Product category:
Rendering, visualisation and styling software
News Release from: ARTVPS | Subject: RenderPipe
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 July 2004
Software supports latest Maya and Viz
releases
ART VPS has released updated RenderPipe software that supports new features in Alias Maya 6 and Autodesk Viz 2005, while providing continued support for 3ds max 6.
ART VPS has released updated RenderPipe software that supports new features in Alias Maya 6 and Autodesk Viz 2005, while providing continued support for 3ds max 6 RenderPipe integrates with Maya, Viz and 3ds max to give users access to hardware-accelerated ray tracing on ART VPS's Pure and RenderDrive systems
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new RenderPipe plugins extend support for colour and environment nodes in Maya 6 and Viz 2005.
ART VPS has also increased RenderPipe speed by caching data on Pure or RenderDrive systems between frames, saving re-export of unchanged data on consecutive frames.
RenderPipe supports standard materials and RenderMan RP shaders for all versions of Maya, Viz and 3ds max.
It comes with ART VPS's RenderCoat material library, which provides physically based surface materials tuned for Pure and RenderDrive's accelerated ray tracing.
In conjunction with the new RenderPipe release, ART VPS now offers interactive tutorials for 3ds max and Maya; the step-by-step videos help customers get the most out of Pure and RenderDrive ray tracing.
Free downloads of RenderPipe for Maya, VIZ and 3ds max are available from the ART VPS website.
The new RenderPipe software is being shipped with all new products, and is free to current ART VPS software subscribers.
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