Piranesi can be used to provide a very light touch to existing fully textured renders; this image by Akiba Design, Japan, is a good example of a scene not attempting to be photorealistic. This in turn helps the client to imagine the final project and encourage more feedback and involvement in the design process. To view the full size image, click here.
Release Notes
This new version 5.1 of Piranesi has been designed to make Piranesi easier to learn and to enable you to produce better looking renderings as quickly as possible.
With the addition of new free entourage, Piranesi 5.1 is the ideal tool for rapidly creating conceptual and final presentation renders for your clients.
With the addition of new free entourage, Piranesi 5.1 is the ideal tool for rapidly creating conceptual and final presentation renders for your clients.
Key features:
- New Lock Highlighting to show which items will be painted when using locks
- Link to Google® 3D Warehouse so you can browse for models and select them as a Piranesi cutout
- Cutouts are now shown as true images, not just an outline, and are hidden as you move the cursor behind scenery
- New Colour palette which increases the number of colours available, and lets you load and save palette files from Piranesi and other applications
- Improved workflow from Autodesk Revit® using FBX format files
- Style recording now records strokes, as well as styles, so you can replay brush strokes
- New fill option with the Pencil tool to fill closed shapes such as circles and rectangles, with the current colour
- Style libraries on Windows are now saved in XML format which is interchangeable between Mac and Windows
- Ability to list the contents of a style library to a text file
- New 'Burn in cutouts' command style for use in a Multiple Fill sequence
- Ability to change the background thumbnail colour for cutouts and text
- The Navigate window is now a separate palette which can be displayed at any time
- Photoshop® (PSD) files are now supported for cutouts and file import
- New 'command file' facility to automate a series of operations
- Vedute reads lights from 3DS, DXF, SKP, MAN, and FBX files
Minimum system requirements for Piranesi 5.1
Windows®
Microsoft® Windows XP or Windows Vista™
1024 x 768 resolution colour monitor displaying at least 65,000 colours
Microsoft® Windows XP or Windows Vista™
1024 x 768 resolution colour monitor displaying at least 65,000 colours
Macintosh®
Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later
