Imagination Technologies has unveiled Caustic Visualizer: a new interactive viewport rendering plugin for Maya, developed using the PowerVR Brazil SDK. Imagination will be demonstrating Caustic Visualizer’s highly interactive full-frame performance on the new PowerVR low-power ray tracing hardware reference platform.
Imagination’s Caustic Visualizer family revolutionizes the performance and functionality of the interactive visual look development process by making ray-traced photorealistic rendering, from the start, an integral part of the content creation work flow.
The plugin supports most standard rendering features, including GI, DoF and soft shadows; and “all major parameters” of the mental ray mia, car paint and metallic paint shaders.
Key features:
- High-Quality Visual Feedback - Caustic Visualizer for Maya provides an interactive, fully ray traced viewport complete with soft shadows and diffuse reflections, enabling artists to view their scenes with an unprecedented degree of visual fidelity.
- Versatile Material Set-Ups - The plug-in supports Maya’s Hypershade render nodes and mental ray® shader nodes.
- Geometry Independence - Caustic Visualizer supports a full range of standard scene geometry types, including polygons, NURBS and subdivision surfaces.
- Lighting Flexibility - The plug-in is compatible with Maya’s Point, Spot, Directional and Area Light types, providing complete flexibility when creating lighting set-ups.
Caustic Visualizer for Maya is available now in open beta for Maya 2013.
For more info (including download link) visit: Caustic Visualizer