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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
General |
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32 and native 64 bit operations (Windows and Mac OS X Intel)
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Mac OS X 10.411 PPC Support
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OpenGL Acceleration
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Customize Interface (Silver/Black)
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Mouse / Sticky Mouse Scroll and Zoom
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Multi-Core CPU Rendering (8 Cores)
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Workflow |
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General |
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3D Manipulator (Real Time Manipulation)
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Work Plane
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Advanced Snap Tools
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Local Coordinates Tools
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Lasso Selection Tools
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Move/Copy/Scale/Rotate/Translation by Numerical Value
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Work Spaces
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Viewports |
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Customizable Viewports
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Preview with Environment Mapping, Specular, Surfaces
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Master Images
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Preview with Background
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View Menu: 8 Standard and Custom Views
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Display Multiple User Cameras at the Same Time
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Display Menu: Set Display Preferences ona Per Viewport Basis
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Shade Explorer (Catalog Objects, Surfaces, Sounds, Documentation)
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Shade Browser (hiearchical scene navigation)
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Modeling Light
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Modeling |
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General |
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Polygon Modeling Tools
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Bevel Modeling Tools
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Boolean Modeling Tools
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Master Objects / Master Surfaces
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TextEffector Text Modeling Tools
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Shape Plugins (Polygon, Arc, Spiral Lines, Sweep Circles)
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Meta-Elements (Ball, Cylinder, Cube, PolyMesh, Particles)
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Convert Object Types (Lines / Polygon Objects / Surfaces)
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Curved Surfaces |
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Curved Surface Modeling Tools
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Non-Destructive Curved Surface Deformation (Lattice, Twist)
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Transform / Convert Curved Surfaces
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Auto Smoothing/ Interpolate
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Cut/Connect Curves
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Mirror Copy
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Poly Mesh |
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Vertex / Edge / Face Based Selection Tools
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Belt/Loop/Surface/Invert/Deselect Based Section Tools
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Detect Shared/Overlapping/Internal Faces
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Mesh Edit: Offset/ Extrude/ Duplicate/ Bevel/ Detach/ Mirror/ Copy/ Knife/ Divide
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Mesh Edit: Divide/Align/Merge/Flip/Facing
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Mesh Edit: UV Projection Mapping
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Hair Salon |
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Hair Salon Modeling Tools
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Hair Editor
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Fur Editor
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Hair / Fur Masks
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Hair / Fur Mirror Tool
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Hair / Fur Gravity Tool
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Hair / Fur Collision Detection
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Room Planner |
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RoomPlanner Room Creator
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Surfaces and Materials |
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Surfaces |
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Nano-Renderer Preview of Surface Materials
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Meta-Element Renderer Settings
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Master Surfaces (Child Surfaces Inherit Characteristics)
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External Surface File References
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Surfaces: Unlimited Material Layers Per Surface
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Alpha Blending
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Materials |
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Set Basic Material Parameters by Number or Slider
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Mapping Patterns (Parameterized Wood, Marble, etc)
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Material Effects (Roughness, Metallic, Glow, Soft Glow, Back Light)
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Material Effects (Fresnel Reflection, Anisotropic Reflection Rendering)
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Solid Texture Plugin (Grid, Bump Array, Brick, Blob, Beehive, Sand, Veins, Triangle Check, Gradation, fBm)
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Mapping |
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UV Mapping Editor
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Parallax Bump Mapping
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Unlimited Image Maps Per Material
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Projection Mapping (X, Y, Z, Cylinder, Sphere)
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Projection Mapping: Box
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Projection Mapping: Live Manipulation
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Projection Mapping: Apply Projection Parameters to Multiple Materials
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Camera and Lighting |
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Lights |
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Infinite/Point/Source/Spot Lights
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Surface/Line Based Lights
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Image Based Lighting
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Read IES Light
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Shadow Mapping with Raytracing
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Shadow Mapping with Pathtracing
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Camera |
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Unlimited Static, Animated Cameras and Meta Cameras
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Object Camera with Tilt Settings
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Safe Zone Setting By Camera
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Rendering |
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General |
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Maximum Render Image Size (pixels)
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1600x1200 | 4000x4000 | 22528x22528 |
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Render with Color Correction (gain, gamma, contrast, bias, saturation)
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Bit Depths: 32/64/128bit
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Surface Subdivision
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Area Rendering
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Auto Exposure
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MultiPass Rendering
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Draft Ray Tracing
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Global Illumination |
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Global Illumination (GI)
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GI: Path Tracing
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GI: Photon Mapping
