Rayscaper is going Beta

pixelcruncher

Hey folks!

I am super proud to announce that Rayscaper is going Beta today! After almost nine months of development, Rayscaper is graduating to beta status. We built enough features to make it valuable for most creators and squashed so many bugs that it's stable enough for daily use.

The current release, Rayscaper 0.9.0, will be the first Beta, and we will continue squashing bugs, improving things, and building new features to set out to do what we promised in our roadmap. So, you will continue seeing frequent releases.

I want to thank all those brave users who helped test Rayscaper and provided valuable
feedback. Please keep the bug reports and great feedback flowing. A special thank you to my friend Rich O'Brien. He has been there from the beginning, testing buggy releases and providing valuable feedback. His feedback was valuable in shaping Rayscaper into what it is today and what it will become.

With this first beta release, Rayscaper provides enough value for users looking for an affordable rendering engine. Thus, I will start charging for Rayscaper. As a thank you to the early users, I will offer Rayscaper at a discount for the early adopters:

$74.99 one-time for SketchUcation premium members.
$99.99 one-time for non-premium members.

Buy your license here on SketchUcation.
This one-time offer is until Sunday, March 23, 23:59 UTC. After that, we will charge our regular prices, which are still affordable:

$149.99 one-time for SketchUcation premium members.
$199.99 one-time for non-premium members.

When you buy a license, you will get:

All updates and patches for Rayscaper 1.0.
All additions to the Rayscaper 1.0 assets library.
One-year e-mail support.
Community support via the SketchUcation forums.

If you have an alpha license, you can still use Rayscaper for free until the license expires. You can also use Rayscaper for free, with all features but with watermarked renders (free version limitations)).

Thanks for supporting Rayscaper's future development!

ntxdave

Since I have SU 2020, any idea of when I might be able to use Rayscaper?

pixelcruncher

@ntxdave said:

Since I have SU 2020, any idea of when I might be able to use Rayscaper?

I know you have been waiting for a while now. I plan to take on that work when I prepare Rayscaper for SketchUp 2024. This is a very similar change to what is required to support SU2020. I can't give you a definitive date but I hope that it's not too long out.

Cheers,
Thomas

ntxdave

@pixelcruncher said:

@ntxdave said:

Since I have SU 2020, any idea of when I might be able to use Rayscaper?

I know you have been waiting for a while now. I plan to take on that work when I prepare Rayscaper for SketchUp 2024. This is a very similar change to what is required to support SU2020. I can't give you a definitive date but I hope that it's not too long out.

Cheers,
Thomas

Just curious, what do you, or anyone else, know about SketchUp 2024? Is it going to be released soon (and where have you heard. Anything about it)?

pixelcruncher

@ntxdave said:

@pixelcruncher said:

@ntxdave said:

Since I have SU 2020, any idea of when I might be able to use Rayscaper?

I know you have been waiting for a while now. I plan to take on that work when I prepare Rayscaper for SketchUp 2024. This is a very similar change to what is required to support SU2020. I can't give you a definitive date but I hope that it's not too long out.

Cheers,
Thomas

Just curious, what do you, or anyone else, know about SketchUp 2024? Is it going to be released soon (and where have you heard. Anything about it)?

I don't know anything except that SketchUp 2024 has a different Ruby version, and that I have to work to make Rayscaper compatible. Rich pointed that out to me (and maybe by spilling the beans here, Trimble is dispatching their ninja squad to silence him ).

Rich O Brien

@pixelcruncher said:

Trimble is dispatching their ninja squad to silence him ).

The neckbeards are coming? Better get the crayons ready

I know zip about 2024. But 2036 is awesome. There's also a free version for $12. Oh and the AI bot called ChatUp that models along with you is amazing. Just don't ask it to explode geometry.