form·Z 3rd party Plugin for metaShapes

metaShapes.com is proud to announce the release of their first set of 3rd party plug-in shaders for AutoDesSys form·Z RenderZone and form·Z Radiozity.

The first release of metaShapes form·Z products contains five different shaders focused on different tasks and aimed towards product design visualization, architectural rendering, industrial design and general illustration.

K_IndustrialFloor shader

A multilayer shader focused on free creation and design of industrial floor style patterns. It contains 21 different color/bump patterns plus 5 additional detailed different color/bump patterns to add extra detail when close-ups are needed. K_IndustrialFloor contains 4 different layers where all the previous information can be stacked to create endless combinations. Additional parameters include color and bump fade controls, contrast and more. This shader is not only limited to industrial floor style patterns, but it is aimed to some other general tasks as well due to its rich bump color and bump quality. Besides adding rust, moss, dirt or any other effect to your floors, it can be used to add these effects to other materials as well. The K_IndustrialFloor shader can be used in the Color, Bump and Transparency areas.

K_Glass

An advanced glass shader designed to achieve photorealistic glass and similar kinds of transparent surfaces. It features easy to use parameters to control and render chromatic aberrations and extended use of internal reflections and refractions. Also, the K_Glass shader includes volumetric color controls, so your glass objects will gain color in thicker parts while maintaining the surface color in thinner parts.. Additionally, the shader sets parameters to manage the reflection fresnel effect.

K_Sky

A shader designed to add skies with or without clouds to your scene. It features 7 different cloud types plus different fade modes and a range of controls to design your own cloudy skies, including altitude of the clouds and/or the viewer, scale and offset, horizon depth, and transparency, fuzziness and puffiness of the clouds. This plug-in shader loads in the Color, Transparency and Background areas of formZ. As a Background Shader, the K_Sky displays a true 3D background behavior, so if you move your camera, the sky and the clouds change accordingly. Used as a solid shader on a sky dome or plain sky objects, it can output accurate effects when reflected on surfaces (such as mirrors or water) or even when used as the texture of a light source object.

K_Tile


A multilayer shader focused on tile style patterns design. It contains controls to set up two different tiles that can be combined through 15 different and customizable modes. Endless tile scrambling combinations are possible with the K_Tile shader, including a random one. Additional layers allow for placement of different bumps on each tile for new combinations, and each tile set can be colored in 32 different ways mixing different colors. These color combination within each tile can at the same time be fully controlled through different parameters. K_Tile also includes several extra parameters to control the mortar color and bump, the shape of the tiles, and its offset, so brick style placement of tiles is also possible. The bump controls include 7 different customizable bumps for each tile set in two different layers, plus separated parameters to set up the bump of the tile itself.

K_AmbientOcclusion


A depth shader that simulates ambient light bounces being occluded by an object's proximity. The main purpose of this shader is to be used in an additional rendering pass that can later be post processed and composited with the main rendering of the image through a photo retouching or animation compositing program. K_AmbientOcclusion is the perfect tool for every formZ user as it adds a special touch of realism to most images.



Availability and systems


The products are shipped for formZ RenderZone and Radiozity 5.0.5 and formZ RenderZone and Radiozity 5.5. You get both Macintosh OSX and Windows license versions in one single purchase.

The 5 shaders are sold separately, but all of them can be purchased as a bundle offer with a 40% discount for a limited time. Additional discounts are available for site license users and educational licenses. For more information please write an email to sales@metashapes.com or visit the metaShapes.com website at http://www.metashapes.com

metaShapes.com offers on-line ordering with fast electronic delivery and the company plans include working via localized Distributors and Dealers where available. For more information please write an email to sales@metashapes.com or visit metaShapes.com website at http://www.metashapes.com