render3d

26. April 2012: Updated Appleseed to new release alpha-12 which now supports deformation motionblur. Added some initial experiences to Arsenal render manager.

22. April 2012: Updated Terragen to version2.4 and Octane.

21. April 2012: Updated some rendermanagers like afanasy or arsenal suite and drQueue. I will try to use some of them and will report what is happening. Updated KeyShot to version 3.1. Updated Lightwave with the current release Lightwave11. Luxologys Modo is updated to 601. Updated mentalray to version 3.10. Added a new free renderfarm for blender: renderfarm.fi. Updated Luxrender which is avaliable now in version 1.0.

19. March 2012: Sidefx has released Houdini 12 with a improved mantra renderer.

17. March 2012: In February ( I know I'm quite late...) the chaotic people of the Chaos Group released VRay for Softimage. Finally Softimage has an alternative beside 3Delight and mentalray. VRay for Softimage supports most of the well known VRay features like VRay proxies as well as RenderElements and sophisticated hair shading. It seems to be well integratend into the Softimage workflow.

Aqsis now released the 1.8 of the Aqsis Rendering Framwork. They now support ppint cloud based gi and particles via partio implementation. Unfortunatly the binaries are broken at the moment, so we have to wait for version 1.8.1.

21. January: New release of free renderer Appleseed, the download contains a maya exporter now.

20. January: Greenbutton and Pixar teams up to offer an on demand cloud rendering for Pixars prman. e-on software now offers now linux rendernodes for vue esprit. No new release for mayatomr, but an internal update to show that the project is still alive. The translator now supports correct per particle data like rgbPP.

13. January: Added Nvidias OptiX raytracing framework to RnD as well as Aruna (or Brigade).

31. December: A last small update for this year. Arion renderer has updated their renderer to version 1.6 and add a Plugin version for softimage.

26. December: Added an impressive rendering system VRED. Added as well a new RnD section where I will place some links that does not fit into any other category, the first entry is intels raytracing framework Embree.

25. December: Added an impressive renderer plugin for maya. It is a CPU preview renderer for mentalray renderings: SprayTrace. Have a look at it, its great! Udated information about the new version of Krakatoa MX 2.0 as well as Deadline from the same company. I added a new mentalray link in the mentalray links page for the elementalray blog. This is a really great source of high end information. Updated information about Lumion 2.0. Updated Blender information about the new release 2.61. Arion released a new version 1.5.1 with a whole bunch of new features. I added a new CPU based interactive progressive renderer - okay its not new but for me its new - called Luxion KeyShot. Updated infos for the new maxwell version 2.6. Updated infos for Vue esprit 10 and added the Autodesk render cloud to renderfarms.