Brazil 2.0 for Rhino - Beta 16

Free Public Beta 16 of Brazil r/s 2.0 for Rhino is now available to everyone for download. Many bug fixes and these new features:

• Context Help button added to Content Editor for contents that support help.
• After rendering, the focus returns to the Rhino command line.
• Improved auto-resizing and auto-zooming of the render frame.
• Output size options reorganized; Aspect Lock and 'Viewport' buttons added.
• Light properties dialog is selected by default when a light is selected.
• Brazil output size defaults to Custom (640x480) on new models (or models without Brazil data).
• Implemented custom material for render pass control.
• Added luminance output to texture shader (allows greyscale output from textures in Brazil).
• Added channel selector combo box for subnode properties.
• Added automatic conversion of float shader output to color input (for shaders with float output channels).
• Content Editor thumbnail labels are now editable and the 'Rename' command edits the name in-place.
• List display mode added to Content Editors.
• Added controls to Brazil environment options to render selected environment or edit current.
• Improvements to material editor rendering.
• Added Photon support to the PassThrough shader.
• Help buttons added to each Brazil main option section.
• Help buttons added to Advanced Material, Glass, Chrome, Toon, and Utility UIs.
• Help buttons added to light UI.
• Hand cursor for scrolling in collapsible dialogs improved.
• Added 'Tools' menu to Content Editor.
• Added 'Edit Defaults' command under Tools menu.

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Brazil r/s 2.0 for Rhino updated

Free Public Beta 15 of Brazil r/s 2.0 for Rhino is now available to everyone for download.

Features:

• Added Brazil Placeholder Texture to allow Brazil materials to be used as children of RDK textures and materials.
• Added Fresnel blend material.
• Added Brazil Advanced Blend material.
• Brazil Shellac material now supports texturing on the blend amount.
• 'Change' button added to Advanced Environment atmospherics UI.
• Content Editor does not appear when unsupported renderer is loaded. - New version of Brazil help included.
• User interfaces made for Brazil shaders: Normal Map, Invert, Pass Through, Greyscale, Brightness, Contrast Back Face, Fresnel Blend, Tint, Angular Blend and World Angular Blend.
• New version of Brazil help included.
• Rhinoscripting support added to RDK and Brazil (see Wiki docs)
• 'Viewport to render' settings added to view section.

Bug Fixes:

• Light exclude list dialog contained lights.
• Skin bump did not work.
• Several values were specified in feet instead of Rhino units.
• Several edit boxes were not wide enough to comfortably accomodate large numbers.
• Light Affect Surface specular and diffuse checkboxes did not switch off the effects.
• Texture adjustment texture did not work correctly with High Dynamic Range data.
• Many BAM/Toon materials in a file caused Windows to run out of handles.
• Composite environment/Advanced Environment caused HDRi images to burn out GI.
• Global wrapper environment caused HDRi images to burn out GI.
• Bump amounts could not be set to negative values.
• Decal dialog sometimes appeared too far down when scroll bar was present.
• Gradient environments and world angular blend had zero elevation artifacts.

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Brazil r/s 2.0 Beta 13a Now Available

Dozens of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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Brazil r/s 2.0 Beta 12 Now Available

Dozens of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

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