Gray-blue color indicates new feature

Prime

Broadcast

Visualize

Studio

Platform

OpenGL 3.0 Support (if supported by OS, driver and hardware)

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Data Exchange / Format Support

IGES importer

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Okino Connection - seamless CAD file import via optional Polytrans software

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Modeling Tools

Displacement Deformer

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Camera Deformer

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Smoothing Deformer

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Materials & Texturing

Sub-polygon Displacement

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Sub-surface scattering

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Enhanced Brick Shader

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Pavement Shader

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Sketch & Toon Art Shader

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Sketch & Toon Hatch Shader

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Sketch & Toon Spots (Halftone) Shader

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Lighting

Caustics

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Colortemperature in Kelvin

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Photometric brightness setting in Candela and Lumen

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Support of IES Light data

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Rendering

Color Profile support

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Camera White Balance

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Linear Workflow

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Ambient Occlusion

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Global Illumination (IR, QMC, Mixed)

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Depth of Field Post Effect

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Vector Motion Blur Post Effect

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CineMan Renderman-compliant bridge

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Sketch and Toon Non-photorealistic rendering

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Pyrocluster Volumetric Particle Rendering

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Physical Sky - realistic sky shading with 2D and 3D clouds, accurate sun and star positions, fog and atmosphere effects

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Picture Viewer with RAM playback (including sound), history, AB Compare, histogram, layer view, color correction, full screen mode

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Render Queue Batch Rendering System

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Network Rendering Clients

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unlimited

Animation

Cappucino - Realtime Keyframing

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Driver Tag

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Virtual Walkthrough Tool - first-person scene navigation and animation

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Dynamic Animation

Thinking Particles node-based particle system

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Rigid Body Dynamics (limited to MoGraph objects)

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Rigid Body Dynamics

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Joints, Springs, Motors

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Soft Body Dynamics

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Cloth Dynamics & Dressing functions

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Hair Dynamics

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Spline Dynamics

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MoGraph Tools

Cloner Object

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Fracture Object

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Matrix Object

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Instance Object

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Text Object

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Tracer Object

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Spline Mask Object

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MoSpline parametric spline generator with L-system functionality

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Effect Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time via Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, COFFEE, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume

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PolyFX polygon fracture deformer

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MoGraph Selection Tag

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Beat Shader

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Multi-shader - affect texture based on clone color

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Extrude Deformer

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Character Animation Tools

Joints with full dynamic IK

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Weighting manager and tools

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PoseMorph morphing and hierarchical mixing system

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VAMP tool for translating weights, morphs, selection, textures, Uvs and Vertex Maps between different geometry

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Cluster Deformer

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Morph Deformer

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Jiggle Deformer

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Tension Tag

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Quaternion Tag

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Point Cache Tag

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Point Cache Deformer

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Correction Deformer

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Surface Deformer

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Mesh Deformer

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Squash & Stretch Deformer

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Visual Selector

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Hair Simulation and Rendering

Guide-based Hair system

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Hair Instancing

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Feather Object

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Fur System

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Hair styling tools: Move, Scale, Rotate, Brush, Comb, Clump, Curl, Cut, Push, Straighten, Add Guides, Mirror, Set Roots

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Hair Dynamics

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Hair Shading System with multiple speculars, texture-defined root and tip colors, and variable transparency, thickness, length, scale, frizz, kink, density, clump, tighten, displace, bend, curl, twist, wave, straighten

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Content

Advanced Presets and Demo Scenes

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Broadcast Library incl. Materials, Cameras and Objects

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Visualization Library incl. Materials, Presets and Architectural Objects

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