Flamingo 3D Release Notes


What's New - Flamingo 2.0 RC3 (20-June-2008)

Advanced Features :

  • Includes the exact same code as the Flamingo 2.0 that will ship as the commercial release.

What's New - Flamingo 2.0 RC2 (11-June-2008)

Bug Fixes:

  • Background images, Cylindrical and Spherical projections: Azimuth setting did not update properly when view changed. Affected environment background image, reflected environment, and HDR image.
  • CD Installer: A problem with displaying currently installed languages has been fixed.
  • Crash fixed: Using RenderWindow in a viewport while a normal rendering was in progress caused a crash. This is fixed.
  • Dialog box overlap: A problem with being able to use Rhino and Flamingo overlapping dialog boxes has been fixed.
  • Document Properties: Problems with clicking the OK button have been fixed.
  • Glow: Dialog box lacked a Pick button. This is fixed.
  • HDRi background:
    • The image did not clear when the background was disabled.
    • The Transparency setting has been restored.
  • Installer:
  • Installer: Flamingo 2.0 installed an empty user library overwritting a user-modified user library. Flamingo installation now migrates user libraries.
  • Light dome: The light dome dialog box has been improved.
  • Propriétés de la lumière : L'option Utiliser un fichier IES pour définir la distribution de la lumière apparaissait en gris dans tous les modes. Ce problème a été corrigé.
  • Lights: Once IES light distribution was turned on, it could not be turned off. This is fixed.
  • Load Flamingo: A problem loading Flamingo when certain plug-in skins are loaded has been fixed.
  • Localization: Several problems with localized material libraries have been fixed.
  • Mapping: Moving an object messed up the mapping origin. This is fixed.
  • Material Libraries: A problem with saving to network drives has been fixed.
  • Materials: Any material that used "Mask" procedure (such as the ceramic tile) lost its bitmap in the localized versions of the libraries. This is fixed.
  • Materials: Changing the case of a letter in a material name incorrectly deleted the material. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity view: The initial radiosity view did not match the Rhino view. This is fixed.
  • Soft shadows: Sun soft shadows were pixelated in some cases. This is fixed.

What's New - Flamingo 2.0 - RC1 (24-April-2008)

New features  :

  • Installer: Most custom Flamingo 1.1 libraries are now migrated to Flamingo 2.0.

Bug Fixes:

  • Ambient Light: The ambient light setting did not work as expected. This is fixed.
  • Plantages : plusieurs bogues qui faisaient planter le programme ont été corrigés. Plantages concernés :
    • Création de maillage de rendu
    • Mémoire insuffisante.
    • Gestionnairenaire de licences.
    • Matériau corrompu.
    • Enregistrement des bitmap dans le caché.
    • Chargement des matériaux.
    • Luminaires.
    • FlamingoTransport.
    • Localized material libraries.
    • Loading toolbars.
  • Installer: 37 installer bugs have been fixed.
  • Light fixture library: A failure bug when creating a library has been fixed.
  • Light fixture properties: Dimming the light in Raytrace mode did not work properly. This is fixed.
  • Lights: Five failure bugs in the Light Properties dialog box have been fixed.
  • Post-Processng: The post processing changes are now saved in the file.

What's New - Flamingo 2.0 Beta (3-April-2008)

Bug Fixes:

  • Light Fixtures: A light fixture library with a few example fixtures has been added.

What's New - Flamingo 1.1 SR5 (11-November-2005)

Bug Fixes:

  • Edit Materials: Crash when changing an image map has been fixed.
  • Render crash: Some files crashed when rendering the second render on 99% screen grid build. This is fixed.

What's New - Flamingo 1.1 SR4 ( 2-May-2005)

New features  :

  • Installer: Rollbacks in previous versions did not work correctly. The installer does not set up for rollbacks, so that an Uninstall will uninstall all of Flamingo 1.1.
  • User Interface and Material Libraries are now available in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Bug Fixes:

  • Canceling by clicking the "x" in the render window before the render was finished caused a crash or hang. This is fixed.
  • Crash when closing render window: An intermittent crash when closing the render window by clicking the X button is fixed.
  • Installer: The installer now lets you correctly roll Flamingo back to the previous version.
  • Installing with the option to use AccuRender libraries did not work. This feature has been removed.
  • Mapping with blocks: Blocks and imported models switched to default material mapping orientation when inserted/imported, instead of using their original material orientation setup. This is fixed.
  • Open access to libraries: The Flamingo installer changes permissions on the Flamingo Libraries folder so that everyone has permission to write to it. This allows saving of new Flamingo materials by users with low-level permissions.
  • Options: Clicking the Flamingo tab and not changing anything triggered the "You must restart Rhino for Flamingo path changes... message. This is fixed.
  • RenderWindow command: A crash bug when Alpha Channel is enabled has been fixed.

