KeyShot 9 HD

KeyShot HD is a cost-effective and powerful 3D renderer. It's one of the most straight-forward 3D rendering applications available, with a simple and intuitive interface for both Mac and Windows. High quality results can be achieved very quickly, and Keyshot lends itself well to a wide range of industries. Our KeyShot customers include product and industrial designers, vehicle design companies, jewellers and architects - amongst many others.

Create interactive web and mobile content. Render with multiple GPUs. Generate realistic woven materials. KeyShot 9 provides the advanced features and flexibility you need to take your visuals to the next level.

To find out the differences between the versions of KeyShot, skip to our KeyShot Comparison.
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What's New in KeyShot 9

Render with Multiple GPUs Available for both real-time rendering and local render output, the new GPU Mode allows GPU resources to be accessed with one click. Harness the GPU-accelerated ray-tracing power of NVIDIA RTX with OptiX.
	Realistic Woven Materials RealCloth Pro technology by Luxion is a new material type which lets you create and visualise realistic woven materials, including control over the weave and flyaway fibers.
Edges Anywhere With the Contour texture, you now have control and flexibility while creating custom materials. Add an illustration-like effect, or use it on top of real world materials like metals and plastics.
	Fuzz Material The new material geometry shader, fuzz, brings a whole new level of realism to your products. Add any amount of fuzz on the surface of a meterial in the Material Graph (Pro), and you can control the length, density and randomness for the perfect look.
Interactive Web and Mobile Content Introducing the power to generate interactive browser-based product configurators. Create fully-rendered product variations using the models, materials and studios of your choice.
	Smoother Renders Working with both CPU and GPU Mode to eliminate noise, the denoiser creates smooth, fast and beautiful renderings in the real-time view and final render output.
Specially Curated Library A new library filled with high quality 3D models to complement your scene, that are complete with textures and materials. Easily searched, filtered and added to any scene as a simple drag and drop.
	Generic (BRDF) Material Only generic in name, this material's flexibility is near limitless. Adjust sheen, clearcoat, metallic, anisotropic and more.

 

Plugins

Keyshot is a standalone renderer, and does not run as a hosted plugin on a parent 3D modelling app. An investment in Keyshot can be very economical over time - especially if your 3D modelling workflow changes, or different team members or suppliers produce 3D work in different applications. In addition to being able to process almost any kind of 3D file, Luxion Keyshot comes with free plugins for:

• 3ds Max
• Cinema 4D
• Maya
• Revit
• Rhino
• SketchUp
• solidThinking
• ZBrush
• Fusion 360
• Solidworks
• vStitcher

What Else is New in KeyShot 9

Animation Curve Control
Customise the motion or appearance of an animation, or a material colour.

Streamlined Import
Import a KeyShot package into an open scene with only the models, cameras, and environments you want.

Substance Painter Import
Make textures pop by automatically generating KeyShot materials from the texture sets you create in Substance Painter.

Browzwear VSticher Plugin
A new plugin for VStitcher, a leading clothing design software package.

X-Rite AxF 1.6
The industry standard appearance exchange format (AxF) from X-Rite is packed with even more power and fully supported in KeyShot 9. The flexible file format now displays accurate appearance attributes for translucent and cloudy plastic-like materials.

 

Feature Comparison

	KeyShot HD	KeyShot Pro	KeyShot Pro Floating	KeyShot Enterprise
License Type	Node Locked	Node Locked	Floating/Networked (FlexLM)	Floating/Networked (FlexLM)
Features	Import 30+ 3D File Formats CPU and GPU-Based Real-Time Ray Tracing Progressive Global Illumination Scientifically Accurate Materials 700+ Material Presets Cloud Library Axalta Paints / Mold-Tech Textured Plastics Scattering Medium / Volume Maps Cutaway Multi-Layer Optics Material Import Material Templates Colour / Specular / Bump / Opacity Textures Image Textures Pantone / RAL / CIE Colours HDRI Lighting 50+ HDRI Environment Presets Physical Lighting Backplate Images Image Styles Denoise Product Mode / Interior Mode Rendering Methods Interactive Scene Tree Interactive Camera Controls Depth of Field Camera Walkthrough Camera Shift Lens Rounded Edges Unlimited Real-Time Output Resolution Render Output Image Editor Customisable UI Customisable Hotkeys Workspaces Save Reminders Backplate Perspective Matching	Includes everything in KeyShot HD PLUS... Material Graph Multi-Material Geometry Shaders RealCloth Edit Weave Panoramic Camera Real-Time Stereo Rendering Model Sets Studios Configurator Interactive HDRI Editor Geometry Viewer NURBS Ray Tracing Re-Tesselate Region Rendering Render Queue Render Passes Render Layers Python Scripting Advanced Camera Tools Video Map Texture Deformation Animation Movie Output Export to ZPR/STL/OBJ/FBX/GLB/GLTF	Includes everything in KeyShot Pro PLUS... FlexNet Server (Win / Mac / Linux) Floating License Manager	Includes everything in KeyShot Pro Floating PLUS... KeyShotWeb 32 Core Network Rendering Siemens NX Plugin
KeyShotWeb	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Included
Network Rendering	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Included