Timur Hairulin released new version of CGRU — a free render farm management solution. The new version's major new feature is support for 3D Studio MAX.

Changes:

• 3D Studio MAX submit to Afanasy scripts, MAX Afanasy service and parser.
• Watch can ask and launch a custom command with render items and has more sort&filter parameters.
• "Mavishky" stereo mode, DNxHD codec ffmpeg preset and Utf-8 full support.
• Linear float EXR and logarithm DPX to sRGB conversion bug fixed.
• H264 ffmpeg preset updated: good size&quality and frame navigation on MS Windows QuickTime player.
• Nuke stereo render views in different folders bug fixed.

You can download it here.

More on this topic:

• 3Delight exporter for Blender updated to feature new global illumination method
• Mitsuba 0.3.0 released with new sun/sky model and other improvements
• CGRU v1.5 released with more sophisticated support for Houdini
• LuxRender 0.8 released with new features and GPU rendering
• New "Secret Spaces" competition from LuxRender