Realtime Ray-tracing  Features

Real World Lighting and Editing

Scientifically Accurate Materials

• - Progressive global illumination
• - Multi-core photon mapping
• - Adaptive material sampling
• - Dynamic lighting core
• - Focused Caustics
• - Realtime subsurface scattering
• - PRO: Realtime region rendering
• - PRO: Raytracing of NURBS                                                                                      

• - Image based lighting using high dynamic range images (HDRI)
• - Brightness and contrast control
• - Envrionment rotation and height adjustment
• - Lighting presets for various scenarios
• - PRO: Saturation and hue adjustment
• - PRO: Tilt and blur
• - PRO: Innovative pin system for adding lights with realtime feedback
• - PRO: Sun / Sky generator                                                                                    

• - True physics based materials
• - Subsurface scattering
• - Adjustable IOR
• - Dispersion
• - Interactive color adjustment with support for Pantone®, RAL®, CIE Lab
• - Roughness/gloss control
• - Multi-layer materials
• - Light-emitting materials
• - Support for AXALTA (DuPont®) paints
• - Mold-Tech material with accurate scaling
• - Support for Sørensen leathers

Interactive Material Assignments

Texture, Bump Map and Labeling

Model Interaction

• - Drag and drop materials from library onto object
• - Copy and paste materials from one part to another with automatic linking
• - Material assignment to entire objects and layers through scene tree
• - Autopaint entire models through material templates
• - In-project material library for material management

• - Dynamic texture mapping and control
• - Image based bump mapping with interactive height control
• - Normal mapping
• - Support for opacity maps
• - Specular  mapping
• - Procedural texture mapping
• - Interactive label placement
• - MateriaLs and textures on labels
• - PRO: Interactive, node-based Material Graph with realtime feedback

• - Interactive scene tree
• - Preserve structure from 3D modeling application
• - Interactive single or multiple part movement
• - Hide, Delete, show only parts
• - Ability to lock parts
• - Model and part instancing and patterning
• - Grouping and restructuring of scene hierarchy
• - Powerful search and filtering tools
• - PRO: Scene Sets, combining model configurations and view sets
• - PRO: Geometry Viewer and Editor

Physical Lights

Camera Controls

Image Composition

• - Light sources with power control and fall-off based on scene units
• - Area light diffuse
• - Point light diffuse
• - Point light IES profile

• - Full interactive camera control including tumble, pan, dolly and twist
• - Numerical control using spherical or absolute coordinate
• - Interactive focal length
• - Realtime depth of field with F-stop
• - PRO: View sets for saving lighting, camera angle, and backplate

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

Part & Camera Animation (Pro)

KeyShotVR (Add-on)

Offline Rendering Features

• - Animation offset transform system for models and cameras
• - Setup, edit, and playback inside realtime raytraced environment
• - Step by step guidance through animation wizard
• - Copy and paste of animations onto other parts with optional linking
• - Model/Part animation: turntable, translation, rotation
• - Camera animation: orbit, zoom, inclination, translation
• - Part animation fade in/out
• - Material and parameter animation
• - Motion blur

• - Interactive web-output directly from inside KeyShot
• - Plugin-free interaction in any HTML5 supported browser
• - VR types: Turntable, Hemi-spherical, Spherical, Custom, Tumble, Animation, Panorama
• - Step by step setup through wizard with interactive feedback
• - Dynamic image compression quality control
• - Customizable settings for enhanced user experience
• - Preserved image quality for zoom
• - Output to JPEG/PNG with automatic FTP deployment

• - Realtime render mode
• - Gaussian blur for image smoothing
• - Alpha channel output
• - PRO: Render passes including layers
• - PRO: Batch rendering (render queue)
• - PRO: Simultaneous realtime and offline rendering
• - PRO: Turntable animation rendering
• - PRO: Region rendering
• - Add-on: Network rendering

Network Rendering (optional)

Image Input

2D/3D Output

• - Easy to install and manage Master/Slave system
• - Add/remove slaves before, after and during the rendering
• - Network render queue
• - Automatic load balancing to optimize performance on mixed CPU system
• - Start, stop, suspend and prioritize jobs
• - Local slave management for core usage and scheduling
• - Support for PC, Mac or mixed network

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

• - Unlimited output resolution
• - Interactive render output window with zoom and image editing capabilities
• - JPEG
• - PNG
• - PSD (multi-layer)
• - TIFF with alpha channel (8 bit/32bit)
• - EXR (32 bit)
• - PRO: AVI, Quicktime, Flash (PC) for animations
• - PRO: Output to OBJ
• - PRO: Output to STL
• - PRO: Output to ZPR

3D File Formats (PC/MAC)

Plugins w/ LiveLinking (PC only unless mentioned)

Language Support

• - 3ds Max 2016 and prior (via plugin)
• - ALIAS 2016 and prior
• - AutoCAD (DWG/DXF)
• - CATIA v5/6
• - Cinema 4D R16 and later
• - PTC Creo 3.0 and prior
• - Inventor 2016 and prior
• - Maya 2016 and prior
• - NX 10 and prior
• - Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 – 5
• - Rhinoceros 5 and prior
• - SketchUp 2015 and prior
• - Solid Edge ST8 and prior
• - SolidWorks 2016 and prior
• - IGES
• - JT
• - 3DXML
• - STEP AP203/214
• - OBJ
• - Parasolid
• - FBX including part/camera animation
• - STL
• - Collada
• - Alembic

• - 3DS Max 2011 – 2016
• - Maya 2013-16 (Mac/PC)
• - Cinema 4D R17 (Mac/PC)
• - Creo 3.0 and prior
• - Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4 – 5
• - Siemens NX 8.5 – 10 (requires KeyShot Enterprise Edition)
• - SolidWorks 2011 – 2016
• - Rhinoceros 4, 5
• - SketchUp 7, 8 & 2013 – 2015 (Mac/PC)
• - Solid Edge ST7 and later (through Siemens)
• - SpaceClaim (through SpaceClaim)
• - IronCAD 2016 and prior (through IronCAD)
• - Delcam ArtCAM (through Delcam)
• - Delcam Shoemaker Pro (through Delcam)
• - Delcam PowerSHAPE (through Delcam)
• - Geomagic Design and others ((through 3D Systems)
• - SolidThinking Evolve (through Altair)

• - Chinese
• - Czech
• - English
• - French
• - German
• - Italian
• - Japanese
• - Korean
• - Polish
• - Russian
• - Spanish

Architecture

Licensing

What’s Included

• - CPU based – no special graphics card needed
• - 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
• - PRO: Stereo viewing
• - Support for PC and Mac

• - Node-locked license, tied to MAC-address of computer
• - PRO (Optional): Floating licensing using FlexNet Publisher (FLEXlm) for Windows or Mac OS X, including support for license borrowing, and access through VPN

• - 500+ predefined materials including texture and bump maps
• - 50+ lighting environments
• - Access to KeyShot Cloud, an online library for materials and textures
• - Quick start guide
• - Hotkey list
• - Manual