» Compress & Model & Render
If you have purchased the WavGen Pro licenses you are ready to compress, then model, and then render your scenes. Its so very simple and as if you are using the material editors for normal uncompressed textures. You can use the free ECW/JPEG2000 compressor, or the Irfanview Application, or if yuo are moving to VERY large textures, you can move to Global Mapper or even ERMapper.
» OSX Professional 32bit & 64bit
Wavgen Terramapper Pro? (Windows, OSX, and Linux) is the next generation of wavelet based applications that allows the user to load, model, animate, and render virtually unlimited size textures within Maya, 3D Studio Max, Softimage, and LightWave 3D with 100% third party tools, plugins, and render engine support. It includes five geodata layers of the globe, a shader (terrashader), procedural texture layer (inherent in the technology) and supports all datums and projection types. WavGen Terramapper Pro supports JPEG 2000 and ECW images, and multiple image conversion and compression tools are included.
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RAM is still a scarce commodity in the advent of 64bit computing (partially because of bad and inefficient code). While it is quite common to have workstations with 8 or more GB of RAM, the images used in our technology are much higher in resolution and well beyond 100K (although we support any larger image resolution). Using our technology you will find that image sizes of tens or hundreds of gigabytes are quite common. Higher render resolutions for HDTV, film or print also require highly detailed, high resolution image maps for texturing. We have effectively tackled this issue uniquely and with no competion.
Loading modelling, and rendering unlimited UV maps and textures is accomplished by only loading the parts of an image into memory that are actually visible in the final render in the resolution needed for the final image. To determine the optimum resolution of the image need for the render, WavGen Terramapper uses a number of variables, including for example the distance of the surface to the camera.
We have rendered animations of the earth using more than 10GB of images in HD 1080p and 4K resolutions using only 120MB of memory. We have also rendered images in the terabyte range using Terramapper and Terrashader technology on computers with less than 1GB of RAM successfully!
A smart caching system ensures that the performance hit on render times is minimal, especially when rendering out animations. This also reduces the load in file servers when rendering on a farm. The loading of scenes with WavGen's technology is much quicker than using natives images. When compared with ballooning EXR and MAP images, which expand the file as a bump map, the hit on the network and storage is minimal.
It has been our goal to integrate WavGen as tightly into any CG software as possible and to adhere to existing standards to make using it a smooth experience. We also include additional functionality, such as the 2K and 4K hardware texture in 3D software viewport.
You can download and use the free. We also provide you with a thorough user manual as well as comprehensive tutorials on our FAQ pages.
» System Capabilities
? Multithreading capabilities and render-farm performances
? 100% co-exists with 3D CG software and 3rd party software modules
? 100% third party tools, plugins, and renderers support native to OS
? Full Mentalray, VRay, FinalRender, Brazil, Turtle, Maxwell support
? No more Jpeg Tiling & stitching, just one Terrabyte size wavelet file
? Realtime decoding at all zooms and incredible render performances
? Enhanced anti_aliasing & LOD features, no moireing & crawling ants
? Quickly reduce terrabytes of imagery down to a manageable size
? Free viewer, Photoshop plugin, & batch wavelet compressor
? No more malloc (memory allocation) problems during rendering
? Extremely high quality near realtime previsualizations
? Wavgen Terramapper Pro? has its own software licensing schema
» Licensing
? Three tiered Licensing per node with volume discount
? US $350,- Licensing office [500MB compressions & less]
? US $650,- for corporate [10GB compressions & less]
? US $950,- for enterprise [Unlimited compressions]
? 15% yearly maintenance & support
terrashader ? terramapper ? terratracer ? terrabrowser ? terracruncher
Wavgen ? Textureloader
