Ultra Realistic Rendering

A photo-realistic, cinematic look and feel in iClone is now a reality. Thanks to GPU accelerated raytracing render capabilities in Indigo RT, your characters, props, and scenes now look completely different from before. To streamline this unique workflow, Reallusion provides automatic shader mapping between iClone and Indigo. In addition, users can perform custom refinement using Indigo's unique shader options, or download Indigo's material library to achieve even better results. Skylight and emissive material settings ensure correct global illumination, and allow for realistic light behavior via reflection, refraction, transmittance, and caustic effects. Furthermore, the physical camera DOF and tone mapping system can be combined with excellent lighting and materials to create vivid and astounding story visuals like never before!

Real-time Surface Smoothing

Real-time surface smoothing is a pioneering technology developed exclusively by Reallusion that enhances the look of everything in your scene without sacrificing system performance. Real-time used to be synonymous with low polygon count, but by utilizing latent resources from your computer's GPU, iClone6 will now be able to enhance polygon count in real-time, resulting in a smoother and more detailed surface appearance for low-poly objects.

• Real-time surface smoothing can transform low-poly game-ready characters like this fearsome ogre from Protofactor Studios into characters with a much more smooth and refined appearance.

3D Visuals from 2D Image Displacement Maps

In a real-time environment, it's difficult to create detailed surfaces without raising polygon count significantly. Thanks to tessellation technology, your GPU can dynamically generate mesh details by applying a displacement value from height or vector displacement maps. This means that you can physically manipulate the geometry of your low-poly model to give it a greater sense of depth and detail without increasing the polygon count.

Custom Gray Maps

Anyone can create monochrome image maps with popular image-editing tools such as Photoshop or GIMP. By using grayscale height maps, you can push and pull the surface of a 3D model to achieve the ideal look you desire.

Sculpting Highly Detailed Models with Vector Displacement

Vector displacement technology allows artists and developers to start off by creating detailed models in programs such as zBrush, Mudbox, or 3D Coat, and then extract displacement maps to later be applied to a simple geometric shape. This process is ideal for real-time engines like iClone, and produce results that are incredibly similar to your actual model. One of the huge advantages of vector displacement is the ability to produce undercut details on your model. While height displacement simply stretches out geometry, vector displacement produces refined curves and edges, creating an unparalleled sense of detail to your model.

Soft Cloth

One of the long-anticipated features soft cloth in finally here with iClone6. The animated character will look super natural with flowing hair, skirt and physical movement. No more penetration, the real-time simulation performance is much better using the new NVIDIA PhysX engine.

Weight Map for Smooth Transition

Soft cloth is an incredibly versatile feature that can be used for hanging, swaying, or rolling motions in your scene. You can use the pin option to adjust the gray area of the gray area of the weight map to dictate the dynamic controls for certain types of physics performance. We've also added wind behavior in order to make soft cloth self-animated, allowing for much more natural movement without external animation forces.

Natural Hair & Skirt Movements

Animated characters will now look incredibly realistic by incorporating flowing hair, skirts, and other physics-enabled objects to their bodies. The real-time simulation via NVIDIA's PhysX engine means no more penetration of physics objects into the body. You can even bake these simulated physics results and re-use the animations.

Collision Shape Editing

Characters models can now realistically interact with other physics objects in your scene. Simply select any body part and resize the graphic reference to match the desired collision area, then go wild with any number of interesting physics interactions.

Object-oriented Constraint

Previously, iClone allowed you to adjust constraint settings to simulate the dropping behavior of a rigid body object in a certain range or direction. However, all the connection settings were invisible, making it difficult to observe and modify. The new constraint gizmo tool in iClone6 makes it a lot easier to design physics objects and clearly observe the relations between two separate objects.

Complete Light System

In previous versions of iClone, you needed to adjust lights separately from light props, which couldn't be attached and saved as single objects. In iClone6, you can directly drag in a light prop to light up your scene. The brightness, color, and range of your light prop can be duplicated and reused in your projects with ease.

Infinite Lights

You can now add an infinite number of lights in your scene! This allows for endless combinations of more detailed and complex lighting schemes, both for interior and exterior use.

Light Props

We've thrown the light number limitations out the window. You can now be creative with developing your own lighting assets. Simply attach any light to your objects and start building your own custom light library.