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What's New for
All Users
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Quick Introduction
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Welcome to Alias 9.0. In this version you will find many new modeling and EvalViewer tools, Unigraphics support, animation enhancements, a new direct rendering tool, and other enhancements.
For All Users
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See General Enhancements on
page 13.
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- New shading modes with up to 10 times faster interaction with shaded surfaces.
- View panel allows you to bookmark and easily move between views of your model.
- Symmetry planes automatically create and update half of a symmetrical model.
- Improved documentation, especially the Rendering and Modeling books.
- New classes, methods, and OpenAlias examples.
For Designers
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See General Enhancements on
page 13, What's New for
Designers on page 21.
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- Advanced surfacing tools.
- Advanced diagnostic shading standard in some products, or available as a purchasable option.
- Direct Modeling Control panel accelerates your technical surfacing workflow.
- Manual controls for parameterization in Square, Birail, and Align tools, allowing simpler models and easier transfer to other CAD packages.
- New ability to build from corners in Square tool.
- View panel allows you to switch between isographic and perspective views.
- Faster evaluation lines, including interactive cross-sections.
For Animators, Renderers, and Games
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See General Enhancements on
page 13, What's New for
Animators on page 45.
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- Improved playblast performance.
- Mirror command for creating mirrored duplicates of animation hierarchies.
- Constrain to UV coordinates or normal direction.
- Generate animation related statistics.
- Enhanced Action window includes new "pick-walk" controls for keyframes/tangents.
- Animate in the Camera Editor.
- Improved particle workflow.
- Improved renderer including shader glow visible in raytraced reflections and refractions.
- More control over polygon normal display.
- Updated RTG, VRML2 translators, and new Playstation HMD support.
- OpenModel source example of removing blind data.
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