VRED Professional 4.12 Hotfix がリリースされました。
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The VRED Professional 4.12 Hotfix Release contains the following fixes:
Raytracing: improved speed (about 30% faster), fixed a crash
Display Cluster: fixed a problem with color calibration
Animations: improved speed, many small bugfixes
Camera Editor: many small bugfixes.
Raytracing with Cluster: Fixed interactive Pivot Point Setting
Material Editor: Minor GUI improvements
Maya FileIO: significant improved import and export
VRender: fixed wrong job already running error. Added queueing of jobs on the same host
VServeR-Node: fixed possible crash with missing RenderLayer license
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PI-VR introduces a new and in its class leading product:
VRED Essentials 1.0.
The cut down version of VRED widens the product range by another and affordable high class real time ray tracing tool. Like its big brothers, VRED Essentials is designed for multifunctional use in all fields of 3D visualization.
The globally unique progressive renderer features outstanding product characteristics, such as global illumination, 3D motion blur and depth of field among many other features. The system can import various data-formats like Maya, FBX and Rhino. Other formats, including IGES and STEP, are also available as cost options. VRED Essentials includes a broad database with a wide range of photorealistic materials and the shader settings enable a fast creation of complex surface structures. Physically correct reflections, refractions and lighting situations can be set up and evaluated interactively throughout the whole working process. As in VRED Professional, the operating controls are arranged intuitively and the exceptional display options allow the creation of remarkable close to reality visualizations in an extremely short period of time. Long waiting times and post-editing of the graphical material become redundant. VRED Essentials speeds up working processes considerably.
VRED Essentials will be available on our Website in February 2010 starting at a price of 2.299,00 €.
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The version 4.2 of VRED Professional offers multiple new features. Among various small enhancements the following functionalities have to be emphasized:
Direct NURBS Raytracing: As the only virtual prototyping tool worldwide, VRED Professional 4.2 is able to display NURBS data without any tesselation. Now it's possible to evaluate free-form surfaces on a digital basis with perfect accuracy and physical precision. It's easy to implement virtual lightrooms to e.g. evaluate car-paint reflections or to estimate reflections on windows / mirrors. Even in the world of digital image production, direct NURBS raytracing offers convincing advantages. Large scale renderings can now easily be created without a lavishly high degree of tesselation. Due to the advantages of NURBS raytracing, product presentation movies can be done using deep zoom-in's on the smallest details with perfect quality.
Parallel CAD Import: The CAD import module of VRED Professional 4.2 has been revised. Now, it's one of the few tools able to convert CAD data parallel. For the first time, it's possible to distribute the tesselation process to all locally availble processor cores. Depending on the available hardware, the conversion time can be accelerated by factor eight and more.
Data Preparation in Raytracing Mode: Data preparation of digital models can now be done in raytracing mode. Since the number of polygons being displayable by graphics cards is strongly limited by the amount of memory on the graphics board, raytracing offers new perspectives regarding the possibilities of data preparation of huge scenes. Now, VRED Professional is capable of preparing data sets containing several hundreds of millions of polygons without any problems as the number of polygons is only limited by the amount of main memory.
Texture Editor: The texture editor of VRED has been completely revised. Any texture can now be manipulated in real-time by using well known adjustment gizmos. The procedure of texturing delivers new possibilities, as complex unwrapping becomes unnecessary.
Improved Filtering: Besides the many new features another remarkable enhancement has been included. The self-developed raytracing engine has been deeply modified. The filtering of global illumination, anti-aliasing, depth-of-field and motion-blur has been improved. Noise-free renderings will be calculated with only a few iterations.
IES Light Profile: Predefined light profile according to the IES standard can be loaded in VRED Professional 4.2. So it's now possible to simulate the distribution and look of light, emitted by illuminants in a physically correct way.