MMHK.com - Accurender's Specifications

Features

Calculates light, shadows, materials, transparency, diffusion, reflection, ClearFinish™, and refraction from a surface’s properties. AccuRender’s accurate lighting modeling produces sophisticated effects and high-quality images.
Easy to use, works seamlessly inside AutoCAD, and provides a host of features that speed and simplify image rendering.
Uses both raytracing and radiosity to create sophisticated single-frame images, panoramas, and animations.
Assigns materials to an layer, color, or object.
Automatically calculates indirect light, hard and soft shadows, color bleeding, reflections, translucency, transparency, refraction, depth of field, and depth attenuation.
Produces panorama files. When viewing a panorama file, you can move around within the rendered image.
Supports multiprocessors and background processing.
Includes realistic mathematically generated 3-D plants with seasonal variation, giving realistic plants, shadows, and reflections.
Includes thousands of materials, hundreds of plants and light fixtures.
Works inside AutoCAD. Render changes to the model immediately. You never need to export or start over.
Includes radiosity technology providing unrivaled image quality and accuracy.
Interactive radiosity and raytrace rendering.
Viewpoint animation for walking through and flying around model.
Sunlight studies.
Optimization by adaptive spatial subdivision.
Quick raytrace rendering option with reflections, transparency, and shadows.
Progressive-refinement rendering algorithms with on-screen preview.
Interactive walk-through of model and radiosity solution using OpenGL.
Render a partial window.
Two- and three-point perspective projections.
Save and restore material assignments, lighting, plant, exposure, sun and sky, raytrace, and environment settings.
Save and restore radiosity solutions.
Batch rendering.
Multiprocessor support in Windows NT/2000.
Background processing.
Graphical library browsers for materials, lights, and plants.
Comprehensive full-color manual and on-line, context-sensitive help.

Image Quality

Combine radiosity and raytracing for highest quality images.
True specular reflection and transparency.
Shadow casting from all light sources.
Soft shadow edges, blurry reflection, and translucency.
Refraction.
Depth of field.
Depth attenuation for transparent materials.
Antialiasing by adaptive stochastic sub-pixel sampling with extensive user control.
24- or 32-bit color output (16.7 million colors plus alpha channel).
Resolution limited to 16,000 by 16,000, not screen resolution.
WYSIWYG 256, 32,000, or 16.7 million color display.

Lighting

Distant, point, spot, linear, rectangular lights, goniometric, sun, ground, sky, and user-defined light fixtures.
Extensive light fixture library (over 300).
Unlimited number of lights.
Physically based light sources and illumination algorithms.
Manufacturers photometric (IES) data supported for light fixtures.
Accurate daylighting simulation (sun, sky, ground, and cloud cover components).
Sun angle specified by latitude, month, time of day.
Maps and city lists to select geographical location.
Exact solar time calculator.
Graphical adjustment of spot focus for spot lights.
Shadow casting on/off by object.
Adjustable light color in RGB or degrees Kelvin.
Intensity specified in watts, lumens, or max candelas.

Lighting Analysis

Display pseudocolor image of the luminance or illuminance.
Interactively meter any surface.

Environment

Background options include solid color, gradient colors, and image map.
Library of background images.
Ground plane with materials.
Procedural clouds.
Depth cue control.
Clipping plane support.
Haze.

Animation

Viewpoint animation (for walk-through and fly-by animation).
Preview using OpenGL.
Multiple complex 2- or 3-D polyline target and camera paths.
Pans and zooms.
Sunlight animation for daily or seasonal shadow studies.
AVI file output or TGA, TIFF, JPEG, and BMP individual frames.

Materials

Extensive materials library.
Multiple library support.
Assign materials by layer, object, or block.
Interactive material editor with “live” raytraced preview of several materials at the same time.
Physically based material properties.
Properties include reflectivity, transparency, and index of refraction.
Depth attenuation control for transparent materials.
Customizable 2- and 3-D procedural textures, including marble, granite, wood, tile, mask, and blend.
Complex materials with multiple procedural textures.
3-D procedural bump maps, including fine and coarse textures and waves.
RGB and HSB color systems.
Extensive bitmap support.
Support for TGA, BMP, and JPEG file formats.
Color, transparency, and bump mapping.
Tiled, decal, and background bitmaps.
Planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections for decals.
Multiple bitmaps per object.
Color exclusion with sensitivity setting.
Adjustable transparency.

Landscaping

Extensive library of fractal-generated 3-D plants including wet and dry climate plants, cold and warm climate plants, groundcover, and house plants.
Bitmap mask foliage geometry.
Library browser with multiple previews.
Generated from simple wireframe objects while rendering.
Tag any block as a plant.
Specify size by height or trunk diameter.
Pruning tools for removing lower branches.
Foliage density control.
Seasonal controls.
Interactive plant editor for creating or modifying plants.

Application Interface

Access to AccuRender features with AutoLISP.