HyperShot Manual

Bunkspeed, Inc. HyperShot User Manual: PC Edition 1.9.
Contents
What is HyperShot? ......................................................................................................5
Key Features .................................................................................................................................... 5
Getting Started ..............................................................................................................6

System Requirements ............................................................................................................... 6
License Agreement ................................................................................................................... 6
Installing HyperShot ................................................................................................................ 12
To install HyperShot: .......................................................................................................................12
To license HyperShot: .....................................................................................................................12
Supported File Formats ...................................................................................................................13
HyperShot Files ...............................................................................................................................13
Image Formats.................................................................................................................................14
HyperShot Files/Folder Structure ............................................................................................ 14
How HyperShot Works................................................................................................ 15
Your First HyperShot Scene ....................................................................................... 15
Hotkeys ........................................................................................................................17
General Controls ..................................................................................................................... 17
Background Controls............................................................................................................... 17
Model Controls ........................................................................................................................ 18
Camera Controls ..................................................................................................................... 18
Material Controls ..................................................................................................................... 19
File and Application Controls .................................................................................................. 19
Right Mouse Button Dialog Box ................................................................................. 19
Launching HyperShot ................................................................................................. 20

Loading 3D Objects................................................................................................................. 21
Importing OBJ Files ................................................................................................................. 21
Importing SolidWorks Files ..................................................................................................... 22
Importing Pro/ENGINEER Files .............................................................................................. 23
Troubleshooting: ..............................................................................................................................23
Importing Rhino Files .............................................................................................................. 24
Importing SketchUp Files ........................................................................................................ 24
Importing IGES Files ............................................................................................................... 24
Importing STEP Files .............................................................................................................. 25
Loading Environment Images ................................................................................................. 25
Loading Backplate Images ...................................................................................................... 25
Moving the Camera ..................................................................................................... 26

Tumble .................................................................................................................................... 26
Pan .......................................................................................................................................... 26
Dolly ........................................................................................................................................ 26
Focal Length (Zoom) ............................................................................................................... 26
Reset the camera .................................................................................................................... 26
Save Camera View ................................................................................................................. 27
Pivot Point ............................................................................................................................... 27
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Cycling Through Cameras ...................................................................................................... 27
HDRI Environment Images ......................................................................................... 27

Positioning Environment Images ............................................................................................ 27
Adjusting Brightness and Gamma .......................................................................................... 27
Shadows ................................................................................................................................. 28
Flatten Ground ........................................................................................................................ 28
Background Images .................................................................................................... 28
Working with 3D Objects ............................................................................................ 29

Moving Objects ....................................................................................................................... 29
Hide/Show ............................................................................................................................... 30
Deleting Objects ...................................................................................................................... 30
Materials ......................................................................................................................30
The Materials Window............................................................................................................. 30
Applying Materials from the Material Library........................................................................... 31
Copying Materials from the Object.......................................................................................... 31
Creating Material Groups ........................................................................................................ 31
Painting an Object ................................................................................................................... 31
Creating and Editing Materials ................................................................................................ 32
Creating a New Material ..................................................................................................................32
Editing an Existing Material .............................................................................................................33
Texture Mapping ..............................................................................................................................33
Bump Mapping.................................................................................................................................34
Decaling .................................................................................................................................. 35
Saving Materials ...................................................................................................................... 35
Rendering ....................................................................................................................36
The HyperShot Menu .................................................................................................. 36

Menus...................................................................................................................................... 36
File Menu .........................................................................................................................................36
Edit Menu ........................................................................................................................................36
Help Menu .......................................................................................................................................37
The Tabs ................................................................................................................................. 37
Main Tab ..........................................................................................................................................37
Image Tab .......................................................................................................................................38
Camera Tab .....................................................................................................................................38
Environment Tab .............................................................................................................................39
Render Tab ......................................................................................................................................40
Pro Tab (HyperShot Pro only) .........................................................................................................41
Settings Tab ....................................................................................................................................42
HyperShot Materials.................................................................................................... 44
Anisotropic .............................................................................................................................. 44
Diffuse ..................................................................................................................................... 44
Flat .......................................................................................................................................... 44
General.................................................................................................................................... 44
Glass ....................................................................................................................................... 46
Leather .................................................................................................................................... 46
Metal........................................................................................................................................ 46
Metallic Paint ........................................................................................................................... 47

Plastic ...................................................................................................................................... 47
Solid Glass .............................................................................................................................. 48
Thinfilm .................................................................................................................................... 49
Wireframe ................................................................................................................................ 49

What is HyperShot?
Imagine. High quality, interactive, photorealistic rendering of your industrial and product designs.
Instantly. In real time. no more waiting. No more complicated software packages and costly ex-
perts. With the power of HyperShot™ from Bunkspeed©, rendering now becomes a simple and
necessary part of your creative process and work flow-from design concept to marketing images.
HyperShot’s patent-pending technology brings renderings alive, allowing you to compose and
manipulate high-resolution 3D digital images in real-time. Designs are rendered on the fly, with
stunning realism and full photorealistic detail using true materials, lighting, shadows and reflec-
tions. So real, you can say goodbye to physical prototypes. What used to require a specialist can
now be done by anyone on the team in minutes, not hours.
Key Features
HyperShot is simple:
• Intuitive out of the box
• No learning curve
• Proven presets ready-to-go
• Fast import of many file formats
• “Drag and drop” painting
• Always correct lighting
• Interactive WYSIWYG rendering
• No endless adjustments
• Real-time full-screen interface
• Revolutionary GUI simplicity
HyperShot is rich:
• Imports popular CAD formats
• Fully raytraced environment
• Multi-threaded architecture takes full advantage of dual- and quad-core CPUs
• CPU and GPU based
• Scientifically accurate materials, both preset and fully adjustable
• HDRI lighting & shadow casting
• Full global illumination
• Real camera optics
• HD rendering with alpha channels

