Saturday, August 14, 2010

3D Graphics: Sweet Home 3D 2.4

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.

In ver 2.4:

  • Added DAE/Collada format to the file formats supported by furniture import wizard, to be able to import the 3D models proposed on Google 3D Warehouse.
  • Added support for transparency in PNG/GIF images applied as texture to 3D models.
  • Displayed the lines defined in OBJ and DAE files.
  • Fixed 3D rendering to ensure OBJ files created from the exportation of the 3D view keep the same look when imported.
  • Modulated texture illumination according to light brightness (caution, this may change the brightness of images displayed in existing SH3D files).
  • Fixed a bug that moved out of center some imported 3DS models.
  • Fixed a bug that made an imported OBJ file lose its colors when its name contained non ASCII letters.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented overlapping floors from being correctly displayed.
  • Fixed a bug that didn’t restore correctly the saved location of view splitters for maximized windows.
  • Optimized memory used by 3D models.
  • Modified installation process of Sweet Home 3D with Java Web Start to display the security dialog earlier.
  • Added furnitureResourcesURLBase and texturesResourcesURLBase parameters to Sweet Home 3D applet to simplify the deployment of furniture and textures catalogs on other servers.
  • Replaced JRE 6u18 by JRE 6u20 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
  • Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Get Sweet Home 3D 2.4 [>>]

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