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GI: Path + Photon Mapping
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GI: Path Tracing with Irradiance Cache
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GI: Save Irradiance Cache
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GI: Use Irradiance Cache with Shade GRID
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GI: Save and Reuse Photon Mapping
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GI: Photon Mapping Gathering Scale
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Radiosity |
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Radiosity / Radiosity Pro 3 (Pro Only)
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Radiosity with Raytracing Draft
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Save Radiosity Calculation Results
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Reposition lights/Set lights w/o recalculating
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Shadow Mapping with Raytracing
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Shadow Mapping with Pathtracing
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Toon Rendering |
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Toon Rendering (TR)
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MultiPass Toon Rendering
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Half Tone / Color Half Toon Rendering
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Cell Animation / Technical Illustration / Manga Draft / Pencil Drawing
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HDRI |
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HDRI (OpenEXR, HDR, PFM, Raw HDRI)
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HDRI: Light Probe, Spherical Map, Cube Map, Vertical Cross
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Callisto |
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Callisto 2 Plugin Renderer
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Displacement Mapping
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Micro Polygon Subdivision
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Post Processing |
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Effectors (Shade Native Plugins)
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GlowEffector (Lens Flare, Animated Lens Flares)
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CALLISTO background helper
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Depth of Field (DepthPlus)
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Fog, Animated Fog (FogPlus)
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Motion Blur
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Stereogram Rendering
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Extract Z Depth
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Add Noise
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Extract Alpha Channel
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Invert Image
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Burn Timecode
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Networking |
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Shade Grid/Network Rendering
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Radiosity over ShadeGrid / Network Rendering
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Animation and Movement |
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Motion |
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Save Motion Files Separately from Shade Project File
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Inverse Kinematics
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Smart Kinematics Joint Controller
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Path Constraints
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Joints |
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Rotator/ Path/ Slide / Ball / Scale / Uniscale
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Morph Joint
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Switch Joint
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Bones and Skin
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Direction Control of Path Joint
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Depth of Field Controller / Joint
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Fog Animation Joint
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Twist Deformer Joint
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Physics |
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Particle Physics (Explosions, Smoke, Fire, etc)
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Particle Emitters
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Real Planet Based Gravity Settings (Earth, Moon, Mars, Venus, etc)
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Custom Gravity Settings
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Physics Based Motion Blur
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Wind Objects (Cross Wind, Turbulent Wind, Tornado)
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Gravity Pull Object
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Collision Detection
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Meta-Particle Emitters (blobs, splashes)
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Formats |
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Digital Import/Export |
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XML Import/Export (Shade files)
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BVH Motion File Import
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COLLADA Export
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Blue Mars Export
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DirectX Export
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Epix Export
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Second Life (Sculpted Prim)
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Wavefront (OBJ) Import/Export
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LightWave 3D (LWO) Import/Export
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3D Studio MAX (3DS) Import/Export
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DXF Import/Export
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RenderMan RIB Export
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VRML2.0 Export
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Image Import/Export |
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Adobe Illustrator AI/EPSF Import
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PICT/BMP/TARGA/TIFF/PNG output
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PSD Output
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Adobe Illustrator Output
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HDR Input-Output
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PFM Input-Output
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OpenEXR Input-Output
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Video Import/Export |
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Quicktime Movie Export
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Quicktime VR Panorama Export
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Quicktime VR Cubic Export
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Quicktime VR Object Export
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AVI Movie Export (Windows Only)
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Adobe Flash (SWF) Output
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Designer
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Standard | Pro |
Shade 10
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Shade 9 | Shade 8.5 | |
Integration |
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Scripting |
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Dynamic Plugins
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Script and Message Windows
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Script, Run Script Menu
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Script Interface (SDK)
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Plug-in Interface (SDK)
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Plug-in Manager
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Python Script
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AppleScript (Mac OS X only)
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SDK forPlug-in Development
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Audio |
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Audio Import / Export: WAV, AU, AIF, AIFF
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Export Movie with Sound / 3D Sound
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Poser Integration |
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PoserFusion (for Poser 8)
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Bounding Box
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Dynamic Hair Support
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External Morph Target Support
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