NVIDIA Gelato 2.0

[Sprite]

Well for those of you who like to make things in 3D and render stuff out, this could be a cool bit of software. I was reading this months MCAD magazine, and I saw this little article about NVIDIA Gelato 2.0 being totally free, now usually it costs $1500 so I thought wow free software thats is actually good (ive used it a uni) but alas when I got to Nvidia's site it is free but my hardware isnt supported

But being the kind guy I am I decided to let you all know about it so that you may get it if your hardware is supported.

Gelato requires the following:

NVIDIA GPU NVIDIA Quadro FX

NVIDIA® GeForce® 5200 or higher

NVIDIA Driver Linux 32-bit: x86-1.0-8174 or later

Linux 64-bit: x86_64-1.0-8174 or later
(Gelato will run in 32-bit mode on Linux 64-bit systems. Gelato Pro is required to run natively on Linux 64-bit.)

Windows XP: 81.67 or later

Windows XP64: 81.67 or later
(Gelato will run in 32-bit mode on Windows 64-bit systems.)

CPU :
Intel Pentium III or higher
Intel Xeon
AMD Athlon
AMD Opteron

RAM 1 GB (recommended)

Operating System:

RedHat Linux 7.2 or higher
Linux SuSE 8.0 or higher
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
(currently Gelato Pro will only run in 32-bit mode on this OS)

Certified and Supported NVIDIA Quadro FX boards
Gelato Pro is certified and supported on NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics hardware. The complete list of certified and supported boards is as follows:

* NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 / 5500 SDI
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 / 4000 SDI
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 / 3000 G
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 700
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 600
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 350
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 330
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M
* NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M
* NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400
* NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000
* NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700

Compatible NVIDIA GeForce boards
Gelato can be run on the following hardware in lieu of NVIDIA Quadro FX. Note that Gelato Pro is not certified or supported on these boards:

* NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT / 7900 GTX
* NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT / 7600 GS
* GeForce 7800 / 7800 GS / 7800 GT / 7800 GTX / GTX 512
* GeForce 7300 LE / 7300 GS
* GeForce 6800 / 6800 XT / 6800 XE / 6800 LE / 6800 GT / 6800 GS / 6800 Ultra
* GeForce 6700 XL
* GeForce 6600 / 6600 VE / 6600 LE / 6600 GT
* GeForce 6500
* GeForce 6200 / 6200 LE / 6200 SE TurboCache™ / 6200 TurboCache™
* GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
* GeForce FX 5900 / 5900 Ultra
* GeForce FX 5800 / 5800 Ultra
* GeForce FX 5700 / 5700 VE / 5700 LE / 5700 Ultra
* GeForce FX 5600 / 5600 XT / 5600 Ultra
* GeForce FX 5600
* GeForce FX 5500
* GeForce FX 5200 / 5200 LE / 5200 Ultra
* GeForce Go 7800 GTX
* GeForce Go 6800 / 6800 Ultra
* GeForce Go 6600
* GeForce Go 6200/6400

What modeling and animation packages does Gelato work with?
Gelato ships with Mango™ and Amaretto™ plug-ins for Alias Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max. Gelato's API is published and others are free to develop plug-ins for other application packages. The NVIDIA website will keep you up to date with links to the latest third-party plug-ins and tools as they become available.

Gelato F&Q

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[donbenni]

That's cool 👍 I'm going to be working with Maya at uni next year so having a nice seperate renderer to play around with is good.

I'm still a bit n00bie with 3D stuff, so what can you actually do just with Gelato? Can you model, or is that what you would need Maya or Max for?

 

[Flerbizky]

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Cool - Thanks for the Heads up !... DL'ing as I type !..

 

[Pako]

I wonder what functionality is taken out? I see that they are still more than happy to sell you the PRO version for $1500 + $300/yr maintenance thereafter.

 

[Sprite]

I wonder what functionality is taken out? I see that they are still more than happy to sell you the PRO version for $1500 + $300/yr maintenance thereafter.

What is the difference between Gelato and Gelato Pro?
Both are high-quality renderers with rich feature sets. Gelato Pro, however, includes some features that are useful in a professional production environment and comes with support from NVIDIA's High-Quality Rendering team. The features that are unique to Gelato Pro are:

* Sorbetto interactive relighting
* Network parallel rendering (using a network to render a single image faster than one computer alone)
* Multithreading
* Native 64-bit support
* DSO shadeops
* Maintenance & support services from NVIDIA
* Advanced access to new features

That's cool I'm going to be working with Maya at uni next year so having a nice seperate renderer to play around with is good.

I'm still a bit n00bie with 3D stuff, so what can you actually do just with Gelato? Can you model, or is that what you would need Maya or Max for?

Its a rendering package, so you do your 3d modeling in Maya and then use this to render the image. There are alot of cool rendering packages out but this one is free and all the others are fairly exspensive.

 

[Spock]

Sweet. My FX5500 is finally usefull!

 

[Raghavan]

Can't use it. ATi Card.