Kerkythea
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Developer(s) | Ioannis Pantazopoulos |
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Stable release | Kerkythea 2018 Boost
/ June 19, 2018 |
OS X, Microsoft Windows | |
Type | 3D Graphics Software |
License | Freeware |
Website | kerkythea |
Kerkythea is a standalone
History
Kerkythea started development in 2004 and released its first version in April 2005. Initially it was only compatible with Microsoft Windows, but an updated release in October 2005 made it Linux compatible. As of January 2016, it is also available for Mac OS X. In May 2009 it was announced that the development team started a new commercial renderer, although Kerkythea will be updated and it will stay free and available. A new version called 'Boost' has been released in 2013.
In June 2018 the main developer announced the third version of Kerkythea called "Kerkythea 2018 Boost".[1]
Exporters
There are 6 official exporters for Kerkythea.
- Blend2KT
- Exporter to XML format
- 3D Studio Max
- 3dsMax2KT 3dsMax Exporter
- Maya2KT Maya Exporter
- GMax
- GMax2KT GMax Exporter
- SU2KT SketchUp Exporter
- SU2KT Light Components
Features
Supported 3D file formats
Supported image formats
- All supported by FreeImage library (PNG, TGAand HDR included)
Supported materials
- Matte
- Perfect reflections/refractions
- Blurry reflections/refractions
- Translucency(SSS)
- Dielectric material
- Thin glass material
- Phong shading material
- Ward anisotropic material
- Anisotropic Ashikhmin material
- Lafortune material
- Layered material (additive combination of the above with use of alpha maps)
Supported shapes
Supported lights
- Omni light
- Spot light
- Projector light
- Point diffuse
- Area diffuse
- Point light with spherical soft shadows
- Ambient lighting
- Sky lighting (Physical sky, SkySphere bitmap (normal or HDRI))
Supported textures
- Constant colors
- Bitmaps(normal and HDRI)
- Procedurals (Perlin noise, marble, wood, windy, checker, wireframe, normal ramp, Fresnel ramp)
- Any weighted or multiplicative combination of the above
Supported features
- Bump mapping
- Normal mapping
- Clip mapping
- Bevel mapping (an innovative KT feature)
- Edge outlining
- Depth of field
- Fog
- Isotropic volume scattering
- Faked caustics
- Faked translucency
- Dispersion
- Anti-aliasing (Texture filtering, edge antialiasing)
- Selection rendering
- Surface and material instancing
Supported camera types
- )
- Cylindrical pinhole
- Spherical pinhole
Supported rendering techniques
- Classic ray tracing
- Path tracing(Kajiya)
- Bidirectional path tracing (Veach & Guibas)
- Metropolis light transport (Kelemen, Kalos et al.)
- Photon mapping (Jensen) (mesh maps, photon maps, final gathering, irradiance caching, caustics)
- Diffuse interreflection (Ward)
- Depth rendering
- Mask rendering
- Clay rendering
Application environment
- OpenGL real-time viewer (basic staging capabilities)
- Integrated material editor
- Easy rendering customization
- Sun/sky customization
- Script system
- Command linemode
See also
- YafaRay, free and open-source ray tracing software that uses an XML scene description language.
- POV-Ray, free and open-source ray tracing software
- LuxRender, free and open-source "unbiased" rendering system
References
- ^ "Kerkythea Rendering System • View topic - Kerkythea v3.0 (Boost Edition)". www.kerkythea.net. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
External links
- Official website
- Kerkythea's Forum, where you can find the new version (release candidate)