Gelato Pro: free but condemned

The version 2.0 of Gelato, rendering software that is accelerated by Nvidia’s GPU, has already been available free of charge and now there is Gelato Pro 2.2 for the 3D design, animation, and postproduction communities. The Pro version differs amongst other things by the presence of Sorbetto (a tool for working with and optimizing lighting shaders), network parallel rendering, multi threading, and native 64-bit support. Like its smaller sibling, it is only supported in Windows XP and Linux.

The reason for this gift valued at $1500 to owners of the Quadro FX is that the company with the green chameleon is weary of Italian ice cream and it is therefore the last version. Nvidia announces that in the future, its rendering teams and those of Mental Images, which it acquired in mid-December, will concentrate on the development of mental ray which was up until recently 3D rendering engine software.