New one I mean of course :D

I do not have it yet, so am curious what your having the most fun with.

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Hard to pick just one but - Eco painting in all 4 viewports....

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Eco painting is perhaps the best, so I'll go with GIll' :)
still wish we could put a picture behind every view to help with painting ("show last render") least we can do it in main view

the new water is sweet.

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I like the new water but tit takes too long to render for my patience threshold !

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Gill
water always has been slow to render :(
however, it does seem to render faster when it's apllied as a cube not a plane, for pools lakes etc. forgot who discovered that tip :)

hm maybe turning off SHOW CAUSTICS in material, would help provided water is choppy enough to hide lack of caustics?

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Well, I have 7complete not infinite, but these features are included in complete too.
The new spectral 2 clouds were promising and are wonderful. A bit slow but well worth it.
Painting in all 4 windows is a pleasure but I couldnt use it properly because of the bug that 'undo' makes the eco disappear. I dont mind re-populating but re-painting is too much. This  bug is now supposedly fixed but I have no time to implement and test at the moment - real painting(watercolor) week now.
The new water is disappointing so far - I was looking forwards to choppy/stormy seas but when the camera is close to the water I get weird sharp lines. Quite likely that I havnt learned how to use  it well yet.

I'm looking forward to the new features in 7.4 like painting material distributions on terrains.Sky preview with clouds would be nice too but that's only promised for inf :(

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water always has been slow to render :(
however, it does seem to render faster when it's apllied as a cube not a plane, for pools lakes etc. forgot who discovered that tip :)

hm maybe turning off SHOW CAUSTICS in material, would help provided water is choppy enough to hide lack of caustics?

I usually use a cube - but the new 'water editor' doesn't work on that - has to be a water plane so I hardly use it

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It is possible to use a cube with the new water. You cant use the water editor but you can do anything the water editor does by using the function editor instead. In this quick test I did the following: 1. Made a terrain with a space for a lake. 2. Made a cube and positioned it where the lake is supposed to be. 3. Edited the cube's material and assigned the default water from the 'meta waters' section. 4. edited the 'foam' layer in the function editor. Clicked on the meta node and then modified the parameters controlling wave and coast foam. (well, I dont really have waves in this example) 5. To change the waves/agitation etc the 'default water' layer needs to be edited - I didnt do it for this image. I did try to set the displacement on but that crashed vue :( Perhaps Infinite wont crash with the displacement on. It does work as can be seen particularly from the coast foam. So - possible to use on a cube (or anything else for that matter).

I dont like the sharp edge between the water and the coast though...

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 I like the new radiosity render engine in Vue 7.

 

The new clouds.

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For me also the eco-painting in all 4 viewports.
It makes life a bit more easy :-)

 

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What has changed about the fractal terrains ?

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They're infinite now.
They have new nodes that let you create materials in a new way..
The new terrain fractal node creates wonderful terrains.

Ah yes, I knew about the infinite terrains, but dont know anything about the new nodes. Always nice to have new nodes :D

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Check the stock infinite terrains, most (if not all) of them use the new terrain fractal node.

I'm split between the new clouds and the faster rendering.  I love all the new features.

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Of all the features there is a combination of two that I like best... Infinite procedural terrain and dynamic population of ecosystems.

The make creating grand vistas quick and easy.

Throw in the new water and spectral atmospheres and I'm just a happy bunny.

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