Klay 0.0.42

The Mask tool card has a Blur | Sharpen bar and an Expand | Contract bar: click a side for one step, or hold and drag to keep going, with Rectangle and Lasso buttons for the marquee above them and Invert / Erase as buttons below. Sharpen tightens a soft edge back onto its middle, as in ZBrush and Blender, and Expand / Contract move the mask's edge out or in while keeping its softness. A whole drag undoes in one Ctrl+Z.

The Lantern's tool card now lists every light in the scene at the top, with its colour, type, on/off eye and intensity, so you can switch to another light, recolour it from its swatch, add one or turn one off without leaving the tool; the light's type is one row of buttons under the list, its settings sit in one card below, and area lights gain Focus.

The Laser's floating bar is gone: its shapes and actions are now two rows of buttons at the top of the sidebar tool card (still there with the card closed, and holding Ctrl lights the action it swaps to), with depth, fill, flip, joint and stroke smoothing grouped underneath; a button that does nothing on the selected layer, like Create on a polygon mesh, is dimmed.

A mesh with sculpt layers or subdivision levels no longer blocks Remesh or Boolean: its layers are flattened into the level you are looking at and the operation just runs, and undoing a Remesh gives you the original back with its layers and levels.

Every brush-size slider now ends in a small box showing its maximum: click it and type a bigger number to sculpt a large scene, or a smaller one to spend the whole slider on fine detail. Klay remembers it, and resizing the brush by dragging follows the same limit, in the tool card, the Brush panel, the Select tool and the radial menu.

Polygon brushes get three new pen sliders under Pressure → size: pressure can now control how much the brush smooths, how strong its Elastique pull is, and how hard its edge is, so a light touch can glide softly and a firm press brings the full effect.

A PBR material now only pays for the effects it actually turns on: a plain one draws as fast as PBR Fast, and turning on GGX specular, clear coat, sheen or subsurface adds just that effect instead of slowing the object to about half the frame rate; one such material elsewhere in the scene no longer slows the others either.

Every material now has a round Specular colour swatch just below Base colour, so you can tint its reflections without opening the Specular section, and it now works on PBR Fast too: a white swatch keeps PBR Fast exactly as fast as before, and a coloured one adds only that tint.

Turning on one Specular effect, such as Diffraction, Flakes or Retro-reflection, now adds just that effect to the object instead of switching the whole material to its heaviest look, so the frame rate barely moves in the viewport; RT likewise only prepares the effects your materials actually use, and gets them ready much sooner.

A glass object in the viewport now shows its own back walls through the front, bent by the refraction and catching bright inner reflections at steep angles, so a glass cube reads as a solid block of glass instead of a window straight through to what is behind it, and it casts a lighter shadow that darkens as you raise the Tint and Thickness.

With the pointer over the outliner, the Frame key now opens the folders and groups hiding the selected object and scrolls the list to it, instead of doing nothing; over the viewport it still frames the camera.

Double-click any object, folder or layer in the outliner to rename it right where its name is: type, then Enter or click away to keep it, Esc to cancel. Rename in the right-click menu edits in place too, and double-clicking an object inside a folder renames the object; to select the whole folder, click the folder's own row.