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RailClone 2.6.0

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We are delighted to announce the release of RailClone 2.6 with a host of brand new features and fixes to improve speed, increase usability and make the plugin more flexible than ever.

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RailClone 2.6 requires a license upgrade. See this post on our knowledge base for details.

New Features​

  • Added support for V-Ray 3.3.

    • RailClone 2.6 benefits of the render performance improvements of V-Ray 3.2 and greater. In our tests speed gains were between 40% to 100% depending of the scene.
    • V-Ray 1.5, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 are not longer supported. Currently supported V-Ray versions are 2.5 and 3.3.

  • Added a toolbar with shortcuts to: add RailClone object, Open RailClone Tools and RailClone Lister.

    RailClone ToolbarRailClone Toolbar

  • Added a new RailClone Lister

    RailClone ListerRailClone Lister

    • This new tool simplifies the management of scenes that contain multiple RailClone Pack objects.
    • It comprises a simplified interface allowing you to rename, enable/disable, hide/unhide, and select Forest objects, display useful information, and speed up editing properties.
    • For more details see the documentation.

  • Added support for V-Ray motion blur and velocity channel with animated proxies and meshes.

Improvements​

  • Improved hit-test viewport performance for mesh modes.

Fixes​

  • Fixed random crash rendering animations in V-Ray 3.
  • Fixed bug with VRayProxies and Bevels.
  • Fixed potential corruption issue when save is not completed correctly.
  • Fixed: Spinner dragging on Style Editor generates multiple undos.
  • Fixed: Redo operation on Style Editor changes selected node.
  • Fixed endless loop when using arrays with paddings greater than spline's length.
  • Fixed behaviour of Sequence Operator on Bevels. (see [Note 1]) .
  • Fixed bug with random numbers and nested objects. (see [Note 1]).
  • Fixed bug in Arithmetic operator when input values are not of the same type.
  • Fixed: Bevel is not applied correctly on vertices with very small change of angle.
  • Fixed: Extended/Symmetry Bevels don't work if segment is larger than length of initial section path.
  • Fixed bug which on rare cases could generate sliced instances when using arrays.
  • Fixed bug with initialization of parameters in Arithmetic expressions.
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[Note 1] To keep compatibility with previous scenes, this fix is applied only on new RC objects.

If you want to "upgrade" your RC object so it works as created with the recent release, select it and run this on Maxscript: $.railclone.resetCreatedVersion()