What's New - Flamingo 1.1 SR3 ( 12-Nov-2004)

Bug Fixes:

  • Rendering Blocks: Blocks on hidden layers could be incorrectly rendered. This is fixed.
  • Material crash: A crash bug with assigning tile materials has been fixed.
  • The Ambient color setting was not saved when the dialog box closed. This is fixed.
  • Render Window: Zooming out Render Window produce artifacts and color errors. This is fixed.
  • When mapping planar material properties with object snaps, the mapping visualization frame collapsed. This is fixed.
  • FlamingoTransport incorrectly set the current file to the new transported file instead of the original file. This is fixed.
  • Welding a mesh did not render properly in some circumstances. This is fixed.
  • Decals and blocks: Decals applied to blocks became mirrored. This is fixed.
  • Save Radiosity solution: In some circumstances, it was not possible to save the radiosity solution. This is fixed.
  • Mirrored planar mapped materials were reversed. This is fixed.
  • When changing a material properties by accessing it via the command FlamingoMaterials, it did not update in the rendering. This is fixed.
  • A crash caused by picking in the blank area of the Material Library has been fixed.
  • Screen bitmap missing: The current Metal material library has various 'screen' materials, but the screen bitmap (Screen2.jpg) was not installed. This is fixed.
  • FlamingoTransport: Deleted texture carried on through transport process. This is fixed.
  • Stop Rendering: Pressing Esc key crash Rhino when building screen grid at 99%. This is fixed
  • FlamingoTransport: Groundplane material was not saved in the material library. This is fixed.
  • Material choice incorrect: Setting the material to the Rhino basic material and then setting it back to Flamingo, did not reset the Flamingo material. This is fixed.
  • Memory usage: Several bugs relating to memory usage have been fixed.
  • Material Map size: .0001 units were incorrectly added to the tile size. This is fixed.
  • TIFF format: Non compressed tiff and tif files can be read now in Flamingo.
  • Installer: The installer launched even if the user did not have administrator privilege. This is fixed.
  • Material Library: Opening model from inside Rhino failed to load the material library associated with the second model. This is fixed.
  • Polar Array: Polar array could confuse mapping directions. This is fixed.
  • Material Map size: The map offset was always expressed in meters. This is fixed.
  • FlamingoTransport: Flamingo Transport reset the environment options. This is fixed.
  • Material Map: Flamingo crashes when changing material image mapping texture map with a very large file size. This is fixed.
  • Memory management: When transforming the model and re-rendering has been improved. This was a problem mainly with animations.
  • Memory management: Improved memory management more accurately reports out of memory error.  Flamingo will start report out of memroy at 90% of total, giving time to exit and react to the problem.
  • Material Editor: Several bugs in Material editor when editing materials with procedural layers have been fixed.
  • Material Editor: Parts of a material definition, specifically material maps, could be out of scale. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity crash: Starting radiosity calculations after loading a radiosity file could cause a crash. This is fixed.
  • Cancel render crash: Stopping raytracing just after screen grid processing caused Rhino to hang.  This is fixed.
  • High dynamic tone operator: A black image appeared with the high dynamic tone operator on images that are not ideal for the High Dynamic tone operator.  Now, the image will appear, but if it looks poor, using the General Purpose tone operator might be appropriate.
  • Horizon Haze: Was not working well with sheet clouds. This is fixed.
  • Decals and radiosity: A problem with decal display with a radiosity solution has been fixed.
  • Ambient light: The setting would revert to the default color. This is fixed.
  • Refraction and jitter: Settings were not being set properly. This is fixed.
  • Blurry transparency: New settings get better results.
  • Internal Reflections: Reflection vector in total internal reflections is being calculated more accurately.
  • Background image: The background image works with clouds more consistently.
  • Plant materials: Can now be edited. Add Internal folder to path.
  • Corrupt material: The small pyramid knurl steel material was corrupt. This has been fixed.
  • Point Light: Hidden point lights still illuminated the scene when the "Use lights on layers that are off" setting was not in effect. This is fixed.
  • Decals: UV mapped decals were not rendered using radiosity. This is fixed.
  • Material editing crash: Several material editing crashes have been fixed.
  • Radiosity mesh calculation was not reset when a new calculation was required. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity calculation crashed when closing. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity: The previous radiosity calculation meshes are not cleared when calculating a new solution. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity: Crash on Windows 2000. This is fixed.
  • Decal path crash: Changing the decal path crashed Rhino. This is fixed.
  • Render hidden objects: Hidden grouped objects were incorrectly rendered. This is fixed.
  • Rhino basic textures were not rendered by Flamingo. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity: Light movement did not trigger a new radiosity calculation. This is fixed.
  • Pyramid metal material caused crash. This is fixed.
  • Crash exiting Material Editor: Flamingo crashed on Asian language WIN XP systems when exiting the material editor. This is fixed.
  • Radiosity crash: A crash when opening a file with a saved photometric radiosity solution has been fixed.
  • FlamingoRenderInWindow: Crash on saving to a .tif file has been fixed.
  • Decal Rotate Point: Spherical and cylindrical decals did not behave properly in the perspective viewport. This is fixed.
  • Render Window: Closing window prompted for save even if save had already been done. This is fixed.
  • Material Mapping: A bug that made it difficult to orient the images has been fixed.
  • Material Preview: Generating the preview images sometimes took a very long time. This is fixed.
  • Exposure Control: Changing from Standard to High Dynamic Range caused the background colors to change. This is fixed.
  • Properties: The Light page did not properly display a vertical scroll bar. This is fixed.
  • Render settings not imported: When importing from Rhinoceros 3.0 with Flamingo 1.1 a  file created with Rhinoceros 2.0 with Flamingo 1.0 render settings are not translated. This is fixed.
  • When Soft Shadows were enabled the Properties Source Radius box is present but was unavailable. This is fixed.


