You can have the particles take on soft edges when they come into contact with a 3D model.Īlso added to the particle engine in HitFilm 4 are Grid Emitters. This makes it easier to have a hard surface model interact with volumetric type of particle effects. New Bezier Spatial Interpolation will now allow you to adjust animation right in the viewer with friendly and intuitive bezier handles. This is pretty essential for controlling how keys will blend into each other. HitFilm 4 Pro adds a value graph to the timeline, offering a view into the temporal interpolation of animated keyframes. This will offer more realistic shadow-casts between objects that are close to each other, adding much welcome contact shadows. This will make it HitFilm 4 Pro have much better looking metallic surfaces.Īlso added to the 3D rendering is a new Global Ambient Occlusion feature which can apply ambient shadows between all 3D layers.

The new lighting model is based on a Cook-Torrance system, and offers a wider range of materials to give you much better results with specularity. FXHome has completely overhauled the lighting system in HitFilm 4 Pro. HitFilm 4 adds some new and updated features for 3D. With HitFilm 4 Pro and Alembic, you can bring in animated content, be it an animated mesh, a particle simulation, or camera moves, from your favorite 3D application and use it in HitFilms 3D environment.

Alembic is much more than static 3D models however, with support for baked geometry allowing for animated meshes. Alembic makes it possible to bring in 3D models to and from any application that supports it. If yo are not familiar with Alembic, it is Lucas film’s and ImageWork’s open source file interchange framework. With hitFilm 4 Pro, you can now import and use Alembic files that are generated from virtually any 3D application that supports alembic. HitFilm has been making some great advancements to their unified and true 3D environment over the last little while. HitFilm 4 Pro introduces a completely new animation system, massive improvements to 3D model realism, a stunning new 3D titler and much more. FXHome has taken the wraps off a new HitFilm product release with HitFilm 4 Pro which now offers a new animation system, some really big improvements to 3D, which include the ability to import Alembic files.

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