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ArtVPS has a new promotional competition out for their Shaderlight for SketchUp tool.  Simply model a “3D Winter Wonderland” with SketchUp and render it with ShaderLight, and you could win a $150 Amazon Voucher with a free copy of ShaderLight and Sketchup Pro.

Get creative and visualize your very own Winter Wonderland in Google SketchUp and render it with Shaderlight – and you could win yourself some cracking Christmas gifts!

So whether you’re dreaming of a white Christmas or love the festive lights, let your imagination ride with Santa’s sleigh and create your very own interpretation of this festive theme. It can be anything you like – architectural, product or just picture postcard!

Get the full Rules and Details at their site.

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Google Sketchup users have a new toy to play with, ArtVPS has brought the popular Shaderlight rendering system to Google Sketchup 7 and 8.  You can download a free version to try out, but they also offer a ‘Pro’ version for only $199.

Developed as a tool for all SketchUp modellers, Shaderlight echoes the ‘simplicity first’ philosophy behind SketchUp and its familiar UI and simple workflow make it easy to deliver professional results, without requiring rendering expertise. Fully integrated in to SketchUp and SketchUp Pro, Shaderlight offers a range of features including automatic material presets, applied to the SketchUp material collection, and material finishes controlled via the Shaderlight Material Editor. The physically based interior lighting features and advanced global illumination techniques help render realistic interiors. Shaderlight allows users to change background setting with options for SketchUp background colour, image-based lighting environment or custom background.

The free version is limited to 640×480 rendering and lacks some of the nicer lighting effects, but every free download comes with a free 14-day trial of Pro so you can see everything they offer.

Full release after the break.

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ArtVPS’s Shaderlight rendering plugin for 3ds Max has a respectible 800 downloads after its first two weeks of availability.  Still in pre-release, the goal was to make the product available to users for additional critique and reviews.  Shaderlight allows users to change key elements of full-resolution rendered images at any stage of the rendering pipeline, without having to repeat the entire render.  Not only can you adjust the camera angles and object locations, but you can adjust materials and lighting effects as well.

It’s still available as a Free Download from their website.  See the full press release of the accomplishment after the break.

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ArtVPS has released their Shaderlight v0.1 plugin for 3ds Max, enabling interactive rendering while adjustable parameters that can be changed at any stage in the pipeline.  Not only can you change camera angles and object positions, but you can change material properties, textures, and lights on full-quality rendered images.

“As a CG artist I often have to work with clients who have no real idea of how long even the slightest change to an image can take to re-render ” says Olaf Finkbeiner CGI operator at Mainworks GmbH Germany and a member of the Shaderlight Product Steering Committee. “The ability to make changes to materials or environments on a final image would save us days of re-rendering and in this industry time is money.”

via News – ArtVPS.

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