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Autodesk FBX Review is a new lightweight and free software tool for reviewing 3D assets and animations without the need of using a 3D authoring tool.
Users can toggle shading modes, animations, cameras, and lighting options to better evaluate their 3D content through a touch-based UI on Windows 8 or with a mouse and keyboard on Windows 7.
To find out more about what's inside FBX Review read on...
Super fast 3D Model reviewing
Users can import and review a variety of 3D file formats without using full commercial 3D animation software: .fbx, .3ds, .obj, .dxf, .dae, .bvh, .htr, .trc, .asf, .amc, .c3d, .aoa, .mcd.
- Switch between shading modes: wireframe, faceted, shaded, textured, and wireframe overlay.
- Toggle scene lights, shadows, and tessellation.
- A high-fidelity viewport supporting DirectX 11 helps users review assets and scenes with a wide range of visual effects.
- Static and Dynamic Tessellation
- Displacement and Vector Displacement Maps
- Skin Deformations and Animation
- Phong and Lambert Basic Material Properties (such as: Diffuse Color)
- Specular and Normal Maps (Tangent-Space)
- Real-Time Shadow Maps
- Diffuse and Emissive Maps
- Reflection Maps (Cube, 2D or mix)
- Opacity Mask Maps
- Light and Ambient Occlusion Maps
- Anisotropic Direction Maps
- Transparency with Fresnel
- 3 Diffuse Models: Lambert, Skin and Hair/Fur
- 3 Specular Models: Blinn, Skin and Anisotropic (Hair/Comb flow)
- Translucency Bodies (Sub Surface Scattering)
- Image Based Lighting
- Rim Light with Fresnel
- Ground and Sky Ambient Color
Playback Animation Takes and Switch Cameras
Examine animations and scenes using familiar and intuitive play, pause, and scrub-through controls.
- For files containing user-created cameras, FBX Review allows the user to toggle between them. If no cameras are saved, FBX Review provides default orthogonal and perspective cameras.
- If multiple animation takes are saved within a file, a simple drop down enables rapid switching between the takes.
Intuitive, Lightweight, and Mobile
- Designed to help artistic and creative directors review assets on-the-go, FBX Review was designed to run on Windows 8 touch-screen devices such as tablets.
- Touch-screen controls on Windows 8 makes reviewing assets a simple, familiar process.
- Use the Windows 8 charm bar to quickly send review notes and screenshots to team members.
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