Piranesi

Piranesi excels at turning your conceptual 3D models into wonderfully atmospheric, stylised and (most importantly) persuasive visualizations, with a whole host of effects to allow you to focus the eye and the attention to the key elements of your design.

Piranesi can deliver both photorealistic and non-photorealistic renders of your fully-detailed images either for marketing use, planning applications or even award submissions.

• Generate artist's impressions in a fraction of the time of traditional illustration production
• Comprehensive range of tools, filters and effects
• Puts visualizing power on your desk, giving you complete control of impression look and feel
• No conventional drawing or artistic ability required - comes complete with extensive range of multifills and effects
• Style recorder means that revised plans can mean revised impression in a matter of minutes
• Low cost licensing: single user and concurrent user models

• shadow generation is much faster
• stop flickering in settings window while importing cutouts
• avoid possible pause when tweaking or moving a cutout

• 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
• possible crash using Tweak Cutout contextual menu on Mountain Lion

• style recorder "delete" menu now deletes selected styles, not all of them
• style recorder "save" menu now saves selected styles, not all of them
• possible crash when pasting a style with non-ASCII characters in its name
• blend and opacity controls are available for Layer Blend command style
• 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

• don't let "delete" button delete all layers
• resize layer list when Layer Manager window is resized
• possible crash if EPix file changed or closed with Layer Manager hidden
• change of layer visibility is undone as a separate step from painting
• in some cases, drawing was not updated correctly after moving a layer

• 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

• update drawing correctly after Undo when painting on a transparent background
• soft brush stamps now blend with each other when using dynamic colour spread
• 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".

• improve colour lock in transparent area
• allow non-ASCII characters in colour names in colour palette files
• hide Vedute windows when switching to another application
• show Navigate window contents when it is tabbed with another window
• fix reading of multibyte text from Piranesi 5 EPix file