KeyShot 8 HD

KeyShot HD is a cost-effective, powerful standalone renderer. It's one of the most straight-forward 3D rendering applications available, with a simple and intuitive interface that works just as well on Mac as 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 cutaways. Add light rays. Generate 3D textures. Style your images in real-time. KeyShot 8 provides the advanced features and flexibility you need to take your visuals to the next level.

 

 

Keyshot is a standalone renderer, and does not run as a hosted plugin on a parent 3D modelling app. Therefore, an investment in Keyshot can be very economical over time - especially if 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:

• PTC Creo
• Pro/Engineer
• Rhinoceros
• SolidWorks
• SketchUp/SketchUp Pro
• 3ds Max
• Cinema 4D
• Fusion360
• Maya

 

What's New in KeyShot 8

Boost Your Workflow - Move faster through the process, from start to finish

Elevate Your Visuals - New ways to display and manipulate light, materials, and texture.

Enhance Your Experience - Powerful capabilities for advanced texture and image creation.

Extend Your Reach - More ways to view and collaborate on your visuals.

 

Beautiful Style in Real-Time Say goodbye to post-processing. Image styles is the new real-time image adjustment and the beginning of faster image creation. Add tone-mapping. Adjust shadows, highlights, and color. Add background colors or overlays. And create an unlimited set of style variations. All inside KeyShot.
	Control Your Highlights KeyShot 8 image styles bring you the capabilities to fine-tune that bloom. And the control over curves can be done live using histogram controls or adjusting shadows, midtones and highights separately.
Liquid Simplicity. Pour on the speed–Liquids are even easier in KeyShot 8. No need for splitting objects or separate surfaces. A glass. A liquid. KeyShot does the rest.
	Make it Juicy If you’ve ever needed more bubbles in your shots, KeyShot 8 makes it possible with an additional geometry feature in the KeyShot Pro Material Graph. Add as few or as many bubbles as you need.
Cut it like this. Cut it like that. Import your entire 3D model. No need to cut it up before bringing it into KeyShot. A cutaway is applied like a material to any geometry you like. So, scale, size and adjust that cut as much as you need.

 

The principle version differences and module options are outlined below. If you would like any information at all on the product, advice or access to a full featured demo, please do contact us.

 

 

What Else is New in KeyShot 8

Cap Style
Cutaways have a style all their own. Choose to cap cut surfaces with a colour, a material, or even a texture. It’s all up to you, along with what’s excluded from the cut or included. Can you animate it? You better believe you can.

Multi-layer Optics
For when you need precise control over the appearance of optical lenses, windows, mirrors and more, the new multi-layer optics in KeyShot 8 makes it possible. Add layers or custom specifications. Control thickness, colour, refraction, and dispersion.

Scattering Medium
A foggy morning. Light rays shooting through the branches of trees. Or just the right amount of ambiance for that sexy, new product shot. It’s all possible now with new volumetric capabilities that provide instant power over the elements.

Density Texture
As easy as it is to fill your scene with fog, it’s just as easy to use scattering to create incredible materials. Go one step further and apply a density texture to create a unique, one-of-a-kind material, like splintered wood, the fibres of a boat hull, or your favourite sponge material.

Multiple Scattering
Put products in a scattering medium. Or make products out of scattering medium. Or do both. And, when you need increased realism for your product shots, the multiple scattering option give it to you.

OpenVDB
You have full control over the elements. Use OpenVDB files to bring in volumetric data and create visuals you have only imagined.

Displacement
KeyShot 8 introduces powerful capabilities for incredibly advanced and amazing textures. The new Displace feature in the KeyShot Pro Material Graph bring control over the very geometry itself allowing you to create 3D textures and take your visuals to incredible, new heights.

Flakes
It’s exactly what you want to make that image do. Add any variety of flakes (square or spherical) inside your material or around it.

