NVIDIA Corp. today released its NVIDIA Gelato Pro 2.2 GPU-accelerated rendering software as a no-cost download at www.nvidia.com/gelatozone. Replacing the basic Gelato package, Gelato Pro 2.2 will be the final version of the 3D digital content and design solution. Moving forward, the NVIDIA Gelato and mental images rendering teams will focus on the development of mental ray software, reinforcing NVIDIA’s commitment to accelerated rendering.
‘NVIDIA Gelato Pro 2.2 software is extremely powerful, GPU-accelerated rendering software, and we are excited to support the creative community by making it freely available,’ says Dominick Spina, senior product manager for NVIDIA’s Digital Film Group. ‘Now all artists and designers with NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards can enhance their production pipelines with Gelato Pro’without a licensing fee.’
Features of the Gelato renderer include sub-pixel antialiasing, true displacement, high-quality motion blur, depth of field, support for NURBS, subdivision surfaces, particles, and ray tracing, including global illumination effects and ambient occlusion. The fully programmable Frantic Films’ Amaretto plug-in provides advanced rendering functionality with Autodesk’s 3ds Max software, complementing the Mango plug-in for rendering with Autodesk’s Maya.
Gelato Pro 2.2 adds the Sorbetto interactive relighting engine, network parallel rendering, multi-threading, 64-bit support and DSO shadeops. The product also supports Joe Alter’s Shave and a Haircut software for computer-generated hair and fur effects, and includes support for Autodesk Maya 8.5 and 3ds Max 9.0, offering improved stereo rendering, fog lights and significant performance improvements. The software supports Windows XP and Linux operating systems, and runs on any NVIDIA Quadro graphics solution.
