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What's New in Live

This section lists all the major new features available in this and the previous two versions of Live.

Highlights of Live 2.1
Feature Description
Service stability The Live service has been updated to be more robust and secure, providing less downtime and more reliable results.
Compatibility with 3ds Max Interactive Scenes built with Live can now leverage 3ds Max Interactive features, making them more reliable and easier to customize.
Revit 2019 Added support for Revit 2019.
Converting Scenes from Live 2.0 can be opened in Live 2.1.
GDPR compliance Support for earlier versions of Live will be removed in order to be compatible with GDPR regulations.
Highlights of Live 2.0
Feature Description
3ds Max Interactive Scenes prepared with the Revit Live service can now be imported directly in 3ds Max Interactive's Project Manager. The new .lvsc file format replaces .lvmd, which is no longer supported.
Auto Exposure Live can automatically detect and modify the scene's global illumination, brightening dark areas and reducing light in over-exposed ones. Active only when Graphic setting is set on Appearance.
Importing scenes Select where to save working files when manually importing a scene.
Navigation Fly Mode allows you to freely navigate through a scene as though you are flying, and you can go through walls and floors.
Publishing Presentations are now published as complete applications; they no longer require a viewer. A compressed set of file and folders can be shared, and once the files are extracted, the Autodesk executable .exe file can be run.
Quality Settings Live offers more control over your experience by adding Balance as an option in Graphic settings. This allows you to have better performance in lower-end systems without drastically compromising the scene's quality. Live also recommends an optimization setting based on your hardware.
Revit 2014 Revit 2014 is no longer supported.
Revit Live service Preparation and launch times have been optimized, it will take you less time to prepare a model and launch a scene.
Points-of-Views Select the 3ds views you want to include in the Live scene from Revit directly. Points-of-View can no longer be edited in Live.
Scene versions Every instance of a prepared Revit model is a scene in Live. Scenes are no longer automatically overwritten.
Virtual Reality
  • How to use the controllers has been simplified for a more coherent experience.
  • Measure and Pointer tools allow you to measure distances and point when using virtual reality. There is also a new You are Here marker in the Minimap.
Highlights of Live 1.8
Feature Description
Quality settings Live offers more control over your experience by offering the option to choose between optimizing your scene for appearance or performance. Live also suggests a recommended Quality setting based on your hardware.
Revit Live service The Revit Live service is available for Revit 2018 and Revit LT 2018.

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