Luxion has a long history of updating and improving its software version 4 is no different, with lots of added features over previous versions. KeyShot is a standalone rendering software aimed at product designers and modelers. ![]() Minimum 2GB of RAM * Minimum 1GB hard disk space * 3 button mouse * Monitor resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater * Any graphics card * Internet connection for product activation * Sequence and adjust your animation as it plays! * Use the intuitive animation system to apply transforms on models and cameras to see an animation take shape before your eyes in real time. * Use 700+ materials, 50+ lighting environments, labels, texture and opacity maps to create exactly the look you need. ![]() * The KeyShot 4 user interface makes the 3D rendering and animation process simple and fast. Product: KeyShot 4 Company: Luxion Website: Key features: In summary, if you are looking to create professional quality photorealistic visuals and you are a designer rather than a visualiser, then KeyShot could be a great product for you.KeyShot 4 is the latest iteration of the industry-standard renderer that brings new features and more polish to your work. Path and Panorama animations are also easy to create. Particularly suited to the world of product design, animation in KeyShot Pro is controlled via a simple timeline and both the camera and parts can be animated allowing for simple set-up of, for example, exploded animations. We’ve summarised the main feature changes between HD and Pro here (link) but both versions now have unlimited real-time and output resolutions whilst the Pro version adds a number of important features including the geometry shaders, sun and sky system and animation. KeyShot is available in ‘HD’ and ‘Pro’ versions for single license deployment and ‘Pro Floating’ and ‘Enterprise’ versions for network deployment. This allows your KeyShot file to be viewed and manipulated in 3D and any saved model configurations to be viewed. In order to allow your customers the ability to interact with KeyShot renders there is a free downloadable KeyShot Viewer. Let Your Customers Interact with your Renders Additionally, ‘Real Cloth’ creates customisable woven materials. Examples of these are: Fuzz - that can be used to generate hair and grass Displacement for adding depth and detail, Bubbles, Fog for atmospheric effects and Scattering Materials. There are also geometry shaders that generate dynamic elements at render time. Making your own custom materials is a straightforward process as there are a number of ‘base materials’ that can be used to simplify complex material construction and colours from commercial libraries such as Pantone and RAL are included. KeyShot materials are physically accurate and the product ships with a library of over 700 materials including DuPont automotive finishes, fabrics, glass, gems, Sørensen Leathers,Metals, liquids etc. Once you have pushed your Rhino model to KeyShot you can return to Rhino and make changes to the model and then simply push those updates to KeyShot. If you are solely or primarily a Rhino user, then the Rhino plug-in allows for ‘live linking’ between Rhino and KeyShot. This can be an advantage if you use more than one modelling application, for example Rhino and SolidWorks, where KeyShot will accept native data from both modellers. KeyShot is a stand-alone program rather than a Rhino plug-in. Stand-alone Program or Live Linking with Rhino Real time rendering can be handled with CPU or GPU and it’s good to know that KeyShot is designed to take advantage of the latest NVIDIA RTX ray tracing graphics cards. For large or multiple images you can choose to render off-line and of course queue these renders up for batch processing. Parameters to control lighting and shadow quality, number of rays traced etc are all controllable in this real time mode. This ‘real-time’ element is not a simple dumbed down preview image but full real-time ray tracing. ![]() The traditional iterative approach of rendering multiple test images until the correct look is achieved is simply not necessary. As you apply materials to your model and make changes to the lighting you start to see these effects immediately. Despite this simplicity KeyShot has a real depth to the feature set allowing for customisation and adjustment of all render elements. Created for designers and engineers rather than visualisers, KeyShot allows you to concentrate on showing your design at its best rather than wrangling with a complex user interface and understanding geeky terminology. A simple drag and drop metaphor is used for all materials, lighting environments and backdrops allowing high quality renderings to be set up in minutes. KeyShot allows Rhino users to create professional level photorealistic images quickly and easily.
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