Mari is out

Mongrelman · Jul 2010

15 day trial or buy for £600 / $900 (ouch)

The system requirements are a bit hefty too.

• Quad-core processor
• Linux 64-bit operating system (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora Core, or CentOS 5)
• 250GB disk space available for caching and temporary files (or a minimum of 50GB if you're working on a small project)
• 4GB RAM
• NVIDIA Quadro FX3800 graphics card or better
• Display with 1680 x 1050 pixel resolution

EDIT: Oopsies, forgot the link http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/add_to_cart.php?product_family_id=mari

Bibendum · Jul 2010

It's seriously linux only?

Marine · Jul 2010

Yep, windows is coming later

Steve Schulze · Jul 2010

Could we get some information on what exactly these system requirements are required for?

maze · Jul 2010

I ve been waiting for this!!!!

Wells · Jul 2010

Jackablade wrote: »

Could we get some information on what exactly these system requirements are required for?

Google tells me Mari is the ancient Mesopotamian city located on the west bank of the Euphrates River.

Spinks · Jul 2010

official product page: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/mari/

Disco Stu · Jul 2010

Id say they are for painting 32 2048 maps at once ^^
Lets hope they adjust accordingly when only painting 2 or 3 at a time.

PolyHertz · Jul 2010

250gb free? I haven't had even close to that much free in years...and am running a dual core still

. Well hopefully by the time the Windows build is out will have been able to upgrade.

Any impressions from the Linux users here?

Spinks · Jul 2010

i wonder how useful this will be for creating game assets. if the viewport supports normalmaps you could paint on your realtime mesh with normals, otherwise i guess you'd have to uv your highpoly/sculpt and then bake the textures along with the normals? interesting none the less. maybe mudbox is a better fit for game art, since we really don't need 32kx32k textures for games (yet

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Mark Dygert · Jul 2010

Sectaurs wrote: »

Google tells me Mari is the ancient Mesopotamian city located on the west bank of the Euphrates River.

Depending on its current condition, that could be quite the deal.

On a side note, I worked with someone named Mari, she was a great team member but its sad to see her going for so cheap. You're worth more Mari... you really are.

Slum · Jul 2010

This isn't really made for games work (though it could be useful for sure!). It's made for insanely high resolution texturing of film assets (and a lot of film studios use linux). So, there's really nothing unreasonable about any of this stuff.

Blaizer · Jul 2010

hahaha a quadro fx 3800?

And linux, it's good, but a pain when we work on windows. I wonder if the windows perfomance will be the same.

haiddasalami · Jul 2010

Blaizer wrote: »

hahaha a quadro fx 3800?

And linux, it's good, but a pain when we work on windows. I wonder if the windows perfomance will be the same.

Pretty sure Foundry is good at optimizing it for windows. Been using Nuke on windows and runs smooth...Nuke on mac >.> Let's just say it likes to crash...or maybe its the works mac.

dur23 · Jul 2010

Disco Stu wrote: »

Id say they are for painting 32 2048 maps at once ^^
Lets hope they adjust accordingly when only painting 2 or 3 at a time.

More like 85-100 4096 textures at once.

They demoed this at the office here (like 2 hours ago). This could (easily) become the photoshop replacement we've always been looking for. It's still a few versions away (of course) from completely replacing ps, but i can see it coming.