KeyShot

• Download: Try KeyShot NOW
• Video Tutorials: KeyShot
• KeyShotVR: Examples
• Brochure: KeyShot
• Download: KeyShot Environments
• Download: DuPont Colour Collections for KeyShot
• Documentation: Quick Start Guide
• Link: Customer voices and gallery
• Link: KeyShot examples by David Burnett
  

The Revolution in 3D Rendering

Photorealistic 3D rendering is usually very time-consuming and requires considerable knowledge. Therefore it´s less the actual rendering time for high-resolution images being the time-critical issue, but the long delays for generating the preview adding-up with every step. Due to its extremely fast and powerful rendering algorithm KeyShot permanently responds to user interaction: The result is displayed immediately with all effects. Even snapshots are so convincing, in many cases high resolution rendering can be spared.

An absolutely unique feature of KeyShot is its extremely simple operation. The user interface concentrates on the significant tasks and enables even complete beginners to create realistic images in the blink of an eye.

KeyShot´s rendering algorithms are based on scientific results enabling the highest precision photo realism.

• Desktop rendering for everyone
• Fast to learn

• No expert knowledge required

• Results in minutes, not hours
• Replace snapshots with photographs
• Eliminates prototypes and design samples
• High-resolution images for advertising without manufacturing marks (scratches, surface irregularities etc.)
• Minimises time and cost-effective photo shootings

Realtime Raytracing Features:

• Interactive wysiwyg raytracing
• Photon mapping
• HDRI lighting
• Global illumination
• Ambient occlusion
• Final gathering
• Environment shadow casting
• Self and inter-object shadow casting
• Environment reflexions
• Refraction
• Caustics
• Inter-object light bouncing

True Physics-Based Materials:

• Flexibly organise materials
• Scientifically accurate preset and adjustable materials
• Fresnel reflections
• Advanced absorption
• Spectral dispersion
• Advanced transmittance
• Advanced anisotropy with angle mapping
• Procedural texture mapping
• Texture and bump mapping
• Sub-surface scattering
• Thin film interference / iridesence
• Adjustable IOR

Lighting:

• All lighting and shadow casting from HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image)  
• HDRI interaction and control

Camera Optics Features:

• Interactive focal length adjustment  
• F-Stop  
• Interactive depth of field with focal point selection

Rendering Features:

• Alpha channel  
• Image finishing control  
• Render to external window  
• Output: JPEG (8 bit), TIFF (16 bit) und EXR (32 bit)

Architecture:

• Highly optimised parallel architecture  
• CPU based  
• Near linear performance scale with additional CPUs

Supported 3D Data Formats (PC / MAC):

• Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 – 5
• Creo 1.0 / 2.0
• ALIAS 2012 and prior
• AutoCAD (DWG/DXF)
• CATIA v5
• Inventor 2012 and prior
• NX 8 and prior
• Rhinoceros 4 and prior
• SketchUp 8 and prior
• Solid Edge ST4 and prior
• SolidWorks 2012 and prior
• IGES
• JT
• Maya 2012 and 2011
• STEP AP203/214
• OBJ
• Parasolid
• FBX
• 3DS

KeyShot 4.1 – now even faster and intuitive with greater flexibility

• Focused caustics: display light rays reflected or passing through transparent or translucent surfaces accurately
• Adjust size of light for physical lights
• Procedural textures: seamless textures immediately on any surface
• Toon shading: solid colours, contouring and solid shadows (CEL shading)
• Colour management for various devices using ICC profiles
• Importer improvements: optimised representation of geometry, order and structure for all formats maintained
• iBook support for KeyShotVR
  
• HDRI Editor improvements
  

More information on KeyShot 4.1: read article…

New in KeyShot 4.0

• LiveLinking: Dynamic update of your CAD models in KeyShot
• RAL and Pantone colours
• Physical light in IES format
• Highlighting
• Soft diffuse light
• Layer support
• Base area as geometry and material
• Copy parts
• Import original size
• 3D stereo view in preview
• Save camera position with environment
• Updated an optimised import functions, support of latest software versions
• HDRI editor enhancements
• Create rounds on parts
• Dock windows

Now with animation module – Make your renderings come alive!

• Available for all KeyShot 3.x versions
• Camera animation
• Translation and rotation of parts
• Relative preview
• Animation wizard – flexibility without keyframe animations
• Export to AVI-, MPEG- and Flash format

The KeyShotVR add-on allows interactive presentation of KeyShot 3D render images on the web. Just a HTML5 enabled browser is needed to view the contents even on mobile devices. Wizard guided VR setup: Embed the result on any website.

Companies can now showcase their products from any point of view interactively, creating a spatial impression to the spectator.

KeyShotVR is an add-on to existing Pro versions and available from version KeyShot 3.3 upwards.

• KeyShotVR: Examples

Does your image take too long, is your machine blocked by a calculation, the animation can’t be done or needs to be clipped because nights/weekends are too short? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, you're a candidate for network rendering. Calculations are fed to the network using a simple interface. When the calculation has finished you will be notified and the result is saved to your own machine. Multiple clients can use this network for their jobs which are then processed in a queue one by one. Your own machine may participate in the calculations or just send the order. Machines can be signed on and off dynamically. The network is expandable from 32 to 256 cores using every core of a CPU available in the render network. Calculation speed is scaling nearly linear. This technology opens new dimensions in productivity.

Network rendering is recommended for animations, complex or large images and of course for the new KeyShotVR add-on.