Mari 1.0 PDF Print E-mail

Mari, le nouveau logiciel de peinture 3D de The Foundry et issu des outils développés en interne par Weta sur les films District 9, The Lovely Bones et Avatar. Mari permet de peindre sur des modèles 3D à des résolutions de textures jamais atteintes. En plus de ce potentiel, il permet également de s'affranchir de la création de coordonnées de Mapping (UVs) et donne ainsi le plein pouvoir aux artistes 2d et 3d, sans avoir à se préoccuper des contraintes techniques habituelles.

Annoncé le 16 juillet 2010, MARI ne fonctionne pour le moment que sous Linux, mais une version Windows est en préparation.

The Foundry Mari Progiss 3DVF

 

Liste des fonctionnalités :

Painting

 

  • Fully customisable brush engine
  • 'Paint through' and 'clone from' between layers and textures (including 'clone from' on-surface)
  • 'Slurp' brush for smearing and dragging texture
  • Paint canvas transform, grid warp and free-form 'pin' warp
  • Blur and sharpen, including on-surface, multiple UV patches simultaneously
  • Advanced 'healing' brush for seam removal and duplication of texture detail

Environment

 

  • Filters with real-time preview
  • Advanced channel masking engine, including mask painting, surface falloff, masking one channel to another, and by depth
  • Supports customisable real-time 3D shader preview (e.g. specular highlights, displacement preview via bump mapping, ambient occlusion, layer blending modes, colour correction and more
  • Customisable tool 'shelves' for brushes, colours, reference images, sharable between artist and projects
  • Floating point, 16 bit or 8 bit channels
  • All painting and shading tools are available in 3D projection paint mode and 'flat' UV paint mode
  • Background plates for reference

Models

 

  • obj model format support
  • Multiple objects, versions (e.g. high res or in key character poses), instances, with or without baked animation
  • Interactively handles very large 3D model data sets, scaling to over 1 million polygons for a single topology or mesh
  • Supports large textures up to 32K x 32K pixels
  • Handles thousands of textures per model, over many channels
  • Seamlessly supports hundreds of UV texture patches
  • Handles animated geometry and animated textures
  • Isolate, select, mask and hide geometry per patch and face
  • Customisable lighting and rendering modes
  • Massive geometry and texture data sets not limited by the amount of RAM

Workflow

 

  • Linux
  • High quality turntable rendering
  • Flatten and round-trip projected textures for modifying externally (for example in NUKE or Adobe© Photoshop©)
  • Open and extensible approach to UI, geometry, camera, shading, and supporting light and texture exchange
  • Import and export as background tasks, allowing the artist to continue painting
  • Embedded web browser for quick access to community forum
  • Fully featured and open playtime colour management system
  • Filters with real time preview and fully featured colour correction