iToo Software has announced the release of RailClone 5, the latest version of its parametric modelling and layout tool for 3ds Max.
With version 5, several new features have been added that significantly improve RailClone’s potential for scene assembly. For example, until now, RailClone was limited to distributing geometry, but it is now equally able to instance and distribute several types of non-geometrical objects, including lights and VDBs.
Scene optimisation gets a boost in this release with a brand new caching system that allows you to bake a RailClone object. The cached object retains all of the features and efficiency of the regular RailClone object but will have significantly reduced compute times making loading and saving much faster. A second mode allows you to save the cache to an external file that keeps a scene’s file size light. Users can also load the caches into another RailClone object, even in a different scene, for the easy and fast re-use of massive pre-computed assets.
The new version also adds new features for modelling including new banking controls that allow you to twist and corkscrew the geometry around the spline. The angle is controlled by adding and editing visual markers to the spline exactly where they’re needed.
In addition to these new features, RailClone 5 also includes significant improvements to markers, the ability to lock evenly divisions to odd or even values, drop-down parameter lists, improvements to clipping splines, more flexible options for limiting by materials IDs and much more.
For a detailed overview, visit the RailClone 5 page on the iToo Software website. A full changelog of all the features, fixes and improvements can be found in the documentation
Solid Update! Rare company these days with actual improvements while staying away from SAS.
if company have something to offer, they don’t need to force customer with Subscription. we will want to update. otherwise, SAS is a good option for them 🙂
Eh? With iToo products, you don’t receive new versions of their products after one year if you don’t pay maintenance. So it’s essentially a subscription (although not an expensive one, about 75EUR/year including VAT). Granted, you can simply stop paying and using the old version, however most of iToo products are plugins, so you’ll need a new version of the plugin if you want to use it in a new version of your DCC.
So while it’s technically not a subscription service, practically it ends up being one for vast majority of people.
this is the classic support and maintenance model used everywhere.
It’s not a subscription.
If you don’t have cash flow to make the update you can skip it, also they deliver support for several software versions, so you probably can have support for your version, maybe you can keep paying for max, because you are forced too, but you have to decide to stop paying for iToo updates, no problem, you will be able to keep working with the software, and you can keep using your “old” version of max if you don’t want / can’t upgrade.
Rental software FORCES you to update, even if you don’t want, they give you support for up to 3 years older, and that’s it, and you own nothing.
So it’s not a subscription, it’s a proper honest model, iToo is a great company, kudos to them.
Honestly , I dont understand why forest pack is a separate product sometimes. It can be inside railclone, easily.