Luxion is announcing KeyShot 3.1 and with it an all new 3D rendering and animation options. Keyshot 3.1 marks the first major update of the release that introduced a patent-pending animation system, a revamped user interface and over 600+ new materials. With this update is introduced time-saving new features and improvments including a new, unique metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing that allow real-time editing of the lighting environments, material templates that allow 3D professionals to 'auto-paint' their models, network rendering to queue render jobs and spread them across multiple computeres and new compatibliity with the 3DConnexion 3D Mouse. KeyShot 3.1 will be available later this quarter.
Some of key fetures:
Improved Metallic Paint with realflakes - brings a next generation of metallic paint material that contains visible metallic flakes whose distribution and size can be controlled. This is included with KeyShot 3.1 and as with all materials included with KeyShot, doesn't require any special configuration.
Interactive HDR image editing– allows to edit any applied lighting environment in real-time within the KeyShot interface. It includes adjustment of hue and saturation of HDRI or creation of new lights and much more.
Material templates– KeyShot now recognizes materials that have been set in other 3D software and automatically assigns materials to the models on import according to the colors and materials assigned in the originating 3D software, drastically decreasing the time it takes to set-up renderings and animations.
KeyShot Mettalic Paint
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