Shade 8 3D Graphics

Shade’s intuitive, easy-to-use interface and 300+ included 3D objects such as furniture, building and transportation items speed up the design and modeling process to improve workflow. Modeling is aided by comprehensive mesh editing tools. Shade imports and exports popular CAD formats, and incorporates raytracing and radiosity to produce superior renderings of imported projects. Rendering times can be dramatically reduced via distributed rendering over two machines at once.

Architectural and Interior Design. Architects and interior designers can build and render projects with stunning speed and realism. Additional content is also available from the huge library of architectural objects online and from popular CAD programs.
Product Design and Visualisation. Development of award-wining product design is made easy using Shade. Boolean or Bezier modeling and mesh editing creates the exact shapes, with animation to preview functioning products "in motion"!
Character Modeling and Rendering With Poser. Link directly to Poser to easily import/export figures and poses. Poser users can use Shade to modify models, create props or render images up to 4000x4000 pixels in size.

Features

Boolean and Bezier modeling, Polygon mesh modeling, Auto-smoothing of curves and more to detail projects.
Global Illumination renderer includes Photon Mapping, Path Tracing, Raytracing and Radiosity-with-physics for photorealistic imagery. Callisto, the rendering plugin with global illumination and detailed settings, has been upgraded. A translucent shader and metallic shader have been added, and aberration is now supported.
Network rendering and render queue will support a second node. Shade will also automatically search all available ShadeGrid servers running on the same local area network and display the IP addresses in the preference dialog.
Supports pixel depth in 32-bits, 64-bits and 128-bits for all rendering image output.
Improved import of OBJ, IGES 5.3, DXF, 2D Illustrator formats.
Implementation of PoserFusion™ enables hosting and playback of Poser scenes within Shade.
OBJ, IGES5.3, DXF format support for integration into a CAD-based environment.
100 levels of Undo and Redo. ShadeExplorer U.I. improved with instant file preview and added keyboard control.
Shade integrates with ArchiCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Poser as well as other popular 2D, 3D and CAD applications.

System Requirements

Windows 2000/XP
Pentium II 300MHz or compatible
Memory: 256 MB
Hard Drive Space: 250 MB
Color Monitor with 800 x 600 resolution
CD-ROM Drive

Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or above
CPU: PowerPC G3
Memory: 256 MB
Hard Drive Space: 250MB
Color display Monitor capable of at least 800 x 600 resolution
CD-ROM drive

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