>
> One of the world?s fastest rendering systems. The famous Hollywood
> renderer and animation system was created back in the 1980?s to
> handle some of the most complex scenes in movie history, that made
> numerous key moments possible in movies such as Star Wars,
> Terminator and Star Trek.
> -architosh excerpts
>
?Versions 6.0 and 6.5 were subsequently released with vast
improvements to the rendering engine and OpenGL performance. Version
6.5r2 added FBX file importing capability. 6.6 added Universal Binary
support and finally drops support for Mac OS 9. Version 7.0 brought
Multi-Layer Rendering, Image-Based Lighting, Raytrace Sky Maps and
Rigid Body Dynamics. The version, 8.0, added Photon Mapping, Fast soft
shadows, area light, Quadratic light drop-off, EXR and 16bit image
input support, Displacement Sea Level, new Weight maps tools, much
workflow enhancement and Renderama improvements.? [-Wikipedia
excerpt][1]
[Features][2]
[Homepage][3] -In 2013 EI released EIAS v9
Alse see: [Electric Image Inc][4]
* * *
#1: EIAS 8.0.0 -released 2009, modified 2010
#2: EIAS 8.0.0 OS X 10.7 Lion Patch
#3: EIAS 8.0.0 Camera Slaves
#4: Free EIAS Plugins: (Apass - Mac UB, Flag UB, Mouse Tracker, Apass
- Mac PPC, RainDrops Shader, Colorphium, NoiseFactory)
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
Mac Universal Binary
PowerPC/Intel 10.4 -10.7
Requires a dongle
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Image_Animation_System
[2]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101010180208/http://www.eias3d.com/products/eias-overview/
[3]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101010180208/http://www.eias3d.com/
[4]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/author/electric-image-inc
