v2011.0 [Sep 21, 2011]
New Deck Designer:
- Create intricate deck designs with improved options and appearance. Customize deck balusters, railing, skirting, fascia, posts, post caps, and more. Alternately, simply load a pre-designed deck in two clicks using the new "Style" option.
Products from National Brands:
- More than 1200 products from 12 popular companies have been added to Realtime Landscaping Pro, including S.R. Smith pool products, Jerith aluminum fences, Belgard hardscapes, PebbleTec pool finishes, Philips Hadco outdoor lighting, Amarr garage doors, Kichler lighting, Master Tile pool tiles, Noble Tile swimming pool tiles, Eldorado stone and brick veneer, Unilock pavers, and RicoRock swimming pool waterfalls.
New 3D Edge Effect:
- A special effect has been added that causes normally flat regions to appear raised and realistic. For example, grass can now appear to grow several inches high instead of appearing flat when placed next to patio or mulch regions. The 3D Edge Effect appears in both design and walkthrough views, letting you provide a more realistic and inviting landscape design to your clients.
950 New High Resolution Plants:
- Nearly a thousand new high quality plants have been added to Realtime Landscaping Pro. These plants were taken from many different regions around the United States and Japan, providing even more variety to the already staggering plant database and bringing the total number of plants to 5,000.
New Panel Fence Tool:
- A new tool has been added to create highly detailed metal and vinyl fences.
New Options for Creating Custom Plants:
- Custom plants are easier than ever to create with the ability to quickly re-name the common and botanical name of any selected plant as needed. Additionally, each plant now has a button shortcut to the Plant Creation Wizard, which is used to save a plant using custom plant data.
Enhanced Movie Creation System:
- Creating movies in Realtime Landscaping Pro is now faster, easier, and higher quality than ever! Videos of your Realtime Walkthroughs can now be created in the WMV format with enhanced compression options that allow for movies to be created quickley while taking up less space. Additionally, support for uploading to YouTube has been added. When your movie is completed, simply click the "Upload to YouTube" button and follow the instructions.
Improved User Interface:
- The look and feel of our Realtime Landscaping software has been improved with a new user interface. We combined the style and appearance of the "ribbon" interface that is used in many modern applications with the functionality and ease of use of our "tab based" interface. The result is an interface that is both easier to use and better looking than anything we had previously seen.
Improved Shadows and Lighting:
- When viewing your landscape through a Realtime Walkthrough, or when creating a movie, shadows and lighting will now appear even more realistic by default. However, you can now take it even one step further by enabling "Ray Tracing" on landscape lights for ultra-realistic night scenes.
Improved Water Quality:
- The water of ponds and swimming pools has been vastly improved to provide an unprecedented level of realism to your movies and walkthroughs.
- When enabled, improved water now features reflections and refractions in combination with real 3D ripples. The pool finish will shimmer below the surface and the reflections of plants will dance across the water.
- With the addition of an "Add Water Ripples" option, both rippling and serene water can be simulated without adding waterfalls or fountains.
New Swimming Pool and Spa Designer:
- The tools used to create swimming pools and spas have been vastly improved, and are now faster, easier to use, and more visually appealing. Swimming pools no longer require pool decking to be elevated, spas can be easily placed inside swimming pools without regard to pool decking, pool coping has been enhanced in several different ways, and the swimming pool accessory library has been expanded.
Many Other Improvements:
- Many other additions and changes have been implemented based off of customer suggestions and comments, such as enhanced Realtime Camera functionality, improved Path Grader behavior, enhanced retaining wall caps, and much more.
v2.0 [Apr 22, 2008]
New Perspective Matching feature lets you design your landscape directly on top of a photograph
