Key Features
3D Canvas Pro contains the following features for those wanting a full-fledged 3D modelling and animation package with the ability to create photo-realistic images.
- 13 Import 3D File Formats Supported
- 17 Export File Formats Supported
- Skeletal Animation Bones - Standard, Rounded Cylindrical and Spherical
- Animation Support
- Animation Key-Frame Manipulation
- Access to Moderated Support Forum
- Extensible with Third Party and User created Plug-Ins
- Boolean Operations
- Extended Modelling Operations
- Full Online Help
- Additional Primitives
- Animation Operations
- Animation Timeline
- Named Animation Sequences
- Scripting
- NURBS Surfaces
- Terrain Building Tool
- Anti-Aliased rendering of Videos and Snapshots
- Export animations as a series of images (for use with animated GIF software for example)
- Post-rendering effects using Photoshop Filters²
- Motion blur in recorded animations
- Photo-realistic Rendering¹
- Radiosity Lighting¹
- Atmospheric Effects¹
- Additional raytracing material attributes¹
- Refraction¹
- Focal Blur¹
² no Photoshop filters are supplied with 3D Canvas Pro.
File Format Support
3D Canvas Pro supports the following 3D File Formats:
| File Format | Name | Load | Save |
| AutoCAD | DXF | Yes | Yes |
| 3D Studio | 3DS | Yes | Yes |
| DirectX | X | Yes | Yes |
| BioVision Motion Capture | BVH | Yes | No |
| LightWave | LWO | Yes | Yes |
| Neutral Object Format | NOF | Yes | Yes |
| MD2 | MD2 | Yes | Yes |
| Raw | RAW | Yes | Yes |
| RenderWare | RWX | Yes | Yes |
| TrueSpace | COB | Yes | Yes |
| VRML | WRL | Yes | Yes |
| Alias WaveFront | OBJ | Yes | Yes |
| World Toolkit | NFF | Yes | Yes |
| POV Ray | POV | No | Yes |
| RenderMan | RIB | No | Yes |
| MS Train Simulator | - | No | Yes |
| MS Flight Simulator | - | No | Yes |
| ShockWave 3D | W3D | No | Yes |
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