CINEMA 4D Prime

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Cross-platform support for Mac & Windows

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64-bit architecture

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OpenGL 3.0 support

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Extensive API: C++, Python, C.O.F.F.E.E.

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Interface & Workflow

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Context-sensitive, fully-searchable HTML help

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Commander

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To Do List

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Multiple projects open at once

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Customizable toolbars / layouts / menus

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Light and dark interface schemes

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Unlimited view windows

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Heads-up display

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Custom pop-up menu

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Non-modal tools with realtime feedback

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Collapsible Managers & Palettes

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Selection / display filters

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Custom User Data per object

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Doodle viewport annotation tool

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Layer system for object & material management

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XRef external instancing / referencing system

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Tablet support for Wacom and other pen tablets

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3dconnexion 3DMouse support

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Stereo display in Viewport

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OpenGL Viewport

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Object highlighting

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Available in 11 languages

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Arabic interface support

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OS X Lion Fullscreen support

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Retina Icons

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Camera

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Camera, Target Camera, Stereo Camera

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Motion Camera

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Camera Composition Helpers

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Camera Focus Picker

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Camera Calibrator

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Camera Morph

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Camera Crane

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Data Exchange / Format Support

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QuickTime support

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AVI support

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Image formats - float with layers: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR

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Image formats - float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF

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Image formats: BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA

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Quicktime VR object, panorama

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CINEWARE compatible

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After Effects compositing exchange with 3D data

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Nuke exchange

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Photoshop exchange

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Apple Motion compositing exchange with 3D data

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Apple Final Cut Pro compositing exchange

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Digital Fusion compositing exchange

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Shake compositing exchange

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Support of DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX, DEM, LWS, STL, VRML2, OBJ, COLLADA, Alembic

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IGES importer

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Okino connection - seamless CAD file import via optional PolyTrans software (Windows only)

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BodyPaint 3D exchange - 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and Lightwave

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Modeling Tools

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Parametric object primitives

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Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background

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Parametric spline primitives

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Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep

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Polygonal modeling tools with N-gon support

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Subdivision surfaces

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Modeling Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect, Spline Mask, Python

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Deformers: Bend, Twist, Bulge, Shear, Taper, FFD, Formula, Wind, Explosion, Melt, Shatter, Wrap, Polygon Reduction, Spherify, Spline Rail, Spline, Displacer, Collision, Camera, Smoothing, Spline Wrap, Shrink Wrap, Mesh, Squash&Stretch, Explosion FX, Correction, Jiggle, Morph, Surface

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Workplanes

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Dynamic / inferred guides

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Guide objects

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2D & 3D Snapping

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Raycast selection

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Typo Tools (Kerning, Tracking, Baseline Shift)

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New Beveling / Edge Slide

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Sculpting

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Sculpt functionality

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Sculpt Brushes

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Baking

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C++ Sculpt Brush API

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Python Support for lib_sculpt

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UV Editing

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UV Editor

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Interactive UV mapping by projection types

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Optimal UV mapping to automatically remove seams

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LSCM unwrapping and relaxing

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ABF unwrapping and relaxing

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Materials & Texturing

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13 standard material channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Specular, Glow, Displacement

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Transparency with absorption, total internal reflections, exit reflections

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Blurry reflections and transparencies

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Normal maps: tangent, object or world

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Displacement: intensity (centered), red/green and RGB

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Choose Photoshop PSD layers per usage

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Animated textures (MOV, AVI, sequence) with viewport preview

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Selectable viewport resolution and channel display per material

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Shading models: Phong, Blinn, Oren-Nayar

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Fresnel Shader incl. physically correct IOR

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Noise Procedural shader with 32 different noise algorithms

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Layer shader

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Proximity-based Proximal shader

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Procedural surface shaders

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Texture baking: surface color, illumination, Ambient Occlusion, Normals, displacement and more

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Sub-polygon displacement

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Sub-Surface Scattering

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Terrain Mask shader

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Brick, Wood, Weathering, Pavement and Normalizer Shaders

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Sketch & Toon Art, Hatch, Spot (halftone) Shaders

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3D Painting with layers, all blend modes and Photoshop file compatibility

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Multi-brush painting of multiple material channels in single stroke

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Raybrush painting directly onto rendered result

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Projection painting

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Exchange projections with Photoshop

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Camera Mapping

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ProjectionMan camera mapping workflow tool

