KeyShot

New Features

• Added an option to merge parts based on materials, to the Mesh Simplification tool
• Delete and find deleted scene nodes via scripting.
• Add support for importing ASE color swatch files
• Create scene material through scripting.
• Added ability to adjust number of blades in Depth of Field
• Added project based CMF data import/export to material information manager
• Added PDF output for CMF

Security

• Updated to PNG 1.6.37

Improvements

• U3M imports respect the normal scale value instead of defaulting to -1.
• Do not set the process priority on Windows to below normal.
• Apple Silicon support is no longer in beta.
• Ignore hidden parts when calling ‘Center and Fit’ in the scene tree.
• Ignore hidden objects when calling centerAndFit from scripting.
• Added instancing support for the FBX importer
• Support for Inventor 3D Read: 2023, ProE / Creo Parametric 2D Read: Creo 9.0, ProE / Creo Parametric 3D Read: Creo 9.0, Revit 3D Read: 2023, UG NX 2D Read: NX 2019, NX 2027, UG NX 3D Read: NX 2019, NX 2027
• Added hotkey for Isolate material selection
• Add material to library via scripting
• Updated color picker design
• Creo View importer uses instancing to reduce scene size
• Improved performance when selecting objects in scenes with many parts.
• Added JPG texture compression to GLB/GLTF and USD exports

Bugs

• U3M importer now reads the schema version of the U3M file for correct texture sizes in KeyShot
• Fixed rare crash with advanced materials and many ray bounces
• Fixed an issue that could cause some studios to go missing when loading a scene
• getCameraDirection() in scripting will now return normalized values.
• Fixed HDRI environment lookup for Product Mode with CPU
• Fixed the issue of wrong thumbnails being displayed for the Reference Image in the Material Information Manager.
• 3D Paint Brush textures are now applied with correct gamma.
• Fixed the issue where KeyShot freezes when changing the animation’s timeline for imported files.
• Fixed an issue with corrupted workspaces.
• U3M importer sets texture maps other than ‘_BASE’ to be interpreted as linear images (gamma 1) to improve accuracy.
• Fixed an issue with the move tool window being able to scale up infinitely.
• Fixed a bug where double-clicking a scene file wouldn’t correctly open it on MacOS
• Fixed a bug where studio switch events wouldn’t correctly switch model sets while in GPU mode
• Cameras/Model Sets/Studios are added as a individual jobs to rendering queue when animation or KeyShotXR is selected
• Fixed adding Multi-Material job for Animation or KeyShotXR
• Adding camera or environment studio as locked also locks added camera.
• Fixed an issue with DOF animation removing the DOF when playing back the animation
• Fixed an issue with memory management on some animation types
• Fixed an issue with syncing UV mapped textures.
• Fixed an issue where using geometry tools could generate invalid geometry