In this quality-of-life update, the iToo team worked closely with Chaos/Corona to increase the performance of Forest Pack when used with Corona Renderer.
Animated Proxies
The improvements are especially evident when using animated proxies.
In the past, it was necessary for Forest Pack to load the full mesh from the proxy for each frame, causing problems when scrubbing the timeline. In this release, you only sample the full geometry on frame one. As this improvement also required changes in Corona, you will need to use the Corona Daily builds or wait until the release of version 10. In addition, the Corona team has included several other improvements for Forest Pack and RailClone in their daily builds, including:
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