We are excited to announce the release of a free update to Shaderlight 2018 that includes a number of feature enhancements that improve the usability of Shaderlight.
This update is available FREE to users with a Shaderlight 2018 license. Anyone with an earlier version can purchase an upgrade to access the full features of Shaderlight 2018.
The addition of a numeric entry field now makes it easier to get an accurate match of the lighting environment and background image between different SketchUp models.
Warning when closing during render
To prevent accidentally losing the progress of a long-running render, Shaderlight will now warn if you attempt to close the render window while a render is in progress.
Keep Shaderlight ‘Always on Top’
If you select the ‘Always on Top’ setting Shaderlight will now keep the Shaderlight window above other windows between sessions.
From now until August 31st 2018, we’ve got big discounts on all Next Limit products including RealFlow and Maxwell Render!
Maxwell Render
Maxwell Render is 3D rendering software for architects and designers. Legendary for its quality and realism, Maxwell delivers great results via a simple setup which lets you focus on the lighting.
Maxwell Render is also available as a plugin for all major modelling platforms – find yours below:
RealFlow is an industry-standard, out-of-the-box fluid simulation software. Fast and easy to use, it is compatible with ALL major 3D platforms. You can use RealFlow for small to large scale simulations, ocean surfaces, body dynamics and much more.
As well as a standalone renderer compatible with all major 3D platforms, RealFlow for Maya and RealFlow for Cinema 4D allow you to work directly within your modeller without breaking your workflow.
Now it is faster and easier to simulate granulars, viscous, viscoelastic, rigid, and elastic materials with an even easier and faster workflow. Achieve high-end GPU-accelerated simulations from inside Autodesk Maya by using the RealFlow | Maya plugin.
Following on from the popular RealFlow | Cinema 4D, Next Limit are providing a similar solution to other 3D applications commonly used with RealFlow. This plugin lets you create fluid simulations directly in your 3D platform, so there’s no need to leave your platform and break your workflow with importing and exporting.
It is compatible with Maya 2017-2018, and provides integration with native Maya tools such as nParticles and MEL. You can simulate all Dyverso particles and have the majority of RealFlow Daemons available to achieve high-end simulations.
V-Ray Next for 3DS Max is smarter, faster and more powerful than ever before. It’s packed with clever features, like Scene Intelligence, AI Denoiser and 2X faster V-Ray GPU.
During this free webinar, CG Specialist Atanas Tudzharov will show you how the incredible toolset of V-Ray Next makes it quicker and easier to get stunning results.
Topics covered:
Adaptive Dome Light Image-based environment lighting is now 2X faster on average and up to 7X faster in some scenes.
Point & shoot camera The newly redesigned V-Ray Physical Camera can set exposure and white balance automatically.
2X faster GPU rendering V-Ray GPU is ready for your high-end production scenes with a new rendering architecture that’s twice as fast.
GPU-accelerated volume rendering Render realistic smoke, fire, fog and other volumetric effects with the added speed of V-Ray GPU.
Interactive AI Denoiser Remove noise instantly using the new NVIDIA AI-accelerated denoiser.
Lighting Analysis tools Accurately measure light levels and render false colour heat maps or light value overlays.
Substance Designer and PBR workflow Metalness controls the reflection model for the material, from dielectric to metallic and can be used with PBR setups coming from other applications.
Thank you to everyone that joined the Introduction to RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.5 webinar. If you missed it or would like to watch the recording back, you can find this below.
New features include:
Mesher vertex map creation has been revamped to allow the possibility to customise them using gradients.
New vertex maps “Weights” to shade mixing fluids. It also lets you add different weights for the same fluid emitters.
New vertex maps, “Age” and “Vorticity”, for meshes.
Compatibility with the TurbulenceFD Emitter tag to use RealFlow particles for TurbulenceFD emission. Make sure to update TurbulenceFD to version v1.0 Rev 1435
The Thinking Particles workflow has been greatly improved, letting the used decide which TP groups should be synchronised with RealFlow fluids.
New “Visualizer” node. Used to display the daemon forces.
New cache “Offset” parameters to change the frame to be loaded for every cached node.
Image Emitter displays the texture in the viewport and accepts animated textures.
New “Auto Mesh Normals” parameter for the Mesher to switch between the mesher normals (accurate) or geometry normals (customisable).
Falloff for DSpline.
Age and Vorticity can be used to colour particles in the viewport in addition to the existing Velocity.
New “Texture Sampling Resolution” parameter in RealFlow preferences.
An improved RealFlow | Cinema 4D is on its way. As good as a new version, this update comes with 20 bugs fixes and 15 new features to give you more possibilities, flexibility and control. Here are just some of the improvements we have in store for you:
New and improved Vertex Maps (vorticity, age, and weight)
New “Visualizer” to display the daemon forces
Falloff for DSpline
Improved Thinking Particles workflow
Improved overall robustness
Compatibility with the TurbulenceFD Emitter (v1.0 Rev 1435 or higher)
RealFlow | Cinema 4D 2.5 will be here in just 2 weeks’ time on March 15th. Until then you can register for the introductory webinar below.
