• Sub-Surface Scattering (SSS)
Component

• Maxwell Displacement

	by Kurt Singstad - click to enlarge

• MXED re-written

• Single-Shader Material System

• Drag and drop functionalities   

• Layer Blending

• - Basic Layer Blending (Normal, Additive)
• - Weight Mapping

• Fresnel Reflections

• Control of fresnel curve   

• Advanced Absorption

• - w/ Attenuation Distance

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• Spectral Dispersion

	by Ricardo Amaral - Click to enlarge

• Advanced Transmittance

• - Mapped (Smooth-Color)
• - Clipped (Explicit-B/W)

• Advanced Anisotropy

• - w/ Angle Mapping

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• Matte Material   

• - Create invisible materials

• Bump Mapping

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• Normal Mapping

• - Flip X,Y and Wide Range Z support

• Coating Layers

• - Thin Film Interference / Iridescence
• - Thickness Mapping

• Complex IOR Materials

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• Physical Sky - New Atmosphere system

• Sun in Skydome

• Free Dosch Design HDRIs

• Advanced Illumination System

• - Color+Luminance Emitters
• - Temperature Emitters (Kelvin)
• - MXI/HDR Emitters
• - Luminaries Presets
• - Watts/Efficacy Control
• - Lumens/Candela Control

• Composite Emiters

• - Emitter over materials (Emitters + Basic Layers)

• Emixer: Emitter Mixer Panel (multilights)

• - Realtime interactive emitters with keyframe animated intensities

• Gas properties

• - Ozone
• - Water Vapor

• Aerosol properties

• - Turbidity coefficient
• - Wavelength exponents
• - Reflectance
• - Scattering assymetry

• Skydome

• MXI/HDR Environment System

• - Multi-channel control (Background, Reflection, Refraction, Illumination)
• - Screen-mapping for background
• - Activating channels for skydome/physical sky

• Texture Handling and Memory Optimized
for speed.

• Realtime OpenGL Preview of Physical Sky

• Simulens parameters available in Studio

• Hierarchy support

• New transform network

• Robust UV creation

• Instances support

• Flexible Drag'n'Shape GUI

• Customize and Save Layouts

• - Switching between different layouts

• Realtime OpenGL Environment Preview

• Realtime OpenGL DOF Indicator

• Realtime Compass/Sun Position

• Material Browser IMPROVED!

• - Material Libraries

• Material Editor IMPROVED!

• - Material Wizard
• - Drag and drop functionalities   

• Camera Autofocus

• Orthographic Rendering

• Filmback for Camera

• UVW Projectors

• Multilevel Editing

• - Group, Object, Polygon selection
• - Select objects by name
• - Select objects by material
• - Remove unused materials

• Undo

• Selective Render Engines (RS0,RS1)

• Bounce Control for Preview Engine

• Google™Earth KML Markup Support

• Command-Line Parameters Support

• Supported 3D File Formats

• - mxs, obj, stl, lwo, xc2, dxf, 3ds.

• Export OBJ option   

• Polygonal/Circular Diaphragm

• Shutter Speed

• Focal Length

• F-Stop

• DOF: Depth of Field

• 3D Motion Blur

• SimuLens™   

• - Diffraction
• - Lens Scattering
• - Vignetting

	by Jose Martin Garcia - Click to enlarge

• Shift Lens   

• MXiMerge Tool

• Instances

	by Mihai Iliuta - www.iliuta.com Click to enlarge

• Motion Blur

• Hidden Objects

• - Objects Hidden to Camera (incl. hidden emitters)

• Resume MXI   

• Selective Engines

• - RS0 (Preview)
• - RS1 (Production)

• Simple/Advanced Tonemapping

• - ISO, Burn, Gamma
• - Auto Range

• Render Channels

• - Render
• - Alpha
• - Material ID
• - Z buffer
• - Object ID
• - Shadow   

• HDR32 Render Output   

• Z-clip Planes   

• Several managers available in
network

• Global SL

• Voxelization Multithreading

• Autodetect Render-Nodes

• Normal/Cooperative Modes

• Batch Rendering/Render Queue

• Priority Control

• Full Monitoring

• - State, Frames, SL, Target SL, Time, Resolution

• Hybrid Network Support

• - Windows, OSX, Linux

• Available Platforms

• - Multiplatform 32 and 64 bit for Windows, Mac and Linux   

• Plug-ins developed and supported by Next Limit

• - 3ds Max and VIZ
• - ArchiCAD
• - Maya
• - CINEMA 4D
• - LightWave
• - SolidWorks
• - Rhinoceros
• - form·Z
• - SketchUp Pro
• - XSi

• Plug-ins developed and / or available through third parties

• - Houdini
• - AllPlan
• - SolidThinking
• - MicroStation

• Plug-ins interpret native shaders  

Note: For all other applications (Autocad, Blender, Carrara etc.)
it's possible to bring geometry into Studio with the supported file formats.
(obj, stl, lwo, xc2, dxf, 3ds, fbx, ply)

• Standard Licenses

• - Complete feature package MXCL, MXST and MXED
• - Free plug-ins
• - No CPU core limit

• RenderNode licenses

• - For additional rendering capacity