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Dynamite VSP Version 3.7 | Release Notes

Primary areas of focus in this release are a range of improvements derived directly from community feedback.

Release Date

31st December 2008

Availability

Dynamite VSP Version 3.7 is available as a downloadable service pack for Dynamite VSP Version 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, & 3.6. This upgrade is available free to users currently holding valid annual software maintenance contracts for Dynamite VSP.

This service pack may be downloaded from the User Support Centre.

Issues Solved

Feature Interpretation Style Editor

  • Width of Feature Interpretation Editor has been widened to accommodate longer style names.
  • Problem solved which previously caused separated spline geometry to always be generated (regardless of style content) when swept object styles are applied using feature interpretation.
  • Problem solved which previously caused an error to be generated when Object Placement Styles were previewed from the Feature Interpretation Style Editor.
  • Problem solved which previously caused an error to be generated when applying feature interpretation to imported splines from LandXML.

Road Marking Parameters Rollout

  • Problem solved which previously caused a new material channel to be added to the road markings material every time a parameter was changed in this panel.
  • The current material ID of the selected road marking object is now displayed which helps identify road marking materials in the 3ds Max Material Editor.

Road Markings Style Editor

  • Problem solved which previously prevented negative horizontal road marking offsets from being specified in the panel.

Other General Issues Solved

  • Problem solved which previously caused a Dynamite VSP startup error in Autodesk 3ds Max 8 and Autodesk VIZ 2007.
  • Display units in the Dynamite VSP user interface now take account of the Autodesk 3ds Max Display Unit setting.
  • Number of displayed material channels in all Dynamite VSP panels increased from 99 to 500.
  • All style editor panels now remember the type of resource kit in which the last file was opened or saved.
  • Date of import for imported splines and surfaces from all file formats is now recorded in the active regional time zone instead of UTC.
  • All file Save-As and Open dialogs now react to the "enter" button.
  • The Autodesk 3ds Max Command Panel no longer hidden by default.

Supported Host Applications

Important Note: This will be the last release of Dynamite VSP to provide support for Autodesk VIZ.

Full product support for:

  • Autodesk 3ds Max 8
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 9 (32-bit only)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 (32-bit only)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 (32-bit only)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 (32-bit only)
  • Autodesk VIZ 2007
  • Autodesk VIZ 2008

Additional Rendering and Scene Compatibility support for:

  • Autodesk 3ds Max 9 (64-bit)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 2008 (64-bit)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 2009 (64-bit)
  • Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 (64-bit)

Dynamite VSP provides limited support for 64-bit versions of 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design. A 64-bit version of the Dynamite VSP plugins folder is now included in the standard Dynamite VSP installation. Although Dynamite VSP will not currently run in 64-bit versions of 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design, these plugins may be used to allow .max files containing Dynamite VSP content to be opened in 64-bit versions of 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design. This support has been added to allow the rendering of Dynamite VSP based scenes in 64-bit based render farms.