Realtime Raytracing Features

• NVIDIA iray 2
• Interactive WYSIWYG raytracing
• Automatic "Blending" between peformance (raster) and quality (raytrace)
• Real time ray brush
• HDRI lighting
• Global illumination
• Ambient occlusion
• Final gathering
• Environment shadow casting
• Self and inter-object shadow casting
• Environment reflections
• Radiosity
• Refraction
• Caustics
• Environment based self/inter-object light bouncing
• Photon Emitters
• Ground reflection roughness

True Physics-Based Materials

• Scientifically accurate preset and adjustable materials
• Fresnel reflections
• Advanced absorption
• Advanced transmittance
• Advanced anisotropy with angle mapping
• Texture, opacity, specular, bump and normal mapping
• Adjustable IOR
• Emissive Materials
• Flexible Local or Network based for sharing and assigning assets
• Shareable material definition saved to single file (.bmf)
• Drag and drop materials onto object from desktop or any folder
• Inline and out-of-app color picker/dropper
• Save favorite colors
• Refresh textures from disk

Lighting

• Lighting, Shadow and Reflection casting from High Dynamic Range Image
• High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) interaction and control
• Prop creation for additional light sources

Scene Preparation

• Auto-Paint
• Direct manipulation of parts
• Part splitter and part extractor
• Group and reorganize parts in the tree view
• "Digital Sticker" Decals
• Auto-Update Backplates and Environments
• True full-screen mode

Camera Optics Features

• F-Stop
• Exchangeable Camera Files (.bcf)
• Formation Tool
• Interactive Depth of Field with focal point selection
• Multiple cameras with individual aspect ratio and settings
• Rule of Thirds overlay

Rendering Features

• Alpha channel
• Image finishing control for inline renderings
• Threaded offine renderings
• JPEG (8bit), BMP (8bit), and TIFF (16bit)
• Built-in image viewer tab
• Render profiles - allows you to save frequent jobs

Productivity

• Highly optimized parallel architecture
• Hybrid Based CPU + GPU
• Near linear performance scale with added CPU's and GPU's
• 3D Connexion device support

Animation

• Keyframe animation of Models, Groups and Parts
• Keyframe animation of Materials
• Keyframe animation of Cameras
• Rotation animation of Cameras

Supported 3D Data Formats and Applications

Windows 7 / Vista

• AliasStudio (.wire)
• 3D PDF
• 3DXML
• ACIS
• SolidWorks 2011 and prior
• Pro/ENGINEER and CREO (ASM, PRT) via Plugin
• IGES
• STEP
• Collada (DAE)
• Filmbox (FBX)
• Autodesk 3D Studio Max (3DS)
• Rhino 5.0 and prior (3DM)
• Wavefront (OBJ)
• SketchUp 8.0 and prior (SKP)

What's in the Box

• 34 HDRI Environments
• 17 Studio Backplates
• Robust Material Library
• Manual