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Cross-platform support for Mac & Windows
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64-bit architecture
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Outstanding stability
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OpenGL 3.0 support (Windows only, needs compatible driver and hardware)
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Extensive API: C++, Python, C.O.F.F.E.E.
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Interface & Workflow
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Context-sensitive, fully-searchable HTML help
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Multiple projects open at once
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Customizable toolbars / layouts / menus
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Light and dark interface schemes
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Unlimited view windows
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Head-up display
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Custom pop-up menu
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Non-modal tools with realtime feedback
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Collapsible Managers & Palettes
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Selection / display filters
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Custom User Data per object
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Doodle viewport annotation tool
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Layer system for object & material management
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Enhanced XRef external instancing / referencing system
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Tablet support for Wacom and other pen tablets
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3dconnexion 3DMouse support
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Stereo Display in Editor
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Data Exchange / Format Support
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Quicktime support
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AVI support
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Image formats - float with layers: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR
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Image formats - float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF
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Image formats: BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA
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Quicktime VR object, panorama
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After Effects compositing exchange with 3D data
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Apple Motion compositing exchange with 3D data
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Apple Final Cut Pro compositing exchange
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Mac
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Combustion compositing exchange
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Digital Fusion compositing exchange
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Shake compositing exchange
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Support of DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX, DEM, LWS, SRL, VRML2, OBJ formats, COLLADA
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IGES importer
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Okino connection - seamless CAD file import via optional PolyTrans software (Windows only)
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BodyPaint 3D exchange - 3ds Max
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BodyPaint 3D exchange - Maya
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BodyPaint 3D exchange - Softimage
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BodyPaint 3D exchange - LightWave 3D
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Modeling Tools
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Parametric object primitives
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Parametric spline primitives
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Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep NURBS
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Polygonal modeling tools with N-gon support
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HyperNURBs subdivision surfaces
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Modeling Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect
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Deformers: Bend, Twist, Bulge, Shear, Taper, FFD, Formula, Wind, Explosion, Melt, Shatter, Wrap, Polygon Reduction, Spherify, Spline Rail, Spline Deformer
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Displacement Deformer
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Collision Deformer
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Camera Deformer
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Smoothing Deformer
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Spline Wrap Deformer
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Shrinkwrap Deformer
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UV Editing
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UV editor
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Interactive UV mapping by projection types
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Optimal UV mapping to automatically remove seams
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LSCM unwrapping and relaxing
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ABF unwrapping and relaxing
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Materials & Texturing
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Broadcast
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14 standard material channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Specular, Specular Color, Glow, Displacement
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Transparency with absorption, total internal reflections, exit reflections
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Blurry reflections and transparencies
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Normal Maps: tangent, object or world
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displacement: intensity (centered), red/green and RGB
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Choose Photoshop PSD layers per usage
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Animated textures (MOV, AVI, sequence) with viewport preview
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Selectable viewport resolution and channel display per material
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Shading Models: Phong, Blinn, Oren-Nayar
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Fresnel Shader incl. physicall correct IOR
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Noise Procedural Shader with 32 different noise algorithms
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Layer Shader
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Proximity-based Proximal Shader
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Procedural surface shaders
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Texture baking: surface color, illumination, ambient occlusion, normals, displacement and more
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Sub-polygon displacement
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New Sub-surface scattering
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Terrain Mask Shader
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Brick Shader
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Pavement Shader
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Sketch & Toon Art Shader
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Sketch & Toon Hatch Shader
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Sketch & Toon Spots (Halftone) Shader
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3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop file compatibility
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Multibrush painting of multiple material channels in single stroke
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Raybrush painting directly onto rendered result
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Projection painting
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Exchange projections with Photoshop
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camera mapping
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ProjectionMan camera mapping workflow tool
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Lighting
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Light Types: Omni, Spot, Infinite, Area, Square Spot, Parallel Spot, Square Parallel Spot
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Hard, Soft, Area Shadows
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Visible, Volumetric and Inverse Volumetric Lighting
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Noise within light illumination or visibility
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Include/exclude light diffusion, specular, shadow per object
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Custom lens flares
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Caustics
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Colortemperature in Kelvin
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Photometric brightness setting in Candela and lumen
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Support of IES light data
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Rendering
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Render up to 128,000 pixels square / 32 bits per pixel
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Bucket rendering
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Render Instances
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Color profile support
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Camera White Balance
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Linear Workflow
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Adaptive anti-aliasing
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Multi-Pass output
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Object buffers - specify unique alpha channels per object
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Ambient Occlusion
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Global Illumination (IR, QMC, Mixed)
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Physical Renderer with physical camera, high qualitiy depth of field, high quality motion blur
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Stereo Rendering
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Depth of Field post effect
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Vector Motion Blur post effect
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CineMan Renderman-compliant bridge
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Sketch and Toon non-photorealistic rendering
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Pyrocluster volumetric particle rendering
