Howler 9.5 FX friendly Digital Painter released

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Digital Painter and animator Howler 9.5 released.

Links
http://www.squirreldome.com
http://www.TheBest3D.com

Version 9.5 of the VFX friendly painting tool introduces updated onion skin, updated foliage painting tools and new tools for content creators, including landscape texturing and modeling tools, obj export, and cloud modeling, rendering.

Howler is a natural media painter with a slant toward the VFX industry, with tools like rotoscoping and frame retiming via motion prediction.

What’s new in Howler 9.5…

Architecture changes

Support up to 64 threads/cores, up from 12.

Photography

Local contrast filter stretches the dynamic color range in local areas to simulate the look of higher dynamic range images

Animation

Improved onion skin with more visible layers and layer options, and Red-shift to make it easier to determine past and future frames
New particle modeler and animator to render cloud like phenomenon

Foliage and particle painting changes

Ambient occlusion on foliage for more realism
z-buffering, so you don’t need to keep track of painting in any particular order
Speed improvements
No more post redraw on foliage particles
Spring setting for Orbicle particle brushes

3D Designer changes

Floating point pipeline
Improved lighting and specular highlights
Ambient occlusion
Raytraced shadows
Cloud systems
Erosion and sediment
Shading by slope, altitude, and sediment
Store height map, texture, slope and altitude masks, zbuffer, lighting buffers, and more for later use
Export OBJ objects for interop with 3D programs

Tools for landscape texture artists

Slope shading filter
Ambient occlusion filter
Erosion filter

Links
http://www.squirreldome.com
http://www.TheBest3D.com
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