In addition to a whole series of improvements and bug fixes that have arisen in the course of the production of “Monsters, Inc.”, some fundamentally new functions and options have also been added.
The RenderMan render engine is now available for Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun Microsystems Solaris, Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq ALPHA/OSF1, Intel RedHat Linux 5.0, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows 2000 Professional.
Together with the new RenderMan 3.92, a new version of the RenderMan Artist Tools 4.11 for Maya from Alias/Wavefront was also released. These consist of the modules Slim, the “artist-friendly” development system for shaders, MTOR, the RenderMan plug-in for Maya, Alfred, a script-controllable task processor that distributes and monitors render jobs in the network, and Alfserver. The RenderMan Artist Tools are currently available for Silicon Graphics IRIX as well as for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000.
