Features

• Global Illumination using path tracing, irradiance caching and radiance caching.
• Image Based Lighting.
• Raytraced shadows, reflections and transparency.
• Camera rendering, texture baking, surface transfer and vertex baking.
• Ambient Occlusion, Radiosity Normal Maps, Light Maps and many other custom passes.
• Point cloud baking.
• Lua scripted baking.
• UV-atlas packing.
• Used either as a command line tool or as an API.

Input

• Input for the Beast API is created programmatically allowing for custom conversion of any format. Geometry and shaders in the FBX file format (www.autodesk.com/fbx) for the command line version of Beast.
• Settings using a custom XML format.
• Images and textures using TGA, JPEG, TIFF, HDR, PNG and EXR.

Output

• Images in TGA, EXR and JPEG format. (Command line version)
• Vertex data in proprietary binary format (Command line version, C++ lib for reading included with Beast).