V3R v1.1 — What's New
Release Notes · v1.1

Render the extraordinary, more reliably.

A weekend of careful work has landed across the V3R suite — three new finishing effects, a smarter Layer Mapping Manager, and a stack of paper-cut fixes that smooth the workflow from import to output.

v1.1.0 · April 2026 · Khaos Technology Ltd

What's new

3 new effects
New finishing effect

Custom-coloured Holographic Foil

Holographic foil is no longer locked to a single look. Pick any base colour you like — gold, copper, soft rose, midnight blue — and V3R applies the rainbow diffraction pattern over the top, preserving your colour while adding the spectral shimmer.

Useful when a customer's brand calls for something more refined than full-rainbow holographic. A gold holographic foil reads as luxury foil first, with the rainbow as a subtle catch-the-light moment.

How: Foil layer panel → Foil colour dropdown → Rainbow → adjust the colour picker beneath.
New finishing effect

Holographic Glitter

Spot glitter and base substrate glitter both gain a holographic mode that adds per-grain rainbow shimmer over the existing glitter colour. Each grain shifts independently as the surface tilts, so you get that authentic chaotic sparkle rather than a uniform colour wave across the whole layer.

Three new sliders — Holographic Intensity, Frequency, and Grain Variation — let you dial it from a barely-there iridescence to a full chromatic riot. Works in any glitter colour: pink, magenta, gold, silver, all of them.

How: Glitter layer (or Substrate Controls → Glitter material) → enable Holographic → tune the three sliders.
New finishing effect

Rainbow Holographic Film

A full thin-film simulation for sleeking film and holographic lamination — the kind of finish where the entire surface (or a masked area) shifts through the spectrum as the substrate tilts. Two pattern modes ship with this release: a chaotic Holographic look with patches and sparkle valleys, and a Pillars of Light mode that projects parallel rainbow bands across the surface like a real diffraction grating.

Both modes support full-coverage lamination as well as ink-mask sleeking, so you can simulate film bonded only where pigmented toner sits on the page. A full presets folder is included — save, export, share, and reload your favourite combinations.

How: Click the + Add Layer button → choose Holographic Film → pick Pattern Type, Application Mode, and refine to taste.

Fixes & polish

7 improvements
Foil presets

Hot Foil Stamping now persists with presets

The Hot Foil Stamping checkbox state is now correctly saved alongside the rest of a foil preset, including across export, import, and Save-as-Default round trips. Previously the toggle appeared to stick during a session but reset on relaunch.

Foil presets

Save-as-Default now persists across restart

Each foil colour (Silver, Gold, Bronze, Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Rainbow, and Custom) now retains its own independent saved default after quitting and relaunching V3R. A subtle key-naming mismatch was preventing custom-coloured foils from restoring on cold start.

Layer mapping

Remapping added layers no longer breaks the rebuild

When using the Add Layer feature to bring in a second PDF (e.g. a separate Duplo black plate), opening the Layer Mapping Manager afterwards used to crash the scene with a missing-texture error. The manager now correctly preserves the original textures in memory so layers can be remapped freely.

Layer mapping

Cancel preserves the existing layer mapping

If you opened the Layer Mapping Manager just to peek at the current setup and clicked Cancel, an added layer (e.g. a Duplo varnish) used to revert to its source separation type. Cancel now correctly leaves everything as-is.

Layer naming

Mapped layers show their effect name in the sidebar

When you add a layer and map a black separation to Duplo, the sidebar entry now reads Duplo rather than Black. The same applies to flood layers — pick Coating, Lamination, Holographic Film, or any other effect, and the sidebar reflects your choice rather than showing a generic "Flood Layer" label.

Layer mapping

"Remember these mappings" now off by default

The persistence checkbox in the Layer Mapping Manager is now opt-in. This is friendlier for the common case where the same separation name (e.g. "Black") may legitimately mean different effects across different customer files. Tick it explicitly when you want the mapping remembered.

Image capture

PNG capture now correctly handles added layers

Capturing a still image of a file that uses the Add Layer feature now produces a faithful render of the scene — varnish, foil, and lamination layers all composite correctly in the saved PNG, matching the live preview.

Holographic film

Tasteful factory defaults for Holographic Film

The initial settings for newly-added Holographic Film layers have been retuned. Fresh layers now load with a refined, understated look out of the gate, rather than a chaotic preview that needed five sliders adjusted before it looked right.

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Visualis3R User Manual


Complete guide to settings, controls and print embellishment tools



Access the official Visualis3R user manual to learn how to use every feature
of the software, including foils, raised varnish, metallics, white ink,
embossing, glitter, neon colours and CMYK+ effects. This guide explains all
controls, interface elements and workflow settings to help designers and
print professionals get accurate, real-time embellishment previews.



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