RenderMan for Maya 4
Pixar's RenderMan® for Maya is one of the premier VFX software packages - RenderMan for the masses. It’s a perfect starter tool that gives users all of RenderMan’s legendary performance and quality to give creations a distinctive visual edge.
With intuitive workflow for rendering high-quality visual effects and animation, this plug-in for Maya is all about enhancement - powerful multi-threading, substantial increases in ray-tracing performance, improved fur, new camera effects, and compatibility with Maya.
Features
- "Deep Shadow" technology
- Advanced subsurface scattering
- Point based ambient occlusion and global illumination
- Fast HDRI and image based lighting effects
- Texture baking
- Camera effects, including bokeh and shutter timing
- Photon based caustics
- Render time CSG boolean operations
- Production statistics
Benefits
Ease of Use
- Clean integration with Maya
- Software rendering of all Maya Particles
- Automatically render Maya Fur and Hair
- Render Maya Material networks, PaintFX, and much more!
Quality
- World renowned cinematic-quality imagery
- High quality anti-aliasing for minimal artifacts
- Multithreading
- RenderMan's famous motion blur
- High quality displacements
- Fast and efficient fur and hair
- Robust secondary outputs for easy compositing
- Render enormous amounts of geometry
Power
What's New
RenderMan for Maya 4.0 has new features and significant performance enhancements, including:
New Features
- Maya Fluids - Maya Fluid are now supported with full support for motion blur and the ability to produce depth maps, for Deep Shadows, etc.
- RenderMan Controls - A new, consolidated user interface provides intuitive, one-window access to the RFM's basic settings and operations.
- Co-Shader Support - RFM now supports tightly bound light/co-shader combinations.
Enhancements
- RFM includes a significant upgrade to the core rendering technology, providing substantial out-of-the-box performance enhancements.
- Unlimited Threading - Renderings can now take advantage of unlimited threads per seat.
- Enhanced Threading - Significant gains when using multiple processors
- Accelerated Ray Tracing - Substantial performance optimisations
- Render Layers - The pass mechanisms for both implicit and explicit passes has been improved for Maya Render Layers.
New Compatibility
- 64 bit Vista Support
- Maya 2011 Support
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