Yesterday e-on software the leader in light and nature technologies announced the immediately availability of a new version of Ozone 6, its atmospheric plugin for 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Cinema4D, and LightWave, together with the Ozone 6 Personal Learning Edition. Ozone 6 uses the Spectral 3™ cutting-edge technologies developed by e-on software for the simulation and rendering of atmospheric effects. Like this it’s able to accurately simulated environment that affects all scene elements and behaves according to nature’s rules.

HIERO has been built for collaborative working on VFX projects, especially with a quick turnaround and create a smooth workflow out of the box to improve efficiency and increase shot throughput volume. The brand new software is a lightweight shot manager for VFX. HIERO 1.0 is NOT a compositor or a system for finishing, grading or editing. It allows production facilities to efficiently conform, review and export shots to visual effects artists and into finishing systems. HIERO has been designed to work seamlessly with The Foundry’s NUKE and NUKEX compositing applications, but also enables collaborative working with other editorial, VFX and finishing tools.

This update introduces a slew of time-saving new features – an absolutely stunning and very unique metallic paint material, an interactive Environment Editor that allows real-time editing of the lighting environments and new material templates that allow you to quickly ‘auto-paint’ your models on import. Add to that network rendering to queue render jobs and spread them across multiple computers and a few other tid-bits and you’ve got one vicious piece of software to crank out amazing images.

Cebas announced the immediate availability of psd-manager 3.1 - “the V-Ray release” of the multi-layer PSD exporter for Autodesk 3ds Max. The new version is at no charge available for current customers providing a major workflow update and new features for those using psd-manager 3 in combination with the V-Ray renderer. From this point psd-manager is able to access directly the V-Ray frame buffer including render elements export, mask generation for objects and materials and 8/16/32-bit HDR PSD export.