Kerkythea 2008 Echo Release (v2.0.0/v2.0.5)

giannis · Last edited by giannis on Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Kerkythea 2008 Echo Edition has now been released!

It has been a long year of waiting and we are sure that it really worthed it.

Kerkythea 2008 Echo is a full staging application for rendering your models. And now it's available for all major platforms Windows, Linux, and MacOSX!

Introducing the Kerkythea Instancing Brush (Earning KT2008 the name "Echo")
It features instancing by loading the "Brush" with any model or group of models and painting (scattering) instances of that onto any model "canvas" object you choose. Or, you can choose auto-population of the canvas determined by grid, or driven by image mask!

Now featuring MLT(BPT) Metropolis Light Transport on top of Bidirectional Path Tracing to handle the most demanding indirect lighting scenes.

Robust and completely re-vamped material editor featuring nk/ior measured data support, synthesis layer, procedural ramps, improved materials and the new plugin SDK for user developed customized objects.

Also featuring:
-15-25% general render speed increase (more for MLT render mode)
-Multithreading support for all render methods
-Network rendering to unlimited machines/threads/cross-platform (requires manual connection)
-Instancing and grouping of Lights or Models
-Sky Portals, Supersampling
-Physical Camera definition enhancements
-Parallel View Rendering for plans/elevations, etc.
-IES Light implementation
-Specular, Light, Diffuse, and Diffuse Texture passes
-Improved depth map rendering
-alpha channel auto-recognition for .png and .tif files
-More widgets (Drop and align commands, manual sun positioning)
-and much more

Kerkythea now supports a zipped xml version (kzx extension) for saving files, which, combined with instancing, can result in file sizes 5% to 10% the size of previous versions' saved .xml scenes.

The new cross-platform plugin SDK implementation allows users to write their own plugins including new procedural textures, materials and lights.

You will find the brand new version in our repository for all platforms:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=2

Don't forget to check our repository for new tutorials related to Echo release (tutorials will be added within the next days):
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=select&id=6

We would like to thank all the members of the forum and even more the RC testers who gave us the oportunity to improve consistently the application. We will continue like this based on your ideas for improvements and necessary feedback for fine tuning.

Best regards.

Max · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject:

Giannis, all our good 'vibes' to you and the team!

even if KT was crap (!) it was worth it just for the day's waiting! Laughing

still excited and happy

Max

tmaes · KT-Fellow Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 27

yes, greetings!
I'm going to test it hard....

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tmaes

noro · KT-Explorer Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 249

New look gr8 renderer! Thanx again GUYS!!!!!

Herodes · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

Nice to see it progressing and you mastering the art of being a developer Gianni. As you figure out I am using Kerkythea and I am still watching the forum silently,... but for this release I had to speak up and say WELL DONE and congratulate you personally but also the rest of the team for the new release

PabloE · Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Great work - thanks for doing a mac version too!!

Exsecratus · KT-Warrior Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 157 Location: Brasil

nice, many new stuffz
i'll test it out later
o/

gat · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 11

awesome work guys am really happy about this!!!

CruZ · KT-Fellow Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Doing my first few tests on it. Smile

I thought someone said trees were added? Anyways I'm having issues with this set up for the materials. You put a lot of work in that I can see that, just need to figure out how to set the stuff that normally was so easy lol. Should figure it out.

Anyways great job on releasing this product!

giannis · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

Trees, plugins, libaries etc. will be announced in the site and added in the next days.
Two very substancial tutorials by Frederik & Patrick are coming out as well (for the overall usage and material editor correspondingly).

Frederik · KT-Team Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 3600 Location: Denmark

Fletch · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

re: trees, etc.

yes, soon there will be the add-on packages... sorry we did not do well with the 'synchronization' of the release of models, new procedurals, new material editor tut., getting started tut. etc... (this is an all-volunteer team, folks!)

consider this more like... drawn out anticipation Wink

CruZ · KT-Fellow Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

I think I speak for all we are fully aware of you guys' efford! We really appreciat it.

Thanks guys.

ysvry · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 14

thx for the new version, the new 3d brush fuctionality looks prommising can it do vue like stuff?

Pinko · KT-Warrior Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 130 Location: Italy

Tnx Giannis tnx to all team... nice work!!!
Luca. Wink

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