TOP REASONS TO UPGRADE

Updated Compatibility with Autodesk main products
Connect Autodesk VIZ directly to DWG source files in AutoCAD® software-based products. This format encapsulates information about geometry, material, allowing for fluid data exchange across multiple applications. Although your source file may change many times, you create the visualization
only once.

Improved rendering productivity
Make your design visualization process more efficient. Run medium-sized render farms right out of the box. mental ray 3.4.4 rendering software delivers numerous optimizations, including faster final gathering performance, double precision computation for ray tracing, and fast rasterization of first-generation rays. With Satellite Rendering you can use up to eight slave CPUs to render an image with distributed bucket rendering.

Improved performance
Improved texture memory management will material handling much more comfortable.

Better collaboration tools
Asset Tracking improves management of collaboration among members of your design team. View all scene dependencies and external references. Re-path and retarget dependant and externally referenced assets. Define, save and share asset path configuration files.

Repath and retarget assets and their locations for better control over production dependencies.

Modeling and texturing enhancements
Many new Edit Poly tools to speed up modeling and cleaning up of geometry.

• Explore different design concepts and alternatives
  
  
• Communicate design intent to clients, colleagues, and consultants
  
  
• Validate your designs to reduce errors
  
  
• Present designs to market finished projects and win new ones

Content Browser
Quickly access design content, such as materials, lights and cameras, with the new Content Browser.


Tool Palettes
Streamline the process of building your scenes by bringing the content that you use every day into one convenient location.


Build your visualizations
Faster with new features, such as radiosity adaptive subdivision, and quick render presets.


See Your Designs in a Whole New Light

Autodesk VIZ incorporates a new generation of global illumination technology and real-world lighting for richer, more compelling renderings and a more intuitive design process. Now you can capture subtle lighting effects such as indirect illumination, soft shadowing, and color bounce. The richness of light as it fills and defines space gives your images a depth and realism other visualization tools can’t match. And to get these brilliant results you don’t have to be a computer graphics specialist. Just design and set up lighting as you would in the real world.

Note: These two images show the same space rendered in Autodesk VIZ with and without global illumination. The only light in the scene is the daylight entering through the window.