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V-Ray for form•Z image nominated for CGArchitect Architectural 3D Award
Congratulations to TILTPIXEL on their nomination for a prestigious CGArchitect Architectural 3D Award. Their stunning image of the Harbin Opera House by M.A.D. Architects was modelled in form•Z and rendered with V-Ray for form•Z.
V-Ray for form•Z brings unprecedented rendering capabilities to form•Z with superior re-sults in less time. V-Ray for form•Z is integrated naturally into the form•Z interface allowing rendering to be a part of the creative process.
V-Ray for form•Z features GPU and CPU based rendering, a vast material library, stunning lighting effects, stereo and VR headset support, multiple rendering channels, powerful de-noising and so much more.
Maxwell Materials are the key to great renders with Maxwell Render 4
Mihai Iliuta at maxwellzone.com has just released some great results using the advantages of having great materials
Hi Maxwellians,
Just wanted to quickly show you some renders of a new set of brass materials created by Leonardo Giomarelli (ilgioma), which I think really demonstrate one of the most important things to understand about Maxwell – if you take the time to create realistic materials, the rest just becomes so much easier. And conversely, if your materials are crap, then your render will most certainly also be…crap.
Also, *DO* use the Maxwell material assistants to quickly give you realistic materials.
In these renders I just used one my HDRs and the “Advantix 100” tonemapping preset.
AutoDesSys is excited to announce that the award winning V-Ray renderer now available for form•Z offers versatile and intuitive modeling capabilities and V-Ray’s powerful rendering capabilities to create quick and solid designs with astonishing, cutting-edge visualizations in a single solution. The unprecedented integration with V-Ray allows for rendering and lighting to be an integral part of the design process, not just a final step.
V-Ray for form•Z feature highlights:
Powerful hybrid rendering – You can render on NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, CPUs — or a combination of both.
Material library – over 550 realistic, physical based materials, such as glass, coated plastics or metals, wood, stone and etc.
V-Ray grass and fur – Realistic grass, fabrics and carpet now possible with V-Ray fur.
Denoiser – With V-Ray’s denoising technology, you can automatically eliminate noise and cut render times by up to 50%!
Aerial perspective – Add realistic atmosphere and depth to your renders with V-Ray’s new Aerial perspective controls.
Virtual Reality – Verify designs at 1:1 scale in popular VR headsets like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR.
Cutaways with Clipper – Render sections and cutaways with ease using the V-Ray Clipper.
Powerful light calculations – the V-Ray Adaptive Lights algorithm will speed renders up to seven times faster on some scenes.
V-Ray Frame Buffer – Fine-tune your render’s color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
Additional product information and sample images created with V-Ray for form•Z are available at:
form•Zpro and form•Z jr. An evaluation version is available allowing users to experience all of the V-Ray for form•Z features for 30 Days for free.
About form•Z
form•Zis a potent 3D modeling and design application featuring a variety of modeling personalities and tools with a distinctively easy to use interface. It is a most intuitive and versatile professional-grade 3D modeler that is based on advanced 3D solid and surface modeling methods. They maintain accurate representations that allow you to progress from conceptual sketching to detailed design, photorealistic visualization, construction drawings, animation, and fabrication. The current version of form•Z is available in three varieties: form•Z free, form•Z jr, and form•Z pro.
formZ PRO has in the past used a third party renderer called RenderZone that has had development cease due to limitations in support of new technology. It is now being replaced by V-Ray internally that offers more capabilities, much higher speed rendering straight out of the box and the ability for significant improved results with subtle ‘tweaking’ for amazing results that can be further accelerated with support new nVidia based GPU cards.
Older users of formZ can upgrade their pre- v 8.5 versions to the latest versions by order online.< discount on Add to Bag >
The power of Academy Award winning V-Ray rendering is now available for form•Z. We have integrated V-Ray seamlessly into form•Z so that you will find your way around very quickly and get instant high quality renderings “out of the box”.For more information Click Here.
