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Release of Cheetah3D 5.0

8. Oct. 2009


Cheetah3D 5.0 was released today. Version 5.0 adds a completely new node based material system which allows professional designers to create stunning new materials just by drag and drop. Additionally, the render engine was optimized to efficiently handle up to 16 CPU cores. The modeling tools have been extended by a new bevel tool and a bend modifier, and basic export to the Collada file format has been added. Cheetah3D 5.0 now also supports pivot points.
Last but not least, Cheetah3D offers many small UI enhancements which accelerate daily work.

Cheetah3D 5.0 is priced at $149.00 (USD) for a single-user license. Customers may upgrade from Cheetah3D 1.x - 4.x for $69.00.

New features in Cheetah3D 5.0:
  • Rendering
    • New node based material system
    • Support for up to 16 threads
    • New irradiance cache
    • Material defs can be saved (with embedded textures)
    • Many new 2D, 3D or 4D procedural textures (and more to come)
    • New shaders (toon, shadow, optimized dielectric and metal etc.)
    • Blurred refraction
    • Renderer stops much faster
  • Modeling
    • Bend modifier
    • Bevel tool
    • Better edge delete
    • Support for pivot points
    • Other small enhancemnets
  • UI
    • New node editor
    • Tag selector
    • Automatic texture reload
    • Script menu update menu item
    • Object history in properties editor
    • Material name editing in material browser
    • Jump to linked objects if you double click a link property
    • text field un-selection when moving mouse over 3D or UV editor
  • File IO
    • Collada export (only static scenes)
    • FBX loader supports pivot point
    • improved .sia loader/exporter
  • New German localization
  • Many small enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes

News list

12. Oct. 2022Release of Cheetah3D 7.5.2

20. Feb. 2021Release of Cheetah3D 7.5.1

11. Feb. 2021Release of Cheetah3D 7.5

7. Jan. 2020Release of Cheetah3D 7.4.2

7. Sep. 2019Release of Cheetah3D 7.4.1

24. Aug. 2019Release of Cheetah3D 7.4

18. Mar. 2019Release of Cheetah3D 7.3.3

2. Mar. 2019Release of Cheetah3D 7.3.2

25. Oct. 2018Release of Cheetah3D 7.3.1

11. Oct. 2018Release of Cheetah3D 7.3 - Adds Dark Mode, glTF, PBR materials, caustics…

22. Feb. 2018Release of Cheetah3D 7.2 - Adds HEVC, ProRes, IES Lights,…

7. Dec. 2017Release of Cheetah3D 7.1 - Adds polygon reduction, loft,…

4. Oct. 2017Release of Cheetah3D 7.0 - Biggest Upgrade ever

1. May. 2016Cheetah3D 7.0 - Early Adopters Beta Test

28. Sept. 2014Release of Cheetah3D 6.3.2

30. Jan. 2014Release of Cheetah3D 6.3.1

30. Dec. 2013Release of Cheetah3D 6.3

8. Apr. 2013Release of Cheetah3D 6.2.1

30. Jan. 2013Release of Cheetah3D 6.2 - Adds support for ABF unwrapping

18. Oct. 2012Release of Cheetah3D 6.1 - Adds support for Retina Display!!!

26. July. 2012Release of Cheetah3D 6.0.1

13. Apr. 2012Release of Cheetah3D 6.0 - Adds Bullet Physics

30. Aug. 2011Release of Cheetah3D 5.8

24. May. 2011Release of Cheetah3D 5.7

16. Nov. 2010Release of Cheetah3D 5.6

16. Jun. 2010Release of Cheetah3D 5.5 - Adds particle system

23. Feb. 2010Release of Cheetah3D 5.3 - 64-bit version

20. Jan. 2010Release of Cheetah3D 5.2

1. Dec. 2009Release of Cheetah3D 5.1

8. Oct. 2009Release of Cheetah3D 5.0

2. Sep. 2009Release of Cheetah3D 4.7 (Snow Leopard compatible!!!)

9. May. 2009Release of Cheetah3D 4.6.4

30. Dec. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.6.3

01. Dec. 20085th-Anniversary special offer

04. Nov. 20084th Cheetah3D-Contest

16. Sep. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.6.2

15. Jul. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.6.1

14. May. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.6 and "Cheetah3D for Beginners" video tutorials

13. Mar. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.5.1

12. Mar. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.5

24. Jan. 2008Buy Cheetah3D 4.x and get free update to Cheetah3D 5.0

9. Jan. 2008Release of Cheetah3D 4.4

26. Nov. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 4.3.1

26. Oct. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 4.3

19. Jun. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 4.2

18. Apr. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 4.1

23. Mar. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 4.0

03. Jan. 2007Release of Cheetah3D 3.6

05. Dec. 2006Buy Cheetah3D 3.x and get free update to Cheetah3D 4.0

06. Nov. 2006Cheetah3D wins "Commended" award at MacUser Awards 2006

26. Oct. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.5

26. Jul. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.4

14. Jun. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.3

09. May. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.2

01. Apr. 20062nd Cheetah3D-Contest

14. Mar. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.1

22. Feb. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 3.0

22. Feb. 2006New Cheetah3D logo and web site

22. Jan. 2006Release of Cheetah3D 2.6.1