Howler-9.5-released

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Santa Clarita and San Diego, California
October 1st, 2014

Dan Ritchie and TheBest3D.com have announced the release and immediate availability of PD Howler 9.5.

PD Howler Digital Painter is a natural media paint and animation program with a slant toward visual effects, including tools for video, such as motion estimation. With support for multi-threading and GPU based acceleration, Version 9.5 adds tools for 3D landscape and texture artists, as well as animators and photographers, in addition to enhanced foliage painting and a new particle modeler to create things that look like volumetric clouds.

Links
www.squirreldome.com
www.thebest3d.com

Slideshow
http://thebest3d.com/slideshow9.5/index.html

Demo
www.squirreldome.com/demo/howler_9_5_demo.exe
www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/demozone

Videos

What's new in Howler 9.5? Part 1 - General Overview: http://youtu.be/qSkgY6Cmyp4
What's new in Howler 9.5? Part 2 - The Particle/Clouds Modeler: http://youtu.be/plT5LgltVj8
Creating the River Canyon - the Tutorial - http://youtu.be/xIeP21SuA9I

Summary of Major Features that are New
www.thebest3d.com/howler/features

What's new in Howler 9.5...

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

Tools for landscape texture artists

Slope shading filter
Ambient occlusion filter
Erosion filter
Export OBJ objects of terrain mesh for interop with 3D programs

Software Architecture changes

Multi-threading: Now supports 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

More details here: http://thebest3d.com/howler/9/what-is-new-in-the-Howler-9.5_Purely_Ballistic.html

Pricing and Availablity