NEW FEATURES IN VRED PROFESSIONAL 5.5

This page will provide you with a general overview of the most important new features, that are included in the new VRED Professional 5.5. Together with the improvements mentioned under "Highlights" you will get a good overview of the new version.

New User Interface

As part of the general GUI redesign, the appearance of the Scenegraph has also been reworked. The main focus was to enhance the clarity. In order to enable an even more intuitive work process, new icons were designed for all different node types. The nodes can now be distinguished more easily because of their clear layout.

Additionally, all icons now appear in different colors, which further supports a fast and definite differentiation and identification of the node types.

Scenegraph Redesign

Additionally, all icons now appear in different colors, which further supports a fast and definite differentiation and identification of the node types.

Working efficiently with Region Rendering

A completely new feature in VRED Professional 5.5 is region rendering, a function that further supports efficient working processes and helps to save a lot of time. Region rendering helps to define specific parts of the viewport and thus to define specific regions that can be rendered seperately.

For evaluating certain parts of the image only, now it is not necessary to render the whole scene anymore - long latencies become redundant. This feature especially supports the correct set up of lights and materials.

Performance improvements

Performance improvements are generally a focus of version updates. In the new VRED Professional 5.5 it was possible to increase the render performance compared to the previous version notably. The render speed acceleration for image calculation is up to 15% depending on the scene. Especially the calculation of interior scenes when using photon tracing could be optimized.

New Texture features

A further ergonomic enhancement of VRED Professional 5.5 was made regarding the handling of textures, which have been expanded by a range of features. VRED Professional 5.5 now offers new texture transform options as well as the possibility to set the UV texture repeat value directly in the material.

Transparency maps are now supported, too. This feature is very helpful, especially when using multi materials. Some material types have been extended by additional channels, such as triplanar textures for glass materials and bump maps for chrome shaders.

Raytracing Cluster

The VRED Professional 5.5 Raytracing Cluster has been improved by further enhancements. The functional range has been expanded by outstanding functions.

On the one hand, data sets can be distributed via multicast network protocol to all available render nodes - at the same time. This implies immense advantages regarding the speed, especially with big cluster installations.

Second, raytracing clusters now also support stereo display. This extension is targeted to application areas like virtual prototyping and real time presentations. In this area, this function opens up completely new application areas.

Window-Docking, User-Layout and Quickselector

The new version comes with a completely reworked and new designed user interface. In this context it is possible for the first time to adjust the interface according to personal preferences in large parts. All windows and modules available in VRED Professional 5.5 can be docked at any position around the viewport and be organized in tabs.

Thus the user interface can easily and intuitively be adjusted to any requirements, being data preparation, scene set up or rendering. All settings can bei saved in the user preferences of course.

The bottom of the main window now also includes a quick selector bar, which enables to open modules as per click. This bar can be configured individually to your requirements, of course.

All important modules in VRED Professional 5.5 are only one click away.

New Timeline

VRED Professional 5.5 includes a new, global time line, which can optionally be inserted at the bottom of the main window. Thus it is possible to organize all processes while setting up animations clearly and time saving.

FileIO

Besides a great number of technical enhancements, version 5.5 has a better compatibility with other data formats, as it has been expanded by data import- and export functions.

As of now, VRED Professional supports to import NURBS data via CBS and FBX files (now with mullit subobject materials). Also new is the option to read the C4D file format. Supported are scenegrpah, geometries and basic materials.

Downscale Antialiasing

Besides optical improvements, a main focus of VRED Pofessional 5.5 were accelerated work processes. As a new feature it now invludes downscaled antialising, THis function enables to activate the viewport sampling based on an image in downscale mode.

According to the setting, a foruth, an eighth or sichteen parts of the pixels in the viewport are calculated. This speeds up the data display and leads to a quick interactive feedback. Due to the reduced number of pixels, the sharpness of the image is reduced. Parameters like light distribution and a material's haptic can still be evaluated without problems.

HDR- and environment presets

In version 5.5, VRED Professional comes with a great number of HDR and environment presets for the first time. Thus, objects and datasets can easily be previsualized in different scenes, in order to get a first optical impression regarding light and color nuances for example - or to just render a nice picture within a short time.

VRED Professional 5.5. comes with altogether four environments as geometries and ten environments as HDR- image data.

Reload File to Scenegraph

A very handy new feature is the new function "reload file to Scenegraph". With this function, it is possible to reload nodes in the Scenegraph at any time, based on data files. All material settings are maintained, which is a great simplification especially when working with changing data.

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