5.950 - Material Search, Shader Selection, and Surface Analysis

Announcements
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Find materials faster, inspect surfaces with new options, and control lighting in your scenes.

  • New: Now you can search for materials in Visualization by name, type, or finish to quickly locate the right one.

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  • New: Choose between Shaded (Alt+S / Option+S) and Visualized (Alt+V / Option+V) shader options to control how your model’s surfaces are displayed for inspection.

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  • New: Use the Curvature Map option to analyze surface continuity and Gaussian curvature directly on your model.

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  • New: The light in Visualization Environments can now be adjusted by altitude, giving you more control over scene lighting.

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Try these features and share your feedback in the comments below.

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If it’s not possible to shine light onto objects at least let us turn the shadow off from light.

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For us noobs, what information does us the Gaussian Surface analysis give? I see the dolors, the relation of them, but what do I know based on it?

Thanks!

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Kind of disappointing that there is no official response to your question. Seems to be a pattern here.