Realtime raytracing features:

• Interactive wysiwyg raytracing
• Photon mapping
• HDRI lighting
• Global illumination
• Ambient occlusion
• Final gathering
• Environment shadow casting
• Self and inter-object shadow casting
• Environment reflections
• Refraction
• Caustics
• Inter-object light bouncing

True physics-based materials:

• Scientifically accurate preset and adjustable materials
• Fresnel reflections
• Advanced absorption
• Spectral Dispersion
• Advanced transmittance
• Advanced anisotropy with angle mapping
• Procedural texture mapping
• Texture and bump mapping
• Sub-surface scattering
• Thin Film interference / iridescence
• Adjustable IOR

Lighting:

• Lighting and shadow casting from High Dynamic Range Image
• High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) interaction and control

Camera optics features:

• Interactive focal length adjustment
• F-Stop
• Interactive Depth of field with focal point selection

Rendering features:

• Alpha channel
• Image finishing control
• Render to external window
• jpeg (8bit), tiff (16bit) and exr (32bit) output

Pro Rendering features (hyperShot Pro only):

• Render Queue
• Render in Separate Process
• Region Rendering
• Turntable animation
• Network rendering ready

Architecture:

• Highly optimized parallel architecture
• CPU based
• Near linear performance scale with added CPUs

Supported 3D data formats and applications:

Windows XP/Vista
• Obj
• IGES
• STEP
• FBX
• Autodesk 3D Studio Max (3DS)
• Rhino 4.0 and prior
• SolidWorks 2009 and prior
• Pro/ENGINEER Widlfire 2, 3, 4
• SketchUp 6.0 and priorMac OS X
• Obj
• FBX
• Autodesk 3D Studio Max (3DS)
• Rhino 4.0 and prior

What's in the box:

• hyperShot
• 9 HDRIs and matching back plates
• Material library
• Manual