The Foundry Mari 2.6v2 (Win/Mac/Linux) - XForce

The Foundry Mari - State of the art 3D painting

The Foundry?s cutting-edge 3D paint tool, MARI gives you a fluid and flexible way to paint directly onto 3D models - meaning more time spent painting and less time managing technical issues.

Supported by the world?s most advanced layering system, MARI is capable of handling high-resolution textures and millions of polygons without ever compromising on speed or efficiency. It also provides a fully customisable user interface that lets you work just the way you want.

MARI was the primary 3D paint tool used on 9 of the 10 features shortlisted in the category of ?Visual Effects? in the 2013 Oscars?. These include: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Avengers and Prometheus.

Why MARI?

Paint quickly and intuitively in 3D with a state-of-the-art range of 3D paint tools.

Work faster and more creatively thanks to MARI?s capability to handle super-high resolution textures and millions of polygons without compromising on speed

Stay in control with a powerful layer-based workflow that comes complete with adjustments, procedurals and advanced masking

Integrate MARI seamlessly into your pipeline with industry-standard Python scripting, C API and OpenColorIO color management

NEW in V2.6v1:

The new Layered Shader shader-type has been added. These layered shaders are located on the Layered Shader tab of the Shader palette, and they give you use of a layer stack that allows layers of normal shaders to be included.

The Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) shader has been added.

A new type of light source, the Environment Light has been added.

The ability to transfer texture data from channels or layers has been added.

Alembic support has been added to Mari. This allows meshes and cameras from .abc files to be imported, or brought into Mari on project creation.

A new slider representing intensity values has been added to the color picker to allow the manipulation of HDR colors.

A Polygonal Lasso mode has been added to the Select and Marquee Select tools.

Python PySide support has been added to Mari.

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