Also, thanks for all the people that have made donations to us, you guys ROCKS!! Obviously this is not how we want to make a living in the long run, but this really helps at the moment. If you wish to make a contribution, you can find the donation button under the “About” menu when you’ve just started the program, and also on the right side in the “Render GUI”, or you can just use this link. Let us know how much you think this software is worth to you.

On a side note, we’ve added Gravatar support for the comment section of this blog, so if you have a Gravatar associated with your email address, you’ll see it here.

This version is mainly a bug fix version, mainly focused on bring ZenCub3d to work on Vista, and reducing the number of ways the program can crash, so on first glance you probably won’t find much difference. Actually, even on second glance you probably still won’t find new features, that’s because we are now under going some core-engine rewrite, which will (hopefully) result in a huge range of benefits in the future, namely shorter time of development /maintenance time, and ease of adding in new features, just to name two without going into a huge amount of detail. Actually you can already see some benefits in this current release, we’ve already cleaned up the code base that our installer download is already 5Mb smaller, and the final install is at least 40Mb smaller than the previous beta version. We will do even better in the future.

EDIT: kkffoo at Pineapple Chunks wrote a short blog entry about us, and even have a really funky short animation in that entry. Go see it!