v1.5. More features. More speed.
The same spirit. fryrender v1.5 brings significant changes both in the inside and in the outside. We have made a big effort in re-thinking, re-factoring and even re-designing some key elements of the product, keeping the main requests of our customers in mind. As a result, the core is 50% faster, MPDM has become hyper-efficient, some of the most demanded features have been added, the licensing system is now more flexible and friendly, network rendering has matured to the point of excellence, and much, much more. * fryrender v1.5 will be released soon. The current version for customers and DEMO users is v1.0 SP2.** You can take a look at the new features in fryrender v1.5 in our Technical Announcements page. | | 
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What is fryrender?fryrender is the physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It is a photo-realistic render engine where all the elements involved in the generation of the final image (materials, lights and cameras) are based on physically accurate models. On fryrender, when you hit the render button, a simulation of the real behavior of light happens inside. Because of this, it is possible to achieve hyper-realistic results with minimal effort. | | How much is it?A master fryrender license costs 795€ and includes 2 free slave licenses for network rendering. All the Operating Systems and plugins supported, plus NetWarrior and all 1.x upgrades are included in the price. Additional SLAVE licenses can be purchased separately, for 245€. Students can apply to our educational program and buy a yearly (single-node) EDU license for 125€. In order to do this, they must provide their enrollment papers for the current academic course. |
What modelling apps are supported?fryrender acts as a render manager which is fed the input scene by a plugin hosted in your modelling app of choice. The 8 modelling apps listed below are supported. Note that these plugins and their upgrades can be downloaded anytime by clicking on the icons below: * The Modo plugin is new to fryrender v1.5 and is not included in the v1.0 SP2 setup. What platforms are supported?All of RandomControl's code is cross-platform, and is able to run seamlessly across Windows (XP, 2000, Vista, 7), Mac OS X and Linux. All versions in all platforms are provided in two flavors (32-bit and 64-bit). * As of 2010.01.01 fryrender is available for Windows only, but in the upcoming months there will be a fully-fledged version for Mac OS X, and a slave-only version for Linux boxes. These new binaries will be part of a free-of-charge upgrade for all our customers.
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Distributed rendering is key in heavy production environments. There is no doubt that a nice and easy workflow means more comfort and productivity, and that is what a rendering tool must be all about. In v1.5 we have decided to address the problem of distributed computing in a definitive manner, and to this end we have created a complete Grid Computing solution called NetWarrior. NetWarrior is a very intuitive standalone app which automates the two most typical rendering tasks in fryrender (co-operative still frame and distributed animation). It allows for remote previewing of the slave nodes, automatic .DSI merging, and is capable of hybrid rendering in case the slave nodes are running on different platforms. NetWarrior is free of charge for fryrender customers, and can be downloaded by clicking here.
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A bright future
fryrender has earned a reputation for its speed and ease of use. However, there's more to fry than that. Since the very beginning, fryrender has been designed to be the keystone in a bigger plan, becoming the driving force behind our full product line. At the very foundations of our technology, all our products share the same scene format, the same materials system, and even the same rendering routines, being different expressions of the same philosophy: to harness the power of physical simulation in the shape of industrial-strength off-line and interactive visualization tools. | |  |
Want to learn more?If you are new to fryrender and want to get a feel for its possibilities, we invite you to download the DEMO version. If you are a user already and wish to train yourself, you can head over to the Tutorials page or the Materials Repository where users share their own content for others to download. The Documents area and also the plugins and NetWarrior subsites include specific tutorials and screencasts for each software module. If you are looking for support, you can visit our forum, where our customers, testers and the development team help each other. Last, but certainly not least, the images below are good examples of the results that you can achieve with fryrender. We invite you to take a deeper look in the Images Gallery, where you will find many more examples of content created by our users.
 Interior render courtesy of Gianni Melis (gerets)  Interior render courtesy of Christian Tumiati (ciumbia4d)  Exterior render courtesy of Gianni Melis (gerets)  Controller close-up courtesy of Erwan Loison (lwan) |
