Features

• Global Illumination using photon mapping, 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.
  

Input

• Geometry and shaders in the FBX file format (www.autodesk.com/fbx).
• 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.
• Vertex data in FBX format.
• Integration available for Unreal Engine which invokes Beast to generate light maps and shadow maps for UE3 levels.