What's New?

RenderMan for Maya 3.0

RenderMan® for Maya® 3.0 is the latest version of Pixar's advanced rendering plug-in for Maya, featuring Pixar's award-winning RenderMan renderer. Highlights in version 3.0 include a series of significant performance enhancements, which should be immediately apparent on many scenes.

Latest Features Include

RENDERER ENHANCEMENTS

    1. Enhanced Threading - Significant gains when using multiple processors
    2. Accelerated Ray Tracing - Substantial performance optimizations
    3. Faster Depth of Field - For scenes with fast-moving objects and heavy blur
    4. Faster Subsurface Scattering - With a new threaded version of PTFilter
    5. Faster AOVs - Significant improvements for secondary outputs
    6. More Efficient Polygons - Complex meshes have big performance gains
    7. Optimized Long Curves - Long hair is now easier to render
    8. Organized Point Clouds - Better performance through improved memory efficiency
    9. And more ...

 

 

IMPROVED WORKFLOW

    1. Improved Asset Management - For better rendering in a production environment
    2. Enhanced Extendibility - More flexible for production pipelines
    3. RSL for Maya Materials - Now may be easily customized

     

NEW COMPATIBILITY

    1. 64 bit Vista Support
    2. Maya 2010 Support
    3. Mac 10.5.x Leopard Support

     

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