Getting Started
This Chapter describes the minimum and recommended system requirements for installing
HyperShot on your computer. It also contains the License agreement which you must agree to in
order to install HyperShot on your computer, installation instructions and a description of the vari-
ous file types used by HyperShot and how it uses those files.
System Requirements
Operating System:
• Windows XP 32/64 bit
• Windows Vista 32/64 bit
• Windows 2003 Server Edition, 32/64 bit
• Windows 2008 Server Edition, 32/64 bit
CPU:
• Minimum: single-core CPU, 300MHz (limited to 1280x720 screen resolution)
• Recommended: dual-core or higher CPU for HyperShot and HyperShot HD
• Recommended: quad-care or higher CPU for HyperShot Pro
RAM:
• Minimum: 1GB
• Recommended: 2GB
Hard drive:
• Minimum: 250MB free space
Graphics card: Any
Internet connection: required for download and activation
License Agreement
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Installing HyperShot
To install HyperShot:
1. Double-click the HyperShot Install icon to launch the installer. You may see the following
warning:
− The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?
2. Click Run. The Welcome to the installation wizard for HyperShot Menu appears.
3. Click Next. The License Agreement window appears.
4. Read the license agreement, then

− click either I accept the terms in the license agreement to proceed with the installation,
or I do not accept the terms in the license agreement to stop the installation process.
− Click Next to proceed. The Customer Information window appears.
5. Enter your User Name and Organization in the appropriate fields, and then
− select whether you want HyperShot to be available to everyone who uses the computer
or only for the currently logged-in user.
− Click Next to proceed. The Destination Folder window appears. This window allows you
specify the folder in which to install the HyperShot application itself.
6. To accept the default HyperShot installation folder, click Next.

− To specify a different installation folder, click Browse and navigate to your desired folder,
and click Next to proceed.
− The Data Folder window appears. This window allows you to specify the folder where
HyperShot data files will reside.
7. To accept the default data folder, click Next. To specify a different data folder, click Browse
and navigate to your desired folder.
− Once you have selected your desired folder, click Next to proceed.
− The Installing HyperShot Menu appears and displays a progress bar as the computer
installs HyperShot on your computer.
When the installation is complete, the InstallShield Wizard Complete window appears.
8. Click Finish to exit the HyperShot installation wizard.
To license HyperShot:
You must license HyperShot before you can use the application. Here’s how:
1. Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
2. Launch HyperShot. The License Activation window appears.

3. Enter your information in the information fields.
4. Enter the serial number you received when you purchased HyperShot in the Serial fields.
Bunkspeed automatically emails you the serial number after processing your order.
5. Click Activate
HyperShot is now installed and ready for use.
Supported File Formats

The following file formats are supported, natively and/or through plugins. All plugins can be ac-
cessed through at http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/downloads
• SolidWorks 2009 and earlier: .SLDASM, .SLDPRT, Plugin
• Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2, 3, 4 (needs to be installed and licensed): .ASM, .PRT, Plugin
• Rhino 4.0 and prior: .3DM, Plugin
• SketchUp 7 or prior: .SKP, Plugin
• ALIAS Studio Tools: contact support@bunkspeed.com
• Alibre: IGES, STEP
• Keycreator: direct through plugin
• SpaceClaim: direct through plugin
• 3D Studio Max: .3DS
• IGES
• STEP (AP214)
• OBJ
• FBX
• Collada: .dae
HyperShot Files
HyperShot uses the following file types:
BIP (.bip)
The .BIP file extension stands for Bunkspeed Interactive Photograph. A BIP file is the “scene” file
used by the HyperShot application to contain all geometry (3D objects), object materials, links to
textures, camera views, link to the last-used HDRI image, link to back plates, and other settings
such as brightness, contrast, ground reflections, and shadows). One of the best features of a BIP
file is that you can freely move it between HyperShot, HyperShot HD, and HyperShot Pro. This
means that you can, for example, create a complete scene with HyperShot, open it in HyperShot
Pro, and render it in full 2560x1600 resolution. This feature alone can save many hours of crea-
tive effort and thousands of dollars from your software budget.

NOTE: When using this feature, make sure that you copy all texture, HDRI, and backplate files to
the machine that will be rendering the final image.
HDRI (.hdr)
NOTE: This text is adapted from Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging)
HDRI stands for High Dynamic Range Imaging, which is a set of techniques that allow a much
greater range between light and dark areas of an image than normal imaging techniques. HDRI is
designed to accurately reproduce the wide range of lighting levels found in real scenes from di-
rect sunlight to deep shadows. Information stored in high dynamic range images usually corres-
ponds to the physical values of luminance or radiance that can be observed in the real world. This
is different from traditional digital images, which represent colors that should appear on a monitor
or a paper print. Therefore, HDR image formats are often called “scene-referred”, in contrast to
traditional digital images, which are “device-referred” or “output-referred”. Furthermore, traditional
images are usually encoded for the human visual system (maximizing the visual information
stored in the fixed number of bits), which is usually called “gamma encoding” or “gamma correc-
tion”. The values stored for HDR images are often linear, which means that they represent rela-
tive or absolute values of radiance or luminance (gamma 1.0). HyperShot uses HDRI images for
lighting purposes.
Image Formats
HyperShot can also use or generate the following file types:
• TIF, JPG, etc: HyperShot uses standard image formats for backplate images and rendering
output.
• EXR: OpenEXR, or EXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, providing over
30 stops of exposure.
• DDS: The Microsoft® DirectDraw Surface (DDS) file format stores textures and environment
maps and supports both compressed and uncompressed pixel data.
HyperShot Files/Folder Structure

The default HyperShot data folder (created when you installed HyperShot) uses the following files
and
folder structure:
• BIPs: This folder stores HyperShot scene files and is the default file save location for Hyper-
Shot.
• Textures: This folder stores all material textures. BIP files will look in this folder for all linked
textures.
• Backplates: This folder stores all 2D backplate images in JPEG of TIFF format.
• EnvironmentImages: This folder stores HDRI (environment) images.
• MaterialLibraries: This file stores all of HyperShot’s predefined materials.

• Screenshots: Default location for all renderings.