 

Feature Comparison

	KeyShot HD	KeyShot Pro	KeyShot Pro Floating License	KeyShot VR (Add-on)
License Type	Node Locked	Node Locked	Floating/Networked (FlexLM)	N/A
Rendering	Unlimited Realtime Resolution Unlimited offline rendering resolution	Unlimited Realtime Resolution Unlimited offline rendering resolution Render Queue	Unlimited Realtime Resolution Unlimited offline rendering resolution Render Queue	N/A
Animation	N/A	Includes Animation Module Camera animation Multiple turntable animations Interactive setup, editing and playback in realtime raytraced environment Individual frame or compiled movie output (Quicktime, AVI, FLV)	Includes Animation Module Camera animation Multiple turntable animations Interactive setup, editing and playback in realtime raytraced environment Individual frame or compiled movie output (Quicktime, AVI, FLV)	N/A
KeyShot VR	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Add-on Available	Interactive, web-enabled 3D viewing with KeyShotVR creation

 

Improved Workflow Efficiency

Easier ways to set up your scene, work more efficiently, and deliver amazing visuals with speed.

Rendering has always been fast and easy with KeyShot. KeyShot continues the focus on making your workflow even smoother. From import to final render these features will have you creating visuals faster than ever before.

 

 For all features available in KeyShot, please visit our KeyShot Pro page.

Interior Lighting Mode Set or adjust scene lighting optimised for interiors or product shots. Switch to performance mode or use your own custom preset with the click of a button.

 

Greater Material Control

More control over materials with enhancements and advanced material editing for unlimited possibilities. With KeyShot’s scientifically accurate materials, it’s easy to get the look you want. KeyShot brings you even greater control over materials with advanced editing capabilities and many more materials options to expand your material and texture possibilities.

 

Materials on Labels Materials and textures can now be applied to labels to enhance appearance and realism. Having this flexibility allows for a more accurate communication of labels and their true physical properties.
Occlusion Procedural This procedural texture type allows for the addition of proximity-based shading on a material. It can be used to accentuate or augment the self shadows cast on a material and, along with the Material Graph, to create interesting texture effects based on occluded and unoccluded areas.

 

Amazing Capabilities

Elevate what’s possible with geometry, viewing and rendering your scenes.When you want your workflow to be more about creating, the capabilities of KeyShot offer incredible ways to cut away those time-consuming steps, automate your tasks and completely eliminate post-processing steps.

 

Shift Lens KeyShot has a Shift Lens setting with an Estimate Vertical Shift function that allows the verticals in a scene to be aligned with the click of a button, which is particularly useful for architectural and interior visualization.

 

Powerful Feature Enhancements

More power from import to creating animations and interactive visuals of your designs and ideas. With KeyShot you have more power with unlimited resolutions for KeyShot HD and KeyShot Animation included with KeyShot Pro. New Animation and KeyShotVR features allow you to create visuals and present them like never before.

Plugins Free plugins bring more advanced support and LiveLinking capabilities to Maya, 3ds Max and Cinema 4D.
Preserve Image Quality (VR) If zoom-in is enabled, the image quality will be preserved when zooming in by enlarging the rendered frame resolution accordingly. This is separate from the viewport resolution setting for each frame.
Panorama Animation (PRO) In KeyShot you can now create panoramic camera animations simply and easily using the camera itself as the center of rotational viewing.

 

 

 Why KeyShot?

From the simple interface to the rendering speed, KeyShot features change the whole idea of what it takes to create incredible visuals from 3D data. With KeyShot, there are six key features that make it stand out beyond any other.
Streamlined Interface	Rendering Speed	Powerful Animation	Advanced Features
KeyShot’s simple user interface is minimal, but powerful, with all the options you need for advanced visualization and none of the clutter to impede workflow.	The speed you have within KeyShot cannot be compared. Whether your on a small laptop or a networked server with multiple CPUs, KeyShot will use all the cores available.	The KeyShot Animation system is a new streamlined approach to quickly creating fluid product animations with real-time update and playback to see it all as it’s created.	KeyShot Pro level features deliver advanced capabilities that deal directly with product development workflow and conceptualization for ultimate visual satisfaction