Render Rocket is deeply committed to supporting education. They release a whole range of new tools and pricing to its online rendering solutions. These are specifically designed to ease the rendering burden on students and educational institutions. Renewable on a monthly basis, with a Class Manager module into the Mission Control Interface, Render Rocket LLC is discounting its pricing for educational accounts by as much as 83% off the standard rendering rate.
cebas Visual Technology Inc. announces the immediate release of its 10th and latest Service Pack for finalRender 3.5 SE as well as for the integrated and standalone finalToon 3.5. This latest service pack provides direct fixes and addresses a few issues users were experiencing on rare occasions.
Service Pack 10 offers solutions to crash in finalToon during the calling of the ‘About’ dialog. It also fixes a crash when invoking the location dialog on 3ds Max 2013 and a crash when instancing renderable splines.
Project Geppetto is a research project that explores making it easy, fast and fun to add crowds to 3ds Max scenes. Project Geppetto is a data-driven animation system that offers high level control of plausible human animation. The technology preview of Project Geppetto now includes the Evolver character generation technology. Evolver alows to users to build characters by mixing and matching from a ‘virtual gene pool’ of pre-built body, face and clothing parts. The Evolver component can be customized and extended to generate crowds of any culture or style.
Terragen 2 is available both as a free download and as a purchase option for Terragen 2 Deep Edition. The free version may only be used for non-commercial purposes and is limited in the following ways as Render Size Maximum: 800x600, Render Detail Maximum: 1.0, Antialiasing Maximum: 3, Maximum Number of Rendered Populations: 3 andMaximum Render Detail for Micropolygon Export: 0.1.
Terragen 2.4 was released with complete Animation Module. The Animation Module now includes a complete key frame editing workflow with a dope sheet and curve editor, providing greatly improved control and precision when animating.
solidThinking, Inc. released this week a new version of their concept design and 3D modelling software, solidThinking Evolve 9.0 supporting now saving to KeyShot *.bip files directly from the software interface. By using the „save as“ option users can optimize the model by choosing form three tessellation options (view tessellation, fast tessellation or custom) and immediately open inside KeyShot. Like this all materials assigned to part or layer are preserved and brought to KeyShot scene tree. This revolutionary the workflow between Evolve 9.0 and KeyShot and make the cooperation of both programs much smoother than it was before. Moreover, KeyShots advanced 3D rendering and lighting technology together with the new animation options can help to visualize and present the models in a higher level.
