Changelog

Release notes.

Every version of the plug-in, newest first. Updates within a major version are included in your license.

1.3.8
Quieter marks
November 3, 2026
- The slide mark has no colour of its own any more: it deepens the colour of the surface it lies on by a shade. On orange ground, it is a slightly darker orange.
- Slide marks and blow marks fade much more slowly: a slide mark stays whole for six seconds, then goes from its start to its end over fourteen; a blow mark pales while its cracks draw back, over twenty-four seconds.
1.3.7
Water that answers
November 3, 2026
- Going into water throws up drops of every size, the more the faster you arrive, up to a limit: a crown falling straight in, a spray ahead sliding in, over the body’s whole height coming in through a side.
- The surface dips for a moment where you go in and lifts where you come out, then closes, sending out a ring.
- At the surface the body leaves a V-shaped wake and rough water that settles within seconds; each time it comes down, a ring and a few light bubbles.
- Floating at the surface rises and falls half as much, and the view stays clear above the water.
- Motes drift and tremble in a thin liquid and barely move in a thick fluid.
- Standing up, lying down, leaving the swimming position: every change of posture is smooth. Out of the water, the character stands up, even in mid-air.
- A landing blows dust out along the ground, as hard as it lands; a small jump raises none. Running raises fine dust with its grains.
- The slide mark is that of a dragged body, about fifty centimetres wide and rounded at both ends; the smoke is one veil that clears.
1.3.6
Every state has its name
November 2, 2026
- Under the panel, what the character is doing is written out: standing, walking, running, crouching, crawling, lying down, sliding, carried on, slipping down the slope, in the air, wading, breaststroke or swimming.
- A slide is a state of its own. When it ends, a movement key held down stands the character up; with no key, it stays lying. A downhill slope carries it further.
- Running particles only fly when running ahead on its feet, thrown backward, with a little smoke.
- The slide mark starts thin and widens, then fades from its start to its end. A blow’s cracks draw back to its middle before the mark fades.
1.3.5
Smooth on big models
November 2, 2026
- The walk happens in Shaded or Rendered: another display mode turns to Shaded, and the original one comes back when you quit.
- What is out of view or hidden is no longer drawn, from the first frame; what comes into the picture or leaves it goes through a light blur, never at once.
- When the graphics card struggles, shadows lighten; in Rendered, big far-off meshes are simplified.
- On a test city of 22,500 buildings, the walk starts in one second instead of four.
1.3.4
Lighter, truer
November 2, 2026
- The plug-in measures what the machine can take and leaves out what cannot be seen: on a test city of 22,500 buildings, from 5 to 51 frames per second in Shaded and from 7.6 to 45 in Rendered (RTX 5080).
- Each blow mark has its own relief, drawn at random, with light traces of blood, never the same.
- A fluid counts wherever it is on the body; at the surface the body rises and falls without jumping, and the water no longer pulls it in.
- A bush fades inside a sphere around the eyes, and a neighbouring bush stays whole. The whole body pushes it, without changing the model’s shape.
- The field of view no longer moves during a slide or on ice.
1.3.3
What the body leaves on the ground
November 2, 2026
- Running throws dust and chips from under the feet, in the ground’s colour.
- A slide leaves a mark and a veil of smoke.
- A blow leaves its mark: a crater on the ground, a dent in a wall, with a burst of chips.
- Water holds the body up even when only its upper part is in it.
1.3.2
Swimming
November 1, 2026
- Running in water, the character lies out to swim, as low as lying down, and heads where it looks, up and down too.
- At the surface, holding Space takes it out of the water and back in.
- Going into a soft object no longer deforms it: you see a little through it, the way out shows more as you near it, and its particles come from its own material.
- Water seen from inside reflects its faces, several fluids show through one another, and a closed volume of water is no longer taken for an open surface.
1.3.1
Water in detail
November 1, 2026
- 6,000 particles of every size float in the water and move aside as the body passes, further in a thick fluid.
