Hi,
I'm happy to present you the first public beta version of Sweet Home 3D 4.2 that you can test with Java Web Start. This Java Web Start version works under Windows, under Ubuntu with IcedTea Java, but still not under Mac OS X (but I have god hopes that it will work for final release).
Even if it probably won't bring any change in the user interface, I will still add some long awaited internal features. The first one is the support for non rectangular doors and windows:
As the previous image shows, this includes support for various shapes (even the most weird ones), superimposed windows, slopping walls and textures. By default, the shape of doors and windows is guessed from the contour of the 3D model of the door or window, but it can be also any shape described with the new doorOrWindowCutOutShape furniture catalog property. The default catalog counts 4 new items: a round door frame, a round window, an half round window and a triangle window.
This new feature will work only when the door or window is parallel to the wall and thus, won't work for round walls. In that case, the surface around it will remain empty as in previous versions.
Note also that the surrounding rectangle of such doors and windows shouldn't overlap an other one as shown in the following image:
But even in that case, there's a workaround which consists of exporting the two windows as one shape at OBJ format and reimporting the OBJ file as one window:
This first beta fixes also a few bugs like rendering issues for mirrored windows and staircase missing in the plan when its height is equal to level elevation.
[Note from developer: Sweet Home 3D 4.2 was released on October 30, 2013]
----------------------------------------
Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
