With its interactive approach to rendering, KeyShot is extremely easy to learn and use. Anyone involved with 3D data can achieve photographic results withing minutes of opening the application.
Despite the seemingly simple interface, KeyShot provides the depth of functionality to satisfy the needs of the most advanced user. And due to a well designed and thought out user interface, even advanced tools are easy to learn and use.
KeyShot is the only rendering application that is truly integrated throughout the entire development process. Through its unmatched import pipeline, KeyShot imports nearly any file format.
Due to KeyShot’s extensive partnership network, users of many CAD and 3D modeling application can transfer data directly from their application into KeyShot while maintaining a link to their modeling session. Using KeyShot’s unique LiveLinking technology any changes made to the model can be transferred to the running KeyShot session and update the scene without any loss of work.
Whether you are using KeyShot during early concept presentations and design reviews or for final presentations, sales and marketing, or technical documentation, KeyShot allows you to start the work as soon as you have 3D data, and by the time you have the final product, you’ll be finished creating the most amazing visuals possible.
KeyShot materials are scientifically accurate. Rather than having materials that are “physically based” like many other rendering applications, KeyShot materials reflect a physically accurate and easy to understand representation of materials and their properties.
Each material can be tweaked, colored and textured showing every changed in real-time to give you the perfect materials for your scene. You can match measured materials using Cie-Lab colors and Gloss values or use digital representations from material providers such as Axalta Coating Systems, Mold-Tech, and Sørensen leather.
For material color you can define your own using various color spaces, or use industry standard color libraries such as PANTONE and RAL. Materials can be shared through KeyShot Cloud, allowing you to tap into one of the largest online resources for rendering assets.
KeyShot has the power to use all CPU cores provided or utilize the real-time ray tracing capabilities of the NVIDIA RTX graphics cards. Wether you use Windows and Mac, KeyShot will work on nearly any desktop or laptop right out of the box.
KeyShot is one of the few applications where you can switch from CPU mode to GPU mode with one click. You can choose to take 100% advantage of all physical and virtual CPU cores in your computer or utilize 100% all the GPU power available, scaling linearly in performance without ever tapering off when more CPUs or GPUs are added.
KeyShot’s real-time render engine contains the most advanced lighting algorithms, completely changing what is possible for visualizing interior spaces. In the same way that KeyShot changed the speed at which products can be rendered, this lighting algorithm provides the fastest, most accurate method for rendering complex interior lighting.
Scenes containing hundreds of lights and illumination through small windows can be rendered interactively without compromising quality or accuracy, and it all happens accurately in KeyShot without users having to adjust complex parameters such as the number of photons needed to render a given scene.
KeyShot is the first rendering application that allows you to work in a fully ray traced environment from the beginning. Through the combination of progressive global illumination, multi-core photon mapping, adaptive material sampling and a dynamic lighting core, KeyShot delivers an interactive experience that results in photographic images instantly.
Every change you make – material, lighting, geometry – is instantly updated and allows you to evaluate the result within a few seconds. No switching back and forth between render modes, no endless waiting to see what the final rendering is going to look like. Just sit back and let the final image resolve in front of your eyes.
Real-time ray tracing using all available physical and virtual CPU cores that scale linearly as more cores are added.
One-click switch to GPU mode for real-time ray tracing using all available NVIDIA RTX graphics cards.
Removing deep learning noise in the real-time view and rendering the output for smoother results in less time.
Precise scientific materials representing properties such as IOR, scattering, and underground scattering.
Indirect light bounces off the 3D geometry and makes it possible to illuminate other geometries under transparent materials.
Show how light is affected by your materials with real-world caustics immediately visible at the push of a button.
Light up your scenes quickly. Drag and drop a KeyShot HDRI environment onto the scene and adjust as needed.
Add area, point, IES, or spotlights by applying a lightweight material to any part of the model's geometry.
Over 700 material presets, from architectural, fabric, glass and gem to liquids, metals, plastic and wood.
Access to textures for bump, color, offset, IES light profiles, OpenVDB, roughness, labels and more.
Over 60 high resolution HDRI environments or edit to create your own with KeyShot Pro.
Enhance your materials using standard Pantone and RAL color libraries, exclusively at KeyShot.
Quickly add context and detail to your scene using a wide variety of models with full materials and textures.
KeyShot includes exclusive content such as Axalta Paints, Mold-Tech Textures, Sørensen Leathers, and Poliigon Textures.
Find and share KeyShot assets, including materials, HDRIs, and backplates, and download them to KeyShot.
Make collections of your favorite materials, colors, settings, and textures to use in other scenes.
