Rendering
Messiah:studio includes messiah:render, a hybrid scanline/raytracing render engine. Messiah also allows for the output of .rib files for use with RenderMan and offers network rendering via the ButterflyNetRender(BNR). Features of messiah render include:
- Nodal-based shader editor system for applying shaders and texture maps to models. Animation control of parameters is available through messiah's expression system.
- Multithreaded 64 bit rendering, supporting multiple core processors.
- Subpoly displacement, allowing for high detail displacement mapping of models using data from programs such as Zbrush. With field weighting tools, displacement effects can be animated.
- Particle rendering
- Subsurface scattering, for skin and fluid effects.
- Global illumination, using Monte Carlo, Photon and hybrid systems.
- HDRI lighting
- Translucency
- Per-surface light exclusion
- Light materials, making it possible for models to be used for diffusion and emission of light
- Soft shadows, with full control of samples.
- Area lights
- Volumetric lighting
- Shadow mapping
- Caustics
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