KeyShot

Security Update

• Fixed disclosed security vulnerabilities in LSA-394129 (see more at https://www.keyshot.com/csirt/)

New Features

• Added selectable Thumbnail style when saving in project materials to Library.
• Added selectable Thumbnail style on Library materials.
• Added new selection method “Paint selection” in Split Object Surfaces tool.
• Added new touch-friendly presentation mode.
• Added new mesh simplification tool to reduce the face count of a model.
• Thumbnails in the Material Library have been updated with new models to better represent the look of the materials.

Enhancements

• Improved visual appearance of metallic paints with clear coat roughness.
• Added support for loading optimized material file format.
• The “Activate trial” option was removed since the trial can be activated from “Activate license” option.
• The ‘Apply’ button, when using Geometry Tools, has been greyed out until the user has made a change to the object.
• The registration wizard now also has the usage option for the user to select the scope of the trial.
• Improved the stop rendering dialog to make accidentally deleting rendered frames harder.
• Added support for Maya 2022.
• Added import support for CATIA V5-6R2021 (R31), Jt up to version 10.6 and Parasolid up to version 33.1.
• Model sets and Studios can now be added as a single job to rendering queue.
• Replaced the ‘choose folder’ combo box with the tree widget used for adding other library items (colors, materials, environments).
• Added such that all root folders are expanded by default.
• Added a ‘paste’ context menu item to the library page, since the shift-RMB to paste was hard to find.
• Added possibility to Undo/Redo selection on Split object surfaces and Split Separate Objects tools.
• Added support for Draco compression in glTF/GLB export.
• Added support for Sketchup 2021.
• Updated axf format to version 1.8.
• Improved caustics for smooth Environment lighting.
• Added separate executable for headless mode.
• Improved materials on glTF/GLB and USD import.
• Added functionality to find and link duplicate materials.
• Fixed incorrect error message for importing an invalid .c4d file.
• Added support for lux.exportFile() in headless scripting.
• Improved handling of file thumbnails when Uninstalling.
• It is no longer possible to create self-intersecting seams that will not work when unwrapping.
• Added support for importing glTF files, with or without Draco compression.
• Added importance sampling to AxF flake component such that they show up under environment lighting in product mode.
• Added more functions for headless scripting.
• Added support for metallic flakes with varying depths in Axalta Paint materials.
• Improved library performance when loading many large resources.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sampling weight for direct lighting of multi lobe materials with lobes that have a low weight.
• Improved Axalta paint rendering for better visual similarity between GPU and CPU rendering.
• Fixed too blurry reflections in GPU mode in some cases.
• Fixed potential missing first reflective volume caustic in scattering media on the CPU.
• Fixed issue where pallets become unhooked and put on second monitor.
• Fixed a possible crash when loading material files during startup.
• Fixed an issue that would cause a Visual difference for Dielectric Materials compared to earlier KeyShot versions.
• Fixed issue with Keyshot crashing when exporting to USD.
• Fixed import issue with generic material on glTF and USD files.
• Fixed a possible Crash when toggling Mutlimaterials.
• Fixed issue where importing files from previous versions could cause the geometry to have incorrect local center.
• Fixed an issue where files would be saved with an incorrect aspect ratio.
• Fixed an issue where Studios would lose the Environment assignment.
• Fixed issue where export of obj could cause invalid normals.
• Fixed an issue where duplicating model sets could cause a crash.
• Fixed backplates from showing aliasing when down-sampled.
• Fixed issue where opening scene with texture scale mode set to scene units would show as UV in UI.
• Fixed issue: Pressing enter while editing text field would close dialog.
• Fixed issue where .fbx files crashed on import if they had incomplete UVs.
• Improvement in area light stability.
• Fixed HDRI editor environments not always painted at full resolution.
• Fixed crash when previewing texture in material graph with a coated metal material present.
• Fixed issue where objects in scene root were not transformed to fit scene units.
• Improved error handing when importing files with animations.
• Fixed issue where Move tool could be used from all mouse buttons.
• Fixed issue where “Send to Network rendering” failed.
• Fixed issue where bubble materials are not supported in GPU mode.
• Fixed issue where models wouldn’t keep key bindings.
• Fixed issue where running lux.exportFile via Scripting would crash KeyShot.
• Fixed incorrect materials on Fuzz in background rendering.
• Fixed issue where environment image was sometimes not saved.
• Fixed issue where environment animations could not be copy-pasted.
