KeyShot

The following is a summary of new features and known issues for KeyShot 10.

New Features

See Feature Highlights and Additional Features and Improvements

Release notes

Enhancements

• Don’t show Welcome Window after import
• If command line file argument is not a BIP file, then try to import instead
• Update DWG OpenDesign libraries to 2021.4
• Make FBX import respect alpha from baseColor texture
• Re-orientation option added when importing a BIP file into the scene
• “Always render NURBS” will now be automatically applied when importing objects that lack triangles
• Added support for Revit 2021 on Import
• Added support for SolidWorks 2020 cached support on Import
• Import dialog for CAD files now has third import option: New Scene
• Curve output added, and re-ordered the material parameters
• Added support for Volume caustics in Product mode
• Rewriting the Move tool to make it more versatile
• Move tool will now only ever be active in realtime view or Geometry view
• Move tool should follow mouse more precisely now
• Added rotation around group origin to Move Tool
• Added Include Names of Always Active Model Sets option
• Changed Default selection for:
  • “Non-manifold edges or vertices detected during export. Export with errors highlighted?” dialog in STL export
• Reduce flickering when moving region
• Added warning for trying to render custom control and denoise
• Added warning for trying to render layers and denoise
• Render options are more correctly named
• lux.importFile() will now take import settings into account
• Make realtime window expand when docked widgets are undocked/closed
• Make the zoom-speed for the curve panel the same for all
• Move ‘Respect animation ordering’ from Preferences to Animation Settings
• Add ‘Remove textures’ to the dialog showing textures not found
• Warning messages will now have Show Details option if applicable
• Center and Fit Models hotkey now works in the Geometry view as well
• Wording on dialogues when deleting environments has been improved
• Add setting in settings.xml disabling Qt web engine to be used for troubleshooting.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Locking a Linked Camera animation would not Lock the Original animation
• Render Region not respected for Animation Previews
• Color fade animation with custom ease curve does not work
• Animation preview will no longer fail if max time is less than the time it takes to render 1 sample
• ‘Custom’ still in motion ease curve option for color fade
• Fixed that pivot point animations could be affected by moving unrelated objects
• Fixed incorrect camera path animation when pivot and look at point where not the same
• Moving folder of pins into a folder that contains itself crashes keyshot
• Fixed the HDRI editor sometimes having a hot pixel
• Fixed issue where saturation and hue could be outdated
• Fixed glb export not being able to export a scene with many parts
• GPU mode with denoiser randomly show non denoised frame on multi gpu systems
• Most material nodes would crash GPU when previewed in GPU mode
• PC crash when enabling Toon Light Source Shadows in GPU mode without light sources
• Real-Time view pause after samples is no longer multiplied by 16 in GPU mode
• IES Light Axis table unresponsive in GPU mode
• Fixed crashe when disabling apply to front and back of geometry in GPU mode.
• Fixed Error when starting GPU mode in scene with area light with “Apply to front/back of geometry” off
• Disabling GPU effects causes significant Screen tearing
• CUDA Error when opening scene with GPU Mode active
• Scattering Medium has different image opacity for CPU and GPU
• Area Lights inside Scattering Medium are not visible with GPU Mode
• Artifacts in VDB Scattering Medium volume on GPU
• Fixed an issue where the Backplate is wrong when split rendering large images on the GPU
• Fixed an issue where enabling the denoiser would fade the Realtime view to black
• Fixed an issue where bump add weight texture was not respected in GPU mode
• Fixed ground material illumination not working in GPU mode
• Inconsistent environment shadows in scene with opacity on ground material
• Clown pass has been fixed for bump mapped materials
• Environment contrast now updates correctly in GPU mode
• Fixed not being able to pause in GPU mode
• Fixed backplates and labels not updating in GPU mode
• Fixed area lights sometimes looking dimmer in GPU mode
• Fixed diffuse reflected light causing transparent solids to resolve brighter in GPU mode
• Fixed scenes with many spotlights being too dark in GPU mode
• Fixed motion blur with interior mode causing dark regions in GPU mode
• Intel Denoiser doesn’t affect transparent parts of the image
• Fixed not being able to use an odd number as resolution if High DPI is enabled
• Fixed an issue where importing a Bip file would Change the Aspect ratio
• Fixed adding geometry to a high poly scene is very slow
• Fixed focal lenght not being correct when transferring scene from Rhino
