mental images, makers of Mental Ray, have just announced “mental mill”, an integrated development environment for shaders. It comes two editions (Standard and Artist), and includes debug and preview features along with export features for major CAD packages.
“The mental mill Standard Edition greatly facilitates the creation of complex and visually compelling shaders. In addition thanks to their representation in MetaSL these shaders are future-proof and will not need to be recreated or modified to take full advantage of future technology and performance advancements in GPUs multi-core parallel processing and rendering algorithms ” said Rolf Herken CEO and COO of mental images.
