sk2k
02-01-2008, 07:54 AM
Kerkythea 2008 Echo Edition has now been released!
It has been a long year of waiting and we are sure that it really worthed it.
Kerkythea 2008 Echo is a full staging application for rendering your models. And now it's available for all major platforms Windows, Linux, and MacOSX!
Introducing the Kerkythea Instancing Brush (Earning KT2008 the name "Echo")
It features instancing by loading the "Brush" with any model or group of models and painting (scattering) instances of that onto any model "canvas" object you choose. Or, you can choose auto-population of the canvas determined by grid, or driven by image mask!
Now featuring MLT(BPT) Metropolis Light Transport on top of Bidirectional Path Tracing to handle the most demanding indirect lighting scenes.
Robust and completely re-vamped material editor featuring nk/ior measured data support, synthesis layer, procedural ramps, improved materials and the new plugin SDK for user developed customized objects.
Also featuring:
-15-25% general render speed increase (more for MLT render mode)
-Multithreading support for all render methods
-Network rendering to unlimited machines/threads/cross-platform (requires manual connection)
-Instancing and grouping of Lights or Models
-Sky Portals, Supersampling
-Physical Camera definition enhancements
-Parallel View Rendering for plans/elevations, etc.
-IES Light implementation
-Specular, Light, Diffuse, and Diffuse Texture passes
-Improved depth map rendering
-alpha channel auto-recognition for .png and .tif files
-More widgets (Drop and align commands, manual sun positioning)
-and much more
Kerkythea now supports a zipped xml version (kzx extension) for saving files, which, combined with instancing, can result in file sizes 5% to 10% the size of previous versions' saved .xml scenes.
The new cross-platform plugin SDK implementation allows users to write their own plugins including new procedural textures, materials and lights.
You will find the brand new version in our repository for all platforms:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=2
Don't forget to check our repository for new tutorials related to Echo release (tutorials will be added within the next days):
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=6
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Taken from: http://www.kerkythea.net
MfG
sk2k
It has been a long year of waiting and we are sure that it really worthed it.
Kerkythea 2008 Echo is a full staging application for rendering your models. And now it's available for all major platforms Windows, Linux, and MacOSX!
Introducing the Kerkythea Instancing Brush (Earning KT2008 the name "Echo")
It features instancing by loading the "Brush" with any model or group of models and painting (scattering) instances of that onto any model "canvas" object you choose. Or, you can choose auto-population of the canvas determined by grid, or driven by image mask!
Now featuring MLT(BPT) Metropolis Light Transport on top of Bidirectional Path Tracing to handle the most demanding indirect lighting scenes.
Robust and completely re-vamped material editor featuring nk/ior measured data support, synthesis layer, procedural ramps, improved materials and the new plugin SDK for user developed customized objects.
Also featuring:
-15-25% general render speed increase (more for MLT render mode)
-Multithreading support for all render methods
-Network rendering to unlimited machines/threads/cross-platform (requires manual connection)
-Instancing and grouping of Lights or Models
-Sky Portals, Supersampling
-Physical Camera definition enhancements
-Parallel View Rendering for plans/elevations, etc.
-IES Light implementation
-Specular, Light, Diffuse, and Diffuse Texture passes
-Improved depth map rendering
-alpha channel auto-recognition for .png and .tif files
-More widgets (Drop and align commands, manual sun positioning)
-and much more
Kerkythea now supports a zipped xml version (kzx extension) for saving files, which, combined with instancing, can result in file sizes 5% to 10% the size of previous versions' saved .xml scenes.
The new cross-platform plugin SDK implementation allows users to write their own plugins including new procedural textures, materials and lights.
You will find the brand new version in our repository for all platforms:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=2
Don't forget to check our repository for new tutorials related to Echo release (tutorials will be added within the next days):
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=6
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Taken from: http://www.kerkythea.net
MfG
sk2k