Commenting on: MachStudio Pro 2 to use DX11 acceleration on FirePro V8000, add mentral ray support

MachStudio Pro has increasingly been migrating to an open hub for 3D workflows. The newly announced MachStudio Pro 2 (Q3 2010) will offer native integration with Pixar RenderMan and the ability to create and use MetaSL-based custom procedural shaders and render out with mental ray.

The new release (will be free to all current customers) will also fully implement DirectX 11 support for even faster GPU acceleration, tessellation and multi-threading. This means significant performance boots on the ATI FirePro V8000.

The announced list of features includes:

• Pixar RenderMan Integration: Provides the flexibility to switch between or combine fast…