Blog/News

It has been a while since the last update of renderStacks. Now renderStacks is supporting a nested pass setup with the pmodifier on passgroup and instanced passes. It took a lot longer than we expected. But, I hope this would add another dimension to your workflow!

A new tutorial and documentation

Also don’t forget the changelog

Happy renderStacking!

renderStacks 1.243 has been released with 3dsMax 2022 support.

In the latest update to renderstacks, we were extremely excited to collaborate with the Blizzard Animation team at Blizzard Entertainment to develop the Tractor pmodifier that is now available for all renderStacks users.

Here is the list of new features. As always, all new features are driven by user request. For the detailed change log, please check the Change Log.

• Tractor (Pixar’s network rendering solution) support
• Now you can color pass(group) using right click menu or 1-9 short cut.
  
• Search obj/prop name in the pmodifier list.
  
• SHIFT support for multi selection for Layerset editor.
• Single level expand/collapse.
  Holding SHIFT while expand/collapse limits the action for only one level. For example, if you have not expanded all pass groups, SHIFT+E will expand only groups and keep pmodifier collapsed.
• A few more functions are added to the layerset editor right click menu
  
• Preference > Network Submission Temp .msx File
  Now RoyalRender users can define their own temp .max file path for submission.

Apparently a lot of users are confused about the new RenderOutputVRay in renderStacks 1.222. To prevent the confusion. We added explicit “V-Ray saw image file” checkbox so you can turn off V-Ray raw image file output when you don’t use multi channel exr.

Also the documentation has been updated for RenderOutputVRay. Please read the documentation!

Also there is another changes. Please check Change Log for details and other changes.

renderStacks has been updated to 1.108

This release is the productivity update. As our user based grows, we have received a lot of great feedback and ideas. We tried our best to address and implement what our users want.

New features includes…

• Layer based workflow for LightOn/Material pmodifier
• Toggle Note panel
• Treeview size adjustment
• Streamlined multi preview display
• RPManager converter
• rsRenamer
• Link to AnimationRange in FrameRange pmodifier
• and more!

Click here to see all the awesome new features and improved features.

We got some questions about renderStacks license.
Here are answers.

• renderStacks doesn’t requires render node license.
  It doesn’t even need to be installed on render node.
  When it submits render, all pass data is baked into the file.
• The wording for non-commercial version was confusing.
  We just wanted to make sure it could be used in commercial setting when you evaluate or makings an internal short film. But, like all other non-commercial version, if the usage is directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation, you are not eligible for non-commercial license. For example, if your render is for promoting your product or project or if you use rederStacks to assist  a paid job in anyway, you need to have a license to use.