What's New in Rendering and Render Setup

Viewport 2.0 now supports animation and rigging features such as HumanIK, joints, motion paths, ghosting and playblast. Image plane support is also included as well as a new depth peeling transparency algorithm. In addition, support for several other shaders and tools, and polygons, NURBS and dynamics features have been added.

Furthermore, Viewport 2.0 now includes widespread improvements in tumble performance of large scenes and in animation performance with large or complicated scenes.

• Visualize interactively in Viewport 2.0 in Maya 2013
• Renderer > Viewport 2.0
• Internal texture baking in Viewport 2.0
• Optimizing Viewport 2.0
• Font preferences

Watch: New Viewport 2.0 features: Part I

Watch: New Viewport 2.0 features: Part II

Watch: New Viewport 2.0 features: Part III

Watch: New Viewport 2.0 features: Part IV

Two new multi-render passes have been added: UV pass and world position pass.

A UV pass converts UV values to R/G values and creates a rasterized version of UV space. Using a UV pass, you can replace textures in 3D renderings as a post-process without the need to track new textures in place.

A world position pass converts position (x,y,z) values to R,G,B values. Use the world position pass for relighting workflows in compositing.

The new Mandelbrot node allows you to texture your model with the Mandelbrot set. You can create a 2D version of this node (Mandelbrot), a 3D version of this node (Mandelbrot 3D), or shade a fluidShape node using the built-in Mandelbrot texture.

The Mandelbrot set is a set of mathematical points in the complex plane, the boundary of which is an interesting fractal shape. Through this node, you can select the Mandelbrot Set, the Julia set, the Mandelbox set and other hybrid evaluations. Using this node, you can add interesting effects to your Mandelbrot set fractal, such as circles, leaves, points, checker patterns, and Pickover stalks.

Choose among different shading methods and customize the range of the color values used to represent your Mandelbrot set points.

• Mandelbrot
• Texture a fluid using the Mandelbrot texture
• fluidShape

You can now automatically bake a substance texture to disk to render it with mental ray for Maya, IPR, or other 3rd party renderers.

The following new substance textures have also been added:

• Clouds_2_Animated
• Impact_01
• Make_It_Tile
• metal_plate_009
• Plasma_Animated
• Space_Ship
• Sunshine
• Water_Drips
• Waves
• Windscreen_Glass_01

In particular, the new Make_It_Tile substance texture allows you to easily and seamlessly tile a file texture.

• To render using mental ray for Maya, IPR, or other 3rd party renderers
• Tiling your file texture
• Substance textures