mental mill Artist Edition Bundled with NVIDIA FX Composer 2.5

By DE Editors

mental images (San Francisco, CA) and NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) announced that an updated beta version of mental mill Artist Edition will be bundled with NVIDIA’s FX Composer 2.5. This combination of advanced technologies, and the new NVIDIA Shader Debugger plug-in for FX Composer, facilitates the creation of shaders across all well-known platforms.

The mental mill Artist Edition is a shader creation tool that is suitable for all levels of expertise. It makes the graphical interface easier to navigate, includes preview rendering enhancements, and offers new shaders in the toolbox. Plus, customer export is available with new compiler options that the user can control such as shader export for FX Composer.

Bundled with NVIDIA’s FX Composer 2.5, an integrated development environment for fast creation of real-time visual effects, mental mill Artist Edition is an integral part of the shader development pipeline. Developers can use NVIDIA’s new Shader Debugger, which is released as a plug-in for FX Composer 2.5, to enable debugging capabilities for CgFX and HLSL shaders, and those exported by mental mill. NVIDIA’s bundling of mental mill Artist Edition with FX Composer 2.5 signals the company’s adoption of MetaSL as a standard.

A standalone beta version of mental mill with additional features for debugging and shader programming is available from mental images, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.

For recent DEcoverage, see “mental images Unveils New RealityServer at SIGGRAPH 2008,” (August 2008).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.