Specifications

Rendering

• Hybrid radiosity, ray tracing, Phong shading
• Advanced shaders (color, reflectance, transparency, displacement, background, foreground, post processing)
• Volumetric shaders, Anisotropic reflectance shaders
• Layered materials
• 3D Paint
• Area rendering
• Shadows
• Fog
• Motion blur
• Depth of field
• Lense Flares
• Adaptive anti-aliasing, oversampling
• 8,000 x 8,000 pixel resolution
• Alpha-channel for transparency
• Area, projector, sky, spot, local, and infinite lights
• Unlimited cameras
• Multi processor support

Modeling

• NURBS
• Advanced selection tools
• Drawing on 3D objects
• Live Skin metaballs
• PlastiForm
• Accurate collision detection
• Organic deformation
• Boolean operations
• Polygonal and spline based drawing
• Polygon editing and advanced sweeps
• Vertex weld and erase
• 3D primitives
• TrueType text
• Postscript import
• Advanced texture placement
• Real world dimensions

Animation

• Bones with deformable skin and muscles
• Function Curves
• Scripting
• Forward Dynamics
• Inverse Kinematics
• KeyFrame Editor
• Vertex animation
• Spline-based paths
• Hierarchical animation
• Animation Preview
• Animatable deformations, metaballs, materials, lights, cameras, etc.
• Animated textures (AVI)

3D Interface

• Real time, perspective, direct manipulation
• 3D widgets for object and view manipulation, Point Edit widget, 3D Properties and global preset panels
• Simulated 3D guides

Hardware Acceleration

• Third generation D3D, OpenGL, and 3DR drivers

Internet Support

• VRML 2.0 worlds export
• Integrated VRML 1.0 browser
• 3D Bookmarks
• In-place editing
• Level of detail
• 3D sound
• Polygon reduction

Import and Export

• 3D Import
  SCN, COB, SOB, WRL 1.0 , GZ, WRZ, DXF, 3DS, ASC, PRJ, LWO, OBJ, LWB, IOB, GEO, X
• 3D Export
  SCN, COB, CAN, WRL 1.0 and 2.0, DXF, ASC, 3DS, X
• 2D Import
  BMP, TGA, AVI, FLC, JPG, DIB, AI, PS, EPS, PNG, DDS
• 2D Export
  BMP, TGA, AVI, JPG, TIFF, PNG

System Requirements
Windows 95, 98 or Windows NT 4.0 • Pentium 120 (PentiumII recommended) • 32MB RAM (64MB recommended) • 20MB free hard disk space • VGA Graphics • 3D video card recommended