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Several enhancements to scene management improve user experience and streamline workflows, including support for Alembic layering. Pixar’s USD is now integrated with promises of asset load speeds up to 50 times faster than with Alembic, and a new expressions engine is included, based on SeExpr from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Rendering gains speed improvements and improved OCIO integration and a new render recovery feature allows the user to interrupt and resume renders over the farm. IES light profiles and portal lights are now supported too, and spotlights have been improved to reduce noise and increase quality. In addition, the lighting and rendering pipeline has been rewritten from the ground up, with promises of improved quality, lights visible to primary rays and optimized render times. On the look development side, this release adds multiple scattering, improved rendering of rough materials, new mipmapping controls, a volume sampling, and several material improvements. Improvements to set dressing include a new transform manipulator, a volume display density modifier for visual feedback on volumes, a new surface constraint for attaching items on animated deformed geometry, plus new playblast functionality to create quick photorealistic animated previews.

Isotropix has announced the release of Clarisse iFX 4 bringing several new features for set dressing, look dev, lighting, rendering and scene assembly.

Isotropix clarisse ifx 4.0b