TechWatch

AMD offers Radeon ProRender for Blender and SolidWorks

Is this exciting news? AMD has announced that its free ray-tracing engine, ProRender, will run with­in Blender, as well as Maya, 3ds Max, and SolidWorks. AMD says ProRen­der uses a physically-based workflow that allows multiple materials to be expressed in a single, lighting-indepen­dent shader, making it easy to color ob­jects and have them usable in any sen­sible environment. The key features ...

Jon Peddie

Is this exciting news? AMD has announced that its free ray-tracing engine, ProRender, will run with­in Blender, as well as Maya, 3ds Max, and SolidWorks. AMD says ProRen­der uses a physically-based workflow that allows multiple materials to be expressed in a single, lighting-indepen­dent shader, making it easy to color ob­jects and have them usable in any sen­sible environment. The key features of the ray tracer are: Fast, free, and accurate – it’s designed to be physically based and “highly accurate”, as the term “accurate” al­ways needs to be qualified. Hardware agnostic – if your computer can run OpenCL 1.2, it can
...

Enjoy full access with a TechWatch subscription!

TechWatch is the front line of JPR information gathering service, comprising current stories of interest to the graphics industry spanning the core areas of graphics hardware and software, workstations, gaming, and design.

A subscription to TechWatch includes 4 hours of consulting time to be used over the course of the subscription.

Already a subscriber? Login below

This content is restricted

Subscribe to TechWatch