AretéEntertainment > Pyro
for Softimage|XSI
Overview
Areté Entertainment, Inc. continues to push the limits of computer graphics with its release of Digital PyroTools, the award-winning fire and smoke simulator. This exciting tool allows users to create photo-realistic imagery of coupled fire and smoke dynamics. DPT then performs full volumetric rendering of the resulting inferno. DPT is based on Areté's proprietary ISURFR technology. This Implicit Surface Rendering technology is a fast, flexible volumetric rendering framework capable of generating, animating, and imaging a wide range of complex surface types. AEI is committed to offering new, groundbreaking products to the FX industry. We are excited about this plug-in and hope you will be, too.
Features
• Realistic 3D fire and smoke dynamics engine.
• Fully volumetric fire and smoke shaders.
• Any number of fire, smoke and air jet sources may be added to scene.
• Simulation calculation time does not increase when multiple sources are added.
• Source position, direction and velocity may be keyframed.
• Turbulence, Wind, and Buoyancy fields may be applied.
• Smoke can be automatically generated from the fire.
• Smoke can be illuminated by the fire automatically or by external lights.
• Multiple Smoke evolution algorithms, including vorticity techniques.
• Flame color can be calculated from the flame temperature or directly specified by user.
• Cross-platform floating network licenses.
• Compatible with Softimage|3D v3.9.x on IRIX, WinNT, or Win2000.
