Rendercore Announces Software Upgrades for 3 Packages!

Lightwave 9.2, 3d Studio Max 9 Service Pack 2, and XSI 6.01

Please download the latest version of the RenMan Client, v.3.3

Lightwave 9.2

Depth of Field
Depth of Field (DOF) is the area that appears in focus in front of and behind the focal point of a picture. LightWave's new Depth of Field (DOF) offers photorealistic lens effects, including f-stop and exposure blooms, lighting artifacts and out-of-focus aberrations known as "Bokeh Effect". You can also preview DOF in realtime in the user interface, to receive immediate feedback of your DOF adjustments.

Photoreal Motion Blur
True 3D motion blur has been implemented in LightWave v9.2. Now you can enjoy smooth 3D motion blur that matches the effect of live action blur as it appears on film. Animatable parameters for shutter speed and blur length enable you to tune the look of the blur to match film speed, aperture settings and exposure lengths, for a fully customizable look.

Improvements to Global Illumination and Final Gather
Global Illumination and Radiosity have been significantly improved to provide faster and higher quality renders. With LightWave v9.2 you will be able to easily create photorealistic scenes, characters and products while simulating the effect of real-world lighting in photography.

3D Studio Max Service Pack 2

Autodesk 3ds Max 9 Service Pack 2 is aimed primarily at addressing Vista compatibility issues. It includes a number of fixes specific to Windows Vista, as well as fixes across several functional areas, including Animation, Backburner, Batch Rendering, Biped, Editable Poly, Editable Mesh, Hair, Materials, Maxscript, mental ray, Reactor, Render to Texture, SDK and UV Unwrap.

Rendering Issues Addressed
• Fixed a problem where logarithmic exposure would output negative values for color components greater than ~0.95.
• Fixed a problem that could lead to decreased stability when rendering displacement maps.
• Fixed a problem that was forcing render output filenames to user lowercase characters only, and completely changing double-byte characters.
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Mental Ray Issues Addressed
We fixed a compatibility issue between the fast rasterizer and the mr sun and sky shader.
• Fixed a compatibility problem between the new FG interpolation mode and the Fast SSS shader.
• Fixed a performance issue with accessing IES light profiles.
• There was a problem with the number of satellites available in multi-core or hyper-threaded machines. This has been corrected

Softimage|XSI 6.01

Major Bug Fixes/Enhancements
The Softimage|XSI 6.01 update addresses many key bugs and includes multiple feature enhancements to the software. The rendering system appears to have been the main focus for bug fixes and enhancements. For a full list of these upgrades, please visit the Softimage website.

About Rendercore

Founded in Hollywood in 2002, Rendercore offers on-demand, remote rendering services and solutions for the customers from such diversified industries as entertainment, architectural, engineering and industrial design who demand huge computing resources. With over 3Tera Hz computing power, a cutting edge super-computing infrastructure and the industry's first remote rendering software, Rendercore's render farm provides instant on, outsource rendering capacity for users of Maya, 3D Studio Max, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, SoftimageXSI, Viz, Vray, Brazil r/s, Turtle, and Final Render Stage-1.

Rendercore's location in downtown Los Angeles is right on the Internet's backbone and has bandwidth connectivity of OC12, enabling clients around the world to work as transparently and effectively half way around the world as they do using internal render engines within their facility.

For more information, please visit:http://www.rendercore.com