Floyd is a toolset that allows to render Maya Fluids with RenderMan renderers with improved quality and advanced rendering effects, aimed at VFX production.

Floyd consists of:

• A high-performance ray marching DSO: floyd.dylib/.so/.dll
• A RSL2.0 interior shader: floyd.sdl (3Delight version)
• A RSL2.0 surface shader: floyd.slo (PRMan version)
• A command line tool, floyd-wt, to apply wavelet turbulence to Maya caches
  

The following advanced affects are supported:

• Improved filtering of textures
• High quality anti-aliasing and filtering (no banding, no artifacts)
• 3D motion blur
• 2.5D post motion blur
• Render-time addition of detail via floyd-wt  wavelet-noise
• Optional cache re-timing without re-simulation
• Point-based occlusion, color bleed, SH environment lighting
• Volumetric scattering

Floyd natively reads Maya Fluid caches.

Floyd is available for:

• PRMan
• 3Delight

Interested customers can contact us for details.

Here are some image comparison based on two scenes from Duncan Brinsmead (‘fireball.ma’ & ‘orangedye.ma’) featuring Floyd rendering and reference mental delay rendering.

Fireball

Orange Dye

And an additional Floyd-WT with & without comparison on a 3d flame setup: