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Pixar introduced PRMan 10, a new version of RenderMan. The release added Smart Archives and texturing support for subdivision surfaces, together with a broad set of renderer and shader improvements.
Selected new functions
- Faster soft shadows
- High-quality non-raster-oriented dicing
- Pixel filtering
- User-defined options and attributes
- Conditional RenderMan Interface evaluation
- Inline archives and string handles
- Shutter-offset control and RiContext
- Face-varying class specifier
- Arbitrary output variables
- TIFF textures and blobby thresholds
- Renderer checkpointing and arbitrary clipping planes
- Expanded Rx DSO library
- Shader-language changes
- Improved displacement-bound checking
- Removal of the 32-character limitation
- Corrected graphics state for procedurals
The release extended the toolkit used for feature-film rendering, VFX and 3D animation. German information was supplied at the time by DBS GmbH.
