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We asked Evermotion to answer few question about their unbiased renderer called NOX. The renderer is still in development and in beta stage (currently version 0.3.41) but already the first results are looking very promising. About the updates which Evermotion did on NOX you could read also before here at 3D-Sphere, now you can read something about the renderer himself. We would like to thank again Evermotion for answering our questions. Be sure to check NOX and try yourself. Read the whole interview below.
NewTek, a worldwide leader of 3D animation annouced the immediate release of their award winnig 3D modeling, animation, visual effects and rendering software LightWave 10.1. With a lot of new features such as new off-axis stereoscopic camera rig option, improved Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR), advanced import and export capabilities, including MDD and integrated Autodesk® Geometry Cache support, a new Skin Shader node; stereo enhancements include interactive OpenGL off-axis adjustment of the right and left camera planes. The new LightWave 10.1 Viewport Preview Renderer allows artists to directly interact and easily adjust lights, textures, volumetric and more, within the viewport.
At Luxology store was added a new training video tutorial called “Spaceship modeling”. In this Andy Brown pays a tribute to the CG spaceships which were the reason and starting point for many CG Artists. For this tutorial, concept designer James Robbins created an original spaceship design, including eight orthographic reference images. Andy Brown explains that the modeling techniques used in this tutorial are not only for spaceship modeling, but they can be used to model any kind of car, vehicle or even boat. The goal of the tutorial is to teach you the workflow how to model this kind of object.
Maxwell updated their renderer for Modo R2 to version 2.5100. The new updated release is featuring several changes, bug fixes and also some new features. Maxwell improved the Maxwell Fire window refresh; now window automatically refresh if a scale, rotation or translation item has been added to or removed from an item. Also the base style of Maxwell Fire window has been changed from palette to window style. The new feature which Maxwell implemented in this release is the possibility of displacement controls for auto converted materials by Maxwell Render. A short list of new improvements and fixes is below.