Technical Specifications

Architecture

Offline rendering features

• CPU based
• Parallel architecture with full support for multi-core and hyper-threaded systems
• Near linear performance scale with additional CPUs
• Utilization of GPU for rendering effects
• No special graphics card needed
• Support for PC and Mac

• Realtime render mode
• Gaussian blur for image smoothing
• Alpha channel output
• Region rendering (pro)
• Batch rendering (pro)
• Simultaneous realtime and offline rendering (pro)
• Turntable animation rendering (pro)

Supported 3D file formats

Image types - input

• ALIAS 2012 and prior
• AutoCAD (DWG/DXF)
• CATIA v5
• Creo
• Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER)
• Inventor 2011 and prior
• Rhinoceros 4 and prior
• SketchUp 8 and prior
• Solid Edge ST3 and prior (PC only)
• SolidWorks 2011 and prior (PC only)
• IGES
• STEP AP203/214
• OBJ
• FBX
• Collada
• 3DS

• JPEG
• TIFF with alpha channel (8 bit)
• PNG
• TARGA
• HDR
• EXR
• HDZ (KeyShot proprietary HDRI)

Realtime raytracing features

• Progressive global illumination
• Multi-core photon mapping
• Adaptive material sampling
• Dynamic lighting core
• Realtime subsurface scattering

Image Composition

• Realtime bloom effect
• Vignetting
• Solid color background
• Combination of 3D scene with 2D photograph
• Brightness and gamma control
• Ground shadow color adjustment

Image types - output

• 4.1M pixel output resolution
• Unlimited output resolution (pro)
• JPEG
• TIFF with alpha channel (8 bit/32bit)
• EXR (32 bit)

Texturing, bump mapping and labeling

• Dynamic texture mapping and control
• Image based bump mapping with interactive height control
• Normal mapping
• Labeling
• Procedural texture mapping

Plugins

• Creo & Creo Elements/Pro (Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire 2 - 5)
• Rhinoceros 4 and prior
• SolidWorks 2008 - 2011

Lighting

• Image based lighting
• Brightness and contrast control
• HDRI rotation and height adjustment

What's included:

• 100+ predefined materials including texture and bump maps
• 17 lighting environments including 5 professional outdoor environments and 10 studio lighting environments
• Quick start guide / Manual
• Hotkey list

Camera controls

• Full interactive camera control including tumble, pan, dolly and twist
• Interactive focal length
• Realtime depth of field with
• F-stop

Scientifically accurate materials

• True physics based materials
• Subsurface scattering
• Adjustable IOR
• Dispersion
• Interactive color adjustment
• Roughness control
• Multi-layer materials
• Light-emitting materials