Sweet Home 3D

What's new in this version:

Added:
- YafaRay rendering engine with the ability to choose the rendering engine in photo and video creation tools at the two best quality levels (not available for Java Web Start and applets)
- lightSourceMaterialName# property to define materials of a 3D model used as light sources (with light color deduced from material color and the ability to create an invisible light source when its material is invisible)
- a button in the toolbar to enable/disable magnetism
- the ability to select materials with the mouse in the 3D preview in Material modification dialog box
- diagonal editing in the room creation tool tip to draw rooms by triangulation
- Inch/Fraction unit which displays lengths in inches followed by the closest eighth inch fraction
- Foot/Decimals unit which displays lengths in feet followed by decimals of a foot
- Hide model edges option at second step of Furniture import wizard to hide easily edges of 3D models at DAE / Collada format (option displayed only when useful)
- new prefixes for shape names of a 3D model to specify the possible moves of shapes attached to other movable shapes
- sky image mirror at bottom of background image to avoid possible line at the horizon in renderings at best quality levels
- Flat ceiling only check box to room modification pane to compute sloping ceilings when necessary
- com.eteks.sweethome3d.checkUpdates system property and /checkUpdatesDisabled argument to Windows installer to prevent from following updates
- the ability to display animated GIF icons in catalog tool tips
- support for controller / skin elements in DAE format to be able to import 3D models exported from MakeHuman software

Fixed:
- room floors and ceilings drawing order
- nodes hierarchy in 3DS format management
- default color of effect in DAE format
- too small fonts under Windows 11 with a HiDPI screen
- Handled the user interface of 3D model transformations in Sweet Home 3D JS Online
- Updated Italian translation including help by Vincenzo Reale
- Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements

- Allowed decimals in Light power spinner
- Made the dialog boxes of photo and video creation tools resizable
- Displayed the virtual visitor with a camera symbol at a fixed size when the virtual visitor gets too small in the plan
- Moved menu items handling levels in the Levels submenu to reduce Plan menu length
- Handled more orientation and zoom capabilities on 3D models at last step of Furniture import wizard to get better icons
- Computed the front limit of the 3D view frustrum according to the point of view elevation to improve the rendering of very large scenes seen from a high point of view
- Increased the divider size of split panes under Windows