KeyShot 8.2 Release Notes

Version: 8.2.80
Release Date: February 11th. 2019.

New Features

• Support for native import of Autodesk Revit 2019 files.
• Ability to Pause offline rendering.
• Vertical orientation for Presentation Mode.
• Ability to right-click on Animation Timeline ruler to set Work Area Start/End.
• Added Shift as a modifier key to add a material as a sub-material when drag-and-drop into the real-time view.
• Added Styling parameters to layout section of the Configurator Wizard.
• Network Rendering Master and Slave support for Linux.
• Silent Installation for Network Rendering on Mac.

Updates

• Updated SolidWorks importer to support SolidWorks 2019.
• Updated KeyShot Viewer Splash to 2019.
• Updated all splash screens with 2019 for 8.2.
• Updated Cloud Library with 64x visual studio 2013 redistributable package.

Improvements

• Added tooltips for Scattering Medium material.
• Added handle to Animation Timeline current time indicator line.
• Added hover state to Animation Timeline work area flags.
• Changed thumbnail size order in Configurator Wizard Layout section.
• Improved thumbnail sizes and margins in Presentation Mode.
• Now always calculating missing normals upon Import.
• Now uninstalling old (major) versions of KeyShot Viewer on update.
• UI improvements to KeyShot Viewer preferences
• Link Duplicate Materials message now showing when drag-and-drop onto the materials list or scene tree

Noteworthy Bug Fixes

• Geometry nodes were incorrectly executed when copy-pasting other materials in the scene.
• Environment switched back to startup when saving ksp of scene.
• Fixed crash with environment change after drag-and-drop an hdr or exr texture.
• Scrollbar blocked lock icons in Library>Colors.
• Scale reference geometry when imported into unit scene.
• ALT+Scroll wheel now correctly controls the perspective slider.
• Fixed inconsistency of locked list item icon color.
• Auto adjust width of material icons of Material Library to minimize right space waste.
• Strip labels from materials when dragging label-materials to label list.
• Disabling Frames Output in animation render grayed out the format, but it still used that format for the rendering.
• KeyShot failed to render Scenes with Studios containing model sets.
• Drag-and-drop Environment caused incorrect scaling.
• KeyShot crashed if the scripting console is opened with an install path containing special characters.
• Creo View Importer: cannot not import any type of Creo View files.
• Camera switch during an FBX animation caused KeyShot to crash.
• Importing two bips into the same scene caused crash when adding to queue or saving the scene as a bip.
• Setting up a XR on Mac locked the real-time view with XR settings.
• Crash when entering negative values as "Max Triangles" on the displacement node.
• Thumbnail names in older configurator scenes were cut off and blended with background.
• Mac application freeze when pressing "don't save" upon saving with camera in unsaved state and GPU effects off.
• Geometry Nodes get discarded when dragging and dropping a Library Material into a Multi-Material.
• Rendering material preview was triggered too often.
• Show only on an animation folder hid all animations.
• Cloud Library did not respect Workspaces.
• Re-enabled older maya versions in Mac Importer.
• Luxion License server would attempt to always fix top hostname, didn't work for triad setups.
• Queue thumbnails were not correct.
• Could not add ground plane to scene.
• Multi-Material had corrupt Sub-Materials.
• .fbx export with diffuse UV mapped texture was mapped incorrectly.
• fbx import was missing diffuse textures.
• PSD 16 bit frame output defaulted to jpg extension.
• 'Assign materials from Library' did not assign materials correctly
• Copy pasting groups would add the group to root level if multiple model sets are active.
• Could not tell which is the active studio when opening a configurator.
• Make Pattern Order by Alpha-Numeric didn't work.
• Russian was not available in the language drop down in the network Configurator.
• Now correctly deactivating Performance Mode ribbon button when lighting settings are changed.
• Every second update Cinema 4d plugin resulted in incorrect animations.
• Undo did not restore label size values.
• "Path" was ignored when rendering in the background via scripting.
• Fixed scene-specific crash when importing one .bip into another.
• Fusion 360 hidden objects were not hidden on import.
• Fixed error when importing CREO file with FRA animation.
• Using location property for color gradient texture now updates real-time view correctly.
• List covered buttons in split object surfaces.
• Now possible to use shift+arrow keys to select text on Mac.
• Replacing and existing label no longer resets the with-to-height ratio.
• Fixed crash when editing time in animation wizard if multi-selected animation in timeline.
• Fixed rash when switching animation type in animation wizard.
• 32 Bit PSDs showed as thumbnails in the Material Graph but were not visible in the real-time view.
• Drag and dropping the same texture twice caused unexpected behavior. 
• Real-time View did not update with changes to Animation Properties.
• Moving high resolution PNG files with High DPI support enabled displayed a lag.
• Selection outline was incorrect for some geometry on Windows.
• 'Copy to model set' did not update the scene tree.
• Importing a Cube removed Group Levels if "add to group" was used to move a group.
• Removing a multi-material from a material set did not work in the configurator.
• Linking duplicate materials did not always work.
• Right click on material to upload to cloud did not show login dialogue if not logged in.
• Right click on multi-material in in-project material list no longer shows "create multi material".
• When selecting floating license type the cancel option closed KeyShot. 
• Multi-material changed name if a KeyShot 7 file is opened in KeyShot 8.
• "would you like to restart" dialog was shown twice for resource folder changes.
• Fixed crash on rendering for very large resolutions with disabled graphics effects.
• Apply bump to labels was not working when used with shared surface node on multiple sub-materials.
• KeyShotXR Animation - Time range settings did not function.
• Work area duration and frames got set to entire duration values on scene updates. 
• HD license on Mac was not possible to render.
• 'Change floating server' dialogue read information from currently connected server before reading the registry key.
• Reordering of model set, removed a model set.
• KeyShotXR touchscreen did not work using Firefox or Microsoft Edge.
• When activating Animation Wizard, animation type window appeared on 2nd screen.
• Window position for deactivation during uninstall was incorrect.
• Fixed issue with 1fps animation output.
• Could not drag and drop models onto Model Sets in the sidebar to copy.
• Duplicate materials were not linked if on different Model Sets.
• it was possible to enter negative values in the Flakes node settings.
• Control point IDs were incorrect after deleting a control point.
• In high DPI mode the HMD Viewer window was not filled.

