Piranesi 6 Pro

Piranesi® is our award-winning 3D painting tool that will transform your models to win more business. Turn your plain conceptual 3D models into atmospheric, stylised and persuasive visualisations.

Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.3)

Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.3) is an upgrade to Piranesi 6 Pro and Piranesi 2010 Pro.

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

Ensure you have your Piranesi 6 Pro (or 2010 Pro) licence details to hand. The licensing system has changed and you will be asked to enter your licence again. You need:

your licence key. Help/About/Licence Details shows this as "Reference"

your activation code: this will be used for the Validation code

the expiry date, if any

If you have lost this information, please contact us and we will try to help.

If you have Piranesi 2010 Pro, this upgrade will replace it. Keep your Piranesi 2010 Pro "Style Libaries" folder for use with styles.

AFTER YOU UPGRADE

On Mac, please install the Piranesi Data again after upgrading. The data installer is available from the download page sent with your purchase.

Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.3) ReadMe

Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.3) is a maintenance release of Piranesi from Informatix Inc.

Styles

After running the Piranesi Program installer, you may see styles are marked "Retail" that cannot be used, or you may see a message asking you to search for a file.

These extra styles are provided when you purchase Piranesi. They are unlocked when you enter your licence and run the Piranesi Data installer.

Windows 8

On Windows 8, the Piranesi Data installer may show a warning from Windows SmartScreen because the file is not recognised. To continue with the installation, click on "More info" to run the installer.

New in Piranesi 6 Pro (v6.0.3):

Changes in this version include:

PERFORMANCE

shadow generation is much faster

stop flickering in settings window while importing cutouts

avoid possible pause when tweaking or moving a cutout

CUTOUTS

in rare cases, a cutout could be drawn in front of the model when it was placed behind it

after deleting a cutout from a cutout group, remaining cutouts were duplicated

possible crash when deleting cutouts

possible crash when tweaking a 3D cutout

(Mac) possible crash using Tweak Cutout contextual menu on Mountain Lion

STYLES

(Mac) style recorder "delete" menu now deletes selected styles, not all of them

(Mac) style recorder "save" menu now saves selected styles, not all of them

(Mac) possible crash when pasting a style with non-ASCII characters in its name

(Mac) blend and opacity controls are available for Layer Blend command style

(Mac) display image from thumbnail file if the style has one

possible crash in drag-and-drop with nested categories, and don't flatten categories

after style recording has stopped, recorded styles are not changed by undo/redo

(Windows) show single icon in style recorder for repeated strokes with the same settings

LAYERS

(Mac) don't let "delete" button delete all layers

(Mac) resize layer list when Layer Manager window is resized

(Mac) possible crash if EPix file changed or closed with Layer Manager hidden

(Windows) allow return key to apply new layer blend amount

change of layer visibility is undone as a separate step from painting

in some cases, drawing was not updated correctly after moving a layer

FILE FORMAT SUPPORT

support for AutoCAD 2013 DWG in Vedute and as Cutouts

in File/Export, update width or height in step when keeping aspect ratio

Vedute and Cutouts improve DXF reader compatibility with older versions

File/Export of PSD could use duplicate layer IDs

Vedute and Cutouts improved 3DS support

DRAWING

update drawing correctly after Undo when painting on a transparent background

soft brush stamps now blend with each other when using dynamic colour spread

(Mac) improve lock highlighting responsiveness on Mountain Lion

fix blending of soft brushes on transparent background, to avoid hard edges

option to use PDF 1.7 blending for darken, lighten, soft light, colour, hue, lightness, and saturation blend modes for compatibility with other applications. To use this, goto Edit/Preferences and uncheck "Blend modes compatible with Piranesi V5".

OTHER

improve colour lock in transparent area

allow non-ASCII characters in colour names in colour palette files

(Mac) hide Vedute windows when switching to another application

(Mac) show Navigate window contents when it is tabbed with another window

(Mac) fix reading of multibyte text from Piranesi 5 EPix file

(Windows) improve behaviour of double-click on EPix file to start Piranesi

(Windows) with more than one file open, clicking title bar would maximize window

(Windows) alpha symbol is shown on preview image for textures with alpha

(Windows) Tools and Locks toolbars now work in rectangular layout