Shade Professional 8.5.2 review

Create detailed design projects with the richest tool set available, all at an impressively low price.

License: Comercialware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: e frontier America, Inc. Buy Now Price: $799.00 Updated: 27 Jul 2006

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Create detailed design projects with the richest tool set available, all at an impressively low price. Shade 8 is the 3D graphics toolkit for designers, illustrators and architects. Bring your ideas to life quickly with intuitive Bezier curve/surface modeling and sophisticated rendering!

Here are some key features of "Shade Professional":
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 unlimited nodes. 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.

What's New:
The service release improves performance on a number of items in the previous versions; including window redraws after zooming, UV mapping preview, QuickTime import, camera positioning and more.
Shade 8.5.2 also introduces an exciting new feature; batch rendering! It allows users to automatically render multiple Shade scenes. The checkbox next to each scene allows users to include/exclude a scene from the batch.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2
256MB system RAM
250MB free hard disk space.