• hyperShot.xml: This file stores path information for all HyperShot folders and tracks the
number of
• Screenshots you’ve taken. It also controls the real time image resolution.
How HyperShot Works

HyperShot is a fully raytraced rendering environment. It is constantly updating the scene using
raytracing by taking full advantages of all available CPUs. Opening HyperShot and importing a
model positions the camera view perpendicular to the XY plane, where X runs left (negative) to
right (positive) and Y runs from the bottom (negative) to the top (positive). The Z axis (depth) runs
both toward the user (positive) and away (negative).
Unlike traditional 3D applications, one need not select objects before working on them in Hyper-
Shot. Simply select an action and click an object (or vice-versa) to immediately apply your desired
action to the correct object.
A HyperShot scene consists of a sphere that includes a transparent ground plane for accurate
shadowing.
All lighting in a HyperShot scene comes from an environment image (HDRI) that maps to the
spherical scene. No further lighting setup is required.
Your First HyperShot Scene

This quick tutorial will demonstrate what you can do with HyperShot. Prepare to be rendered
speechless (literally) in just a few minutes!
1. Begin by double-clicking the HyperShot shortcut icon on your desktop to launch the Hyper-
Shot application. HyperShot launches and the HyperShot Menu appears with the Main tab se-
lected.
2. Click the Open Model icon. The file browser appears.
3. Navigate to the file you wish to import and then click OK. The Import Model window appears.
4. For now, leave the settings as they are and click OK. Your selected model will begin loading.
− Depending on the size of the file and your computer’s processor speed and amount of
free RAM, it may take several moments for the model to complete loading.
− Once the object loads, HyperShot will immediately begin raytracing and you will see your
scene rendering right in front of your eyes. This may take a few minutes depending on
your processor speed and amount of RAM. Larger scenes and/or more complex models
take longer to load and render.

5. Press [M]. The Material Library appears.
6. Press [SHIFT] while left-clicking the material you want to select.
7. Press [SHIFT] while right-clicking the part of 3D object you want to paint.
− Your selected material is painted onto the 3D object and HyperShot immediately reflects
the change and its effects due to the permanent raytracing.
− If the 3D object contains material groups/parts (refer to your 3D modeling application for
information about material groups), then the material will be painted onto the material
group you clicked.
8. Click the Open Environment icon in the HyperShot Menu. The file browser appears.
9. Navigate to the file you wish to import and then click OK.
− Your selected HDRI image will begin loading. Depending on the size of the file and your
computer’s processor speed and amount of free RAM, it may take several moments for
the image to complete loading.
− Once loading completes, you will see your scene lighting change to reflect the image you
just loaded. It’s that easy!
10. If you wish to insert a backplate (2D image background), click the Open Backplate icon. The
file browser appears.
− Your selected background image will begin loading. Depending on the size of the file and
your computer’s processor speed and amount of free RAM, it may take several moments
for the image to complete loading.
− Once loading completes, you will see the image appear in the background of your scene.
− Notice that the 3D object retains the lighting specified by HDRI image and that the back-
plate image always remains in the background.
12. Adjust your camera angle by clicking [ALT] and dragging the left (Tumble), middle (Pan), and
right (Dolly) mouse buttons.
− Press and hold [ALT] while scrolling the mouse wheel to interactively change the focal
length.
− Press [ALT]+[R] to reset your camera, if needed.
That’s it! Now that you’ve just created your scene, try experimenting with the hotkeys (see below).
Don’t forget to save your HyperShot scene by pressing [CTRL]+[S] and following the on-screen
instructions. Want to capture the moment? Press [P] to snap the picture - save a screenshot to an
image file.

Hotkeys
HyperShot uses the following hotkey/mouse combinations as a time saving way to perform many
of the functions that are available through the HyperShot Menu. This section summarizes each
command’s functionality and refers you to more detailed information elsewhere in this manual. To
see the complete list of hotkeys, hit “K”.
General Controls
The following general controls help you set up a scene and perform basic HyperShot functions:
• Open/Close HyperShot Menu: [SPACE]. Toggles the HyperShot Menu on and off. Please
see The HyperShot Menu on page 33-34 for information about the HyperShot Menu.
• Import model: [CTRL]+[I]. Opens the Import Model window, which allows you to add a 3D
object to your scene. Please see Loading 3D Objects on page 20 for information about im-
porting models.
• Import Environment Image (HDRI): [CTRL]+[E]. Opens the Load Environment Map window,
which allows you to import an environment map (HDRI image) into your HyperShot scene.
Please see Loading Environment on page 24 for information about working with environment
maps.
• Import Back Plate Image: [CTRL]+[B]. Opens the Load Background Image window, which
allows you to load a 2D background image into your HyperShot scene. Please see Loading
Backplate Images on page 24 for information about working with background images.
• Toggle Material Library on/off: [M]. Toggles the Materials window on and off. Please see
Materials on page 26 for information on working with materials.
• Take a screenshot: [P]. Takes a screenshot of your HyperShot scene.
• Render Image: [CTRL]+[P]. Renders your HyperShot scene file to an image. Please see
Render Tab on page 34 for more information about rendering.
• Toggle Hotkey Display: [K]. Opens the Keyboard Shortcuts window, which displays a list of
the hotkey commands available in HyperShot.
• Toggle Heads-Up Display: [H]. Toggles the Heads-Up Display on and off, which displays
the camera focal length, total amount of polygons in the scene, the current frame rate, overall
image brightness and gamma.
• Toggle Full Screen mode on/off: [F]. Toggles HyperShot between full-screen and win-
dowed mode.
• Pause/Resume Realtime Rendering: [Shift+P]. Pauses realtime rendering/raytracing
Background Controls
The following controls help you modify your scene’s environment map (HDRI) and backplate im-
ages. Please see Environment Images on page 26 for information about working with environ-
ment images and Background Images on page 27 for information about working with background
images in HyperShot.

