Shade Featurepedia

Boolean Modeling

Shade features powerful boolean modeling, rendering and previewing.

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CALLISTO

A third party, advanced renderer included in Shade Professional through Shade 10

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Curved Surface Modeling

Create delicate, continuous surfaced, living objects with Shade's trademark curved surface modeling tools.

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Hair Salon

Generate hair and fur over masked surfaces, then style hair in Hair Salon using tools such as comb, curl and blow dry.

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Latice and Twist Modeling

Deform, twist, shape and animate a model non destructively

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Meta Mesh Modeling

Create metamesh objects from cylinders, spheres, cubes and other shades to create blob-like interactive objects.

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MultiPass Rendering

You can render your scenes and animations into separated layers using MultiPass Rendering.

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Multiple Workspaces

Start with the open, uncluttered Shade workspace, then save custom workspaces so you can work your very best.

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Photo Modeling

Turn your digital camera into a 3D modeling tool with Photo Modeling. It also creates textures extracted from the photos you take.

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Polygon Modeling

Highly productive polygon model creation and editing for fast architectural modeling, level building.

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PoserFusion

Integrate complete, animated Poser scenes in Shade; build geometries, props, clothing and more for Poser

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Room Planner

Create a room layout in 2D, then instantly transform it into a complete 3D room with walls, floors, windows, doors and ceiling.

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Shade Lighting

Shade supports all standard 3D lights you expect, plus the ability to have certain objects emit light. Shade 12 introduces Volumetric Lights.

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ShadeGrid

Improve rendering speed by using ShadeGrid and one or more computers to render an image or animation.

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Text Modeling

Create custom, beveled 3D text that conforms to a custom path with effects.

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Volumetric Lights

The Shade Light system support volume or volumetric lighting as an attribute to any light source.

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