Unbiased Engine

• Full Spectral Resolution

• True Volumetrics

• True Sub-Surface Scattering

• True Sun-Pool Caustics

• Resume/Merge Render

• Instant Relight

• Instant Repaint*

• Two Sub-Engines

Biased Engine

• Fixed Spectral Resolution

• Bucket Rendering

• Blurred Reflections

• Direct Lighting

  • User-controlled

  • Perceptual-based

• Sub-Surface Scattering (Approximation)

• Global Illumination

  • Photon Mapping

  • Irradiance Cache

  • Final Gathering

  • Caustics

General Render Features

• Easy Preset Support

• Linear Workflow

• True Motion Blur

• True Depth of Field

• Instancing

  • Surface Proxies

  • Model Proxies

• Render Channels

  • Normal/Depth/Alpha/ObjectId/MaterialId

  • Direct/GI/SSS/Refl/Refr/Tran (Biased)

• Sun/Sky Portals

• Multi-Processing

• Multi-Platform 32/64-bit**

Network Rendering

• Easy Setup (render-farm ready)

• Co-operative Single Frame (Unbiased Mode)

• Co-operative Animation (Biased/Unbiased Mode)

• Cross-Platform

User Interface

• All-in-one Studio

  • Modal Design

  • Aesthetic Design

  • Polymorphic Interface

  • Drag and Drop

  • Skinned (Theme Support)

  • Internationalisation (Language Support)

• Full OpenGL Stager

  • Alignment/Basic Modeling

  • Coordinates Panel

  • Animation Editor

  • Interactive Render

  • Instancing Brush

• Material Editor

  • Tight Integration around Materials

  • Fast Setup

  • Various Preview Scenes

  • Symbolic Preview (Schema)

  • Secondary Material Editor

• Texture Editor

  • Tight Integration around Textures

  • Fast Texture Combinations

• Color Editor

  • Color Preview under Custom Illuminants

  • Palette Handling

  • HSV Color Picker

  • Spectrum Editor

• Display

  • Camera Settings (ISO, f-number, shutter speed)

  • Sharpness

  • Deburn

  • Bloom/Glare

  • Contrast/Chroma

  • Vignetting

  • Color Balance

• Render History

• Relight Editor

• Network Status Log

Materials

• Breakthrough Layering System

  • Strictly Physically-based Models

  • High Energy Conservation

  • Multiple Coating/Mixing/Stacking

• Displacement Mapping

• Bump Mapping

• Normal Mapping

• Anisotropy

• Dispersion

• Custom Fresnel Curve

• Thin Film Interference

• IOR Sample Data Support

• Sub-Surface Scattering

• Participating Media

  • Isotropic

  • Mie Variants

  • Rayleigh

  • Henyey-Greenstein

  • Homogeneous

  • Heterogeneous

• Clip Mapping

• Alpha Mapping

Lighting

• Physically-based Sun/Sky

• Image-based Lighting

  • Illumination Mapping

  • Reflection Mapping

  • Refraction Mapping

  • Background Mapping

• Area Lights

  • Any Shape

• Point Lights

  • Omni

  • Spot

  • Projector

• IES Support

Textures

• Constant Color

  • RGB/XYZ/HSV

  • Spectrum

  • Blackbody Temperature

• Bitmaps

  • All Common Image Formats

  • HDR/OpenEXR Formats

• Procedurals

  • Perlin Noise

  • Integrated Anisotropy Patterns

  • Various Other Procedurals

• Advanced Operations

  • Blending

  • Combination

  • Synthesis

  • Inversion

• Tone Mapping (on the fly)

Camera

• Models

  • Pinhole

  • Thin-Lens

• Projection

  • Perspective

  • Parallel

  • Spherical

  • Cylindrical

• Auto-focus

• Shift Lens

• Camera Response Functions

Input/Output

• 3DS/OBJ (Import)

• Native XML

• Binary Format

• Modeler Plugins

• Software Development Kit (SDK)⁺

  • Exporter SDK

  • Full Integration SDK

  • Plugin SDK