Map Of Krakatoa

Thinkbox Software Unveils Krakatoa MX 2.0 at Siggraph 2011

• Hair rendering support – Krakatoa MX supports the conversion of 3ds Max Hair&Fur, Hair Farm and regular Bezier splines into particles. The dedicated PRT Hair object provides optional view-dependent particle distribution and advanced controls over hair shading using Krakatoa Channel Modifiers. Krakatoa MX also exposes two new shading models specifically targeted at hair rendering and supports dedicated Render Elements for advanced compositing control. • New atmospheric effect – Krakatoa supports both point and voxel representation of particle data at render time, and Version 2.0’s new atmospheric effect allows the direct integration of voxel rendering in any other renderer that supports native 3ds Max atmospherics, including the 3ds Max Default Scanline Renderer, Chaos Group’s V-Ray and Cebas finalRender. • Faster and more powerful Magma system – The completely re-factored Magma 2.0 features multiple output nodes per modifier, multiple output sockets per node, default input values and improved debugging. It also introduces a multitude of new operators including advanced texture map sampling and scene objects properties access, proxy particle data sampling and more. • Overall performance improvements – The Krakatoa PRT Loader can now load multiple particle file sequences in parallel using all available cores, achieving significant speed ups when reading from fast drives, especially SSDs and Fusion-io cards. The multi-threading of all rendering stages has also been optimized, resulting in speed ups across the board. Krakatoa SR, a new standalone volumetric particle renderer for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX, can be integrated with any 3D content creation application like Autodesk Maya, The Foundry’s Nuke or Side Effects Software’s Houdini via a clean, Python-based scene description interface inspired by the Renderman C specification and using the open Thinkbox PRT file format for particle data exchange.

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The company will also introduce Krakatoa SR 2.0, a standalone cross-platform particle renderer for Linux, Windows and Mac. 

Krakatoa MX provides a pipeline for particle acquisition, caching, modifying, deforming, shading, and rendering inside Autodesk 3ds Max. It enables artists to recreate natural phenomena and solid objects, or create abstract images in unparalleled detail.

Key new features in Version 2.0 include:

•         Hair rendering support  - Krakatoa MX supports the conversion of 3ds Max Hair&Fur, Hair Farm and regular Bezier splines into particles. The dedicated PRT Hair object provides optional view-dependent particle distribution and advanced controls over hair shading using Krakatoa Channel Modifiers. Krakatoa MX also exposes two new shading models specifically targeted at hair rendering and supports dedicated Render Elements for advanced compositing control. 
 
•         New atmospheric effect  - Krakatoa supports both point and voxel representation of particle data at render time, and Version 2.0's new atmospheric effect allows the direct integration of voxel rendering in any other renderer that supports native 3ds Max atmospherics, including the 3ds Max Default Scanline Renderer, Chaos Group's V-Ray and Cebas finalRender. 

•         Faster and more powerful Magma system  - The completely re-factored Magma 2.0 features multiple output nodes per modifier, multiple output sockets per node, default input values and improved debugging. It also introduces a multitude of new operators including advanced texture map sampling and scene objects properties access, proxy particle data sampling and more.

•        PRT Creator fractal designs generation  - Version 2.0 introduces a new PRT Creator object which, combined with the power of the Magma channel editing, can generate complex particle distributions and animations procedurally.

•         Overall performance improvements  - The Krakatoa PRT Loader can now load multiple particle file sequences in parallel using all available cores, achieving significant speed ups when reading from fast drives, especially SSDs and Fusion-io cards.

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