Brazil Rendering System is developed for those who demand the highest quality from a renderer. Designed for use in Film, Broadcast, and Visualization, Brazil r/s' versatile toolkit integrates easily into existing production environments and empowers the artists to predictably and reliably create any look. Brazil r/s' advanced shading pipeline, extensible architecture, and natural workflow offers unprecedented control and flexibility, giving artists the freedom to focus on the Work, rather than wrestling with the "technology."

Benefits:

• Brazil r/s produces images of uncompromising quality. Advanced algorithms and a modern architecture have led to a rendering system that cuts no corners to achieve any look required, including the highest levels in photo-realism.
  
  
• Across-the-board integration with 3ds max and 3ds VIZ saves valuable time and money in retooling and retraining. Brazil r/s handles existing 3ds max scene files natively and is fully compatible with out-of-the-box and third-party 3ds max plugins. For artists, Brazil r/s provides a familiar, easy to use interface, minimizing the learning curve.
  
  
• The workflow of the artist and the requirements of production pipelines are integral to the design of Brazil r/s. As a result of being developed under fire in a production studio, Brazil r/s takes into account the realities and constraints of the production environment and is designed to be reliable, flexible, and controllable.
  
  
• Along with free 1.x upgrades and bug fixes, registered owners of Brazil r/s will be able to participate in the development and testing of new features as they become available.

Key Features:

• Built on a highly evolved Global Illumination and Ray-Tracing engine
• Open, extensible, object-oriented design
• Full-latitude floating point operation, multi-threaded, and scalable
• Controllable and efficient use of hardware resources
• Bucketed rendering paradigm offers priority-based/ordered bucket rendering and selectable bucket-size for controllable use of available memory
• Interface has been painstakingly developed to provide unprecedented control, natural workflow and minimal learning curve
• Natural light modeling
• Physically accurate models make lights and surfaces behave in the manner one expects
• Non-intrusive operation allows interaction with max while rendering
• Sample files and scripts
• Documentation and tech notes
• Active community support channels including dedicated forums, chat area

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Features

Architecture

• Bucket rendering
• Sophisticated Anti-aliasing
• Controllable Over and Under-sampling
• Pluggable rendering sub-systems
• Layer friendly render pass system - highly configurable and easily extended with simple shaders.
• Separate sampling rates for different components (GI, geometry, image)

Shading

• Simple but powerful plugin shader design
• Advanced shading models
• Cartoon Shading
• Skin Shader
• Additional Shaders including Dispersive Glass, Chrome, Velvet, and more.
• Volumetrics/atmospherics support
• Raytraced Reflections and Refractions
• Sub-surface scattering
• Physically correct blurry reflections and refractions
• Utility material for extended control over advanced shading and illumination features

Lighting

• Global illumination
• Image-based lighting
• IES Light Support
• Full support of max point lights
• Brazil r/s specific Point lights, Area lights and Shadows
• Caustics
• Photon mapping
• HDRI rendering
• Bump mapped shadow distortions
• Sophisticated adaptive sampling for area lights
  
  

Camera

• Depth-of-field with Bokeh aberrations
• Image and Scene Motion blur
• Realistic lens and camera modeling
  

Geometry

• Supports 3ds max displacement mapping
• Reliable handling of large data sets
• Direct rendering of CSG isosurfaces

Misc

• Field rendering
• Currently uses standard 3ds max net rendering
• Floating license (not supported under Windows 95/98)
• Preliminary, evolving API
• Custom frame buffer
• 16 bit per channel tiff support
• Compatible with 3ds max R3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and VIZ 3, 4, 2005 and 2006