Rendering & Visualization

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• Material Editing Enhancement (edit in material palette)
• Material Editing Enhancement (edit in material palette)
• UV Editor Enhancements (planar/sphereical/cylindercal)

Perserve UVs from ACIS

Easier material override (apply to body, apply to all similiar,apply to face)

TurboLux

TurboLux —Visualize Improved compatabiity–porting materials

TurboLux Skylight Portals

TurboLux Ground Shadow

Improved Friendliness

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TurboLux titles in Render Manager have been improved for TurboCAD 2024. Previously, a vast majority of titles(for example, ‘kd’, ‘kt’ etc.) in Render Manager were poorly defined. These titles have been edited so that the shader and property names are more intuitive.

TurboLux Render Attributes (scenes/styles templates)

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“Sun dir by geo-location”

Options | Display | Geo Location | Use Sun

A new property “Sun dir by geo-location” has been added to the “Sun” and “Sky2” shaders for TurboCAD 2024. If the Geo Location is activated, drawing geolocation data will be used to calculate direction. If the option is off, the parameter ‘Dir’ (direction vector) will be used to calculate the direction.

Quality Render Modes

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New Render modes have been added to the Quality Render dialog box. The two new modes are

• RT Path OCL Preview (Denoiser Off) and 
• RT Path CPU Preview (Denoiser Off).

These modes are similar to modes RT Path OCL and RT Path CPU, respectively, except for the ‘Denoiser’ parameter, which is not used in the new modes.

If ‘Denoiser’ is turned off, the program’s interactivity during rendering increases. These ‘Preview’ modes are convenient to use when creating and editing a scene, as the greater interactivity allows you to quickly interrupt the render and make necessary changes to the scene or camera position.

Visualize

Visualize Using drawing geo-location data to calculate direction for Directional shader

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New property “Direction by geo-location” added to ” Directional ” shader in Visualize.

If this option is turned on, drawing geolocation data will be used to calculate direction.

If this option is turned off, the parameter ‘Dir’ (direction vector) will be used to calculate the direction.

Options Include :

• Visualize. New Lights (headlight, sun light with geo location
• Visualize Tips (engine, scene, shaders)
• Visualize in Paper Space
• Visualize. Advanced Render Styles Library
• Visualize Edit Modes

Edge Intersection

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A new property Intersection has been added to the Draft Rendering page in the camera properties page.

The intersection edge property highlights intersections between the construction elements.

This is enable under the following conditions :

Rendering Type = Visualize

Rendering Mode = Visual Style Realistic

Edge Model = Facet Edges.

Edge intersection options have also been added to the same page. This allows the color and pattern of the Intersection Edges Option to be defined.

Ground Shadow Category in Environment Library

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A new Visualize Environment category Ground Shadows has been added to the environments library for TurboCAD 2024. 9 environments with thumbnails have been added to this category, i.e., Plan, Left, Right, Top, Blurry 4, Blurry 8, Ground Offset 0.5, Opacity 0.5, and Opacity 0.9.

 

New environment shader – Ground Shadow

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A new shader Ground Shadows has been added to Visualize Environment in the Render Manager for TurboCAD 2024.

The ground shadow effect allows users to simulate shadows under graphical objects in a scene without needing to manually add and set up lights, a ground plane, materials, and other objects.

Export to VSFX format

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Format VSFX (Open Design Visualize Stream) is available for export now for TurboCAD 2024.

ODA Visualize SDK. v24.4

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Updated version of ODA Visualize SDK v24.2 to v24.4 for TurboCAD 2024.

Render Manager

Add Visualize component

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A new command Add Visualize Component has been added to the local menu for each entity (material/luminance/environment) in the Render Manager for TurboCAD 2024.

The command works similar to the “Add LightWorks component”, “Add RedSDK component”, and “Add TurboLux component” commands.This menu item is available if the selected entity (material/luminance/environment) does not have Visualize components.

Drawing Selector using Visualize

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Selector Properties | General | Visualize

The classic selector is drawn in Visualize modes without using GDI. This made it possible to bypass the limitations of the GDI engine and draw the selector and selected objects without blinking. GDI selector has been improved for correct drawing of cubes, rectangles, and other objects, correct drawing on a black background, and flicker-free selector draw.

