Motion Media

Features 2.3

Core

• 100% GPU rendering - ATI or NVIDIA
• Realtime DoF with bokeh effect (circle, hectagon, triangle) - new
• Output resolution up to 8k
• Realtime motion blur - new
• Motion vector output pass - new
• 30 - 300 times faster than software renderers
• Fully integrated into Maya - any change is immediately visible in viewport (No Exporting)
• Hierarchy of settings nodes
• Realtime Depth of Field - behavior like REAL lenses (simulated method independent on scene) 
• Limited particle support
• DirectX 11  support
• Multi-core CPU support for some operations - new
• Maya 2012 support - new
• Image sequence  textures
• Color balance for  all textures
• Instancer support - new
• Environment fog support - new

Sampling

• !! NO FLICKERING IN ANIMATION !! (GI, shadows, reflections...)
• Different sampling methods
• Supersampling and HW accelerated fullscreen antialiasing
• Integrated post process effects (glow, blur)

Global Illumination

• Realtime Ambient Occlusion (fast simulated method independent on complexity of scene)
• Realtime Color Bleeding (fast simulated method independent on complexity of scene)

Lighting and Shading

• Unlimited number of lights
• Realtime Displacement maps - new
• Extended support for Maya lights - ambient, directional, point, spot
• Shadow casting for spotlights
• Fully customizable soft shadows and variable penumbra shadows (simulated area light shadows)
• Realtime Subsurface shader  with presets (eg. human skin shader) - new
• Realtime  Translucency  rendering - new
• Triangle  subdivisions - new
• Adaptive  tesselation (distance, silhouette or displacement map  adaptive - new

Realtime reflections and  refractions

• Fully supported  Maya materials - Lambert, Blinn, Phong, PhongE (custom shaders soon)
• File texture compression and UV transformation
• Per-pixel accurate transparency (up to 16 layers)
• Fast simulated refractions
• Two types of  reflections - fast reflection maps and accurate planar mirrors
• Blur, attenuation and other effects for  reflections/refractions
• Normal maps  support

Hair and Fur

• New hair system with per-face selection and better Maya integration - new
• Dynamic hair  and fur using Maya dynamics
• Hair geometry  creation entirely on GPU
• Very fast and  effective hair/fur rendering
• Millions of hairs rendered interactively  with real lighting

Output

• Multipass  support - every pass can be shown in viewport (AO, Color bleed,  refractions...)
• Matte shadows and reflections  pass
• Matte  object - (You can render just fur for example and using matte object add  FurryBall hairs to images rendered in different renderer)
• Many image file format support
• Up  to 32-bit floating point per channel output
• EXR, PNG, TIF and much more - float, 32bit, 16bit, 8bit

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