ArtVPS Ships Shaderlight 1.0 for Interactive Rendering
Suggested retail price $895
 CAMBRIDGE,
UK, Dec 2, 2009 – Leading rendering solutions provider ArtVPS has announced
the immediate availability of Shaderlight 1.0, the first full release
version of its interactive rendering plug-in for 3ds Max. Shaderlight 1.0
marks the culmination of two years of research and development and is
designed to finally unlock the workflow bottlenecks faced by 3D artists,
with its completely new approach to rendering.
Classroom rendered with Shaderlight
Shaderlight is a physically based, progressive ray-tracer that enables
interactive changes to be made to materials, environments, lighting and
textures – the key MELT attributes – at any stage within the rendering
process. 3D artists are able to make changes to an image and see the results
in real time without compromising on image quality or restarting the render.
Shaderlight works by maintaining the relationship between the colour of
the rendered pixel and the elements of the 3D scene that contribute to that
pixel. When changes are made to any of the MELT elements the software uses
the information embedded in the intelligent pixels to update the image
without the need to re-render.
Commenting on the release of Shaderlight 1.0, ArtVPS’s chief technology
officer, Michael Lawson, said: “We knew when we set out to create
Shaderlight that we had the potential to create a fundamental shift in the
way 3D artists work by removing the bottleneck inherent in the linear
render/change/re-render process. We’re delighted to have realised that goal
with the launch of Shaderlight 1.0. With this kind of non-linear workflow,
artists, designers and animators working in today’s competitive environment
need no longer be shackled by time-consuming and inefficient rendering
processes that eat into project deadlines and stifle creativity.”
The launch of Shaderlight 1.0 marks the end of a highly successful
pre-release programme during which a dynamic community of early adopters has
provided invaluable feedback for the ArtVPS development team. Everyone who
downloaded pre-release software will qualify for a 50 percent discount off
the price of the full version.
New features in Shaderlight 1.0 include:
- Zoom & Scroll – The Shaderlight window now has a zoom and scroll
capability that allows users to render an image that is larger than the
available screen size and zoom into an image to view pixel-level
details.
- Super-sampling – Super-sampling has been further improved with the
addition of Mitchell filtering.
- Image-Based Lighting – Changes to image-based lighting improve both
rendering time and quality.
- GI Improvements – The Active Photon Tracing algorithms have been
strengthened, resulting in smoother indirect illumination.
- Texture Filtering – Texture filtering has been improved,
particularly with respect to environment textures.
- MELT allocation and memory usage – Shaderlight MELT allocation has
been improved to ensure that memory usage does not exceed available
system resources while maximizing the MELT-ability of the image.
- Stability – Several bugs have been fixed to improve overall
stability and feature-related bugs such as the rendering of samples in
the 3ds Max material editor have been addressed.
Availability
Shaderlight 1.0 is available to download now for $895. ArtVPS is offering
a 50 percent discount to anyone who downloaded pre release versions 0.1, 0.2
or 0.3. New users can take advantage of a free 14-day trial. During the free
trial users will have access to all of the features in Shaderlight 1.0.
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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