Krakatoa adalah render, manipulasi dan manajemen toolkit particle volumetrik. Menyediakan saluran pipa untuk memperoleh, caching, deformasi, shading dan rendering sejumlah besar partikel-partikel pada kecepatan yang belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya untuk mewakili fenomena alam seperti debu, asap, lumpur, permukaan laut berbusa, plasma dan bahkan benda padat. Krakatoa terintegrasi baik dengan Particle Flow, yang fleksibel dengan 3ds Max built-in Event-Driven Particle System, dan pertukaran data menyediakan kemampuan untuk berbagi partikel dengan aplikasi 3D dan simulasi.
It provides a pipeline for acquiring, caching, deforming, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to represent natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects. Krakatoa integrates well with Particle Flow, the flexible 3ds Max built-in Event-Driven Particle System, and provides data exchange capabilities for sharing particles with other 3D and simulation applications.
The rendering features include support for shading and texturing using standard 3ds Max maps and materials; Motion Blur and Depth Of Field effects; Particle Self-Shadowing and Shadow Casting from and onto matte objects; Ambient Participating Medium Extinction to simulate atmospheric and underwater light and color behavior and more.
The Particle Manipulation pipeline includes Particle Culling using arbitrary geometry and Particle Deformations using 3ds Max deformation modifiers and Space Warps like Bend, Twist, PathDeform and Free Form Deformation lattices.
The Particle Management features include the ability to generate millions of particles using a unique Particle Partitioning method which overcomes memory and system limitations of 3ds Max; Input and Output support for Prime Focus' open, compact and flexible .PRT particle data format, NextLimit's RealFlow 3 and 4 particle BIN file format and a versatile and easy to use ASCII Comma Separated Values .CSV format which could be used to interact with any application that can read and write text files. Particle files can be saved from Krakatoa and also loaded into 3ds Max using Krakatoa Particle Loader objects or into Particle Flow using dedicated Krakatoa File Birth and Krakatoa File Position operators, thus allowing for a full data flow cycle where particles can be saved, reloaded and processed multiple times through different particle system setups.
by Sikatwes