• Adjust Environment Brightness: [UP ARROW] (increase) and [DOWN ARROW] (de-
crease) [LEFT ARROW] (slight decrease) and [RIGHT ARROW] (slight increase). Adjusts the
HDRI brightness (lighting intensity) on the model without affecting the HDRI image appear-
ance in your HyperShot scene. This does not affect the backplate image.
• Toggle Self Shadowing on/off: [S] Toggles object self-shadowing (objects casting shadows
on themselves and other objects) on and off. Please see Shadows on page 27 for more in-
formation about object self-shadowing.
• Toggle Ground: [G] Toggles the ground plane on and off. Please see Ground Visibility on
page 23 for more information about the ground plane.
• Toggle Environment Visibility on/off: [E] Toggles the environment map (HDRI) image on
and off.
• Clear Backplate Image: [B] Removes the backplate image form our HyperShot scene.
• Rotate Environment Image: [CTRL]+left-click+drag rotates the HDRI image horizontally
about the scene’s center (y-axis). This allows you to reposition the light source and the reflec-
tions onto the object in realtime. The ground shadows will update upon release of the mouse
button.
• Reset Environment Image Position: [CTRL]+[R] Resets the HDRI image to its default posi-
tion.
Model Controls
The following controls help you work with 3D models in your HyperShot scene. Please see Work-
ing with 3D Objects on page 27 for information about working with 3D objects in HyperShot.
• Unhide (show) all model parts: [CTRL+[U]. Displays all hidden 3D objects. Please see
Hide/Show on page 28 for information about hiding or showing 3D model parts in your
HyperShot screen.
Camera Controls
The following controls allow you to move and control the cameras in your HyperShot scene:
• Tumble camera: [ALT] - left-click+drag Rotates the current camera about the center of the
HyperShot scene or around the camera’s defined rotation (look at) point.
• Pan camera: [ALT] - middle-click+drag Translates (moves without rotating) your camera in
the current viewing plane while staying focused on the current “look at” point.
• Dolly camera: [ALT] - right-click+drag. Moves the camera to and from the object and the cur-
rent “look at” point.
• Camera focal length (Zoom): [ALT]+scroll mouse wheel. Changes the camera’s focal
length. To see the effect, dolly the camera in or out after adjusting the focal length. The cur-
rent value is captured in the camera tab, or can be seen by displaying the heads-up display
[H].
• Tilt camera: [CTRL]+[ALT]+scroll mouse wheel. Rotates the camera about its own Z-axis
(the equivalent of spinning a camera around while keeping it in the same location with its
lens pointed in the same direction). The value is captured in the camera tab, and can be
changed by typing in any number (degrees).

• Reset camera: [ALT]+[R]. Resets the current camera to its default position, orientation, and
focal length. If you are resetting a custom camera, then the camera will revert to the settings
it had when you created the camera.
• Save camera: [ALT]+[C]. Saves a new custom camera to your HyperShot scene with the
current position.
• Cycle through all cameras: [ALT]+[N]. Cycles through all of the cameras saved in your
HyperShot scene.
• Pick camera pivot point: [ALT]+[CTRL]+right-click. Select the point around which the cam-
era will rotate (tumble).
Material Controls
The following controls help you work with object material in HyperShot:
• Open material on model: Double-click. Opens the Material Edit dialog box, which allows you
to edit the selected material. Please see MATERIALS (APPENDIX) on for information about
the materials included with and Materials on page 30 for information about editing materials.
• Select material to paint: [SHIFT]+left-click on your material. Selects (copies) a material from
either the Materials window or from the clicked location on the 3D object in your HyperShot
scene.
• Paint material on model: [SHIFT]+right-click on desired object. Paints (pastes) the selected
material to the clicked location on the 3D object. The portion(s) of the object that will be
painted with the new material will depend on that object’s material groups.
• Paint material and Link: [SHIFT]+right click.
• Undo last material change: [CTRL]+[Z]. Undoes your most recent material change.
File and Application Controls

The following controls help you perform common file operations in HyperShot:
• Create a new Bunkspeed Interactive Photograph (.BIP) file: [CTRL]+[N]. Allows you to
create a new Bunkspeed scene file. Please see File Menu on page 33 for more information
about creating Bunkspeed scene files and BIP on page 13 for more information about .BIP
files.
• Save Bunkspeed Interactive Photograph (.BIP) file: [CTRL]+[S]. Saves your current
HyperShot scene to a Bunkspeed Interactive Photograph (.BIP) file. Please see Loading En-
vironment on page 24 and Working with Environment Images on page 26 for more informa-
tion about working with HDRIs.
• Open a Bunkspeed Interactive Photograph (.BIP) file: [CTRL]+[O]. Opens an existing
HyperShot scene file. Please see BIP (.bip) on page 13 for more information about .BIP files.
• Quit the HyperShot application: [CTRL]+[Q] or [ESC]. Exits the HyperShot application.
Right Mouse Button Dialog Box

For efficient interaction with the scene and the objects within the scene, HyperShot offers, in addi-
tion to the hotkeys, a context sensitive dialog box that can be accessed via the right mouse but-

ton. Depending on whether the cursor is on an 3D object or not, the options within the menu
change accordingly.
Material Properties: Open the material edit dialog.
Material Copy: Copy material from the object where the cursor located and the menu was in-
voked.
Material Paste: Move the cursor to the object to be painted, right click, and select Material Paste
to apply the material.
Hide Part: Hides the current part.
Undo Hide Part: Shows the last hidden part.
Show All Parts: Shows all hidden parts.
Delete Part: Delete current part. The part is fully delete once the HyperShot scene is saved.
Undo Delete Part: Brings back the last deleted part.
Look At: Sets the look-at point for the camera. [ALT]+R will reset the look-at point to its origin.
Move Object: Opens the Move Object dialog to move and scale an object within the scene.
Options Dialog: Opens the HyperShot Menu.
Save Current View: Saves the camera under a new name into a list. The camera view can be
accessed via [ALT]+N which toggles through all saved camera views, or under the Camera Tab
in the HyperShot Menu.
Full Screen: Puts the application into Full Screen mode. Select again to turn Full Screen mode
off.
Launching HyperShot
To launch the HyperShot application, select
Start>Programs>Bunkspeed>HyperShot>HyperShot or click the HyperShot icon on your Mi-
crosoft® Windows® desktop. The HyperShot application launches with a blank scene and the
HyperShot Menu appears with the Main tab selected by default.
To exit HyperShot, either select File>Quit or press [CTRL]+[Q].

