Plug-in that allows you to render your 3ds max scenes with any supported Renderman compliant rendering engine.

PaxRendus brings the power of RenderMan to you. If you don't think that the world's most respected rendering standard is within your reach, think again. Spectacular images like those in Finding Nemo or Monster's Inc made Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan the most famous RenderMan renderer, but it's not the only one. You can bring almost ANY RenderMan renderer into your 3ds max® environment using PaxRendus, a new tool by Archonus. Start small with one of the free renderers (like 3Delight or Aqsis) and if you want more, move up to Sitex' AIR, Dot C's RenderDotC, or even Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan. The choice is yours. And all the work you've invested in your looks and shaders will move from one renderer to another easily, through the power of RenderMan.

Some Features

• motion blur
• area, spot, point, distant lights
• user-defined RIB statements inserted into RIB file
• choose to raytrace or shadowmap shadows (depends on renderer)
• subdivision surfaces
• ReadArchive, DelayedReadArchive
• per-renderer options can be grouped into sets for later use
• use RenderMan shaders directly from within 3ds max, animate shader parameters

Requirements

• 3ds max 4.2, 3ds max 5.1 (not 5.0), or 3ds max 6
• at least one of: 3Delight, AIR, Aqsis, BMRT 2.6, PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or RenderDotC (support can be added for other renderers, please contact us)
• machine capable of using the above
• 1.5 MB disk space

Demo version limitations: 1) The resolution is limited to 512x384 2) No files will be saved on the hard drive (no TIFFs or RIBs). 3) Options to let you save a RIB file to disk are disabled. 4) A watermark is placed on the image