重大更新
General
 

• Distributed message-passing kernel with network engine and support for upcoming massively parallel, multi-core processing CPUs and GPUs
• True command driven Undo with construction history
• Live bi-directional real time bridge with legacy tools
• Real time collaboration through robust collaborative server
• Free collaborative Player

模型工具
Modeling
 

• Next Generation of SDS with direct surface manipulation
• Soft Selection
• Real time Edit of 1M+ polygon objects
• Polygon Reduction (with Normal mapping)
• Edge and face loops
• Procedural Modeling
• Organic deformation
• Boolean operations
• Shelling and Mirrored Modeling with SDS and Weld
• Metaballs and Metamuscles
• PlastiForm
• NURBS Trim Curve extrusion, Capping and Curve projection
• Projected Trim curves
• NURBS Sweeps, Rails, Lofts, Skinning, and Cross-sections
• NURBS stitching, blending & cutting with trimming curves
• NURBS iso-curve to curve conversion
• NURBS Primitive creation with new Torus and Saddle primitives
• Chamfers and Fillets
• Radial, Grid, and Spline array tools
• Curve along Radial and Spline array tools, Curve from the edge
• Bend, Taper, and Skew deform tools
• Drawing on 3D objects
• Geometry paint
• Global and interactive replace
• Polygonal and spline based drawing
• Point editing and advanced sweeps
• Vertex weld and erase
• 3D primitives with Magic Ring control
• TrueType text
• Postscript import
• Real world dimensions
• Real World Units
• Surface Healing

材質工具
Surfacing
 

• DX9 (SL2.0) pixel shaders and HLSL editing
• Procedural shaders editable in Link Editor
• Normal mapping
• Shader trees
• UV Editor is now modeless
• Advanced UV Editor with real time UV mapping controls
• Unwrapper with Slice
• Breaking and welding of vertices in a UV map
• UV Paint
• UV projections
• Texture Baking
• Light emitting objects
• Textured Area Lights
• Layered materials
• Shader Libraries
• Advanced IIR material editor
• 3D paint

著色工具
Rendering
 

• LightWorks 7.4 rendering engine
• Vray Rendering Engine (optional)
• VirtuaLIght rendering engine
• Real time DX9 based photorealistic engine
• HDRI
• Caustics
• Multi-pass Rendering for Lightworks rendering engine with output to Photoshop layers
• Hybrid radiosity, ray tracing, Phong shading
• Image-based lighting
• Non-linear tone mapping editor
• Post process editor
• Advanced shaders (color, reflectance, transparency, displacement, background, foreground, post processing)
• Volumetric, Anisotropic reflectance
• Curvature visualization shaders
• Area rendering
• Shadows, fog, motion blur, depth of field
• Lens flares
• Adaptive anti-aliasing, oversampling
• 8,000 x 8,000 pixel resolution
• Alpha-channel for trans¬parency
• Area, projector, sky, spot, local, and infinite lights
• Physically accurate, goniometric lights
• Unlimited cameras

動畫工具
Animation
 

• Key frame editor integrated with DX9 Player View for real time pre-visualisation
• Procedural Animations integrated with physics simulation
• Next generation Physics engine
• Non Linear Animation (NLA) through use of Clips
• Clips handle deformations
• Hierarchical animation
• KeyFrame Editor with Function Curves
• Bones with deformable skin and muscles
• Mirror and edit skeletons and attached meshes
• Facial Animator
• Animatable parameters for array tools and taper, bend, and skew tools
• Local Physical environments
• Accurate Collision
• Adhesion and breakable objects
• Physics based materials
• Particles system creates geometry and reacts to other objects
• Vertex animation on polyhedra, NURBS and subdivision surfaces
• Advanced material animation
• Spline-based paths
• Animatable deformations, metaballs, materials, lights, cameras, etc
• Animated textures (AVI)
• Curve to Animation Path conversion
• Key-frame Editor with soundtracks and layer paint, AVI export
• Sounds attached to objects for dynamic rendering of the audio track of a scene with Doppler shift and attenuation and Normalized Audio
• Real time radiosity walkthrough

作用與協同工作
Activities and Collaboration
 

• Interactive Behaviors can be created in Link or Script editor
• Collaborative server based collaborative activities for training or games
• Participants have avatars with user profiles
  

使用介面
User Interface

• Role based
• User editable Projects, Layouts, Panels, toolbars and widgets
• Link Editor
• Script Editor
• Panel Editor
• Context based Editing
• Real time, perspective, direct manipulation via 3D controls
• Full color coded Layers support
• Icon Helper, Hot key assignment, text search for tools
• Advanced selection tools
• Accurate collision detection
• Snapping
• Draw Panel and Tri- Panel for 2D drawing
• Integrated visual asset libraries
• Image Browser
• Face accurate Object Picking

• Improved X format
• Conitec 3D Game Studio Format
• DXF format (full layer support) compatibility
• 3D Formats: SCN, COB, SOB, WRL 1.0, GZ, WRZ, DXF, 3DS, ASC, PRJ, LWO, OBJ, LWB, IOB, GEO
• 2D formats: BMP, TGA, AVI, FLC, JPG, DIB, AI, PS, EPS, PNG, DDS

• Improved X format and DXF format (full layer support) compatibility
• 3D formats: SCN, COB, CAN, WRL 1.0 & 2.0, DXF, ASC, 3DS, X, iSpace format
• 2D formats: • BMP, TGA, AVI, JPG, TIFF, PNG, PSD

• Windows XP, XP Pro, Vista 或以上
• Pentium 3 或同等級 AMD Athlon (建議 Pentium4 或同等級 AMD Athlon 以上 CPU)
• 記憶體 512 MB RAM (建議 1 GB 或以上)
• 120 MB 或以上的硬碟空間
• 3D video card with at least 64MB of video memory (DirectX9, full Pixel Shader 2.0 support, and 128MB or more video memory highly recommended)