ArtVPS Ships Shaderlight 0.3 for Interactive Rendering
Suggested retail price $75
 CAMBRIDGE,
UK, Oct 2, 2009 – Leading rendering solutions provider ArtVPS has announced
the immediate availability of version 0.3 of Shaderlight, its flagship
interactive rendering plug-in for 3ds Max. Shaderlight 0.3 boasts a number
of enhancements over previous versions. Overall speed has been increased by
100 percent for complex production scenes, and early image quality of glossy
materials and area lights has been significantly improved. Other benefits
include increased image resolution and the addition of a message window to
track log messages during interactive rendering.
Shaderlight delivers dramatic productivity and creativity improvements over
traditional ray-trace engines. Intelligent pixels understand where they fit
in a 3D image and what to do if something changes, enabling users to change
materials, environments, lights or textures – the MELT elements – of a full
resolution image at any stage of the rendering process without having to
re-render.
“Shaderlight has received some great feedback from early adopters and many of
the improvements in version 0.3 have been added in direct response to this.
Prior to v0.3 the Art Professional Material was a test bed for new ideas. We
have now redesigned it to create a flexible, physically accurate material
that’s even easier to understand and use,” says Kate Marshall, Marketing
Director at ArtVPS. “The user’s experience is at the core of our development
program and we ask that Shaderlight users continue to share their thoughts
on the Shaderlight forum and file bug-reports on any problems they
encounter.”
New features in Shaderlight 0.3 include:
- Redesigned Art Professional Material: Significant changes
have been made to the ArtMaterial to create a flexible, physically
accurate material that is easy to understand and use
- Improved resolution: Shaderlight can now render interactively
to any custom resolution up to 1920x1920
- Improved performance: Speed has been increased by up to 100
percent for complex production scenes with notable improved performance
for skylight, area lights and glossy materials
- Improved image quality: Progressive image refinement has been
improved, with particular reference to the early image quality of glossy
materials and area lights
- New message window: A message window has been added to track
log messages during interactive rendering
- Bug fixes: Several bugs have been fixed to improve overall
stability as well as feature-related bugs such as invisible objects not
rendering
Pricing and availability
Shaderlight 0.3 is free to existing Shaderlight users and is available to
download from www.artvps.com. New
customers will pay $75 for version 0.3 but will receive a significant
discount on the purchase of Shaderlight 1.0, which will be released at the
end of the year. To help new users get to grips with Shaderlight, a number
of scenes that demonstrate its capabilities are available at
here.
About ArtVPS
ArtVPS leads the way in the development of photorealistic rendering
solutions that generate visually accurate representations of 3D scenes. Its
revolutionary flagship rendering technology, Shaderlight, is a physically
based, progressive ray-tracer that enables interactive, nonlinear changes to
the key MELT attributes (materials, environments, lighting and textures) at
any stage within the rendering process – even on production-ready images.
Shaderlight is aimed at 3D artists and computer graphics professionals
within the product design, architecture, engineering and media industries.
The technology will transform 3D visualization workflows, and represents a
dramatic boost to both productivity and creative freedom when compared to
traditional linear ray-trace renderers, which require the rendering process
to start again whenever image parameters are changed.
Founded in 2002, ArtVPS quickly established itself as the leading
developer of dedicated rendering hardware, developing the first processor
designed exclusively to accelerate ray tracing of 3D data. ArtVPS is now
pioneering the development of rendering software that fully exploits the
increased capabilities of today’s processor technology.
For more information, visit at
www.artvps.com.
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Additional News
Feb 16 - ArtVPS Appoints bluegfx as UK Reseller of Shaderlight
Dec 2 - ArtVPS Ships Shaderlight 1.0 for Interactive Rendering
Oct 2 - ArtVPS Ships Shaderlight 0.3 for Interactive Rendering
June 2 - ArtVPS Launches Shaderlight for Interactive Rendering
May 15 - ARTVPS Releases AV6.5 ART Renderer
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