Mari

The Foundry--Mari

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Mari is a new product for the Foundry, developed by the R&D and texture departments at Weta Digital. Mari is a full 3D paint/texture tool. It is not a modeling tool such as Mudbox or ZBrush.



The application allows hundreds of production textures to be painted on a model, but rather than be limited to just a static neutral pose, you can import an animation sequence and still interactively work on the texturing. This is important as seams and stretching can often only appear when the character or asset is in motion in a real scene.


Mari's features:

1. interactively handles very large 3D model data sets, scaling to over 1 million polygons
2. supports large textures, up to 32K x 32K pixels (normally, single textures never need to be this large)
3. handles hundreds and thousands of textures per model, over many layers
4. provides single- or multi- patch UV texture map management
5. supports multiple models or model instances in a single scene
6. handles animated geometry and animated textures - floating point, 16-bit or 8-bit textures

Mari has a painting toolset that includes:

1. a clean and intuitive GUI
2. fully customizable brush engine
3. paint through and clone brush (between layers and textures)
4. smear/drag brush
5. paint canvas transform, grid warp and free-form ‘pin’ warp
6. blur and sharpen
7. advanced ‘healing’ brush for seamless removal and duplication of texture detail
8. overall grading and high end filtering

知名合成軟體NUKE的公司Foundry，在日前推出新一代的革命性產品-Mari，是R&D以及Weta Digital貼圖部門所開發的專業貼圖繪製軟體，以應用在The Lord of The Rings, King Kong以及Avatar等電影上。

Mari允許在一個model上處理數百張的貼圖製作，更驚人的是它可以導進動態序列檔進行互動式貼圖製作！這可以解決貼圖製作上的接縫以及拉扯等問題。另外Mari還號稱可以處裡32K x 32K超高解析度的檔案。(crazy!!)

Mari在定位上是標準的貼圖繪製軟體，所以不同於ZBrush和Mudbox之類的軟體還可以處理建模等工作，看的出來是專門針對大公司為使用對象。