Introducing Holomatix Rendition

[matthew-taylor]

Hi,

Holomatix Rendition is a new raytracer for Maya, which gives near-identical output to mental ray. It allows rapid interactive previews, and is typically 6-8 times faster than mental ray. We have recently put it into public beta, so I am inviting users of this site to try it out, and let us know what you think.

Rendition has been successfully used in a production enviroment for the past 6 months, however there are a few things not properly supported yet. For example - final gathering, displacement maps and particles.

Here is an overview.

http://www.holomatix.com/products/rendition/about/

Some benchmarks, with comparison images

http://www.holomatix.com/products/renditio...nce\_benchmarks/

It also gives the artist the ability to see scene updates in real time, in a similar (though far superior, we think) way to maya IPR.

http://www.holomatix.com/products/rendition/rendition\_ipr/

And the download link, for Windows and Linux versions.

http://www.holomatix.com/products/rendition/download/

I hope everyone who tries Rendition enjoys the experience, however your feedback is really important, so please let me know what you think, either by replying on this forum, or by emailing us at rendition-beta@holomatix.com

Best Regards

Matt Taylor

[fortner_mike]

Ok, it sure looks promising, i will give it a try i guess. Will post feedback here in a day or so.

Ok, well i've played with the program a bit i liked what i saw in the example (it's really fast, it would save me days on big projects) with sphere, i tried to import some of more complex objects from maya but couldn't figure it out, didn't have time to read the documentation but hopefully i will get a chance to do it next week and see how it works with something more serious than three spheres.

[joojaa]

You can actually do the above kind of refreshuing render in mentalray aswell but you need a to wade in a lot of code. By the way ive use prman in the same manner.

Nice tough.