SOLIDANGLE : ARNOLD Thea Render The new integrated plugin for 3dsMax has just arrived and licensed users can grab the plugin as a free update! Bundle with Motiva Colimo and create infinite variations from a single render. Perform luminance and illuminance analysis and generate reports out-of-the-box. Thea Render offers a variety of high quality Model and Material Libraries. Lighting simulation is as accurate as never before with full spectral resolution and support for ior and scattering data. All lighting options are here, such as image-based lighting, physical sun-sky, area and point lights along with IES support. Thea Render delivers the highest quality for your images with a unique physically-based material system. It comes with a complete standalone studio with advanced editors and cool features like instancing brush and interactive render. Thea Render is the most versatile render solution featuring multiple state-of-the-art biased and unbiased engines.
STUDIO GPU : MATCHSTUDIO PRO BAKERY 3D : BAKERY RELIGHT INDIGO RENDERER 3DELIGHT SITEX GRAPHICS : AIR AIR is an advanced 3D graphics renderer with a unique architecture and extensive features designed for the rapid production of high-quality images. AIR is a hybrid renderer, combining the advantages of scanline rendering - fast rendering of complex scenes, motion blur, and depth of field - with the flexibility of on-demand ray tracing for accurate reflections, soft shadows, global illumination, and caustics. AIR supports a broad range of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes, trimmed NURBs, subdivision meshes, curves, particles, and implicit surfaces. All primitives are supported in their natural form; no pre-meshing is required. AIR offers the flexibility of fully programmable shading and procedural modeling. AIR employs tiled rendering with user-controllable tile order for efficient rendering of complex scenes. AIR doesn’t tie you to a particular modeling or animation program. AIR is compatible with the RenderMan® standard for the description of 3D scenes.
RAMDOM CONTROL : ARION RENDER Key features: Interactive rendering and editing, CUDA empowered, displacement, photo-realistic materials, physically-based, unbiased... Arion raw raytracing speed is vs. quality ratio is unprecedented and can produce the cleanest and the most beautiful artworks. Thanks to its carefully engineered rendering core, it outputs an astonishing amount of work in the same time as traditional renderers. Beside a deep optimization of the core that affects raw speed, Arion 2's new sampling strategy leads to an even faster image convergence. This excellent performance applies to all the different samplers in Arion 2, including Metropolis Light Transport (MLT). LightMixer light layers are back. It's now possible to output all the LightMixer layers in a multi-layer EXR file and tune it in your favorite editing software such as Photoshop, After Effect, Nuke... Just like AOVs, LightMixer layers are computed on the fly during the standard calculation of the full unbiased render or AOVs.
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