• Fixed Camera Target not being correct when transferring scene from Rhino
• Environment now resizes when importing a model from the model library
• HD users can have multiple model sets in scene tree by enabling them in presentation mode
• Fixed update doesn’t work on KS duplicates when livelinking
• matcap does not disable properly with label applied
• Arealight color now updates when textures are added or changed
• Center On Part setting is now set correctly when copying material graph node
• Fixed Opacity not working correctly inside scattering mediums
• Fixed difference in translucent advanced and cloudy plastic between CPU and GPU
• Fixed Measured Car Paint reflecting Background Color
• Fixed caustics showing banding when using GPU mode on a multi-GPU system
• Fixed issues with Lights in Scattering medium with Interior mode
• Fixed scattering medium not being reflected in specular material in Interior mode
• Fixed volumetric caustics not being rendered when the light source is inside the volume
• Fixed area light reflections in Anisotropic material being different between render modes
• Fixed the Toon material outline contour
• Fixed Point light having wrong color and power
• Fixed geometry displacement still being active after deleting geometry node and applying new material from library
• Diffuse reflected Light leaving Transparent Solids (e.g. Liquid) do not resolve after changin CPU usage using region rendering
• Changing CPU Usage in a scene with a backplate refreshes the Realtime View
• KeyShot only shows one CPU in CPU-usage dropdown in dual CPU system
• Fixed issue where a missing frontplate file could cause the Realtime View to get stuck
• Motion blur now works in NURBS mode
• Ctrl+Left mouse button now works for right-clicking in the Realtime view on Mac
• When adding an animation to the local queue, format did show image type instead of an animation type.
• Fixed adjusting resolution in render dialog Configuration Tab not adjusting region size.
• Fixed Render Queue jobs sometimes failing
• Fixed issue where adding a Multi-Material to the queue would only render one material
• Added a warning for invalid heights in MP4 renderings
• Default environment and image style can now be included in name templates
• Specular highlights no longer slow to resolve behind glass on GPU in interior mode
• Emissive/Area Light visibility settings not respected by render layers
• objects will turn black behind transparent material
• Fixed Rendering artifacts for “Top” Standard view
• KeyShot now shows a “finishing” progress bar while finishing a rendering.
• Diffuse reflected Light leaving Transparent Solids (e.g. Liquid) do not resolve after changing CPU usage using region rendering.
• Improving saving speed for ksp files when using Video Map textures
• Fuzz direction textures now work with UV mapped textures
• Reflection Looks different when using Interior mode vs Product mode
• Fixed exr output when using bloom and region rendering in combination
• Fixed rendering sometimes getting stuck at “Finishing”
• Fixed incorrect exposure sometimes being applied to render layers
• Improving saving speed for ksp files when using Video Map textures
• “Save Active model set” will now reduce the filsize when saving.
• Fixed model sets not being able to be re-arranged in the UI
• On Large files when trying to add geometry or duplicating a model KeyShot will freeze and or Crash
• Fixed environment not de-selecting current selection when dragged and dropped into realtime view
• Fixed Hide and Lock disabling Rounded edges
• Fixed object scales reshuffling when entering a value between 0 and 1
• Fixed sometimes not being able to edit/delete studios
• Move tool doesn’t follow NURBS object made with split object surfaces tool
• KeyShot crashes when clearing after setting a seam in UV-unwrapping tool
• Fixed size of some Icons
• Using re-tessellate tool from part properties menu will de-select the part after
• Fixed UV unwrap background not adjusting to color theme
• Fixed size of some Icons
• Forward and Backwards direction no longer inverted in Walkthrough-mode when under the ground plane
• Remember if Material Template dialog was open when closing and restore the state.
• Fixed an issue where XR with animation would render additional frames
• XR preview does not correctly respect sample count
• Animation Frames can now be used in XR without impacting the vertical frames
• Model Sets can no longer be re-arranged /frozen in the UI
• Fixed issue with 3Dconnexion Spacemouse not working on Mac
• Fixed a German translation error
• Allow Python to load external libraries
• “Clear-Coat” Accordion not part of translation files
• 16 bit Grayscale .tif images are displayed as red in KeyShot
• Unable to load TIFF 32 bit
• Fixed crash when creating very large patterns

KeyShot Viewer Bug Fixes

• Benchmark window layout improvements
• Only Download thumbnail images when downloading scene
• Fixed KeyShot Viewer not showing Denoising