What's New - Flamingo 1.1 SR2 ( 6-June-2003)

The default light was not used by Flamingo. This is fixed.
Soft shadows source radius settings did not set the radius. This is fixed.
The RenderInWindow command is back. It also works in Rhino.
FlamingoTransport could cause a crash. This is fixed.
Flamingo could crash when closing the Decal Properties dialog box. This is fixed.
Decals placed directly on planar objects did not render correctly. This is fixed.
Starting Internet Explorer caused the rendering process to stop. This is fixed.
Installer improved to work correctly when AccuRender materials are the only ones installed on the computer.
Decals and Waves property pages were displayed twice. This is fixed.
Units settings for material mapping were not correctly set. This is fixed.
Closing the Flamingo Options page crashed Rhino. This is fixed.
The material preview cube size did not reflect current model units. This is fixed.
The Object Properties Flamingo material assignment was not saved. This is fixed.
The Photometric menu Exposure control was not activated. This is fixed.
The Light Intensity property did not affect the light. This is fixed.
The Flamingo beta incorrectly requred that Flamingo 1.0 be installed. This is fixed.
Ground cover can now be placed on the current construction plane allowing for vertical placement.
On the Light properties page, the IES browse button and edit box were disabled. This is fixed.
Scripting the environment background did not work. This is fixed.
When Flamingo is the current renderer, the Properties dialog did not allow changing the Flamingo properties of multiple objects. This is fixed.
Pasting, inserting, or referencing a model would clear the environment settings. This is fixed.
Flamingo Properties were not scriptable. This is fixed.
Radiosity warning did not display. This is fixed.
Flamingo incorrectly rendered hidden objects. This is fixed.
Plants copied with the Copy command did not render. This is fixed.
The ability to close the Options dialog box while setting the Base Folder caused the base folder settings to not be saved. This is fixed.

What's New - Flamingo 1.1 SR1 ( 6-March-2003)

When a radiosity solution exists the model is saved, checking the "Don't ask this question again" check box is not rememberd; the box returns each time I save. This is now fixed.
Spotlight jitter settings for soft shadows changed by one value (40 became 39). This is now fixed.
Spotlight source radius size for soft shadows wasn't being used in the rendering. This is now fixed.
Spotlight intensity settings were ignored. This is now fixed.
Flamingo locked up when editing materials assigned by layer. This is now fixed.
Assigning Flamingo materials using -Properties didn't stick. This is now fixed.
Decals and Waves incorectly were listed twice. This is now fixed.
In FlamingoEnvironment, the 3 color gradient is reversed in the rendering from the preview in the dialog box- Top color in the Preview renders at the bottom, Bottom color at the top. This is now fixed.

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