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Platform

Cross-platform support for Mac & Windows

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64-bit Architecture

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Outstanding Stability

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OpenGL 3.0 Support (if supported by OS, driver and hardware)

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

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Interface & Workflow

Context-Sensitive, Fully-searchable HTML Help

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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 Popup 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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Data Exchange / Format Support

Quicktime Support

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AVI Support

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Image Formats - Float with Layers: PSD, TIFF

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Image Formats - Float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF, OpenEXR

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

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Quicktime VR Object, Panorama

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After Effects Compositing Exchange with 3D Data

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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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Combustion 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, SRL, VRML2, OBJ Formats

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IGES importer

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Okino Connection - seamless CAD file import via optional Polytrans software

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BodyPaint 3D Exchange - 3ds max

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BodyPaint 3D Exchange - Maya

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BodyPaint 3D Exchange - Softimage

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BodyPaint 3D Exchange - Lightwave

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Modeling Tools

Parametric Object Primitives

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Parametric Spline Primitives

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Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep NURBS

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Polygonal Modeling Tools with N-gon Support

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HyperNURBs Subdivision Surfaces

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Modeling Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect

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Deformers: Bend, Twist, Bulge, Shear, Taper, FFD, Formula, Wind, Explosion, Melt, Shatter, Wrap, Polygon Reduction, Spherify, Spline Rail, Spline Deformer

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Displacement Deformer

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Camera Deformer

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Smoothing Deformer

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Spline Wrap Deformer

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Shrinkwrap Deformer

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UV Editing

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

14 standard material channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Specular, Specular Color, 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-Nayer

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Fresnel Procedural Shader

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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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Enhanced Brick Shader

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Pavement Shader

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Sketch & Toon Art Shader

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Sketch & Toon Hatch Shader

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Sketch & Toon Spots (Halftone) Shader

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

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Multibrush 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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Lighting

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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Colortemperature 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

Render up to 16,000 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 Anti-aliasing

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Multipass 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, QMC, Mixed)

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Depth of Field Post Effect

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Vector Motion Blur Post Effect

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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 - realistic sky shading with 2D and 3D clouds, accurate sun and star positions, fog and atmosphere effects

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3D Sound Rendering

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Picture Viewer with RAM playback (including sound), history, AB Compare, histogram, layer view, color correction, full screen mode

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Render Queue Batch Rendering System

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Animation

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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Up to four timelines windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes

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F-Curve Snapshots 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

Basic Particle System

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Thinking Particles node-based particle system

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Rigid Body Dynamics (limited to 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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Cloth Dynamics & Dressing functions

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Hair Dynamics

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Spline Dynamics

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MoGraph Tools

Cloner Object

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Fracture Object

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Matrix Object

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Instance Object

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Text 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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Effect Position, Scale, Rotation, Color, Time via Falloff, Shader, Random, Formula, Delay, COFFEE, Inheritance, Sound, Spline, Step, Target, Time or Volume

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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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Multi-shader - affect texture based on clone color

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Extrude Deformer

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Character Animation Tools

Joints with full dynamic IK

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

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Weighting manager and tools

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PoseMorph morphing and hierarchical mixing system

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Mirror tool

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Naming Tool

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Paint Tool

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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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Cluster Deformer

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Morph Deformer

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Jiggle Deformer

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Tension Tag

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Quaternion Tag

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Point Cache Tag

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Point Cache Deformer

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Correction Deformer

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Surface Deformer

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Mesh Deformer

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Squash & Stretch Deformer

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Visual Selector

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Hair Simulation and Rendering

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

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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