V-Ray for formZ is now available for all new old users of formZ by calling us direct or ‘online’ with one of the best implementations yet of V-Ray v3.6 . It will run on all of the latest versions of :
formZ PRO v8.6 ( free download for all current v8.5.7 users available ) upgrades from all previous versions are available here ONLINE UPGRADES. or formZ Jr ( latest version ) The formZ integrated interface allows the easiest set up for high quality rendering ever, with a guide for a great initial result set up automatically.
V-Ray v3.6 implementation Yet below the ‘hood’ is a great range of new options that are part of the new V-Ray v3.6 capability available on other major 3D modellers. You can even open their V-Ray scenes (vrscene files ) or export your scene to be opened in their V-Ray. Harbin Opera House – MAD architects modelled and rendered in formZ Some of best 3D modellers use V-Ray for its quality of rendering and rendering speed. V-Ray for formZ now supports all modern CPU, GPU* or Hybrid ( both CPU& GPU ) on either MacOSX ( 10.9.5 and above ) or Windows 7, 8.0/1 and Windows 10 Use it for Architecture rendering, Interiors, Point of Sale mock ups, Trade show stands or Product design. It now renders carpets, fabrics, fur and grass. Straight away the rendering is much faster than with RenderZone but it can be accelerated now with the option of using GPU – nVidia CUDA based technology – huge improvements are possible!
Powerful hybrid rendering – You can render on nVidia CUD GPUs – or a combination of both.
Material Library – over 550 realistic physical based materials, such as glass, coated plastics or metals,wood, stone etc.
V-Ray Gras & Fur Realistic Grass, fabrics and carpet are now possible with V-Ray Fur
Denoiser – with V-Ray’s new denoising technology you can automatically eliminate noise and cut render times by up to 50%
Virtual Reality – Verify designs at 1:1 scale in popular VR headsets
Cutaways and Clipper – Render sections and cutaways with ease using the V-Ray Clipper.
Powerful light calculations – V-Ray Adaptive Lights algorithm will speed renders up to 7 times faster on some scenes.
V-Ray Frame Buffer – Fine tune your render colour, exposure
The power of Academy Award winning V-Ray rendering is now available for formZ. We have integrated V-Ray seamlessly into formZ so that you will find your way around very quickly and get instant high quality renderings “out of the box”.
“V-Ray for formZ brings 3D models to life with ease and agility. The unprecedented integration with V-Ray allows for rendering and lighting to be an integral part of the formZ design process, not just a final step. We are so excited to add this powerful tool to the form•Z product lineup and we cannot wait to see the wonderful creations it fosters!”
GPU rendering requires nVidia – CUDA based video cards with over 2GB RAM, but it is recommended at least 8GB RAM.
Announcing V-Ray for form•Z beta release. Brand new fully integrated CPU and GPU rendering for the form•Z community.
The power of Academy Award winning V-Ray rendering is now available for form•Z. We have integrated V-Ray seamlessly into form•Z so that you will find your way around very quickly and get instant high quality renderings “out of the box”. Come and try rendering with this exciting new product.
Here’s a glimpse of just some of the features in V-Ray 3.6 for form•Z:
Powerful hybrid rendering – You can render on NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, CPUs — or a combination of both.
Material library – over 550 realistic physical based materials, such as glass, coated plastics or metals, wood,stone and etc.
V-Ray Grass and fur – Realistic grass, fabrics and carpet now possible with V-Ray Fur.
Denoiser – With V-Ray’s new denoising technology, you can automatically eliminate noise and cut render times by up to 50%!
Aerial perspective – Add realistic atmosphere and depth to your renders with V-Ray’s new Aerial perspective controls.
Virtual Reality – Verify designs at 1:1 scale in popular VR headsets like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR.
Cutaways with Clipper – Render sections and cutaways with ease using the V-Ray Clipper.
Powerful light calculations – the V-Ray Adaptive Lights algorithm will speed renders up to seven times faster on some scenes.
V-Ray Frame Buffer – Fine-tune your render’s color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
Click here for an overview video of the V-Ray for form•Z interface.
