Open Source Renderer Aqsis 1.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 18, 2005 @08:15AM from the do-not-fold-spindle-or-rend dept.

cgTobi writes "I am very pleased to announce that the stable 1.0 release of Aqsis - The Open Source Renderman Renderer, has been released. This release will remain stable in terms of publicly visible interface, no new features, only bug fixes. This will allow users who have been concerned in the past about things changing underneath them to use Aqsis in the confidence that it will not change. We have branched the CVS repository to allow 1.0 to be maintained in terms of bug fixes, while work goes ahead on new exciting features, including performance and memory optimisation, ray tracing/global illumination, and deep shadow maps."

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Re:This is cool by Pseudonym · 2005-01-18 08:53 · Score: 5, Informative

Unfortunately, aqsis is not a raytracer, just a scanline renderer, but according to their faq they plan on adding raytracing and global illumination next.

If it helps, Aqsis is about at the stage where Pixar's Photorealistic RenderMan was at about the time of Toy Story. So while it is unfortunate (and we know how we're going to do it), don't think of this as a limitation. :-)

How does this compare to BMRT and blender?

Unlike BMRT, it's available. :-)

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