KeyShot

New Features

• Cutaway material is now supported on the GPU
• Deformable animations can now be imported using FBX files using cached .mcx file animations.
• Added physics simulation tool
• Added 3D Painted texture type
• Added the possibility to upload and share KeyShot scenes optimized for viewing in a browser, on a desktop or mobile device
• Added Color, Material and Finish (CMF) metadata on materials to output in CMF document
• Drag and drop of materials now has alpha cutouts
• Remove environments via scripting
• Remove image styles via scripting
• Create image styles via scripting
• Create environments via scripting
• Control keeping of aspect ratio and locking of resolution via scripting
• Access camera lens info of current camera via scripting
• Change camera to shift lens via scripting
• Change camera to panoramic mode via scripting
• Change camera to perspective mode via scripting
• Change camera to orthographic mode via scripting
• Rigged animation in FBX files supported on import to KeyShot
• Manipulate Material Graph via scripting
• New KeyShot Personal Edition license to replace KeyShot HD
• KeyShot subscription license can be activated by using an activation code
• Drag and drop of a selection of materials now creates a multi-material
• Scripting supports linking duplicate materials in setMaterial(), setObjectMaterial() and applyMaterialMapping()
• Added Environment Brightness animation type
• Scripting function added for retrieving paths to KeyShot folders

Improvements

• Automatically perform zoom to fit when creating new Curve Animation Node
• Bump maps are now applied when importing FBX files
• New nodes are placed at top-left corner of the material graph
• Cameras can now be added as a single job to rendering queue
• Added warning of breaking live linking when Open split object surfaces tool is used for body group with multiple triangle objects
• Unified animation import options in import dialogue
• Property panel now correctly shows the original file format imported
• Ability to generate iBooks has been removed from KeyShot
• Improved Transparency in exported GLTFs
• Added support for Colored specularity in exported GLTFs
• Upgraded to Python 3.9.9 for Scripting
• Lighting Presets are now available via headless scripting
• 3mf export also outputs material CMF data under our company namespace
• Added option to remove NURBS from parts in scene tree, or from entire scene during BIP/KSP export
• FBX importer supports importing specific animation frames
• New human skin tone materials in the Library
• Added option to group jobs when adding render jobs to the queue
• Default to using system proxy settings for network traffic, if defined.
• Improved performance of animation deletion
• Ported studio manipulation to headless scripting
• Ported multi-materials manipulation to headless scripting
• Ported environments manipulation to headless scripting
• Ported image styles manipulation to headless scripting
• Send to Network Rendering via headless scripting
• Use all material-to-part mappings when creating an automatic material template for parts
• Library assets import to only the last active model sets and not to all
• Added instancing to glTF exporter to reduce file size
• Improved speed of installation on macOS
• Library logs moved to the KeyShot log
• Fixed error appeared when 16bit PSD files where used as textures
• FlexLM client updated to 11.16.6
• Retrieval of selected, hidden or locked parts in scene via scripting
• Option added to display labels in touch-friendly configurator mode
• Support adding and processing render queue via headless scripting
• Subscription license will be checked in headless scripting at startup and before rendering, encoding or exporting output
• Ported lux.importFile() and lux.getImportOptions() to headless scripting
• New option added to reconnect to server if loosing connection during rendering

Bugs

• Fixed importer crash when importing corrupt 3ds file
• Fixed issue where deleting a keyframe animation would change the position of an object
• Fixed issue where “Including part animations” when creating a new model set was not working properly
• Fixed issue where the tools would remain in an active state after being closed.
• Fixed issue where heads-up display did not detect System language for decimal separator
• Normal maps with cylindrical and spherical texture mapping now produce consistent results with the other texture mapping types
• Fixed issue where settle was affected by inactive model sets
• Fixed an issue where the Power Node on Lights were not shown in Material Graph
• Faster processing when adding new geometry to scenes
• Fixed issue with favorites library not saving when using specific languages
• Fixed issue where mesh simplification tool created nameless parts
• Fixed issue where importing the same Substance painter material twice resulted in incorrect material names
• Improved performance of Fade Animations on highly specular parts with Product Mode on CPU
• Support ignore internal geometry for the gem material with GPU rendering
• Fixed issue where “Activate KeyShotXR” option was not grayed out when option is already active
• The anisotropic filtering has been improved for custom rendering to better handle high frequency textures
• Fixed an issue where the same color could be re-used in Clown pass
• Fixed issue where scene with many keyframe animations is very slow
• Fixed issue where using “reverse” in animation properties would reverse the direction instead of playback
• Fixed issue where importing in an empty scene did not resize the environment
• Fixed an issue where Bloom could cause visual artifacts in scenes using Translucent materials
• Fixed issue where changing scene units would change the scale of keyframe animated parts
• Fixed issue where “move model” would move model set if parts had no parent
• Fixed an issue where the FPS would change when importing geometry
• Pattern tool is now enabled on all levels
• Fixed an issue where the move tool would not affect keyframes
• Fixed a crash when importing a file after creating a new model set.
• Improved performance for animations in GPU mode
• Support for instancing in 3mf export to allow for smaller file sizes
• Fixed issue when the incorrect environment was used when opening a scene
• Support scene units for metallic flakes in the metallic paint material
• Fixed issue where incompatible animations could be applied to orthographic cameras
• Nodes in material graph can no longer be attached to itself
• Added support for transmission extension in GLTF/GLB export and import
• Fixed issue where choosing to render XR with animation frames set to work area would change animations FPS
• Improved sampling performance in product mode
• Fixed a crash in geometry tools when applying geometry updates to parts with animations
• Fixed an error in GPU mode when using a 2D bump texture
• Fixed an issue where the link between animations was broken when changing parameters
• Fixed a crash when loading non-VDB files on a volume map
• Fixed a crash when loading malformed VDB files
• Fixed an issue which would cause a wrong camera to be marked as active when loading a scene
• Fixed accepting alpha channel for rendering via scripting
• Fixed “Illegal memory access” error when toggling GPU mode on in certain scenes
• Reintroduced width and height keyword arguments to lux.renderFrames()
• Fixed undo on the action of deleting an animation folder
• Fixed potential artifacts on sun & sky horizon with non-black ground color
• Fixed issue with missing color and incorrect opacity texture, when importing glb file
• Fixed issue where special characters would result in a non-functional material template
• Objects with Cutaway are now illuminated properly by HDRI with Interior Mode
• Fixed issue where creating instances with make pattern tool would result in unlinked materials
• Fixed a crash when applying a real cloth material
• Fixed issue which could cause model sets to become invalid when moved
• Enable save button in output window while processing queue
• Fixed crash when entering the configurator wizard
• Importing environments or image styles with names already used will now append a number to differentiate them
• Fixed issue where OBJ files containing spaces in the material names would not export correctly
• Fixed possibility of duplicate names of model sets, cameras and studios on import by adding incrementing number
• Vertex Colors will be maintained when using Geometry tools
• Fixed a crash when loading a PSD that has an invalid number of channels
• Fixed issue creating a geometry that has both a bump height and a bump texture along with an Opacity texture, if switched to GPU
• Only enable changing the license if one instance of KeyShot is running
• Fixed issue where links in registration dialog were not visible when changing language from English
• Fixed issue where cameras scaled incorrectly in glTF export
• Metallic Paint Flakes now show correctly for all scene units