Rhinoceros

The Rhino 5 goals included

• Speed improvements
• Quick viewport display configuration
• Working display modes expanded and enhanced
• Presentation and rendered display modes expanded and enhanced
• Display mode plug-in support enhanced

Plus many other improvements, including draw order support, two‑point perspective, and enhanced clipping planes.

New modes

• Technical - Uses the new real-time silhouettes, with optional display of hidden lines, intersections, creases, seams, and shadows to simulate the look of a technical drawing. Objects behind other objects are occluded.
• Artistic - A variant of Technical mode, uses an image background and soft lines to create a pencil drawing effect suitable for concept review and illustrations.
• Pen - A variant of Technical mode, simulates the look of a simple pen drawing useful for schematic and instructional illustrations.

Enhanced

• Shaded Mode default material includes a subtle environment map and some gloss to better shape vizualization.
• Shadows are now an option with settings for:
  • Video memory usage
  • Soft-edge quality
  • Edge blurring
  • Self-shadowing artifacts
  • Transparent objects
  • Camera-based clipping bubble
  • Shadow color
• Dynamic display - An option to display bounding boxes instead of objects during view changes.
• Most display modes now support the settings from the renderer, including:
  • Lighting options with shadows in real-time including skylight
  • Backgrounds and environments
  • Ground plane
  • Decals
  • Bump mapping
  • Complex materials including 2‑D and 3‑D procedural textures
  • HDRi textures
  • Multi-channel texture mapping
  • All the texture mapping options including cube, horizontal cube, vertical cube, and equirectangular mapping
• Visibility options:
  • Show clipping planes
  • Show points
  • Show pointclouds
• Nonmanifold edge display settings
• Shaded vertex colors for analysis results display.
• Isocurves - Optionally can have separate colors in the u‑ and v‑direction.
• A new No lighting option allows cartoon-style display.
• Clipped objects display options:
  • Fill solid areas with a specified solid color, the object color, clipping plane's material, or object rendering material.
  • Show edges using the clipping plane's specified solid color or a specific color.
  • Clip selection highlight wires.
• Advanced GPU Lighting - Takes advantage of high‑end graphic processors to provide better quality viewport display.
• Pipeline and conduit settings help provide compatibility with older graphics processors and drivers.

• Display Properties panel - Provides quick access to the most commonly used options.
• Draw Order provides control over which 2-D curve, text, dimension, or hatch is drawn in front of another. The new commands are:
  • BringForward
  • BringToFront
  • ClearDrawOrder
  • SendBackWard
  • SendToBack
• DisableClippingPlane - Turns off selected clipping planes in the active viewport.
• EnableClippingPlane - Turns on selected clipping planes in the active viewport.
• Isometric - Changes the current viewport properties to a parallel projection isometric view looking from a specified quadrant toward 0,0.
• Two-point perspective is now supported in viewports and rendering.
• Options > View: New Auto adjust camera target after Pan and Zoom option. When on, the view depth adjusts in an attempt to keep the view rotation in a logical location related to the objects.
• ViewportTabs - Displays a tab control UI along the viewport edge. Viewport tabs are useful for managing multiple-page layout style viewports along with standard modeling viewports.

• Speed - Rhino 5 takes more advantage of graphics co-processors.
• BackgroundBitmap - The new 1to1 option uses the image resolution and DPI to automatically scale the image.
• Clipping Plane widget
  • Show/Hide option
  • Highlight selected clipping plane display controls for color and transparency
  • Select clipped viewports in the Properties tab
  • Dynamic section/fill display while moving the widget
• NewFloatingViewport
  • Automatically copies the active view projection by default..
  • The projection can be set to a NamedView.
  • Dragging and dropping a viewport outside the Rhino viewport area creates a new floating viewport.
• -Hide/-Show - the command-line versions prompt to name the set of objects to hide or show.
• Named Views:
  • The new widget interface can be used to place or edit the camera and target location and to set the field of view.
  • Named views widget can be locked.
  • A named view can be edited in a temporary floating viewport using the widget.
  • The NamedView command displays a docking tabbed dialog box.
  • A new option animates the view changes when a named view is restored.
• Pan:
  • Press Shift to lock mouse panning to horizontal or vertical after the panning has started.
  • The middle-mouse button can now be customized to emulate view manipulation in other software.
  • Arrow key behavior - Arrow keys now always pan in plan view parallel viewports instead of rotating the view, preventing accidental rotation of the view.
• Rotate view - Ctrl+Shift+RMB now rotates perspective views around the pickpoint. The pickpoint can only be on things that are selectable, so, for example, locked objects and objects with points on are ignored.
• -ViewCaptureToFile
  • A new Transparent background option has been added to the scripting (dashed) version.
  • Scale option added to the dash version scales the image from the viewport size.
• Anti-aliasing enhanced with controls in Rhino.
• Display accuracy improved for objects very far from the origin.
• Indicator u and v arrows show the surface u‑ and v‑directions as needed in many commands.
• OptionsImport and OptionsExport - Includes display mode settings.
• Editing display modes:
  • Display modes that have been changed from the default settings are highlighted in blue.
  • Changes are displayed the viewports in real time.

Many enhancements support more robust display-mode plug-ins. Plug‑in examples include:

• Neon - real-time ray-traced viewports
• VSR Realtime - real-time rendering in viewports
• Auxpecker - preview renderings in the viewport