• Fixed crash that could occur when opening scene with studio events.
• Fixed render passes on the GPU with objects that should be invisible to the camera.
• Fixed animation window size being restricted to a small size.
• USD export now supports special characters.
• Fixed issue where collision detection was not taken into account when using keyframe animations.
• Fixed issue where importing glb files to KeyShot caused wrong coordinates in the file.
• Fixed crash when trying to bake of multi-layer optics materials with no layers.
• Collision geometry is now updated on scaling in the project scene tab.
• Fixed crash in geometry nodes and gpu rendering when geometry would have less than two texture coordinates per vertex.
• Fixed issue where UV mapped displacement was not resolved correctly.
• Fixed potential GPU memory leak.
• Fixed issue where KeyShot becomes unresponsive if Split Object Surfaces tool is used on RealCloth material.
• Fixed an issue where PVZ import would occasionally fail.
• Fixed shift of texture center when using Part Center on objects with geometry shaders. May have caused apparently random behaviour of displacement.
• Improved visual appearance for Velvet material in Interior mode.
• Fixed possible Memory Leak in GPU rendering.
• The denoiser no longer prevents automatic pause from being triggered.
• Fixed inconsistent brightness of caustics depending on model visibility when rendering on GPU.
• Fixed issue where opacity maps on ground planes were incorrect in GPU mode.
• Fixed issue where Switching to GPU mode while having a ground material with opacity on it will create strange lines.
• Fixed issue where global illumination could be out of sync when changing environments.
• When adding a model to the library the bounding box is now only calculated based on the chosen model sets.
• Fixed an issue where a duplicated environment will not contain the original pins and folder names.
• Fixed Collision Detection not working when moving a keyframe animated object.
• Fixed issue where artefact appear in GPU mode.
• Fixed frame count sometimes being wrong when extracting frames for video maps.
• Fixed auto-update of NR Worker when having both CPU+GPU instances but CPU is paused.
• Added a warning when importing a u3m material with missing textures.
• Fixed issue where welcome window could be overlaid by a loading bar.
• Queue rendering works correctly for external CAD pro licenses.
• Fixed support for special characters inside exported glb and gltf files.
• Fixed issue where having multiple versions of Alias installed prevented .wire import.
• Fixed SMTP authentication with certain mail servers.
• Fixed saving “Import cameras” in import settings for all file types.
• Fixed issue where fade animation would be ignored if a keyframe animation was added.
• Fixed issue causing Environment Settings contrast not always being applied.
• Improved loading speed for Realcloth material.
• Fixed incorrect import of opacity textures on fbx files.
• Updated description of the benchmark tool.
• Fixed an issue which would cause the Camera target to not update correctly on Camera switch events.
• Link duplicates setting is remembered correctly after restart.
• Fixed issue where removed texture references was not saved when reloading a scene.
• Fixed issue where custom sun position settings can still be used when the sun & sky day arc animation is added.
• Fixed issue where the header “Log in with your Luxion ID” in dark mode was not respecting the theme.
• Fixed metallic flakes visibility in GPU mode.
• Fixed issue where importing a model with a defined scale in to a scene with an undefined scale resulting in wrong scaling of labels.
• Fixed issue where importing files with z-up axis could result in flipped cameras.
• Fixed re-connection problems in NR Monitor.
• Fixed issue where transparency did not show correctly for some file formats in the texture library.
• Fixed issue where UI would get stuck when drag and drop of models caused GPU to run out of memory.
• Fixed ‘Save active model set’ sometimes saving corrupt file.
• Fixed issue where if a plane has UV mapping, the highlight was rotating with the object.
• Fixed issue where user was not able to drag and drop a backplate on the backplate file path in environment settings.
• Fixed issue where users could drag and drop a vdb file to the HDRI editor.
• Fixed loading old KeyShot 1.9 files with multiple materials per object.
• Fixed potential discrepancy between CPU/GPU with toon materials.
• Fixed Cloud download via the browser on MacOS.
• Fixed issue where KeyShot would crash when using move tool in a keyframe animation.
• Fixed discrepancy in direct lighting calculations between CPU/GPU.
• Fixed potential hang when offline rendering faded objects on GPU.
• Fixed loading 16 bit ppm files.
• Fixed sporadic crash when toggling between CPU/GPU.
• Updated Creo View import API to version 17.1.
• Fixed potential discrepancy between CPU/GPU with contour texture materials.
• Fixed double environment light contribution when using ground illumination with faded objects in GPU mode.
• Fixed to make GPU caustics consistently bright for different ground plane sizes.