October 8, Cheetah3D 5.0, the 3D modelling, rendering and animation software for Apple Mac OS X released.
Version 5.0 adds a completely new node based material system, optimized render engine, new modelling tools, basic export and UI enhancement, pivot points support.
Cheetah3D 5.0 is priced at $149.00 (USD) for a single-user license. Customers may upgrade from Cheetah3D 1.x - 4.x for $69.00.
Новые возможности Cheetah3D 5.0:
Rendering
- New node based material system
- Support for up to 16 threads
- New irradiance cache
- Material defs can be saved (with embedded textures)
- Many new 2D, 3D or 4D procedural textures (and more to come)
- New shaders (toon, shadow, optimized dielectric and metal etc.)
- Blurred refraction
- Renderer stops much faster
Modelling
- Bend modifier
- Bevel tool
- Better edge delete
- Support for pivot points
- Other small enhancemnets
UI
- New node editor
- Tag selector
- Automatic texture reload
- Script menu update menu item
- Object history in properties editor
- Material name editing in material browser
- Jump to linked objects if you double click a link property
- Text field un-selection when moving mouse over 3D or UV editor
File IO
- Collada export (only static scenes)
- FBX loader supports pivot point
- improved .sia loader/exporter
- New German localization
- Many small enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes
Links:
Download demo version of Cheetah3D 5.0
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