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01 Dec 2009
Mikael Burman has posted a set of video tutorials on a Janus-exrTrader-Fusion workflow over at the NewTek forums. Mikael employs the standard presets of Janus to get basic passes out, but then uses cutomised Group Types (alternately: Group Overrides) to generate chroma-key passes for certain objects.

15 Oct 2008
Build 0021 is released with trial version.

15 Oct 2008
Jon Whisman, Pixelgraft, has put up a quick multi-pass breakdown demo using Janus. HDInstance was used for the objects, which LightWave's internal buffers could not completely render. Jon used partial overrides to apply specific surface attributes which mimicked the output of the buffers.

03 Oct 2008
Janus Modules: Pass Wizard. A Janus Module is a separate addition to Janus (sometimes compiled directly into Janus) that adds functionality to the existing system. In Pass Wizard pass creation is made much simpler due to its presentation. The user is asked about the current scene in step-by-step format and the Wizard interprets the user inputs to create passes in the main Janus system.

Also, Janus now supports partial overrides. Although at first glance it may mean nothing, partial overrides allow you to get into 'buffers' without resorting to buffer savers. For example, you can get a specular pass accurately, because Janus overrides all other surface channels except the specularity.

25 Sept 2008
Moved to new domain: janus.faulknermano.com.
Added News section to site.