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Katana 7.0 is available for Windows 10 and Rocky Linux 9. Support for the same pipeline standards as Nuke 15.0 and Mari 7.0įor pipeline integration, Katana 7.0 supports the CY2023 specification for the VFX Reference Platform, along with USD 23.05, and Rocky Linux as a successor to CentOS.įoundry is also supporting the same standards in the latest versions of its other key applications: Nuke 15.0, released last month, and the upcoming Mari 7.0. The Geolib3-MT runtime has been optimised to improve memory management, and now supports three alternative scene caching modes. In addition, Live Rendering is now multi-threaded, making renders “up to twice as fast”. Updates to existing features include support for OpenVDB volumes in the Hydra viewer. As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Performance improvements and updates to the Hydra viewer

Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). Read a full list of new features in Mari in the online release notes Read an overview of the new features in Mari 7.0 on Foundry’s website Subscriptions for teams cost $1,119/year.įor studios, Foundry has now introduced cloud-based Team licensing for Mari, as well as the existing RLM licensing. Individual subscriptions cost $86/month, up $18/month since the release of Mari 6.0, or $689/year. Mari 7.0 is compatible with Windows 10+ and Rocky Linux/RHEL 9. Price, system requirements and release date The USD Importer added in Mari 5.0 has been reworked to make it more user-friendly, and now clearly shows the USD hierarchy. Mari’s node graph gets a number of workflow improvements, include support for fuzzy search, the option to favorite nodes, and support for disconnecting nodes by severing the connection, like in Houdini, or shaking the node, as in Nuke.

Other changes include a reworked Auto Backup system, intended to make it easier to restore archives than the existing Auto Save system, and reduce the size of the archive on disk. Reworked Auto Backup system, USD Importer and node graph In addition, the Autodesk Standard Surface and VRayMTL shader models have been updated, to improve visual parity between the viewport and final renders in Arnold and V-Ray. The update also adds two new procedural texturing nodes, Bubbles and Camouflage, for adding base procedural textures to 3D models, and ships with 60 additional grunge maps.

The Foundry Katana 7.0v1 download the new