After a long wait, FPrime 3.5 has been released. Includes support for more nodes, surface and object selection within the Interactive Previewer, speed improvements, the new light types in LightWave 9.6 and now previews HyperVoxels!

All in all, a fantastic FREE update for all 3.0 owners.

Way to go Worley!

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New Features

• Free update for owners of FPrime 3.
• Support for Mac UB.
• Support for HyperVoxels in interactive preview mode (requires LW 9.6)
• Support for LW's new custom light types (requires LW 9.6). FPrime now renders Dome, Spherical and Photometric lights in both interactive and render modes. 4th party light types may work but are not officially supported.
• Support for Unpremultiplied RGB output in FPrime Render mode. Alpha Format must be set to Umpremultiply Alpha in the Render Globals->Output panel.
• Many efficiency improvements, especially for 4 and 8 core rendering.
• Support for surface and object picking in the FPrime Preview window.(requires LW 9.5 or greater). Left click a pixel to select a surface. Use middle button to select objects. An additional XRAY option is enabled by holding down the shift key while clicking. This allows you to select the surface or object behind the surface or object that you clicked on.
• Improved Node support for latest versions of LW. The LW SDK does not support Precomputed Nodes for 3rd party renderers, so FPrime cannot support Fast Skin, Occlusion II, Sigma 2, SSS or SSS 2 nodes.

Known LightWave Issues

• LightWave UB has severe efficiency problems during multithreaded SDK queries. Because of this, FPrime UB currently supports only 2 cores on Mac UB. Newtek is working on this issue now for the next update to LW 9.6.
• LW does not emit notifications for non-numeric values in HyperVoxels panels. This means that many changes to HV settings will require pressing the FPrime refresh button in order for the changes to be seen in FPrime.