News

2011-09-26
Shaderfarm: leading in off-the-shelf shader libraries!

The Shaderfarm library, used by global OEMs in cars and consumer goods, now features:

+Realistic leathers including many different patterns and finishes!
+A Large collection of most common metals for consumer electronics, jewelry design, automotive, architecture and airplanes. with highly detailed surface variations such as:
* Polished metals
* Satin metals
* Metals with rough surfaces
* Brushed metals
+ Enhanced plastics: Extremely useful collection for consumer electronics and house hold appliances.
+ Enhanced paints: collection of important specialized paints that never come out of the box in real-time 3d software. Leather tone paint, metallic car paint and interior paints give photo realistic magnificent results!
+ Powered with easy to use parameters for changing Color, Tint, fine-tuning Reflectivity, Fresnel, Bump and everything else, so that you have true freedom to unleash your creativity!

V3 is available for all subscription customers, if you have not downloaded it yet please log-in to the barn area in www.shaderfarm.com


2011-02-10
Reach new heights of photo-realism with Shaderfarm Library V3!

Shaderfarm is proud to announce the latest release of its industry-standard library featuring:

* Over 70 new or enhanced material presets (aniline, coated aniline, pigmented and suede leathers, soft rubbers, hard rubbers, rubbers with embossed patters for grips, from highly reflective polished plastics to rough plastics and plastics with emboss / bump support..)
* Better parameter naming and preset grouping for ease of use
* Enhanced feature controls for highlights
* Emboss / Bump support for all materials
* Additional light sources
* New interior environments
* Updated packaging for faster downloads, installation and smaller hard drive footprint.

All subscription or maintenance clients can access free of charge by downloading on www.shaderfarm.com

2009-10-19
Very high quality sample on-line! We are glad to announce that our user Relation CG produced very crisp and highly interactive marketing content for the sales force of Mercedes cars in China. The platform they used is 3DVIA Virtools. Check the Gallery link to donwload a video sample! (interactive content will be posted soon)

2009-09-14
Ambient Occlusion is now available in the Premium version of the Shaderfarm Library! This shader increases realism by creating soft,natural shadows. It works great on the edges and gaps of objects such as doors, walls, handles, and gives depth for characters and environments. Powerful Ambient Occlusion is also critical for rendering car interiors and objects with many details... Shaderfarm Ambient Occlusion is optimized to be fast enough for real-time so you preserve interactivity and other real-time effects!

2009-02-23
Several additional urban HDR environments have just been added to the library as well as a complete re-work of the existing environments!
As usual, a comprehensive list of formats is supplied: 32bit spherical .hdr and 8bit .jpg up to 8192x4096px, 32bit cubic .dds up to 1024x1024px per face, 8bit cubic .dds up to 2048x2048px per face.
Coming next: rural and interior environments...


News archive

11/20/07
Shaderfarm demonstrated at Dassault Systemes Virtools realistic rendering workshop in Tokyo Japan

12/10/07
New video demonstration available on the "samples" section of the site, highlighting key benefits of the library !

2007-12-26
Shaderfarm libraries v.1-02 released ! In addition to bugfixes, v.1-02 brings an easy and visual way to animate light positions while keeping the Shader effect.

2008-01-28
New update to Car Paint Shader (Great control over reflections, facing and angled reflection , reflection falloff, reflection "noise/wavyness")OpenGL Support added for following shaders: Glass Non Refractive, Metal Advanced, Painted Advanced, Plastic Advanced, Rubber Basic. Additions to our texture library bringing the total amount of textures to 159!

2008-04-18
Shaderfarm library V1-04 released! including new re-written Carpaint, with metalic specular and adjustable wavy details on the reflections; new metals (Gold, Zinc and Chrome...); full OpenGL support; enhancements to reflections and light... reaching a total of more than 60 shaders and 190 tilable textures !

2008-10-27
Shaderfarm v2.0. is now released ! Omni shader (ex "texture-shader") now has 4 variants to allow faster speed+higher rendering quality of reflections. New Texture-shadow shader for fast shadow generation. Car paint v2.0. with optimized code for faster rendering speed. Realism improved thanks to metallic flake control, and easier to apply with the 31 pre-sets built-in. New leather shader with bump and 12 pre-sets. Total library reaches 100 shaders and almost 300 textures! Also check the "barn" next week for additional Crystal shader for effects ranging from glass to diamond as well as a new metal shader including brush and circular brush effect.

2009-01-17
New training videos on-line! These videos take you step-by-step through the best way to use Shaderfarm library on typical cases. Easy-to-follow, complete, they are the best way to skill up on real-time shader use...