Ac3d 7.2.17 Mac Download UPDATED

Ac3d 7.2.17 Mac Download

Highlights

New User Unterface

Still with AC3D'due south famed ease-of-use, but with a new, smarter and customizable look that makes your models stand out.
Enhanced Rendering-to-Texture

For texture baking and ambient occlusion rendering

Choose what gets rendered with locking and hiding
New Material Editor and upgraded AC3D file format

Add together text/comments to named materials
Mac version – ported to Cocoa

Drag and drop model files into AC3D

drop textures from the Finder straight onto an object

New User Interface

Choose your style

Alter the font, and AC3D automatically resizes the UI to suit it.

Prepare the UI colors to suit your own manner. Choose a subtle UI setup or go completely crazy !

Go to menu File->Settings->UI

(uses the fonts installed on your organisation)

Maximize your space

Open up upwards the control panel sections yous utilize the near oft and AC3D volition automatically reconfigure the infinite.

Reorder the gadgets

Elevate the divider to partitioning the Control-Console.

Little helpers

In-field calculations

Finished with a dialog window? press "ESC" on the keyboard to close it.

Motorcar-repeat – concord downwards the mouse to echo the role due east.thousand. these in the TCE.

Swap Eye and Right mouse button functions (pan, zoom) in view windows – File->Settings->General

Enhanced Render-to-texture

The powerful Render-To-Texture Tool, handy for texture baking and creating rendered textures using ambient occlusion has been enhanced to have account of locked and hidden objects.

Now in that location's no need to render a whole scene. Hidden objects are ignored and locked objects are treated equally in-scene but are not rendered to.

Popup tool-tips have been added to the controls so you can see a detailed description of what each setting does. At that place are too some additional hints and tips bachelor – hover the mouse over 'Troubleshooting'.

This release comes with sample scene files so you can check out the texture mapping on the objects to see just what is needed to create your own nicely texture-rendered models.

New Textile Editor and upgraded AC3D file format

The new version of the AC3D file format includes multiline materials that can have text included (in the aforementioned style that objects tin have text fastened).

To enable saving of the new format and editing of the new material data, the setting below must be enabled (File->Settings).

Notation that by default, this setting is OFF and AC3D viii will save V11 (0xb) files but in future versions of AC3D, the default will be V12.

The .ac file format is widely supported so for total compatibility for sending .air conditioning files to others, and until other developers have updated their AC3D file loaders, you may want to ensure that "Export AC3D v12 file" is not selected.

New included models

Along with the Render-to-texture examples, yous'll also find the following in the models binder with this release (textures included).

Drakelot'southward spider figure

TBD's Normandy Transport

Other changes

Orth Windows are now referred to as second.

Some of the texture-related plugins take been updated so they now add together a menu detail in a Tools carte du jour within the Texture Coordinate Editor (TCE), rather than on the main Tools menu.

The current view projection (Front/Back/3D etc.) is now set via a pulldown at the top-centre of each view window.

Spider web-browser-manner zooming in views works with Control & +/- keys.

Keyboard focusing is switchable for the views (elevate mouse over or click to focus) Settings->Advance->focus-under-mouse

Edit->select-by-name reacts to return and shift+render to select/de-select

New X-Airplane plugin

AC3D'south popular back up for X-Plane continues with a new version of the X-Airplane plugin.

Using normal-maps in X-Plane? Now you tin can automatically include normal map names in the XPlane .obj files exported from AC3D.

The latest version of the AC3D X-Plane plugin tin export texture normal lines in the exported .obj files– just select the option in X-Plane->Ten-Plane-export-prefs and AC3D volition generate a TEXTURE_NORMAL line in your exported .obj file, with a filename formed from the main texture-proper name but with _normal appended.

To get the new Ten-Airplane plugin for AC3D 8 – come across here

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(Linux version coming soon)

Existing users

AC3D 8 is free if y'all purchased AC3D or upgraded your license within the concluding twelvemonth – just install the new download. To upgrade your license, visit the upgrade center