- Water takes the light colour by colour over the depth crossed; its edges spread into a glow, with no line; bubbles are small lenses.
- Jumping into water splashes. You sink when you stop and rise a little going on.
- Going through a soft object sheds particles from it.
- On a slippery floor you can change direction at a run, and the camera no longer steps while you glide; the slide, on Shift only, gets a small boost.
1.3.0
Physics
November 1, 2026
- A Physics column in the Layers panel and a Physics page in the object’s properties: each layer or object is Solid, Soft or Fluid, with its setting.
- Solid: friction, from 0.1 to 5. Above 1 it slips; below, the ground holds the body back.
- Soft: rigidity. The character goes through plants and fabrics, which move as it passes.
- Fluid: viscosity. You swim in it, and the view clouds with the depth crossed and the viscosity, never turning opaque.
- Undo, redo and saving the file keep these settings.
1.2.4
Slopes, falls and slides
November 1, 2026
- Standing holds slopes up to 45°, crouching up to 55°, lying up to 25°; steeper, you slip, the faster the steeper.
- At a run, Shift starts a slide: down flat at once, keeping your momentum.
- Falls speed up to 240 km/h. Hitting the ground above 50 km/h, or a wall above 75 km/h, brings a red vignette up at the edges of the view.
- The character’s height goes from 50 cm to 2.50 m.
1.2.3
Postures
October 29, 2026
- Shift goes from standing to crouching, then lying, then standing. Crouching, you do not step off an edge deeper than 21 cm; lying, you pass under a table.
- Ctrl, or the forward key pressed twice, to run.
- During the walk the panel folds into a band, Tab unfolds it, and the arrows go from spawn point to spawn point.
- A click on a point’s name opens a window to rename it; new points face north.
1.2.2
Spawn points as objects
October 28, 2026
- A spawn point is selected, moved, turned, copied and deleted like any Rhino object, gumball and Undo included.
- Up to six points per colour; scale, height and field of view belong to the colour.
- Each point carries a name of yours, after its number.
- The viewport’s title becomes “Character”, and changing the display mode does not end the walk.
- The field of view narrows by 10% at most, only when sprinting.
1.2.1
More lifelike movement
October 28, 2026
- The character speeds up, brakes and turns like a body: slower sideways and backward, it keeps its momentum in the air, and its eyes rise and fall at each step.
- Holding Space jumps again at each landing.
- Back to the start: a button, or the R key.
- Clicking a spawn point opens its panel and Enter starts the walk; a point blocked by an object turns black.
- Settings move to notched sliders and the scale to a list, with a button back to the point’s settings.
1.2.0
The character
October 28, 2026
- A fourth button in the Set View toolbar, Character: place a spawn point, then walk through the model in first person, at scale.
- WASD (ZQSD on a French keyboard) to walk, the mouse to look, Space to jump, Esc to quit.
- The body is an invisible cylinder at its height: it climbs steps of 21 cm or less, slides along walls, stops at a railing and falls past an edge.
- Scale, height, speed and field of view are set during the walk, in a panel in the view.
1.1.1
The grid on the ground
October 16, 2026
- In every viewport, Front and Right included, a NurbsView view lays the grid on the ground, as Rhino’s standard views set their construction plane.
- The plug-in comes as a Rhino 8 package (NurbsView.yak): dragged onto Rhino, it installs, and a newer version replaces the old one at the next restart.
1.1.0
Views like Rhino’s own
October 16, 2026
- A NurbsView view behaves like any Rhino view: a standard or named view takes its place, Undo View and named views bring it back, and the grid stays.
- Clicking an object selects it where it is drawn; snaps and the gumball follow the drawing.
- Captures, prints and layout details give the exact drawing, and Zoom Extents frames it.
- In every Set View menu, the arrow by a view’s name included, and in the Set View toolbar: three buttons, right click for the side last used.
1.0.0
First release
October 14, 2026
- Twelve views from one command, NurbsView: military NW, NE, SE and SW; cavalier and cabinet N, E, S and W.
- Views are projections, never rotations: the model stays exactly where it was drawn.
- Student and Pro licenses, each delivered as a PDF certificate in the holder’s name, with its password.
- License portal: download again, reset a forgotten password by email, upgrade to the next major version.