Guerilla renderer screen shot

Screen shot of Guerilla Renderer’s GUI

Mercenaries Engineering is announcing the release date of the new Guerilla Render, the Next Generation Renderer focused on Production’s requirements.

Their press release gives the following details:

On December 4th 2013, future customers will be able to download Guerilla Render V1.0 upon registration on Guerilla Render’s website www.guerillarender.com

At the occasion of the world premiere, One Free Connected License of Guerilla Render V1.0  will be granted to registered user on Guerilla Render’s website www.guerillarender.com—Commercial Use Included! See details here

About Guerilla Render
Developed in Production for Productions and successfully used from TV Series to CG and VFX feature films, Guerilla Render is the next generation renderer focused on production’s requirements.

Guerilla Render is a path tracer rendering engine and a lighting/shading software, available as a plug-in for Autodesk Maya, a standalone with scriptable GUI and a batch standalone.

Key features:

Simplicity
–        Effortless unbiased Global Illumination
–        HDR Image Based Lighting
–        The RenderGraph, an easy to use, innovative lighting system
–        All-purpose physically based shaders for surfaces, hairs and volumes

Flexibility
–        Easy pipeline integration (Python scripting, LUA)
–        Programmable shaders and lights (RenderMan® SL + nodal shaders)
–        Support for major industry standards (Alembic, Autodesk Maya®, RenderMan® RIBs & DSOs, Massive®, Golaem®, Yeti…)
–        SDK for procedural and geometric file formats

Performances
–        Fast and accurate path tracing engine
–        Progressive preview for faster iterations
–        2D and 3D baking
–        Embedded shader optimizer and compiler
–        Small memory footprint, unlimited textures and renders size, geometry compression

Availability

Download available on December 4th 2013 on Guerilla Render’s website

Requirements:
–        Windows 64, Linux x64
–        NVidia video card
–        Permanent internet connection is required for the free connected license. See dedicated FAQ.

Guerilla Render Information
Forum: http://www.guerillarender.com/forum
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GuerillaRender