Drawing selected entities using Visualize

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Now selected entities can be drawn in Visualize modes without using GDI for TurboCAD 2024. This made it possible to speed up the drawing and draw without blinking. Its limitation is that the supported device type is “OpenGL ES2”.

If the device type is “OpenGL”, then selected objects are drawn only in green.

The new additions include toggle selection highlighting in wireframe mode, using Highlight Styles for selected entities, using Highlight Styles for entities associated with selected entities, and showing selected entities while dragging. In terms of performance, it has speeded up the selecting/deselecting of entities and drawing selected entities while dragging.

Drawing entities highlighted from ‘Selection Info’ using Visualize

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Now the drawing entities can be highlighted in Visualize mode from the Selection Information Palette.

Its limitation is that the supported device type is “OpenGL ES2”. If the device type is “OpenGL”, then selected objects are drawn only in green. The new additions allow users to use highlight styles for highlighted entities and change selected entity type transparency. In terms of performance, it has speeded up the highlighting of entities.

Show selected entities while dragging using Visualize

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If options ‘Show Object Wireframe’ or ‘Show Object Render’ are enabled, selected entities are drawn using Visualize. This increases drawing speed compared to GDI. Now, users can see the entities while dragging using Visualize render.

Show/Hide highlighting selected entities in Wireframe mode

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Options | Program Setup | Selection

New option “Highlight selection in wireframe mode (Visualize only)” has been added to the ‘Program Setup\Selection’ page. The option change is immediately displayed if there are selected objects and windows in Visualize wireframe mode. Activating this option enables drawing of the selected objects in Visualize wireframe mode.

Selected Entity Style Transparency in Selection Info

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Tools | Palettes | Selection Info Palette | Options

New option “Selected Entities Style Transparency (Visualize only)” has been added to Selection Info Palette Options dialog for TurboCAD 2024. This feature allows user to increase the brightness (visibility) of a highlighted object against the background of others. The option change is immediately displayed if there are highlighted objects and windows in Visualize mode.

Highlight Styles

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Visualize Highlight styles have been added to the selection dialog in Program Setup. These Highlight Styles allow users to highlight an object or any part of it (facets, lines) from the rest, bring the object to the foreground, and make an object invisible.

Visualize has six predefined highlight styles:

• Default
• Default: edges on top
• Default: faces on top
• Stipple
• Magenta
• Glow

Options Include :

• Using Highlight Styles for selected entities: Highlight styles can be implemented over the selected objects via “Selected objects” settings available in the Visualize highlighting effect section in the Program setup/selection dialog. This applies highlight styles to the objects selected.
• Using Highlight Styles for entities associated with selected entities: Highlight styles can be implemented over the entities associated with the selected objects via “Associated objects” settings available in the Visualize highlighting effect section in the Program setup/selection dialog. This applies highlight styles to the entities associated with the objects selected.
• Using Highlight Styles for highlighted entities: Highlight styles can be implemented over the highlighted entities via “Selection Info Highlighting” settings available in the Visualize highlighting effect section in the Program setup/selection dialog. This applies highlight styles to highlighted entities via Selection Information palette.

Conceptual Selector

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Selector 2D/3D Properties

The Conceptual Selector is now available in Visualize Wireframe, Hidden Line and Draft and works for all types of Visualize devices: GDI, OpenGL, OpenGLES2. The conceptual selector in Visualize supports all features available in RedSDK. In contrast to the classic mode, the Conceptual Selector uses a 3D model, materials, lighting, adjustable scale, and editing capability. The user can edit:

• the selector geometry,
• materials,
• the set of handles,
• response to mouse movements, etc.

All data about the Selector is stored, which is accessible for editing.

Selector 3D – Conceptual – Lighting – Visualize

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A new section “Visualize” has been added to the ‘Selector 3D > Conceptual > Lighting’ dialog. “

Visualize” parameters section allows users to setup lighting options. It has 3 parameters :

• Type – represents default lighting types
• Intensity – represents a new intensity of lights
• Ambient Factor- sets an Ambient Factor for the specified lighting.

Selector Properties – Visualize

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3D Selector Properties | General | Visualize

A new property page “Selector\Visualize” has been added to the “Selector Properties” dialog. The Visualize property page allows you to set up visualize specific options. This page allows settings like Allowing FXAA, SMAA, settings in Classic Selector section, and Conceptual Selector section.