What's New?

RenderMan Studio

RenderMan Studio 2.0 is the latest version of Pixar's advanced suite of tools for shading and lighting TDs. Highlights in version 2.0 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. Ray-Traced Procedural Unload - Trace procedural geometry with greater memory efficiency
    10. And more ...

 

New Compatibility

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

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
    4. RIB Boxes - Attach RIB directly to objects
    5. New DRA Workflow - A new UI makes delayed read archives simple to setup, even for animated archives

 

Slim 8.0

  1. Co-shader Support — Slim now offers co-shader support in the form of a co-shader template.
  2. Subsurface Scattering — Slim now supports RFM's implicit pass mechanism for subsurface scattering, as well as the new subsurface() shadeop.
  3. Multiple Output Templates — Slim supports templates with multiple outputs, i.e. templates of type "multiple". Middle mouse click on an Appearance to bring up a menu of outputs.
  4. New Templates — Over ten useful templates have been added to Slim.

 

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