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Physical Sky - realistic sky shading with 2D and 3D clouds, accurate sun and star positions, fog and atmosphere effects
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3D Sound Rendering
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Picture Viewer with RAM playback (including sound), history, AB compare, new animation AB compare, histogram, layer view, color correction, subsequent stereoscopic editing, full screen mode
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Watermark post effect
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Render Queue batch rendering system
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Network rendering clients
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unlimited
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Animation
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Easy one-click record button to keyframe Position, Scale, Rotation, Point Level animation and user-defined parameters
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Record-dot animation of all animatable parameters
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Automatic keyframing
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Cappucino - realtime keyframing
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PowerSlider animation toolbar for playback and keyframe manipulation
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Timeline - up to four timelines windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes
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F-Curve Snapshots and Reduced Modification Curves
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Constant Velocity option per track
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Keyframe reduction
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Keyframe baking
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ASCII animation import
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Non-linear animation / motion mixing system
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Constraints: PSR, Up-Vector, Clamp, Mirror, Parent, Aim, Spring
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Driver tag
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XPresso - node based expression editor
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Virtual Walkthrough tool - first-person scene navigation and animation
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Dynamic Animation
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Visualize
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Basic particle system
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Thinking Particles node-based particle system
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Rigid Body dynamics (limited to MoGraph objects)
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Rigid Body Dynamics
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Joints, Springs, Motors
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Soft Body Dynamics
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Cloth dynamics & dressing functions
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Hair dynamics
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Spline dynamics
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MoGraph Tools
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Visualize
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Cloner object
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Fracture object
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Matrix object
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MoInstance object
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MoText object
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Tracer object
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Spline Mask object
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MoSpline parametric spline generator with L-system functionality
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Effect Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time via Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, C.O.F.F.E.E., Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume
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PolyFX polygon fracture deformer
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MoGraph Selection tag
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x
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Beat Shader
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x
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Multi-shader - affect texture based on clone color
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x
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Extrude Deformer
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x
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x
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Character Animation Tools
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Prime
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Broadcast
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Visualize
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Studio
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Character Object / Autorigger
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CMotion - parametric walk system
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x
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Joints with full dynamic IK
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Skin Deformer supporting linear, spherical and blended deformation based on joints
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x
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x
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Weighting Manager and tools
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x
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x
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Auto Weighting
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x
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x
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x
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x
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PoseMorph morphing and hierarchical mixing system
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Mirror tool
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x
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x
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Naming tool
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Paint tool
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x
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x
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x
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Weight Effector
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x
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x
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x
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x
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VAMP tool for translating weights, morphs, selection, textures, Uvs and vertex maps between different geometry
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x
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Cluster Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Morph Deformer
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x
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Jiggle Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Tension tag
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x
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Quaternion tag
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x
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Point Cache tag
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Muscle Deformer
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x
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Point Cache Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Correction Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Surface Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Mesh Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Squash & Stretch Deformer
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x
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x
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x
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x
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New Visual Selector
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x
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Hair Simulation and Rendering
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Prime
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Broadcast
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Visualize
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Studio
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Guide-based Hair system
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x
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Hair instancing
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x
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Feather object
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x
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Fur system
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x
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Hair styling tools: Move, Scale, Rotate, Brush, Comb, Clump, Curl, Cut, Push, Straighten, Add Guides, Mirror, Set Roots
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x
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Hair dynamics
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x
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Hair shading system with multiple speculars, texture-defined root and tip colors, and variable transparency, thickness, length, scale, frizz, kink, density, clump, tighten, displace, bend, curl, twist, wave, straighten
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x
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Content
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Prime
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Broadcast
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Visualise
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Studio
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Essential presets and demo scenes
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x
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x
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x
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x
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Advanced presets and demo scenes
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x
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Broadcast Library incl. materials, cameras and objects
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x
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x
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Visualization Library incl. materials, presets and architectural objects
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x
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x
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