Storm Tracer :: Specifications

Storm Tracer is a high speed volumetric sprite or placard rendering system. This means it renders in scene and interacts with other objects in scene.

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Illumination by in Scene Lights
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Storm tracer supports 2 illumination models, normal and placard as well as illumination "off".
Receive Shadows
X
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Cast Shadows
X
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 Storm Tracer casts it's own shadows using a Storm Shadow tag
Compatible with Post Effects
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X
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Compatible with most effects for instance Glow, Highlights & SMB, incompatible with Cebas DOF & Object Motion blur
Bump Support
X
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Normal Map Support
X
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Storm Tracer supports "absolute" style normal maps with -Z
Multipass Compatible
X
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Storm affects Alpha, and outputs during Multipass to the environment channels. Storm outputs it's own Z-Buffer/Depth channel in multipass
Reflection Support
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X
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 Storm Tracer particles can be reflective, but are not reflected in other objects
Transparency Support
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X
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 Storm Tracer works with non refractive transparency
Unlimited Ray Depth
X
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Shader Compatibility
X
X
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 Storm tracer uses standard Cinema 4D Shaders, Volumetric Shaders and other party shaders may not be compatible.
In Scene Object Interaction
X
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 Storm Tracer is rendered in scene rather than in a separate pass
Hard Edge Compensation
X
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 Storm allows you to get rid of "popping" and hard edges usually associated with placards using a fading system
Inbuilt L-System X - -  
Voxel Displacement X - -  
Specular Support
X
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Thinking Particles Compatible
X
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Standard Particles Compatible
X
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Polygon Geometry Compatible
X
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Deformer Compatible
X
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Generator Compatible
X
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Spline Generator Compatible
X
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Spline Compatible
X
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Vertexmap Compatible
X
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Selection Tag Compatible
X
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Null Object Compatible
X
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Surface Color Sampling
X
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 With "at birth" mode for TP Particles
TP Per Particle Color/Opacity Control X - -  
NET Compatible Version
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 Pricing available upon request, Standard edition not NET compatible