Welcome and thank you for your interest in testing Krakatoa and providing valuable feedback to make it as good as possible.
This forum is the right place to comment on existing features, wish for tweaks and additions (major new features are unlikely to be added at this point, but we can still modify what is there already), ask questions about workflows and so on.
Please note that there is a dedicated Bug Reports forum under Krakatoa Beta and a Builds forum which contains all builds ever posted here:
viewforum.php?f=30
ALSO NOTE that for various reasons, the Beta builds of 1.6.0 are labeled as v1.5.2. We will switch the numbers to 1.6.0 when we release the final version.
The current beta can use an existing 1.5.x license.
If you do not have a current Krakatoa v1.5.x commercial license and were invited into the Beta, please send an email to krakatoa-sales@primefocusworld.com to request a temporary license which will expire at the end of August.
The Beta will also work in Evaluation mode, with disabled network rendering and watermark at resolutions above 480x360.
We expect a new Beta 6 build of Krakatoa to be available sometime next week. The current Beta 5 has most of the improvements planned for the release except for the acceleration of Attenuation (lighting) calculations in Particle mode and the new FumeFX workflow we are working on at this moment.
You can find the details about what has been added / changed so far and what will come in the Beta 6 build here:
software.primefocusworld.com/sof … _notes.php
Please note that the documentation found under
software.primefocusworld.com/sof … manual.php
is currently Work In Progress and already reflects most of the changes made to the Beta builds.
Once again, thank you for your interest and let the fun begin!