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Materials
€99
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- - All Point Updates Up to V.2.0
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TEXTURES
€49
- - Package + Demos
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- - All Point Updates Up to V.2.0
- - Access to Support Forum
Imagers
€49
- - Package + LUTs
- - One Local Machine License
- - All Point Updates Up to V.2.0
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Bundle
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- - All Packages + All Contents
- - One Local Machine License
- - Access to Beta Features
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LATEST NEWS
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Flakes and Metallic Paints
The Metallic Paint uber shader is a powerful three layers material able to simulate the complete light transport that happens within the layers. The flakes which are in the middle layer, are multi-scale and BRDF-based (not pattern based) so that at distance they converge to a smooth reflection while at close views they act like[…]
Diffraction Lobe
Turns out that most computer graphics conductor materials (metals) don’t fit well with their measured real life counterparts. Looks like microfacet models (any reflection node you ever used..) can’t fully address the appearance of this kind of materials. Microfaceting theory models the appearance of a material at macroscopic level based on surface micro details. Situation[…]
SSS Refract
This node basically does multiple scattering refractions. When in the Standard Arnold Material we do engage Scatter in the Transmission rollout we are doing instead single scattering. Multiple scattering is slower but more expressive. We can’t really render a resin statuette like this one below with single scattering. Let’s see its main parameters and how[…]
Walk the Walk
The SSS Random Walk node is a state-of-the-art subsurface scattering shader. We employ a new sampling strategy for random walks that takes all previouses approaches and put them together for a more effective sampling with reduced render times and great solution quality. Compared to the Standard Material Arnold SSS, we’re better than v.1 and faster[…]
Dipole for SSS
The SSS Dipole shader implements all the relevant dipole models for subsurface scattering available in computer graphics.. namely Standard, Better and Directional dipoles. They are of particular interest because they are better (at matching real life reference materials) than diffusion SSS and way faster than raytraced (random walk) SSS. Let’s see its GUI and main[…]
Hazy Reflections
Reflection hazying is actually an artifact. It happens due to micro imperfections which widen the actual reflection lobe making reflections appear less vivid and radiant, more milky and less contrasted. Hazing generally is due to poor industrial processes so that metals and other reflective surfaces have an inferior finish quality because of bad drying or[…]
Wave Optics Glints
This reflection node is a powerfull shader that supports both geometrical optics and wave optics glints, flakes, brushed patterns and scratches. Unlike in geometric optics, the contributions from different parts of the surface can sum non-linearly due to interference effects, to create the characteristic diffraction effects of wave optics.. ie. those colored patterns we see[…]
Improved Fabric Woven
The yarn-based material has been updated with: sheen and reflection lobes build-in patterns with HSV controls an all new phase function for better controllable fiber scattering a roughness patch size to better control fiber roughness and specular pattern variations an indirect glossy versus indirect diffuse parameter to better approach some kind of textiles better overall[…]
Multiple-scattering BRDF
With rombo Reflect shaders, – we’re introducing microfacet multiple-scattering. The microfaceting theory that is the fundation of the BRDF implementations out there is actually single-scattering. Microfacet models assume that the true physical surface is offset from a geometric surface in the form of a collection of microfacets called microsurface. Microfacet theory is a statistical model[…]
Power Metal
(THIS IS NOW DEPRECATED, we have added all the features here to our reflection nodes). We are designing a new Rombo.PowerMetal material. At the moment it supports STD generalized distribution for microfaceting reflections, microfacet normal mapping, multi-bounce microfaceting for correct energy conservation and rombo adaptive sampling for hard to sample highlights. STD distribution allow for[…]
Improved Adaptive Sampling
So in the while also Autodesk has added an Adaptive Sampler to the Arnold renderer. It is very different from the one we first demo’ed here last year. The now build-in Arnold adaptive sampler is image based while ours is a multi-dimensional adaptive sampler. What’s the main difference ? A very simple and yet very[…]
Stochastic Transparency
While Arnold already uses a stochastic approach for transparency, it comes only as a ‘closure’. Which means that for custom shaders that do not use an all closure approach it is not available, so we had to add one ourselves. Stochastic transparency makes a huge impact on render times where bounces depth is high. Top[…]
Tools Overview
Rombo To Arnold
.. shading tools for the Arnold renderer. Built on latest technologies, high quality, high performance : - shading has never been so cool ;) You simply get what you expect, uber-realistics beautiful artifact-free renderings :) You can just forget about and let Arnold with the power of Rombo renders your images.
Devoted to simplicity and easy to use, Rombo is here to give you a modern and advanced workflow that will let you forget about technicalities and will let you focus on what really matters. We believe in facts that after having been advanced and after the time of the know-it-all, one has to go back to the ground of simplicity to really exploit the complexity of his own vision.
High Performance
We battle tested Rombo on production assets. Rombo born there, it is performance wise from the ground up. Stay in control of your renderings.
High Quality
Arnold is powerfully fast and high quality. Rombo is too. Period.
User Friendly
Tweaking shaders is easy with clean and user oriented GUIs well integrated in your DCC app absorbing unwanted complexity and with a zero-steps learning curve, you're ready to render in minutes. From artists to artists.
Latest Technologies
Based on latest technologies we keep boosting them while adding new ones as soon as we make them reliable. Good balancing between stability and innovation makes Rombo production solid. From devs to devs.