2D and 3D procedural textures from cloth, mesh and scratches to wood, gradient, camouflage and occlusion.
Expose the inner workings of your design with dynamic cuts, set what to exclude, and add animation.
Add dispersion of particles like smoke and fog with density texture and VDB support or use to create interesting materials.
A powerful new type of material that enables the creation and display of realistic woven materials.
Create non-photorealistic renderings suitable for technical documentation, patent drawings, and more.
All the parts, lights, cameras and animations in one place, with live search, filtering and grouping capabilities.
Place labels on objects using your own material definition or by adopting the underlying material properties.
Map textures via bump, color, specular, and opacity channels for the best real-world look.
Patented technology for configuring templates to automatically assign materials to imported models when imported into KeyShot.
Turn the sharp edges of an imported model into cute little rounded edges and fillets with a simple slider.
Create hundreds or thousands of independent model instances without affecting file size, memory, or speed.
Create multiple picture styles with mapping of tones, curves, color adjustments or layers. View in real time or adjust later.
Unlimited real-time and output resolution with presets for common sizes and custom resolution creation.
Simulate real camera behavior with different modes and controls applied in real time to capture the perfect image.
Use the shift lens to adjust the vertical edges or use a single click to automatically adjust them.
Adjust eye height and activate collision / floor detection to move around the scene.
KeyShot has the widest support for direct import of more than 20 native and neutral 3D file types.
A direct connection between KeyShot and 3D modeling software with many including LiveLinking.
Through selected KeyShot plugins, keep your geometry changes in KeyShot up to date without losing any work.
(Add-on) Use your computer network to render your projects in a fraction of the time.
Set up your own personal studios with any combination of cameras, environments, model sets, and materials.
Set up different variations of the models in your scene to display different model setups or create color studies.
For the best quality and zero tessellation, KeyShot supports the import and rendering of NURBS data.
A secondary OpenGL window that allows movement of the camera path and editing of imported model geometry.
The offset geometry shader allows you to create 3D textures to improve relism.
Bubbles can be added and configured to create everything from foam to bubbles.
Add any variety of flakes (square or spherical) into or around your material.
Add random, hair-like growth from the surface of any material, length control, density and more.
Create multiple variations of your materials for quick color comparison or advanced color combination creation.
Use your material, model and camera variations to create unlimited configurations.
Set up stereoscopic 3D viewing to view or work in 3D space with a VR or HMD viewer.
Interactive perspective adjustment tool that allows you to align the object in the scene with the photographed objects.
Full HDRI control and lighting presets with light pins, blur, highlights, and the ability to enhance or create HDRIs.
Interactive generation of the Sun and Sky with date, time and place, or place the sun where you need it in the HDRI.
Create advanced materials using KeyShot's node-based editor to create layers and animate materials and textures.
Increased functionality available through the Python scripting console to unleash the power of KeyShot.
Select and focus the power of your computer to render small areas of your scene and see the results in real time.
For more post-processing control, KeyShot includes render passes, such as clown, depth, and normal pass.
(Add-on) Use your computer network to render your projects in a fraction of the time.
Store all your prepared scenes throughout the day and process the entire batch when ready.
Export your scene as OBJ, FBX, GLTF, or STL to use in other software, view online, or 3D print.
Patented animation system to create part and camera animations using real-time settings and playback of your animation.
Create animations of the camera path by selecting existing views or dynamically creating the path in real time.
Create one-click first-person rotation animations using the camera itself as a rotation pivot.
Use a custom control curve to switch between two colors, through a range of colors, or change the opacity of a material for a specified duration.
Zoom camera animation allows dynamic change of the camera's field of view for more spectacular animations.
Depth of field animation allows dynamic change of camera focus distance and F stop values.
Set up camera switch events in a single scene to quickly switch between multiple camera animations.
Create motion blur in real time with quick adjustments to deliver maximum realism when displaying moving parts.
Create tactile, web-ready visuals directly from your KeyShot scene with a number of unique features.
KeyShotXR goes beyond turntable views. With KeyShotXR, create true, fully spherical 360 ° product experiences.
KeyShotXR is full touch and works on mobile, tablet or larger touchscreens.
With six different KeyShotVR types, create rotating, spherical, animated, or custom KeyShotVRs step by step.
When you embed your KeyShotXR, it correctly fits the width of a browser, whether on the desktop or on a mobile device.
As the KeyShotXR is zoomed in, the image quality is maintained to ensure that every detail is captured.
A KeyShotXR that uses the camera itself as a pivot center to capture the first-person view of the scene.
Advanced iBooks widget output to embed a touch product experience in Apple iBooks files.