Setting up a HyperShot scene involves loading three types of files into the blank default scene:
3D objects, HDRI images, and backplate images. You can do this via the HyperShot Menu,
which you can toggle by pressing [SPACE] if it is not already visible.
Loading 3D Objects
3D object can be loaded in 2 ways, either through “File > Open” or through a plugin. Plugins are
available for Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, SpaceClaim and KeyCreator.
All plugins can be downloaded for free from Bunkspeed’s website at
http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/downloads.
1. If you are using the HyperShot Menu, either select the Main tab and then click the Object
icon or select File>Open Model. Alternatively, you may press [CTRL]+[O].
3. Select your desired object settings. To enable an option, check the corresponding checkbox.
Clearing a checkbox disables the corresponding option:
− Merge with current scene: Checking the Merge with current scene checkbox adds the
model you are importing to your current HyperShot scene in addition to any model(s) cur-
rently in the scene. The object will be put into the center of the scene.
− Same coordinates as previous object: Checking the Same coordinates as previous ob-
ject check box maintains the same size relative to the previously imported object. This is
especially useful when importing variants of an object of a design, or various components
of a design into HyperShot.
− Calculate Normals: This is checked by default. Some programs like Cinema4D, Maya,
and 3D Studio Max have the option to output OBJ files without Normals, which results in
a much smaller file size. This option ensures that the object appears just as smoothly in-
side HyperShot than the original modeling system. When unchecked, the object will ap-
pear rather polygon zed inside HyperShot.
− Retain Materials (beta): When importing an updated version of the original design, or a
configuration, or a different representation you can now automatically paint the model
upon import. Retain Material works independent of Merge With Current Scene. It doesn’t
matter whether the original object is kept in the scene or not.
Your selected model will begin loading. Depending on the size of the file and your computer’s
processor speed and amount of free RAM, it may take several moments for the model to com-
plete loading. Once you see something on the screen it may not be finished loading. This de-
pends on your processor speed and amount of RAM. Larger scenes take longer until fully loaded.
You will see a significant increase in performance once fully loaded.
Importing OBJ Files

You can import OBJ files from any application that supports this file format. When generating the
OBJ file, make sure to choose a tessellation that meets your needs. Close-ups require higher
tessellation than more distant views. You must do this inside your 3D modeling application, which
allows you to control tessellation. You can’t refine tessellation inside of HyperShot.

Fine tessellation increases the size of an OBJ file. Make sure that your computer has enough
RAM and other resources to handle large files. Importing and rendering larger files may affect
system performance. The OBJ file format does not support any assembly structure but it does
maintain all material assignments, including textures. When importing an OBJ file and its accom-
panying material file, make sure that all file including textures remain in the same location.
HyperShot will automatically copy the textures into the HyperShot/Textures folder.
All materials inside the OBJ file result in a material group with identical materials grouped into a
single material group. You cannot alter imported material groups in HyperShot. Assign materials
accordingly in your 3D modeling application.
The HyperShot General material interprets any materials described in the MTL (material) file, as
well as any texture maps, bump maps, or decals that have been applied. HyperShot allows you to
edit the material parameters by double-clicking the object material you wish to edit, change the
material, or assign a new predefined material from the material library by pressing [M].
If there is no material file available, HyperShot will apply the Diffuse material to all material
groups.
Importing SolidWorks Files

HyperShot allows you to directly import SolidWorks 2009 and prior files (SLDPRT and SLDASM).
HyperShot uses the tessellated information stored with the SolidWorks part files. In most cases,
this tessellation is fine enough but close-ups may require finer tessellation, which you must do
inside SolidWorks. Please refer to your SolidWorks documentation for information about refining
the tessellation of your part file and/or entire assembly. Refining tessellation can significantly in-
crease file size, as can importing larger assemblies. Make sure that your computer has enough
RAM and other resources to handle large files. Importing and rendering larger files may affect
system performance.
When importing a single part file, HyperShot uses the materials that were inside SolidWorks in
order to determine the material groups. Identical materials are placed into a single material group.
Objects with no assigned materials will contain a single material group.
When importing an assembly file, HyperShot assigns an individual material group to every part in
the assembly, as well as any material that is contained within the individual parts. Identical parts
will be grouped into a single material group.
The HyperShot General material interprets any materials described in the SolidWorks file, includ-
ing texture and bump maps that have been applied inside of SolidWorks. HyperShot allows you to
edit the material parameters by double-clicking the object material you wish to edit, change the
material, or assign a new predefined material from the material library by pressing [M].

You no longer need the SolidWorks file after importing it into HyperShot. HyperShot stores all
necessary information in the BIP (HyperShot scene file) when saved. You can use the Solid-
Works file for additional imports into the same scene. Before doing so, please remember to move
the original imported file so the models don’t lie on top of each other. See “Moving Objects” for
more information on how to do this.
Importing Pro/ENGINEER Files

HyperShot allows you to directly import Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2., 3, and 4 (PRT and ASM).
HyperShot requires for Pro/ENGINEER to be installed on the user’s desktop, and have a valid
license available. When importing a Pro/E file, HyperShot will start Pro/ENGINEER in the back-
ground and use it to convert the geometry information into tessellated data. The user has control
over refinement of the resulting tessellation. Upon import, a progress bar shows the steps of the
translation process, along with the individual parts and assemblies that are being processed.
Once the data are imported, HyperShot will shut down Pro/ENGINEER. If you get a message that
a valid license file can’t be found, please visit the section Troubleshooting at the end of this sec-
tion.
When importing a single part file, HyperShot uses the materials that were inside Pro/E in order to
determine the material groups. Identical materials are placed into a single material group. Objects
with no assigned materials will contain a single material group.
When importing an assembly file, HyperShot assigns an individual material group to every part in
the assembly, as well as any material that is contained within the individual parts. Identical parts
will be grouped into a single material group.
The HyperShot General material interprets any materials described in the Pro/E file, including
texture and bump maps that have been applied inside of Pro/E. HyperShot allows you to edit the
material parameters by double-clicking the object material you wish to edit, change the material,
or assign a new predefined material from the material library by pressing [M].
You no longer need the Pro/E file after importing it into HyperShot. HyperShot stores all neces-
sary information in the BIP (HyperShot scene file) when saved. You can use the Pro/E file for ad-
ditional imports into the same scene. Before doing so, please remember to move the original im-
ported file so the models don’t lie on top of each other. See “Moving Objects” for more information
on how to do this.
Troubleshooting:
The Pro/ENGINEER translator is different from the other translators, as it requires
Pro/ENGINEER to be installed and licensed on the user’s desktop.
HyperShot will prompt you if a valid license of Pro/ENGINEER can’t be found.

