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RenderMan for Maya

 


RenderMan for Maya offers seamless integration

LATEST FEATURES

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. Here are some of the new features:

  • 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 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. Ray Traced Procedural Unload - Trace procedural geometry with greater memory efficiency
    10. And much more ...
  • PLUG-IN FEATURES
    1. New Workspace Editor - Improved asset management
    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 2009 Support
    3. Mac 10.5.x Leopard Support

RENDERMAN FOR EVERYONE

RenderMan® for Maya® delivers all of RenderMan's legendary performance and quality to provide your creations with that distinctive visual edge. Combined with an intuitive workflow, RenderMan for Maya sets a new standard for rendering high-quality visual effects and animation. RenderMan for Maya is a next-generation Maya plug-in built that offers:

  • EASE OF USE
    1. Seamless integration with Maya; nothing new to learn
    2. Software rendering of all Maya Particles
    3. Automatically render Maya Fur and Hair
    4. Render Maya Material networks, PaintFX, and much more!
         
  • QUALITY
    1. World renown cinematic-quality imagery
    2. High quality anti-aliasing for minimal artifacts
       
  • POWER
    1. Multithreading
    2. Incredibly fast 3D motion blur 
    3. Exceptionally fast displacements
    4. Fast and efficient fur and hair
    5. Robust secondary outputs for easy compositing
    6. Render enormous amounts of geometry
       
  • FEATURES
    1. "Deep Shadow" technology
    2. Advanced subsurface scattering 
    3. Point based ambient occlusion and global illumination
    4. Fast HDRI and image based lighting effects
    5. Texture baking
    6. Camera effects, including bokeh and shutter timing
    7. Photon based caustics
    8. Render time CSG boolean operations
    9. Production statistics
    10. And more . . .

Questions? Check out the RenderMan for Maya FAQ

RenderMan for Maya brings RenderMan's speed, power, and stability directly to Maya users, without the added cost and complexities of our premium, high-end products, RenderMan Pro Server and the RenderMan Studio. If you've been looking for an affordable, easy way to get RenderMan, your wait is over.
 

GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY
   

RenderMan for Maya takes all your Maya scene data — Maya Materials, lights, geometry, Maya Fur, particles, Maya Hair, et cetera — and renders them with Pixar's RenderMan. Simply select “RenderMan” from the Render using… menu and your image will appear in the Maya Render View window. Get the same production-quality motion blur and displacements, ambient occlusion, 3D caching and baking, not to mention the legendary power, speed, and stability of Pixar's RenderMan, right there in the Maya UI.
 


The RenderMan Render Globals
SPECIAL RENDERMAN FEATURES
    


The Deep Shadow Pass Settings

Maya users can enjoy the same global illumination and subsurface scattering effects, deep shadows, and super-efficient subdivision schemes available in RenderMan Pro Server. Ray-tracing effects, such as global illumination, and other effects, like motion blur, are set up via the Render Globals. Other RenderMan features, like Deep Shadows or subsurface scattering, are attached directly to Maya nodes.

RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. Those who require the versatility of RIB in and out, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, or the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals are encouraged to use our premium, high-end products: the RenderMan Artist Tools and RenderMan Pro Server. If, however, you're looking for the speed and quality of Pixar's RenderMan, fully integrated with Maya, check out RenderMan for Maya. 

TRY IT FREE TODAY!

A full-featured watermarked version, RenderMan for Maya Eval, is available for download today. Just register with Pixar and download it for free, and find out what RenderMan has to offer. 

 
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