KeyShot 3.0

Communicating early concepts. Trying to make design decisions. Creating marketing and sales images. No matter what you are trying to do, KeyShot breaks down the complexity barriers of creating photographic images from 3D models. Faster, easier, and more amazing than ever before. In realtime.

KeyShot 3 includes the largest amount of customer enhancements and feature requests introducing an all new animation system, over 300 new materials and 20 new lighting environments. This release of KeyShot focuses on four main areas:

• Ground-breaking animation system bringing a new level of 3D visualization to the product design workflow.
• Enhancing user experience with a completely updated user interface and smoother workflow options.
• New tools extending the capabilities of KeyShot to be used throughout the entire product development process.
• Increasing the options available to users for importing and interacting with the most file formats on PC and Mac.

The top enhancements for KeyShot 3 incorporate new capabilities across every area of the KeyShot experience, from the the user interface and animation system to improved model and material interaction.

Animation System
(optional KeyShot 3 add-on)

Rather than relying on keyframes, we have developed a new, patent-pending animation system that simplifies the creation and editing of animations for 3D data.

• Setup, edit, and playback inside realtime raytraced environment
• Full interaction with camera, lighting and materials during animation playback
• Individual object and camera transforms
• Copy and paste of animation transforms from one object to another
• Animation wizard: Step by step guide for first time users
• Helper objects: Select any part or assembly as rotation center
• Interactive adjustment of camera transforms in timeline
• Camera animation types: Orbit, Incline, Zoom, Translate
• Part and object animation types: Turntable, Rotation, Translation
• Fast preview output: AVI, MPEG
• High quality render output: AVI, MPEG, Flash, individual frames including Alpha channel

User Interface

• BIP file preview
• Main tool bar cleanup
• Dockable toolbar
• Redesigned content library
• In-project material library
• Dialogue clean-up
• Editable cameras
• Overwrite protection of contetn with visual feedback
• Gamma adjustment of startup environment to provide images with less contrast: All materials, textures, and environments that are being shipped with KeyShot 3 reflect this change. Existing scenes are not affected by this. When importing new textures, KeyShot will automatically make the necessary adjustments to ensure that the textures look correct under the new default Gamma setting