A popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Messiah Studio, Modo, 3DSmax, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects, and more has been updated with over 10 new features – Including support for ‘OSX Universal Binary LightWave’ and ‘OSX Modo’!

Battle Ground, WA (EMWNews) July 30, 2008 — Liquid Dream Solutions today announces ButterflyNetRender 4.11, the newest version of a popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Messiah Studio, 3DSmax, XSI, Modo, Digital Fusion, After Effects, and more. The controller provides 3D graphic artists with a pain-free way to set up a render farm for managing frame creation in graphic animations. The software is incredibly easy to configure and use.

ButterflyNetRender technology has been given credits by many industry experts, including those from CGFocus.com, Keyframe and 3D World Magazine. It is widely used throughout the computer graphics industry to create animations and television shows. Some of the recent ones include Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Jimmy Neutron, Spy Kids 3, and Battlestar Galactica.

Many companies use ButterflyNetRender — Including NASA. A partial list of Animation Studios can be found at their website.

Committed to software excellence, the development team keeps ButterflyNetRender current with technology changes by adding new features to meet the needs of the computer graphics industry. Below are the most important new features in ButterflyNetRender 4.11:

• Modo OSX support
• Support for LightWave OSX Universal Binary
• Added ‘Connect to BNR Client using Remote Desktop’ feature
• Updated BNR Client to send “Memory and CPU usage” feedback while rendering
• Added ‘Verify Creation date’ when checking for rendered frames.
• Updated BNR Submit XML system and added PDF manual
• Created BNR Submit Python class with source code.
• Added LightWave 9.3.1 & LightWave 9.5 (output format for 5 & 6 digit naming)
• Improved OSX support with Windows to OSX path matching feature
• minor bug fixes to improve performance

ButterflyNetRender runs under Microsoft Windows Vista(64/32), XP(64/32), 2003, NT, 2000, 98, ME. BNR Client also runs on OSX and Linux. The detailed information about the types of licenses and prices can be found at www.liquiddreamsolutions.com. Registered customers are entitled to free updates and technical support by email. Phone support is also available. An evaluation version of ButterflyNetRender is available as a free download from the Liquid Dream Solutions website.

About Liquid Dream Solutions:

Liquid Dream Solutions is a Pacific NW-based technology company founded by software engineer Paul Lord in 2001. Over 15 years, Paul Lord has been working as a software architect designing mission critical applications. He has worked for Monolith Productions, a Seattle-based gaming company, on the A.I. development team for the game: Blood II. He has also worked as a programming consultant for Luxology on their graphics software: “Modo”.

More information is available from www.liquiddreamsolutions.com.

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Product page: http://www.liquiddreamsolutions.com

Download link: http://www.liquiddreamsolutions.com/trial_download.php

Company website: http://www.liquiddreamsolutions.com

Postal address: Liquid Dream Solutions, 2210 W Main St. Ste.107 #212, Battle Ground, WA 98604