Luxion, a leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and maker of KeyShot®, the first real-time ray tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and animation, announced the release of KeyShot 11 that introduces features to speed the visualization workflow and new subscription pricing.
KeyShot 11 Overview
As the leading visualization tool across every industry, KeyShot is the solution to solving challenges in the project development pipeline by combining advanced visualization authoring with unparalleled ease of use. KeyShot 11 is at the core of creating eye-catching experiences, taking visualization capabilities to the next level, introducing new ways to explore details, expanding how ideas are presented, and bringing balance to the art of creating 3D visuals.
KeyShot 11 combines flexibility and advanced tools for the creation, management, and presentation of all visualization assets. Model: Cki Vang. All rights reserved.
KeyShot 11 introduces 3D Paint to apply color and textures like never before, new CMF capabilities to manage and organize material information, Physics Simulation to create and capture physical phenomena through KeyShot Animation, Workflow Automation with new headless scripting capabilities, the new KeyShot Web Viewer to upload and share KeyShot scenes online, and much more.
3D paint
KeyShot 11 introduces 3D Paint, a new texture painting tool, that allows users to further customize a model’s surface finishes by directly painting or stamping textures on the surface. With 3D Paint enabled, users may directly paint or stamp bump textures, colors, roughness, specularity, refractivity, and opacity.
KeyShot 11 3D Paint allows users to use adjustable and custom brushes to apply and layer material appearance and textures.
3D paint is an incredibly useful tool for creating unique surface weathering and patinas and can be used to accurately add wear marks to any surface within a scene. The new feature also allows layering effects to create rich, realistic surface patinas.
Material Management and CMF Output
Color, Materials, Finish (CMF) is a term covering the non-functional identity of a product and its relationship with a given environment. KeyShot is frequently a major part of the CMF process, allowing users to easily change and decide on CMF options during the product design review phase.
To streamline this workflow, KeyShot 11 adds both Material Management and CMF Output. This robust feature set eliminates the manual process of aligning rendered output to its corresponding materials by allowing KeyShot users to utilize an expansive Material Library that supports metadata about each material, a custom schema builder, and easy output of ready-made “tech packs” for design review.
Physics Simulation
Physics Simulation is a new Tool in KeyShot 11 that allows users to record the physics of an object and apply it as a “keyframe” animation. This tool brings fully simulated animations to KeyShot users along with more accuracy in scattering objects.
Physic Simulation in KeyShot 11 allows quick application and recording of physics using KeyShot Animation
Simulations may be applied to individual or multiple Model Sets, objects, or groups of objects and simulated as parts or an entire group. Users have control over Gravity, Friction, and Bounciness and the ability to adjust the time, quality, and keyframes per second.
KeyShot Web Viewer
KeyShot Web Viewer is part of the KeyShotWeb module and allows KeyShot users to easily share KeyShot scenes by uploading them to KeyShot Cloud. It brings sharing of interactive scenes to users across browsers, desktops, and mobile devices with a single link.
KeyShot Web Viewer is highly optimized to provide the most realistic visuals available and smoothest interaction possible for viewing 3D in the web browser and on mobile devices. Viewing of any material or environment variations in the scene or any KeyShot Studios is available through the Web Viewer flyout menus. Other features include quality adjustment, texture baking, including a mobile-friendly texture option, and password protection. 10GB of KeyShot Cloud storage is included in the KeyShotWeb subscription.
Workflow Automation
Workflow Automation is an advanced new feature, that allows KeyShot users to automate various KeyShot workflows via the KeyShot Scripting Console (with a user interface) as well as through Headless Scripting Mode (without a user interface). Applications include automating render output and speeding up the generation of product variations.
KeyShot 11 Workflow Automation brings Headless Rendering to automate an array of functions including the Material Graph and Render Output.
KeyShot 11 expands the set of functions that can be called in headless mode, along with adding support for KeyShot Material Graph control with headless scripting. With the update to Python 3.9.5, 257 total features have been added, including 147 new features and 136 new constants that may be declared.
Additional Features
● Environmental Brightness Animation – Control and adjust the brightness of environment lighting directly with KeyShot Animation.
● Deformable Animation support – Import .mc/.mcx cache files and FBX files with rigged animations in addition to Alembic.
● Skin Tones – New skin materials bring a wider array of skin tones to the KeyShot Material Library to drag and drop onto 3D models.
● GPU Cutaway Material – The popular cutaway material is now supported in GPU mode with all cutaway options.
● glTF/USDz Enhancements – KeyShot glTF and USDz export are optimized with support for instancing to greatly reduce file size.
KeyShot Subscription Options
With the release of KeyShot 11, Luxion is introducing subscription pricing for all new licenses, which reduces the upfront cost to a pay-as-you-go model. For additional information, please see the KeyShot Subscription FAQ.
The entire list of features and improvements in KeyShot 11, along with information on how each feature works, is available in the KeyShot 11 What’s New Guide. Key features include:
Availability
KeyShot 11 is available immediately for download and purchase at keyshot.com and through all certified KeyShot resellers. All KeShot customers with active annual maintenance will automatically receive the upgrade to KeShot 11. For questions on upgrades, maintenance, or transfer your license to subscription, please contact sales@luxion.com.