Here are links to the v15.0 Alpha Installer. --

• Windows Installer (Oz CD ) (11m)
• Windows Installer (2007 - Hasp Subscription) (16m)
• Mac Installer (2007 - Oz CD ) (23.7m)

A sample project and tutorial on the new fluids can be found in this thread.


Make sure when you report bugs to A:M Reports, that you pick the v15 project in the upper right.

Fixes since last release

• 0004520: [Lighting] Black area appears below transparent patches.when using Ambience Occlusion (animas3D)
• 0003491: [Rendering] Ambient Occlusion changes transparency maps to color maps (Luckbat)
• 0004900: [Modeling] Undo: group missing after; group, hide, undo. (Noel)
• 0004937: [Sounds] NLE moving a linked sound causes crash (Steve)
• 0000309: [Interface] Drag drop models into models (grostami)
• 0004851: [Constraints] Compensate mode now defaults to on. (swooster)[/font]
• 0004849: [Relationships/Poses] Rotoscopes do not appear when added to a pose relationship (peppr)
• 0004839: [Modeling] Can't modify cps along Y axis in mirror mode. (KenH)
• 0004836[font=Courier New]: [_Other] camera rotoscope translate scale undo (KenH)
• 0004201: [Interface] Lightlists on action objects, with the list as part of the action (martin)
• 0004948: [Interface] Desired and Current Gamma work only when "This Dialog" is selected. (yves)
• 0003578: [Rendering] Rendering artifacts when rendering reflections with displacement decals (JohnArtbox)
• 0004921: [Rendering] Black Speckles Accross Surface In Render (dre4mer)
• 0003444: [Rendering] Artefacts when displacement mapping is using with Ambiance Occlusion (Fabrice)
• 0003490: [Rendering] Ambient Occlusion does not work if the object has a displacement material applied (JohnArtbox)
• 0004907: [Timeline/Channel] 001 crash when moving red bar in timeline (KenH)
• 0004369: [Rendering] Booleans do not work (Ganthofer)
• 0002858: [Rendering] black spots in AO-renders (mixepix)
• 0004898: [Sounds] sound still stutters slightly when saved from an NLE project to a MOV (Steve)
• 0004909: [Modeling] v14 Undo after the bone moves doesn't work. (jenpy)
• 0004931: [Interface] spring system simulate crash (Noel)
• 0002707: [Net Render] netrender not doing project settings (Jack West)
• 0004434: [Rendering] AO not rendering correctly (Dagooos)
• 0004581: [Rendering] TWO: AO still renders if turned off in chor but AO intensity has a value (HomeSlice)
• 0001295: [Net Render] fog settings don't transfer to netrender (shaunf)
• 0004139: [Net Render] TWO: NetRender doesn't load camera render settings (Steve)
• 0004811: [Images/Animations/Rotoscopes] Can't uniformly scale images from center with Ctrl-Shift-drag or Opt-Shift-drag (Julian)
• 0004870: [Interface] Springs Do Not Draw (frosteternal)
• 0004226: [Rendering] Hooks produces blotches in combination with Ambient Occlusion (kikiriki)
• 0004930: [Relationships/Poses] action objects that are not models in relations incorrectly got model bone folders on load. (Noel)
• 0004914: [Constraints] Constraints on action objects in relations not loading properly. (KenH)
• 0004893: [Rendering] Exception #010 while rendering (Glen Clarkson)
• 0004622: [Rendering] SSS doesn't play nice with hair shaders on Ku-Klip (cosmonaut)
• 0004902: [Rendering] Crash when rendering with Subsurface Scattering (age234)
• 0004923: [Rendering] Hair/SSS cause 010 crash when rendered together. (KenH)
• 0004912: [Rendering] Rendering patches with SSS and Hair causes A:M to exit (PlinyTheElder)
• 0004911: [Rendering] Hair + SSS now causes Exception 10 (again) (frosteternal)
• 0004833: [Plugins] Crash on Explode Rebuild Model (frosteternal)
• 0004926: [SDK] HChor::Intersect fails , when threads > 1 (sgross)
• 0002548: [Interface] Formating Error when using AO (MattWBradbury)

Hi Will...

NET2007.exe NOT FOUND .... please check the link ....

Is Material Displacement currently being worked on? The last time I check it rendered more like a transformed bump map than a displacement map.

Got it, sorry was a case issue.

Will

Will, was the Windows instailler updated for this release? I've just reported that I cannot stop a Rendering Mode before it has finished.


I did a test to see if the dots disappeared when using AO and displacement mapping. The test came out negative.

Real Time:
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Progressive Mode:
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Render Mode:
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Render To File With MultiPass:
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Render To File No MultiPass:
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Progressive is the only image that appears to be correct with White AO (seeing as how the highest elevations are white). I knew that progressive renders didn't use multipass so I thought that turning multipass off on the second render to file would work, but it only seemed to make things worse. Aside from the dots remaining, the rendering time itself increased by over 300%. There are no significant differences between the Render Mode and the Render To File renderings; the contrast between dots was reduces by using multipass, but the brightness of the surfaces have been diminished as a result of it.