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Texture Manager

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Grass Material Shader

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Lighting

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Light Types: Omni, Spot, Infinite, Area, Square Spot, Parallel Spot, Square Parallel Spot

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Hard, Soft, Area shadows

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Visible, Volumetric and Inverse Volumetric lighting

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Noise within light illumination or visibility

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Include/exclude light diffusion, specular, shadow per object

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Custom lens flares

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Caustics

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Color temperature in Kelvin

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Photometric brightness setting in Candela and Lumen

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Support of IES light data

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Rendering

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Render up to 128,000 pixels square / 32 bits per pixel

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Bucket rendering

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Render instances

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Color profile support

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Camera white balance

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Linear workflow

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Adaptive antialiasing

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Multi-Pass output

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Object buffers - specify unique alpha channels per object

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Ambient Occlusion

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Global Illumination (IR 2.0, QMC, mixed)

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Physical Renderer with physical camera, high-qualitiy depth of field, high-quality motion blur

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Stereo rendering

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Depth of Field post effect

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Vector Motion Blur post effect

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Position Pass

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CineMan Renderman-compliant bridge

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Sketch and Toon non-photorealistic rendering

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Pyrocluster volumetric particle rendering

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Physical Sky

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3D Sound Rendering

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Picture Viewer : RAM player, color correction, image merge, anaglyph preview and more

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Watermark post effect

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Render Queue batch rendering system

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Universal Sampler (GI-QMC)

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Radiosity maps

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Subsurface-Scatering

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Team Render (Number of Nodes)

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Embree Integration

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Light Mapping

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Normal Pass

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Animation

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Easy one-click record button to keyframe Position, Scale, Rotation, Point Level animation and user-defined parameters

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Record dot animation of all animatable parameters

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Automatic keyframing

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Cappucino - realtime keyframing

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PowerSlider animation toolbar for playback and keyframe manipulation

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Timeline - up to four timeline windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes

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F-Curve Snapshot and Reduced Modification curves

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Constant Velocity option per track

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Keyframe reduction

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Keyframe baking

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ASCII animation import

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Non-linear animation / motion mixing system

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Constraints: PSR, Up-Vector, Clamp, Mirror, Parent, Aim, Spring

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Driver tag

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XPresso - node-based Expression Editor

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Virtual Walkthrough tool - first-person scene navigation and animation

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Dynamic Animation

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Basic particle system

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Thinking Particles node-based particle system

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Rigid Body dynamics for MoGraph objects

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Rigid Body dynamics

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Joints, Springs, Motors

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Soft Body dynamics

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Aerodynamics forces

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Plastic & Breaking Springs

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Breaking Connectors

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Cloth dynamics & dressing functions

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Hair dynamics

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Spline dynamics

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MoGraph Tools

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Cloner object

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Fracture object

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Matrix object

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MoInstance object

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MoText object

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Tracer object

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Spline Mask object

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MoSpline parametric spline generator with L-system functionality

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Effectors for Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time using Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, C.O.F.F.E.E., Python, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume effectors

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PolyFX polygon fracture deformer

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MoGraph Selection tag

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Beat Shader

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MoGraph Multi-shader

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MoExtrude

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Character Animation Tools

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Character object / autorigger

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CMotion - parametric walk system

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Joints with full dynamic IK

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Skin Deformer supports linear, spherical and blended deformation based on joints

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Weight Manager and tools

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Auto weighting

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PoseMorph morphing and hierarchical mixing system

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Mirror, Naming and Paint Tools

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Weight effector

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VAMP tool for translating weights, morphs, selection, textures, Uvs and vertex maps between different geometry

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Tension tag

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Quaternion tag

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Point Cache tag

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Muscle deformer

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Visual Selector

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Hair Simulation and Rendering

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Guide-based Hair system

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Hair instancing

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Feather object

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Fur system

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Hair styling tools: Move, Scale, Rotate, Brush, Comb, Clump, Curl, Cut, Push, Straighten, Add Guides, Mirror, Set Roots

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Hair dynamics

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Hair shading system with multiple speculars, texture-defined root and tip colors, and variable transparency, thickness, length, scale, frizz, kink, density, clump, tighten, displace, bend, curl, twist, wave, straighten

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Content

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Essential presets and demo scenes

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Advanced presets and demo scenes

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Broadcast Library, incl. materials, cameras and objects

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Visualization Library, incl. materials, presets and architectural objects

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Lite Library, incl. materials, cameras and objects

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