This video tutorial shows the basics of the most important workflow features of Arion 1.6.0 in a complete session recording using a raw .OBJ file.
Please refer to the help panel inside the application (click on the “?” button) if you need information about the shortcuts to use the software. It’s pretty straightforward!
Thank you very much for watching.
This RandomControl Arion tutorial explains how to use the Participating Media (fog) features.
Please fullscreen the video and use at least 720p resolution to correctly see the settings.
Get the file arion_fog_start.rcs here: http://www.randomcontrol.com/downloads/tutorials/rcs/arion_fog_start.rcs
The new RandomControl BRDF material technology, which as been introduced in Arion 1.5.0, is a technical and mathematical achievement. This image above that uses very small directional spotlights to lit the scene has been rendered in Arion using ‘simple’ unidirectional path tracing in a little over 3 hours of render time. This may sounds like a lot, but for an unbiased rendering engine, it’s a fraction of what any other engine on the market is capable of.
Now I’m letting you imagine what fryrender will be able to do with that technology in bidirectional path tracing!
You can read it here: http://www.3d-sphere.com/software/arion-160-review
“My opinion about Arion is very positive, I like the software and it was pleasure to work with it. I would like to say thank you again to RandomControl for giving us the opportunity to review Arion.”
Thank you Tomas for the article!
A new video tutorial was posted on RandomControl’s youtube channel: Install & License
Arion 1.6.0 unlimited
RandomControl is very proud to announce the immediate availability of Arion 1.6.0!
Three weeks only after the release of 1.5.1, RandomControl strikes again with amazing technical and workflow improvements.
Support for unlimited objects, textures and materials is here!
This version is a free of charge upgrade for all v1.x customers.
Please take a breath and enjoy this presentation.
The whole RandomControl team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2012! We’ll bring you bigger and better news next year.
You can check out the announcement here: http://www.randomcontrol.com/newsletter-2011-12-25
Some striking improvement have been made for the next version of Arion.
RGB maps will now use 25% less memory MINIMUM (up to 50% depending the dimensions of the texture)
Grayscale maps (roughness, bump…) will now use 75% less memory!
We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Arion 1.5.1 Release Candidate.
This version is available from your customer Beta FTP and can be downloaded now.
We invite you to take a tour of the new features by visiting the announcement here: http://www.randomcontrol.com/newsletter-2011-12-06
Thank you very much for your time and we wish you a happy rendering with Arion. We can’t wait to see what you’ll be doing with it!
Sincerely,
The RandomControl Team
A very cool test of ‘digital clay’ made by our friend Luima with 3dsmax and rendered with Arion.
How much I love to play with participating media! This image was insipred by a photograph by Adrien Laxenaire. The image was rendered at 4000px wide and downsampled a lot to get rid of the remaining noise in a ‘elegant’ manner.