New version is amazing, a banquet of new features! I was stunned by how much was added to the previous version, but is this the most featured update yet?
I have yet to gain full understanding of how the hybrid system works, but I'm catching on faster than with the 1.x versions and liking it. The material editor is very good, I have been experimenting with textures with some success. A lot of ideas building. I think your 3 point placement would work, then it's down to the photoshopper's finesse to make it work. As potent a method as hybrids.
It would be cool to see glow in the material editor, so primitives can be without the volumetric glow. Is that possible?
I keep getting grey patches when using transparency, even with spheres etc. Maybe I don't yet understand what I'm looking at.
There are two functions lacking, the only things keeping me from migrating completely to v2: one is the lack of PNG+alpha saved from keyframe animation. The other is minimum iteration. Both of them are required to make flame fractal animations - by the way these look epic in 3D. Here is an example.
https://scontent.fakl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12829115_10153585879029926_8868523938067441143_o.jpgAnd here's a pic I made just now, using luminosity mapping for the fractal and diffusion and displacement mapping for the sphere. Nom nom nom.
https://scontent.fakl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13680237_10153885115579926_2930260561985397146_o.jpgEDIT - how about distance threshold detail level per material? Or per formula. I've just discovered boolean... oh my. Yet another dream realised, thank you.
I would like to see accurate light ray behaviour with transparent and reflective materials, so materials act well as lenses and mirrors for moving lights. How cool would it be to use prisms in a scene.
Also a "virtual projector" would add huge value. A lot of ideas I have can be solved using luminosity maps, but currently it would be very difficult to recreate a scene where a projector shines an image on a group of objects.
Should I keep adding to my wishlist in the feature requests?