The Chaos Group Team announced the official release of V-Ray® for Autodesk® Softimage®. Built on V-Ray’s core platform of rendering speed, stability, and quality, V-Ray® for Autodesk® Softimage® is an advanced rendering solution for the VFX and animation industries. V-Ray for Softimage includes ICE support, efficient Global Illumination, versatile shaders, and much more. The official suggested end user price of a single new license of V-Ray 1.5 for Softimage is 890 Euro/ 1230 USD/ 770 GBP (exlude VAT).
NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods. Development is currently in beta stage. This update added control on cautics. So you can make fake caustics - glass materials will work like a fake glass except for first camera intersection (visible one). You can set which roughness value is border value for material to be caustic source. You can turn off bounce from caustic, it will render caustic but will deny any more light propagation from that caustic to scene. All of it is set on Render tab (first one). Also caustics should be redirected to GI buffer, so you can turn it off (Post tab) for the case of scene render difficulty.
Luxion is announcing KeyShot 3.1 and with it an all new 3D rendering and animation options. Keyshot 3.1 marks the first major update of the release that introduced a patent-pending animation system, a revamped user interface and over 600+ new materials. With this update is introduced time-saving new features and improvments including a new, unique metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing that allow real-time editing of the lighting environments, material templates that allow 3D professionals to 'auto-paint' their models, network rendering to queue render jobs and spread them across multiple computeres and new compatibliity with the 3DConnexion 3D Mouse. KeyShot 3.1 will be available later this quarter.
Team stand beside this real-time 3D visualization tool for architects, urban planners and designers released update to this visualization engine. To Lumion 2.0 functionality was added several enhancements. Memory usage is improved and the update allows for rendering scenes with many lights in them. Overall stability has been increased what allowed to improve overall responsiveness of the program.
Lumion brings architecture visualization to the next level with numerous of drastic improvements, from the addition of indoor lighting to new post processor effects and content. It offers excellent graphics in combination with a fast and efficient workflow.
After releasing an update to V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max, the Chaos Group team also announced an update to V-Ray 2.0 for Maya, offering new hair and fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and tighter Maya integration. New Hair and Fur Capabilities bring extra attributes to apply materials to Maya’s native hair and also allow rendering hair and fur with unprecedented control, quality, and speed. V-Ray RT GPU now supports texture-mapped rectangle and mesh lights, simple light portals, and the VrayBlendMtl.
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