NVIDIA Iray for 3ds Max

NVIDIA Iray for 3ds Max Floating License is a plugin renderer developed by Lightworks Design that creates physically accurate renderings by tracing light paths. It unleashes the full power of Iray's interactivity and scalability with an easy-to-use, intuitive workflow that maximizes productivity by providing immediate visual feedback during scene development. Plus easily create or modify physical based lights and materials using a layered material model, the NVIDIA vMaterials Library is supported as well as material exchange capabilities with other MDL compatible applications.

VR Snapshots

A new lens for quick VR snapshots creation using the NVIDIA Iray spherical camera

Rendering

• Realistic Rendering with support for video backplates
• Optimize rendering memory with additional texture compression tools
• Utilizes all supported GPUs and CPUs within the machine, with user control of resources
• Physically based path-trace rendering within 3ds Max's ActiveShade window provides accurate preview of final results while adjusting scenes
• Super-fast Iray Interactive ray tracing within 3ds Max's ActiveShade window provides immediate feedback on object transforms and lighting edits
• Optimized sampling for accurate caustics and highly indirect lighting
• Motion Blur using 3ds Max camera multi-pass
• Simultaneous render element generation with negligible speed impact
• Custom Light Path Expressions for tremendous flexibility in post
• Depth of Field quickly responds upon adjustment (using 3ds Max camera multi-pass)
• Matte shadow and reflection support for compositing flexibility
• Backplate Images supported independent of lighting
• Lighting simulation mode to evaluate the Lux/Foot-candles at any visible point
• Noise Reduction by enabling Firefly Filter

Lighting

• Light your scene with animated IBLs to create stunning timelapse sequences
• Quickly adjust lighting parameters with the Iray+ Light Lister
• Interactive updates (in ActiveShade) upon adjusting light parameters and position
• Image based lighting for fast, convincing environments
• Supports 3ds Max standard and photometric lights
• New Iray photometric light type, IES profile support
• Real-world units of lighting attributes for accurate simulation
• Lighting from emissive (self illuminated) materials & geometry
• Physical sun and sky system
• No slowdown from adding additional light sources

Materials

• Enhance material details with displacement mapping support
• Fine tune details with support for 3ds Max Bitmap Output Parameters
• Interactive updates (in ActiveShade) upon adjusting scene materials
• Physically based materials using an intuitive layering approach leveraging the NVIDIA Material Definition Language (MDL)
• Up to 16 layers per material for substantial flexibility
• Extensive material flexibility, including subsurface scattering, thin film, gem, etc.
• Work directly within 3ds Max material editing interfaces such as the Compact and Slate editors
• MDL material saving for building custom, shareable libraries
• MDL import and export for sharing materials between different Iray applications or MDL compliant renderers (e.g., mental ray)
• Supports up to 4 UV mapping channels per material layer
• Conversion of native Arch & Design materials and mental ray photometrics lights and enviornments
• Supports native 3ds Max Maps and custom MDL procedurals (always GPU accelerated)
• Material measurements from supported devices
• Complex layering parameters including Decals, Coating, and Surface
• Extensive verified material library to confidently represent real-world results

Workflow

• Iray Menu Bar for quick access to commonly used features
• Continual feedback with progressive rendering of final results after scene adjustments
• Effortless switching between fast ray tracing and accurate path tracing in Maya 2016
• Interactive tone mapping for quickly achieving desired exposure, white balance, and contrast adjustments
• Full animation support of all material and light parameters
• MaxScript scripting support
• Iray Server support for efficient, scalable offline rendering
• Interactive Iray Server support for streaming from an external machine
• Quadro VCA support for remote interactive rendering with linear scalability

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