… when imagination becomes reality.
Present your Rhino® models in their best light
Next generation rendering technology
Flamingo® nXt was developed for designers. You don’t need to be a CG professional to quickly present your Rhino model in the best light.
Results in a few clicks and a few minutes
In Rhino, just click Render to try the nXt defaults, or spend a few minutes to select a lighting scenario and add some materials before you click Render.
Flamingo nXt allows you to easily create stunning, life-like images in Rhino.
Easy to Use
With nXt you don’t need to be a professional renderer to get realistic results quickly. You provide materials and lighting and press the Render button. nXt provides the simulation. Unlike many rendering products, there are very few settings to worry about or understand.
Physically-Based
nXt produces realistic results by simulating light transport in your model. Indirect lighting as well as complex reflection and refraction can be easily incorporated into the simulation. Interior and exterior daylight simulations, HDR image-based lighting, and many other techniques are all handled easily, with minimal configuration requirements.
Fast
nXt uses efficient, modern ray-casting technology to produce results as quickly as possible. All processor cores are automatically utilized in parallel. Images are continually refined and improved over time.
Loaded with Extras
Advanced Lighting | |
Default lighting presets for quick setups of common scenes | |
Studio Lighting | |
Exterior Daylight | |
Interior Daylight | |
Artificial Lighting | |
Advance use of high dynamic range images for scene lighting. | |
Free library of high Quality HDRI images for lighting. | |
Soft shadows calculated automatically. | |
Indirect lighting calculated enhancing depth in renderings. | |
Lighting Channels allow you to edit light strength realtime without the need to re-render the scene. | |
Automated daylight calculation based on lighting presets. |
Sophisticated Materials |
Material templates for common materials |
Blurry reflections, control over Fresnel effects and reflection styles |
Accurate Transparency |
New Bump Mapping |
Normal Maps |
True Displacement Mapping |
Materials stored in model for easy transfer to others |
Drag and Drop material assignment |
Advanced Options | |
Path tracing – | |
Progressive render continues to improve effects each pass | |
Less memory needed for models with many of the same block | |
Alpha channel support for compositing in backgrounds or objects | |
Tone mapping for brighter images | |
Burn control – White point adjustment | |
Post-processing – no re-rendering required | |
Depth of Field | |
Exposure | |
Vignette | |
Glare | |
Haze | |
Glow | |
Wires on/off | |
Text on/off | |
Adjust lighting channels | |
Fractal tree generator | |
Background rendering option allows modeling while rendering |
RenderFarm (Network Rendering) | RenderFarm (Network Rendering) |
Set multiple computers to rendering on image | Set multiple computers to rendering on image |
Distribute render to other computers while working | Distribute render to other computers while working |
Languages | Languages |
Localized interface (user selectable) and documentation in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. | Localized interface (user selectable) and documentation in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. |
System requirements | System requirements | System requirements |
Rhino 4.0 or 5.0 | Rhino 4.0 or 5.0 | Rhino 4.0 or 5.0 |
Hardware requirements: | Hardware requirements: | Hardware requirements: |
Supported Products | Supported Products | |
Rhino 4.0 sr8 or above | ||
Rhino 5.0 (Beta) both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions | ||
Suported Operating Systems | Suported Operating Systems: | |
Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit. | ||
Windows Vista | ||
Windows 7 | ||
* Flamingo will run as a 32-bit process when running in Rhino 4.0 for on any operating system (this limits Flamingo to 2GB of memory). To take full advantage of 64-bit operating systems, Rhino 5.0 64-bit is required. | * Flamingo will run as a 32-bit process when running in Rhino 4.0 for on any operating system (this limits Flamingo to 2GB of memory). To take full advantage of 64-bit operating systems, Rhino 5.0 64-bit is required. | |
Notes | Notes: | |
1 GB RAM or more is recommended. | ||
Hardware requirements match Rhinos’s hardware requirements. | ||
Multiple CPU cores will accelerate renderings are recommended. | ||
Video card speed does not affect Flamingo NXT. | ||
Virtualization systems such as VMWare and Parallels are supported. Running Macintosch hardware with Bootcamp and one of the Operating systems above is supported. |