RenderMan for Maya 4.0 (Instructor License)

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Created exclusively for Maya users, RenderMan for Maya delivers all of RenderMan's legendary performance and quality to provide your creations with that distinctive visual edge. Combined with an intuitive workflow, RenderMan for Maya sets a new standard for rendering high-quality visual effects and animation. RenderMan for Maya is a plug-in that offers a lot of performance.

RenderMan® for Maya® 4.0 is the latest version of Pixar's advanced rendering plug-in for Maya, featuring Pixar's award-winning RenderMan renderer. Highlights in version 4.0 include a series of significant performance enhancements, which should be immediately apparent on many scenes. Here are some of the new features:

NEW FEATURES:

• Maya Fluids - Maya Fluid are now supported with full support for motion blur and the ability to produce depth maps, for Deep Shadows, etc.

• RenderMan Controls - A new, consolidated user interface provides intuitive, one-window access to the RfM's basic settings and operations.

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Upgrade to 15.2 - RFM includes a significant upgrade to the core rendering technology, providing substantial out-of-box performance enhancements.

• Unlimited Threading - Renderings now can take advantage of unlimited threads per seat.

• Enhanced Threading - Significant gains when using multiple processors

• Accelerated Ray Tracing - Substantial performance optimizations

• Render Layers - The pass mechanisms for both implicit and explicit passes has been improved for Maya Render Layer's.

Features:

Easy Integration

RenderMan for Maya brings RenderMan's speed, power, and stability directly to Maya users, without the added cost and complexities of our premium, high-end products, RenderMan Pro Server and the RenderMan Studio. If you've been looking for an affordable, easy way to get RenderMan, your wait is over.

Get Started Right Away

RenderMan for Maya takes all your Maya scene data — Maya Materials, lights, geometry, Maya Fur, particles, Maya Hair, et cetera — and renders them with Pixar's RenderMan. Simply select “RenderMan” from the Render Using menu and your image will appear in the Maya Render View window. Get the same production-quality motion blur and displacements, ambient occlusion, 3D caching and baking, not to mention the legendary power, speed, and stability of Pixar's RenderMan, right there in the Maya UI.

Special RenderMan Features

Maya users can enjoy the same global illumination and subsurface scattering effects, deep shadows, and super-efficient subdivision schemes available in RenderMan Pro Server. Ray-tracing effects, such as global illumination, and other effects, like motion blur, are set up via the Render Globals. Other RenderMan features, like Deep Shadows or subsurface scattering, are attached directly to Maya nodes.

RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. Those who require the versatility of RIB in and out, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, or the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals are encouraged to use our premium, high-end products: RenderMan Studio and RenderMan Pro Server.

PLUG-IN FEATURES

1. New Workspace Editor - Improved asset management
2. Enhanced Extendibility - More flexible for production pipelines
3. RSL for Maya Materials - Now may be easily customized