scenes that contain measured materials
• FileIO: Fixed crash when loading a saved material
• FileIO: Fixed error when exporting as .pov
• FileIO: Fixed import issue for JT files
• FileIO: Fixed import of Inventor files
• FileIO: Fixed object names with special characters when importing Maya scene files
• FileIO: Removed Merge Project dialog when adding a python file
• FileIO: Save Selected does remember path names now
• General: Converting a group to a shell now keeps the transformation
• General: Fixed orthographic camera and ViewCube mismatch
• General: Fixed shutdown on Linux
• Geometry Editor: Fixed Separate Objects for cloned geometries
• Interaction: Alt-right MMB (Flip connected patches) now works on transformed shells
• Interaction: Fixed "View in new Render Window" for multi-selection
• Interaction: Fixed Drag Selection being applied to the Bounding Box and not to Geometry
• Interaction: Fixed Unshare for multi-selection
• Interaction: Fixed cloned objects jumping out of their location when using optimize
• Isolate View: Mouse can no longer interact with touch sensors of invisible geometry
• Light Editor: Fixed crash when modifying values while Group is selected
• Material Editor: Fixed creation of OpenGL Phong Material
• 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.
• OpenGL: Fixed appearance of transparent material when selecting a component of a shell
• OpenGL: Fixed color of wireframe selection in second render window
• OpenGL: Wireframe selection no longer covers transform manipulator and other auxiliary visualizations
• Optimize: Fixed Flush transformation above a Light Transforms
• Optimize: Fixed Flush transformation on cloned node removing cloning
• Optimize: Flush Transformation with Adjust Face Normals do adjust normals on Surfaces now
• Python: Fixed "triggerTouchSensor" command
• Python: Fixed crash when calling setMaterialDiffuseColor on a Truelight material
• Python: Fixed findNodes() with wildcards
• Python: Fixed update of Overlay UI (vrMenu) after changing the URL by selecting a different Variant Set
• Raytracing: Fixed "Allow Material Overrides" in the Raytracing Settings for Shadow Material overrides
• Raytracing: Fixed issue causing different photonmap on cluster nodes
• Raytracing: Fixed missing incandescence illumination for triplanar materials
• Raytracing: Fixed missing update of cloned transformation node
• Raytracing: Fixed support for line geometry as lightsource
• RenderLayer: Improved performance when applying renderlayer
• Rendering: Ambient Occlusion calculation respects “Number of CPU Cores” in Render Settings now
• Rendering: Fixed MIP-Mapping Problem
• 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
• Rendering: Fixed roughness in glass material under OpenGL mode
• Rendering: Fixed spectral rendering support to VRED Presenter
• Rendering: Removed sampling of rough glass form CPU Rasterization mode
• Scenegraph: Fixed Convert light node not working properly
• 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
• Scripting: Fixed showBanner() crash
• Selection: Fixed rectangle selection (fully enclosed, left-to-right selection) for shells with hidden or b-side components
• SimpleUI: Fixed materials of clone nodes not getting captured for Variant Sets
• Transform Manipulator: Fixed "Use Fixed Steps" for rotation manipulator
• UI: Added pop up before Unshare operation to notify that is not undoable
• UI: Adjusted Render Settings Queue to AdvancedUI
• UI: Fixed Pop Up Window when deleting a material that is referenced to a variantSet

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.
• Rendering: Denoise filter does not work with adaptive sampling.

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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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