You’re not incorrect — it was indeed heavily dependent on mental ray.
“Interactive mental ray” was how marketing phrased it. It had shader presets
and “phenomena”, render passes, etc.
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You're sure? To my knowledge, Twister originally was codename for the
interactive version of mental ray combined with node-based shader workflow,
planned for SI|3D as well as Sumatra/XSI. Focused on the latter of course
because of the shader tree idea, what later became the render tree.
I'm
Twister was the codename for a product that was going to allow you to import
files from SOFTIMAGE|3D, override/add materials, lights, etc., and then render
on a farm. It was meant to fill the gap before the release of Rayflex, the
first codename for SI3D’s replacement.
But Twister stole
first friday flashback, I quite didn't understand. Was this somehow related to
a predecessor to UniversalBatch?
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Graphic rough for the Twister render farm
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