KeyShot 10 What’s New

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From One Decade To The Next.

KeyShot 10 is significant in more ways than one. KeyShot has defined a decade of how people create 3D visuals.

It has enabled the easy creation of photographic images and animations and the ability to see the results in real-time. Looking ahead, we are committed to building KeyShot to help you create the best visuals in the decade to come.

KeyShot 10 What’s New

Awe-Inspiring Motion

Animate Your Ideas.

KeyShot brings you more motion for every idea with increased control to create more advanced visuals and industry-leading ease of use to keep you moving.

KeyShot 10 – Keyframe Animation

Control your motion, not your excitement.

The new Keyframe animation gives you a new level of control over your animation timeline. You can add and adjust keyframes exactly where you need them or record sequences of keyframes to create complex visuals quickly.

KeyShot 10 – Sun & Sky Day Arc Animation

From sunrise to sunset.

KeyShot 10 Sun & Sky Day Arch Animation puts daylight in your hands. You can adjust the date, start, and end time directly or apply keyframes for finer control, making animating daylight for your scene easier.

KeyShot 10 – Environment Rotation Animation

The world revolves around your product.

You also have complete control of how fast it revolves. Whether it’s one of KeyShot’s many environments or your own custom HDRI, add a new Environment Rotation Animation to control how the environment light moves across your product.

KeyShot 10 – Twist Camera Animation

Ooh, yeah, just like this.

Your product animation needs a little drama every once in a while. KeyShot allows you to animate the Twist parameter of your camera for as subtle or dramatic an effect as you like, with control over angle and time.

Visual Reality

Experience Your Creations

With Smart Export, you now have more ways to experience your visuals. It utilizes KeyShot’s UV Unwrapping and Baking capabilities to prepare assets for AR, Web, and full-color 3D print workflows.

Smart Export – 3MF

From KeyShot to full-color 3D Print.

When you need the most accurate physical prototype, you start with the most accurate digital prototype. With full color, texture, and transparent material support, going from digital to physical happens faster than ever.

Smart Export – GLB/gITF

3D visuals for the modern web.

Beautiful scene interaction, fast-loading models, and the most comprehensive industry support. The open standard for web visuals right from KeyShot. Visit this page on your mobile device to view the 3D model.

Smart Export – USDZ

Mobile-ready AR straight out of KeyShot

When you need to transfer rich 3D assets or provide an interactive, mobile viewing experience, KeyShot provides USD, USDA, USDC, and USDZ export, which is perfect for AR export to applications that support Apple’s ARKit. Visit this page on your mobile device to view the 3D model (iOS 12 and above).

KeyShot 10 – Provides New Creative Capability

Supercharge Your Workflow

The right tool for the right job. Open up KeyShot, and you’ll find new and improved tools to manage lighting and move ideas faster than ever before.

Warm it Up

Cool it down.

Let it shine.

The new Light Manager lets you control all scene lighting from one location. The dockable panel allows you to choose and adjust your environment lighting or maintain any physical light’s visibility, color, power, and size.

KeyShot 10 – Light Gizmos

Grab hold of the light.

The new Light Gizmos allow you to explore lighting or quickly adjust on the fly. Select a Spotlight, IES Light, or Point View from the Real-time View or Geometry View to adjust in various ways.

KeyShot 10 – Move Tool

If you like to move it, move the Move Tool.

You never thought such a simple change could be so helpful. The KeyShot Move Tool has been completely redesigned to improve accessibility and allows you to place and dock it in the Real-time View or beyond.

KeyShot 10 – Collision Detection

Let the Parts Drop.

New in 10.1, Collision Detection allows easy object recognition and the ability to Settle items on other objects and the ground. Use it in your scene setup when objects need a more realistic arrangement on the ground or as an easy way to align objects while keeping them aware and separate from other objects.

KeyShot 10 – Solo Mode

When your parts need some alone time.

Select and activate Solo Mode. This new feature speeds up current workflows, allowing you to isolate and work on one or more parts without the need to lock parts or disrupt the hierarchy of any other hidden parts.

KeyShot 10 – Brings Unmatched Realism

Deliver Visuals That Captivate.

There’s photo-real, and then there’s KeyShot. New updates to KeyShot exclusive material capabilities bring a level of realism that turns heads.

RealCloth™ 2.0

Another dimension of cloth, fiber, and yarn.

RealCloth introduced a level of realism that had not yet been seen. RealCloth 2.0 takes it to the next level. The improvements include a 3D Ply for yarn-like geometry and increased fiber-level detail for the most realistic representation of individual threading.

KeyShot 10 – Improved Caustics

Make your light rays drop jaws faster.

The caustics in KeyShot have always been beautiful and extremely accurate. Now, in KeyShot 10, they converge even faster for both CPU and GPU with less dependence on the size of your scene to deliver jaw-dropping results in less time.

KeyShot 10 – Multiple Surface Scattering

Bounce with me.

Control multiple bounces of light on rough dielectric surfaces before they are scattered back. Multiple scattering enables energy conservation of light interacting with rough dielectrics, which allows you to achieve a more realistic and physically plausible appearance of such materials.

KeyShot 10 – Firefly Filter

Shoo, firefly, don’t bother this scene.

Image Styles in KeyShot 10 hold a special treat for those who push lighting in their scene. Denoise now includes a Firefly Filter slider to quickly remove and smooth away specks of unwanted light from your scene.

KeyShot 10 – Improved Denoise

Smooth illumination.

From smooth operator to smooth illuminator, new updates to KeyShot Denoise introduce albedo and standard information for consistent results between the Real-time View and your render output, along with improved results with Interior Mode.

KeyShot 10 – Improved Toon Material

Toon tuned.

Just look at those rich, thick contour lines. The popular KeyShot Toon material now provides finer control of outline behavior to be more consistent with line art illustration techniques.

Additional Features & Improvements

And So Much More

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