2006, May 02 - Redviewer 1.2 as a trial for 3ds Max® / VIZ

Redway3d, a 3D interactive software publisher, is proud to announce the availability of Redviewer v1.2, a pre-visualization component for Autodesk® 3ds Max® / VIZ (free trial available here).

Redviewer accelerates the 3D production workflow (up to 30% of time savings on a 3D production) by processing interactive ray tracing previews in the 3ds Max® / VIZ viewport. It removes most of the intermediate renderings necessary to tune a CG image and shorten the decision process between CG actors.

Redviewer is a pre-visualization tool, not a final image renderer. Therefore, it does not change the quality of your final result. Fully integrated to the Autodesk® 3ds Max® / VIZ user interface, Redviewer supports most of 3ds Max® / VIZ parameters including materials, lights, shadows, reflections and transparencies.

Redviewer architectural rendering

Set-up materials interactively

The materials setup is simplified with Redviewer by providing an interactive display for most of 3ds Max® / VIZ materials using per-pixel lighting real-time shaders. Main supported materials and components are: standard, architectural, blend, double sided, multi-sub, ray trace, shell, and shellac materials; all 2D maps, map compositors (composites, mix, and masks), 3D maps (noise, falloffs…) and some "other" maps (raytrace, ...).

 Redviewer material screenshot
Redviewer screenhot - Lighting

Tune scene lights and shadows interactively

Redviewer Interactive lighting capabilities cover all 3ds Max® / VIZ lights (directional, omni, spot, photometric) and mental ray® lights. It displays interactively shadow maps, ray traced shadows, area shadows, alpha and colored shadows as well.

Generate reflection and transparencies interactively

True reflections and transparencies are although interactively displayed within the 3ds Max® / VIZ viewport, making all intermediate renderings useless for tuning.

Redviewer rendering - Reflections & transparencies

Compute high quality pre-visualization film up to 50 times faster

Finally, by supporting animations and “make preview” features, Redviewer enables high quality pre-visualization films computed up to 50 times faster than traditional renderer. An immediate feed back can be communicated to the project stakeholder.

Before downloading the free trial version of Redviewer, please read carefully the minimum and recommanded hardware configurations:

Minimum hardware configuration: Intel 2.4GHz processor or AMD equivalent, 512MB of RAM, 500MB of HD and a NVIDIA graphic card with 128MB of video memory among the following list: GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800, 7800, Quadro FX 540, 1400, Go1400, 3400, 4000, 4400, 3450, 4450 and latest units.

Recommanded hardware configuration: Intel 3.2GHz processor or AMD equivalent, 2GB of RAM, 500MB of HD and a NVIDIA graphic card with 256MB of video memory among the following list: GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800, 7800, Quadro FX 540, 1400, Go1400, 3400, 4000, 4400, 3450, 4450 and latest units.

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About Redway3d

Redway3d S.A.S. is 3D interactive software publisher based in Paris. 3D software and middleware commercialized by Redway3d are based on a unique interactive ray tracing technology, the R.E.D. (patent pending). The R.E.D. provides users with a 10 to 50 times faster rendering speed for the same quality delivered by non-interactive rendering engines. For more information, visit the Redway3d website at www.redway3d.com