If you are working with several version of Pro/ENGINEER, or are starting Pro/ENGINEER through
Intralink or a script, you can define the path and name of the Pro/E executable by setting the fol-
lowing environment variable:
• PRO2OBJ_PROE_EXE : This points to the actual executable that starts Pro/ENGINEER. For
example, if Pro/E is started through a script, then this variable needs to be contain the path
and the name of the script.
• PRO2OBJ_PROE_PATH path\application name: This is the top level path of the Pro/E in-
stallation. The user will need it in case the Pro/E info was not included in the registry. The im-
porter uses this path to locate the needed executables proe.exe and comm_msg.exe. An ex-
ample of the path’s value is c:\Program Files\proeWildfire 4.0.
• PRO2OBJ_VER: Determines which version of Pro/E should be used in case of multiple in-
stalls.
The following other environment variables can be set to capture the import process in order to
troubleshoot in case of any problems:
• PRO2OBJ_KEEP_TRAIL TRUE: Keeps the Pro/ENGINEER trail file that is generated upon
import.
• PRO2OBJ_LOG_DETAILS TRUE: Writes out a detailed log file, capturing all details of the
actual import process.
The last three variables should be used when experiencing unexpected results. Please send the
trail file and the log file to support@bunkspeed.com. Do not generate a detailed log file until
Bunkspeed support asks you to do so.
Importing Rhino Files

When importing Rhino files, make sure that all your individual parts and material groups are on
individual layers. Individual layers describe individual material groups. In addition, you will need to
assign material to all objects on that layer “by layer” when using the plugin.
Importing SketchUp Files

When importing SketchUp files, HyperShot takes the geometry and color information, along with
all applied textures and brings it into HyperShot. All textures are kept in a separate folder together
with the original SketchUp file in the original location.
Importing IGES Files

When importing IGES files, HyperShot will recognize any layer information inside the IGES file.
These layers result from layer information in the original CAD file, or the assembly structure. All
layers result in individual material groups. Original materials are not recognized. All imported
IGES geometry and resulting material groups are assigned the Diffuse material, and have texture
coordinates assigned.

Importing STEP Files

HyperShot recognizes assembly information inside imported STEP files. All parts inside the as-
sembly result in individual material groups. Original materials are not recognized. All imported
STEP geometry and resulting material groups are assigned the Diffuse material, and have texture
coordinates assigned.
Loading Environment Images

High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs) provide all lighting and reflections for your HyperShot
scenes. Please see Environment Images on page 26 for information on working with Environment
images. To load an environment image into your HyperShot scene:
1. If you are using the HyperShot Menu, either select the Main tab and then click the Open En-
vironment icon or select File>Open Environment Map. Alternatively, you may press [CTRL]+[E].
The Load Environment Map window appears.
− Your selected environment image will begin loading. Depending on the size of the file and
− Once loading completes, you will see your scene lighting change to reflect the image you
just loaded.
− HyperShot retains all previous overall brightness and gamma settings for the environ-
ment image, as well as the overall image, which means that you may need to adjust
these parameters.
Loading Backplate Images

Backplate images provide a 2D background for your HyperShot scenes. These images always
remain in the background of your scene no matter how you position and aim the cameras. Please
see Background Images on page 27 for information on working with background images. To load
a backplate image into your HyperShot scene:
1. If you are using the HyperShot Menu, either select the Main tab and then click the Open
Backplate Image icon or select File>Open Background Image. Alternatively, you may press
[CTRL B]. The Load Background Image window appears.
− Your selected background image will begin loading. Depending on the size of the file and
− Once loading completes, you will see the image appear in the background of your scene.

− Notice that the 3D object retains the lighting specified by HDRI image as well as the ref-
lection. The backplate image always remains in the background yet doesn’t affect the ob-
ject.
− You can remove the backplate image from your HyperShot scene by opening the
HyperShot Menu (spacebar) and then selecting Edit>Clear Background Image, or by
pressing [B].
Moving the Camera

This section describes how to use the currently selected camera in HyperShot. Please see Cam-
era Tab on page 36 for information on selecting different cameras and additional camera options.
Tumble
Tumbling the camera rotates the camera around the selected look-at point, which by default is the
center of the scene. By default, the camera is kept above ground. Unckecking “Keep Above
Ground” in the Camera tab will allow the camera to go below the ground.
Pan
Panning the camera translates it inside the current viewing plane. The camera maintains its cur-
rent orientation (that is, the lens keeps pointing in the same direction). To pan the camera, either
[ALT]+middle-click or middle-click and drag the mouse up or down, or side to side. By default the
camera is kept above ground. Unckecking “Keep Above Ground” in the Camera tab will allow the
camera to go below the ground.
Dolly
Dollying the camera moves the camera closer to or further away from the object. The camera
maintains its current orientation (that is, the lens keeps pointing in the same direction). To dolly
the camera, right-click and drag the mouse. Moving the mouse left and right moves the camera
along its Z-axis. CAD users may refer to this as “Zoom”. HyperShot behaves like a camera, thus
“Zoom” has a different meaning. See the next paragraph for that.
Focal Length (Zoom)

A camera’s focal length is the distance in millimeters between the film and the lens’s optical cen-
ter when the lens is focused on infinity. Zoom lenses allow you to vary the focal length. To
change the focal length, press and hold [ALT] while scrolling the mouse wheel.
Reset the camera

Resetting a camera restores its default position, aim point, focal length, and pivot point. To reset
a camera, press [ALT]+[R].

