Rhinoceros

Highlights

- Hair rendering: Introducing a new procedural primitive for rendering hair- compatible with the most popular hair systems (Shave & Haircut, Maya Hair, Max Hair, Ornatrix, Cinema Hair)

- Particle rendering: New procedural primitive for particles- compatible with the most popular particle systems (RealFlow particles, Maya particles, 3dsMax)

- Support for Vector displacement has been added

- Much faster (transform) motion blur

- Referenced MXS files: It is now possible to load references of MXS files in your main scene file, which are added only at render time, dramatically reducing export times especially for animations, and reducing scene transfer times when network rendering.

- Support for referenced materials has been added

- Scripting: Maxwell Render SDK now includes a standalone python editor and scripting examples

- Displacement: A second displacement algorithm has been added, much faster than the previous one

- Big improvements in image processing, filtering and aliasing: Enhances overall quality of the render, aliasing, sharpness, chromatic noise, dithering, etc and faster image generation routines. A new interactive parameter -sharpness -interactively controls the aliasing

- Advanced integration with RealFlow- a new smart workflow which allows you to handle RealFlow output and generate both meshes and particles in render time, saving precious disk space and greatly reducing export times.

Full new features

Full features list

Try Maxwell Render Suite…

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Have you tried rendering with Flamingo nXt?

Everyone is invited to download the pre-release version of Flamingo nXt and give it a try.

The latest build includes these enhancements:

• Caustics improved in the pathtracer engine
• New transparency calculations for better glass
• Improved exposure controls including a new histogram function
• Alpha channel masking improved
• Better support for blocks
• Improved the sun angle calculator
• Many refinements to the interface
• Many bugs fixed

Details and download…

Fake or Foto? Do you have a good eye?
The Challenge…

Do you remember this popular contest from last year? Now FakeOrFoto has new pictures up.

Today we’re presented with images in movies, on TV, and in the press that are of such good quality we don’t even think to consider whether the picture is of something that exists in reality or if it was generated by computer software. Movies can be considered as being at the high-end of the range of uses for computer generated imagery that mimics real-life, but there are many more day-to-day examples that challenge our ability to tell what’s real and what’s not.

Come along now, you may know that answer. I got 9 of 12 on the first try. How about you? I’ll expect the answer.

Take a reality check…

Try this version of RhinoAir, you can easily render pic like this, and you’ll soon get to love it.

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The RhinoAir plugin enables Rhino users to quickly start rendering using familiar Rhino materials and lights while providing easy access to Air’s advanced features.

RhinoAir brings full scene interactive shading and lighting to Rhino with the aid of TweakAir. View lighting and material changes as you make them in a high-quality interactive preview.

With BakeAir, RhinoAir allows shading in a scene to be rendered or “baked” to texture maps. Baked maps can used as textures for realtime rendering in Rhino or with an exported VRML file.

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