V-Ray for form•Z Beta is open to all form•Z 8.5 pro users. Don’t wait, Click here to register for the beta.
Want to see V-Ray 3.6 for form•Z in action? Join us on November 14, 2017 at 12:00 EST (4am – Sydney/Melb/Canberra ESST) for a special webinar to learn about what V-Ray for form•Z is all about. Click here to register.
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For any questions you may have, please contact us via email at sales@smarttec.com.au or call us at 02 99394000.
The current private beta release of Vray v3.6 is getting ready for a Public Beta release after some awesome results and examples from formZ users.
We are hoping to have a releasable public version in a few weeks.
Are you ready? We are and we believe we have what will be the next most valuable tool in your digital toolbox!
Some first facts:
1. V-Ray for formZ is running on both WIN and OSX.
2. We are requiring that you have the latest version of formZ 8.5.
3. V-Ray for the most part will need the same machine specifications as you need for formZ itself. If you have more CPU power and RAM that’s fine too. If you have a ‘Cuda’ based GPU cards then bring it on!
4. We are going to be looking for images and projects to share as part of our marketing efforts. What ever you can share with us we’d appreciate it.
5. This is Beta software. Although we recognize it as a stable release please use caution when using the plugin. Work on files that you know you have backed up or that you will not risk your livelihood on.
If you’re interested please drop us an email at vray@formz.com with examples of your best rendering work. If you can give us an idea of the amount of time you think you can dedicate to testing on a weekly basis that would be helpful too.
The Maxwell Render 4.1 release is a big one. If you haven’t updated to Maxwell 4 yet, now is the time.
If you are an existing customer, and want to upgrade your Maxwell Render 3.2.1.5 for any modeller at here. Just pick your 2 plugins ( Studio can be one choice )
If you’re new to Maxwell and want to kick the tyres first, download a trial copy. Please come back here and we can help with your new version.
Please note: The following is oriented to the formZ implementation.
DENOISER
There’s now an integrated denoiser. When enabled, there will be NO noise in your final rendering. This means Maxwell-quality renderings in a fraction of the time it took previously – in either CPU Production or GPU mode. Expect 2x – 8x faster architectural visualizations.
LIGHT MIXER
Next up, we have a new Light Mixer. When used in conjunction with Fire, you can interactively fine-tune the contribution of all lights and emitter materials in your scene from one convenient panel. It’s a lot like Multilight, inside formZ.
LIGHT GROUPS
Maxwell for formZ supports formZ Light groups both in the Light Mixer and in Multilight. Intensity-override groups are represented as a single slider in both environments.
ONLINE MATERIALS
Using materials from the online materials database in formZ is now just a click away.
NEW MATERIAL TYPES Xrite AxF and TableBRDF material types are now supported directly by the plugin.
RELEASE NOTES
Changes
• Integrated Denoiser support. (Maxwell Options > Engine tab)
• New Light Mixer for interactively balancing intensity of lights, light groups, onf material emitters. (Extensions > Maxwell Render > Light Mixer…)
• formZ Light Group support: All lights in a formZ light group with intensity override are now represented by a single Multilight slider. (Enable in Maxwell Options > Translate tab)
• Improved access to MXM file browser. (Material Parameters > Maxwell Representation > Referenced MXM option)
• Improved access to online MXM gallery browser. (Material Parameters > Maxwell Representation > Referenced MXM option)
• Direct support for X-Rite AxF Materials (Material Parameters > Maxwell representation).
• Direct support for TableBrdf Materials (Material Parameters > Maxwell representation).
• Support for rendering with the number of available logical processors, minus a specified number. (Set a negative number in Maxwell Options > Engine Tab > CPU Threads)
• Plugin now uses central Maxwell installation.
• Update to the Maxwell 4.1 engine.
Fixes
• Grass Modifiers using formZ material option now restored correctly on open.
• Denoiser At Each SL/At End parameter now correctly saved in project.
Straight away the rendering is much faster than with RenderZone but it can be accelerated now with the option of using GPU – nVidia CUDA based technology – huge improvements are possible!