Save Camera View

Save camera: [ALT]+[C]. Saves a new custom camera to your HyperShot scene using the current
camera’s position and other settings. The Save Camera window appears when you press
[ALT]+[C]. Enter a name for the new camera and then click OK to save the camera.
Pivot Point
Pick camera pivot point: [CTRL]+[ALT]+right-click. Select the point around which the camera will
rotate (tumble). Press and hold [CTRL]+[ALT] while right-clicking your desired camera pivot point.
Cycling Through Cameras

Cycle through all cameras: [ALT]+[N]. Cycles through all of the stored camera views in your
HyperShot scene.
HDRI Environment Images

HyperShot is using High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs) as Environment Images. HDRIs pro-
vide all the lighting for your HyperShot scenes, as well the overall environment that reflects in
your object. Please see Loading Environment on page 24 for information on loading HDRI envi-
ronment images into your HyperShot scene. You can toggle HDRI image visibility on and off by
pressing [E]. You can also toggle this option by checking or clearing the Visible Environment
checkbox in the Environment tab of the HyperShot Menu, as described in section about the “Envi-
ronment Tab”.
Positioning Environment Images

You can rotate environment images for precise control over your scene’s lighting.
• To rotate the environment image, press [CTRL] while left clicking and dragging the mouse.
You will see the lighting and reflection update in real time. The shadows on the object and on
the floor will begin updating as soon as you let go of the mouse key.
• To reset the environment image to its default position, press [CTRL]+[R].
Adjusting Brightness and Gamma

You can adjust the environment image and scene brightness and Gamma as follows:
• You can modify the environment brightness on the model by pressing [Right ARROW] for
small adjustments or [UP ARROW] for large adjustments. To decrease the brightness press
[Left ARROW] for small adjustments, or [DOWN ARROW] for large adjustments. This mod-
ifies the HDRI brightness (lighting intensity) on the 3D model without affecting the overall im-
age appearance in your HyperShot scene. You can also change the Brightness value in En-
vironment tab of the HyperShot menu, as described in Environment Tab.

• To adjust the Gamma of the environment image, open the HyperShot menu and select the
Environment tab, and change the Gamma value, as described in Environment Tab on page
37-38.
• You can modify the overall scene brightness by pressing [ALT] + [Right ARROW] for small
adjustments or [ALT] + [Up ARROW] for large adjustments, or [ALT] + [Left ARROW] for
small adjustments or [ALT]+[DOWN ARROW] for large adjustments to decrease the bright-
ness. You can also change this option by entering your desired brightness value (1 is default,
0 is totally black) in the Brightness field in the Image tab of the HyperShot Menu, as de-
scribed in section on the “Image Tab”.
Shadows
Pressing [S] toggles object self-shadowing on and off, which specifies whether an object can cast
shadows on itself. Enabling this option provides fully realistic shadows but can impact system
performance due to the increased number of calculations required. We recommend that you set
up your scene just the way you want it before toggling this option on. You can also toggle this
option by checking or clearing the Detailed Shadows checkbox in the Settings tab of the
HyperShot Menu, as described in section on the “Settings Tab”.
Flatten Ground
Pressing [G] toggles ground visibility on and off. HDRI images are spherical, with the ground level
running through the equator. Enabling this option flattens the bottom portion of the sphere against
the ground level to create a flat ground surface. You can also toggle this option by checking or
clearing the Flatten Ground checkbox in the Environment tab of the HyperShot Menu, as de-
scribed in the section on the “Environment Tab”.
Background Images
Backplate images provide a 2D background for your HyperShot scenes. These images always
remain in the background of your scene no matter how you position and aim the cameras. 3D
objects in your HyperShot scene will retain the lighting specified by HDRI image and the back-
plate image will always remain in the background no matter how you position and aim the camera
and no matter which camera you are using.
Please see the section on Loading Backplate Images for further information. If you want to
change the current backplate image, simply load another image. The current image will be re-
placed by the newly loaded image.
You can clear a loaded backplate image by pressing [B].

Working with 3D Objects

You can load multiple 3D objects into your HyperShot scene. Please see section on Loading 3D
Objects for further information when loading 3D objects. All coordinates are in absolute coordi-
nates, and are relative to the HyperShot scene. Sizes of various object will be maintained relative
to one another. To get an understanding of the orientation of the object, and the camera orienta-
tion, use [SHIFT] + C to toggle the coordinate system, or use the checkbox under the Image Tab.
Moving Objects
You can move, rotate, and size 3D objects in your HyperShot scene. You can now do this using
the following hotkey commands:
• Moving objects on the ground plane (xz): Use [SHIFT]+[ALT]+Left Mouse Button
Click+Drag to the object on the ground plane or a plane parallel to the ground plane when the
object is not sitting on the ground.
• Move objects up or down (y): Use [SHIFT]+[ALT]+[CTRL]+Left Mouse Button Click+Drag to
move the object up or down in the scene.
• Rotate objects around y-axis (vertical up direction): Use [SHIFT]+[ALT]+Middle Mouse
Button Click+Drag to quickly rotate the object around the vertical axis in the
scene (y-axis).
• Rotate objects freely: Use [SHIFT]+[ALT]+[CTRL]+Middle Mouse Button Click+Drag to ro-
tate objects freely in the scene.
• Scale objects: Use [SHIFT]+[ALT]+Right Mouse Button Click to scale the object.
You can use the dialog to fine tune the object movement. To do this, click with your
Right Mouse Button onto the object you want to move and select Move Object. The
Move Object window appears with the following options:
• Rotate 90 degrees around X axis: Clicking the Rotate 90 degrees around X axis button
rotates the object 90 degrees clockwise around the scene’s X-axis (pitch).
• Rotate 90 degrees around Y axis: Clicking the Rotate 90 degrees around Y axis button
rotates the object 90 degrees counterclockwise around the scene’s Y-axis (yaw).
• Rotate 90 degrees around Z axis: Clicking the Rotate 90 degrees around Z axis button
rotates the object 90 degrees clockwise around the scene’s Z-axis (roll).
• Snap to Ground: Clicking the Snap to Ground button lowers the object until its lowest point
is level with the ground level of your HyperShot scene.
• X Translate: Determines the object’s position along the scene’s X-axis (side to side). Positive
numbers move the object to the left, and vice-versa.
• Y Translate: Determines the object’s position along the scene’s Y-axis (up and down). Posi-
tive numbers move the object up, and vice-versa.
• Z Translate: Determines the object’s position along the scene’s Z-axis (forward and back-
ward). Positive numbers move the object forward, and vice-versa.

