Really nice!

@icedkasz said:

Just discovered that ctrl+shift+V pastes in place. Didn't know that for 3 versions. I've made messes out of contour maps by being millimeters off.

Are you sure?

Not on my PC. No shortcut is assigned to Paste in Place.

Congrats! You deserve it

Layers Panel by me, or Add Layer by Jim Foltz, will allow you to create a new layer invisible in all other scenes.

The beta team is full, sorry!

No ETA yet. Probably around $40-$50.

Not free

If it's just for you, maybe you can use mouse/keyboard macros? Some softwares could automate what you need

@greatoe said:

Pity to hear that this plug-in is discontinued developing. Would like to pay for it. It really speed up the workflow a lot.

Sorry about that... But please understand that only few people are willing to pay for this, and not a lot of money.
I am curently developping another plugin that I will sell, so I can't take much time for Layers Panel.
I think LP is already pretty good as is. Although I will try my best to fix bugs.

BrooklynArch, did you try what we discussed by email?

No yet, sorry.

Not yet.

@numerobis said:

Ah ok. The "render only" feature means that they are not displayed until you press render?

Yes.

@numerobis said:

So if i use Maxwell MXS-References, which are normal bounding box components in SU, this will work?

You can scatter them as any other component. But the "Render only" feature requires stuff to happen on Maxwell's side. Which doesn't for now.

This means that for now only Vray, Thea and KT support the "Render only" feature. If you choose to generate regular components, it works with every render engines.

@macker said:

wish i'd had that a few years back before I learned 3DS Max.

I use 3dsmax when I need these features (with forest pack).
But I just love Sketchup for modeling, that's why I'm developping Skatter : I want the same features inside SU.

There will be a built-in library, and you'll be able to create your own presets.

As for refreshing the camera between scene change in batch render, for now it's not possible. It requires some action from the render engines. I'll see with them what's possible.

As a side note, there will also be more speed optimisations.
And I aim for multi-threading one day.

The video is a bit edited to cut waiting times when generating 500'000 instances (otherwise it would be boring to watch), and it fast-forward 2x.
You can disable "Live Preview" when dealing with big numbers of items.

Here is an updated video preview :

I didn't do anything, that's a sneak peek from the Corona dev team.
As for the window name, I guess they haven't change it yet.

"Nothing is 100 percent certain yet, but these two platforms are in our view-finder."