• Now setting the correct original path for remapping textures when saving a .ksp.

• Fixed crash when importing .bip in certain cases when selection outline is shown.
• Fix to encode video script to include absolute path.
• Fixed crash when deleting specific Material Way on Mac.
• Fixed crash when double-clicking on Welcome Window on Mac.
• Fixed colors on exported STL models.

Network Rendering

• Remove NR launch daemons in macOS installation pre step.
• Remove privileged requirement for NR slaves and master.
• Remove /tmp/KSNR8_SLAVE_SERVER in post-install step for NR.
• Create setting in NR for toggling whether it should use system proxy or not (only via the settings file directly).
• Ask to complete/abort active tasks when pausing job via Monitor.
• Prompt user on task completion when worker is set to pause.
• Keep sending Progress updates for inactive slaves.
• Added confirmation message on Successful setting import in the KSNR configurator.
• Made "Setup" part of Preparing Slave Status.
• Scattering media scene causes windows NR slave to crash.
• Network rendering Monitor shuts down on ubuntu 18 when logging in.
• NR slaves will got stuck at "sending results" state when rendering a job with more than 5 files.
• "Could not uninstall Service"" error on ubuntu 18.
• Running watchdogs and slave tray as logged-in user installing them.
• Multiple "User Account control" pop ups during uninstall of KSNR on windows.
• The Slave Tray shut down if the Slave is set to Paused.
• Linux slaves did not handle Unicode characters.
• Terminating watchdogs before killing processes and uninstall after.
• Running Configurator button on Linux Network Rendering did not have permission to run.
• The master service now takes Cores that are checked out by an other master into account (FlexLM).
• Fixed white square in slave schedule manager.
• Network monitor now cleans up correctly when Logging out.
• No longer failing slaves when pausing via monitor or slave tray.
• Fix for issue when submitting and deleting jobs quickly caused master to not process jobs.
• Fix for jobs that got stuck on "pausing" state when currently rendering slave was paused.
• Fix for issue in which "used cores" was not order properly.