Krakatoa 1.6.80.45001 Posted - July 21, 2011

Here’s beta 1 for Krakatoa 2.0! Enjoy!

Feature and bugfix lists will be forthcoming.

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I’m sure Bobo is just itching to post a big giant list of features. If not I’ll whip one up tomorrow. He’s far more thorough about this stuff than I am.

Here’s a few things I’m most pumped about:

  • Krakatoa Atmospheric for rendering Krakatoa particles as voxels inside other renderers, fully supporting reflections and shadows, and perfect compositing
  • PRT Hair! Takes splines and puts particles on them.
  • Performance optimizations: Loading prt files should be somewhat faster, especially off of SSDs or FusionIO cards. Even better, partitions are loaded in parallel on multi-core machines to maximize throughput.

That list is by no means exhaustive. Just a small sampling of things we’re cooking up for you.