Monday, March 24th, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerPeregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"A still from The Amazing Maurice: one of the recent productions on which Yeti was used.Originally posted on 5 March 2024. Scroll down for news of the Yeti 5.2 update.Peregrine Labs has released Yeti 5, the latest version of its fur and feathers plugin for Maya.Yeti 5.0 introduces a new hair shader for Mayas Viewport 2.0, reflecting current hair shading workflows, and makes it possible to import XGen Interactive Grooms into the Yeti node graph.Yeti 5.2 adds new nodes for resolving intersections, support for cross-platform file path mapping, and a new Yeti Evaluation SDK for evaluating Yeti graphs.A staple of many modern VFX and feature animation pipelinesFirst released in 2011, Yeti is a node-based tool for creating, grooming and styling hair, fur and feathers, supporting a non-destructive, topology-independent, layer-based workflow.It is compatible with the Arnold, Redshift, RenderMan, Unreal Engine and V-Ray renderers.Yeti has been used in production on a range of VFX and animation projects, with recent credits including animated feature The Amazing Maurice and The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.New in Yeti 5.0: new Viewport 2.0 shader and updates to the node graphKey changes in Yeti 5.0 include a new hair shader for Mayas Viewport 2.0.According to Peregrine Labs, it aims to match commonly used production hair shading techniques and features controls for melanin and IOR.It is also now possible to import Mayas XGen Interactive Grooms into the Yeti graph, and all of Yetis Maya nodes now support soft selection and weighted transforms.Under the hood, the Yeti graph gets a new Groom Sampler, enabling any parameter to be controlled by a grooms paintable attribute more directly.The software is now available for Windows and Linux only, macOS support having been discontinued with Yeti 4.2.Another still from a recent project to use Yeti: SpongeBob SquarePants spin-off Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.Updated 24 March 2025: Peregrine Labs has released Yeti 5.2.The update adds two new nodes for resolving intersection issues: Plume, for resolving feather-feather and feather-geometry intersections, and Resolve, for fiber intersections.Other new features include cross-platform file path mapping, following a similar convention to the Arnold renderer, and a new C++ API for evaluating Yeti graphs.The previous 5.1 updates were primarily bugfix releases, and to add support for the current versions of Maya and the supported renderers.Pricing and availabilityYeti 5.2 is available for Maya 2024+, running on Windows 10+, and RHEL and Rocky Linux 8.5. Indie licenses one perpetual node-locked workstation licence and one render licence are available to artists with revenue under $100,000/year, and cost $329.Studio licenses one perpetual floating workstation licence, plus five render licences cost $699. Further packs of five render licences cost $399.Read more about Yeti 5 on Peregrine Labs websiteRead a full list of new features in Yeti 5.x in the online release notesHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). 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