THE WAIT IS OVER!
We're very proud to announce, that the times of beta testing for m4d are now officially over. For the last 1 1/2 years a team of programmers, 3D artists and UI specialists worked hard to make m4d one of the greatest and most sophisticated render implementations available.
Key-Features of m4d:
- Two renderers in one package: Raytracer mental ray and GPU-supporting pathtracer iray
- Implementation of interchangeable MetaSL shaders
- Supporting the awesome MIA Material with BRDF, Translucency, and much more...
- Fast Subsurface Scattering (Fast SSS) and Carpaint Shader (Coated Materials)
- Ready for Nuke & Co.: More framebuffers than you'll ever need!
- Illumination options for every taste: GI, FG, Importons, Unified Sampling, Irradiance Particles and IBL
- Native support of nearly all Cinema 4D's shaders and objects - Great usability: Proceeding the ease of Cinema 4D's UI and workflow
- Motion Blur, Depth of Field and Photographic Exposure
- Ready for NET Render, MoGraph, Thinking Particles and Dynamics
- iray will use all available resources for rendering: CPU and optional GPU
- Live-preview of your scene with iray: the most advanced implementation of a GPU pathtracer available!
WHAT IS M4D?
m4d is an addition to MAXON Cinema 4D integrating the high-end renderers mental ray and iray. Cinema 4D (C4D) + mental ray (MR) + iray = m4d
WHAT IS IRAY?
iray® is the world’s first interactive and physically correct, photorealistic rendering solution. With iray, users can quickly create life-like images of their creations by using intuitive, real world approaches and interactively exploring their results through the processing power of NVIDIA® graphics processing units (GPUs). With m4d - mental ray for Cinema 4D you can now use this powerful feature of realtime GPU rendering. You can either switch your render engine from mental ray to iray, or open your own preview window on your workspace to get real-time render results while you are working.
WHAT IS MENTAL RAY?
mental ray® is a rendering software which generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. It combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomena. The software uses advanced and proprietary acceleration and sampling techniques for faster rendering on even the smallest, single processor machines. At the same time, mental ray achieves optimal scalable performance through the exploitation of parallelism on both multiprocessor machines and across networks of machines.
IRAY® FOR CINEMA 4D
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The iray technology is a physically correct and interactive light simuation. It accelerates the creative process by accurately simulating the physical world, enabling designers, engineers and consumers to use materials, lighting and settings that truly resemble what they experience every day. iray makes this process interactive by progressively refining the image until the desired detail is achieved, becoming increasingly faster as more GPUs are employed, enabling the play of light, shadow and reflection |
FASTEST DEVELOPMENT
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For the last 3 years we have proved, that we are able to adapt to new releases of Cinema 4D or mental ray at top speed, so you usually can enjoy the technical updates at release date itself: m4d has been the first application of all to fully implement and support the newest render core 3.9 of mental ray. Thus, you can enjoy powerful new render technology, while others are still waiting. |
METASL® IN C4D
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The universal shader language and lots of free shaders MetaSL® is a meta shading language designed to encompass the expressive power of all current and future shading languages and shading language standards. It's commonly interchangeable between all major 3D Applications on the market with mental ray support, so you can trade shaders with your friends, even if they are using MAYA or 3Ds Max. Of course, you can also access mental images shader database to get a great variety of realistic shaders. |
MIA MATERIALS FOR CINEMA 4D
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Realistic materials with BRDF for professional architectural and product designs The mental ray MIA Material is a monolithic material shader that is designed to support most materials used by architectural and product design renderings. It supports most hard-surface materials such as metal, wood and glass. It is especially tuned for fast glossy reflections and refractions and high-quality glass. Source: mental images |
EXPERT ILLUMINATION
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m4d comes pre-packed with a complete toolset of lighting features, so you can choose and combine, whatever suits your current needs best:
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NATIVE SUPPORT OF CINEMA 4D OBJECTS
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m4d is the only renderer to natively use Cinema 4D materials including almost any parameter and channel. Just open up your scene and render it with mental ray. The same applies to almost all C4D objects and settings. This way, there's no adaption time necessary to work with m4d. |
REAL MOTION BLUR & REAL DEPTH OF FIELD, COMPATIBLE WITH DYNAMICS & MOGRAPH
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With m4d you easily gain real depth of field (DOF) effects which have been quite problematic in standard AR ever since. Also be prepared for true motion blur and real motion vector data with m4d. The short example video above features: Dynamics, Emitter Objects, Motion Blur, Depth of Field and (for the joy of it) Final Gathering. |
