Bongo 2.0 for Rhino 6 - Beta

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Hi all,

If you feel like testing Bongo for Rhino 6 WIP, you can download the SR 7 RC from here:
https://www.rhino3d.com/download/bongo/2/release/rc

PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

There’s no added features, just the support for Rhino 6 WIP.
If you find any problems or bugs, please report them.

Enjoy,

  • Marika
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Actually, some very minor features have been added:

  • light intensity can be animated
  • focal blur can be animated
    ** for Raytraced the settings that make sense are distance and aperture.
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With any renderer?

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If the renderer supports it I don’t see why not. I don’t have access to other engines, so I have tested only with Raytraced.

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Note: just noticed that Cycles for Rhino seems to freeze if used as renderer with Bongo. Better to not use that until fixed. Raytraced still works when using viewport as source.

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Coming in late on this conversation, but these are two VERY helpful feature additions. Thank you!

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hi guys, was curious if Bongo will be integrating with the new snapshots feature in rhino 6.0? seems like it could be a great avenue for quicker animation setups. Also will the viewport animations be getting upgraded in any way? i.e. video texture previewing whilst scrubbing through timeline, without having to render

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Currently all I can say is that we’ll look into it. :slight_smile:

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Does this Beta have hard surface physics yet? If not, any idea of timeline for v3 with it?

Thanks

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While the words WIP and beta were used, this is only a RC of SR 7 of Bongo 2, i.e. a release candidate of a compatibility update so that it runs on RH6. This id’s the important part:

Q2 2023.
a.k.a. your guess is as good as anybody’s.

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Is it possible to Trial Beta test Bongo2 in v6Beta? Thinking of investing in it, but I’m working in Rhino Beta6 these days, and would love to try it!

Thanks

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@Alan_Farkas - Yes it should work. Just download the installer from the link above and choose to install it as an Evaluation version.

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Thanks, @marika_almgren, but the link brings me to a page asking me for my email and a Bongo License key, which obviously I don’t have since I’m trying this for the first time. Thoughts?

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@Alan_Farkas
Access to betas and work-in-progrres builds is predicated on the user owning a license first.
You will not be able to evaluate Bongo for V6 until it is released, or you purchase a license for Bongo for V5.

Sorry

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Thank JB for correcting me. Sorry @Alan_Farkas guess I was too long on holiday, the installer actually supports it, but the testing is for current users only so the license key is required for downloading.

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Download link has just been updated to RC2. It should now work correctly with all languages.

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You can now get the v6 compatible Eval from here:
https://www.rhino3d.com/download/bongo/2/release

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will the Bongo for Rhino 5 License work on Rhino 6? or I would need to upgrade the bongo licence?

Best Regards!

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@daniel_acg - It’s the same product, only ported to Rhino 6 so yes the same license will work.

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