• X Rotate: Rotates the object along the scene’s X-axis (pitch). Positive numbers rotate the
object in a clockwise direction, and vice-versa.
• Y Rotate: Rotates the object along the scene’s Y-axis (yaw). Positive numbers rotate the ob-
ject in a counterclockwise direction, and vice-versa.
• Z Rotate: Rotates the object along the scene’s Z-axis (roll). Positive numbers rotate the ob-
ject in a clockwise direction, and vice-versa.
• Scale: Enlarges or shrinks the 3D object. Values greater than 1 enlarge the object, while val-
ues between 0 and 1 will shrink the object. Example: A value of 2 doubles the size of the
model (200%), while a value of 0.5 reduces the size of the model by 50%.
• Reset: Clicking the Reset button restores the object to its original location, orientation, and
size.
When you have finished entering your desired changes, click the Apply button to apply those
changes to the 3D object.
Hide/Show
You can hide individual parts on 3D models from visibility in your HyperShot scene and can un-
hide (show) all hidden model parts. This is very useful when painting layered objects, or isolate
parts for individual or detail renderings.
• To hide a model, right-click on the part of the 3D object you want to hide, and select Hide
Object.
• To show the last hidden object, right click anywhere in the scene and select Undo Hide Part.
• To show all hidden model parts, press [CTRL]+[U].
Deleting Objects
You can delete individual parts from the 3D models. Right click on the part or object you want to
delete, and select Delete Part. To undo this operation, right click anywhere in the scene and se-
lect Undo Delete Part. The part or object is not fully deleted until you save the HyperShot scene.
Materials
HyperShot contains a library with a wide assortment of materials that you can apply to 3D objects
in your HyperShot scene as easily as copying and pasting. This section describes how to work
with the material library and with materials on your 3D objects. Please refer to MATERIALS (AP-
PENDIX) on page 41-44 for a complete list of core materials currently available in HyperShot.
These core materials describe all materials in the HyperShot material library.
The Materials Window

Pressing [M] or selecting Display Material Library in the Main tab of the HyperShot Menu
opens the Material Library window.

Applying Materials from the Material Library

To apply a material to a model:
1. Press [SHIFT] while left-clicking the desired material to select it. You can select a material from
the Material Library window or from any part of any 3D object in your HyperShot scene.
2. Press [SHIFT] while right-clicking the location on the 3D model where you want to apply the
material. Your selected material is applied to the specified material group on the selected object.
A material group specifies the portion(s) of an object that use a given material and is created by
the 3D modeler when s/he creates the object.
3. You can also simply select a material from the Material Library and drag and drop it onto the
object.
Copying Materials from the Object

You can also paint an object by copying and pasting the paint from one part of an object to
another.
• Copy the material you wish to apply by pressing [SHIFT] and left-clicking the part with the
material you wish to copy. The material is now copied and can be assigned to any part within
the scene.
• Apply the copied material to any other part in any object in your HyperShot scene by pressing
[SHIFT] and right-clicking the part you wish to apply the copied material to.
Creating Material Groups

HyperShot allows you to create material groups, which allow you to change the material assigned
to multiple parts simultaneously.
• Create a material group by pressing [SHIFT] and left-clicking the part with the material you
wish to copy. When pasting the material to another part, press [CTRL]+[SHIFT] while right-
clicking. The two parts now belong to the same material group.
• To break a material group, copy the material from the part you wish to remove from the ma-
terial group and then paste the material back onto the same part. That part will no longer be
part of the material group.
NOTE: Material groups do not work with materials applied from the Material Library. If you apply a
material from the library to a part that belongs to a material group, you will need to rebuild the
material group as described above.
Painting an Object
When painting an assembly, you may find it necessary to hide parts of the object to get to some
of the hidden parts of the object. Pressing [CTRL]+[U] un-hides all hidden parts, so it’s best to
paint objects from the outside in, as follows:

1. Apply your desired material to the visible part by copying and pasting from either the Material
Library window or another part.
2. Hide the part that you just painted.
3. Paint the next part.
4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 until the model is completely painted.
5. Press [CTRL]+[U] to unhide all parts of the assembly.
Creating and Editing Materials

Whether you want to create a new material or edit an existing one, the steps are identical. In es-
sence, whenever you edit an existing material on the object you are creating a new material. Cur-
rently the only way to edit or create new materials is by double clicking onto an material that has
been applied to a part of the object in the scene. To make changes to a material, or create an
entirely new material, simply double-click the area on the 3D object that has the material you wish
to change. The selected material’s Edit Material window appears. The available choices will de-
pend on which material you selected. Please see MATERIALS (APPENDIX) for more detailed
information on the individual parameters for each material.
You can always undo the last material change using [CTRL] + Z, or choose EDIT > LAST MA-
TERIAL CHANGE. Under the EDIT menu, you find also the option to UNDO ALL MATERIAL
CHANGES. Caution: There is no redo.
All material changes and new creation always stay with the object, and are saved in the BIP file.
Creating a New Material

HyperShot’s materials are fundamentally different than “shaders” found in traditional rendering
applications. All of HyperShot materials are scientifically accurate, requiring therefore far less
work to define a certain material and finish for an object.
Material Type: Choose the material like that you would like to start out with. Think in terms of real
world materials such as metal, glass, plastic etc.
Each material has predefined color and parameter settings. Upon selecting the material type you
will see the immediate effect a core material has.
Tweak the color and parameters, apply a texture (for non-transparent) materials and / or apply a
bump map to visually distort the surface to which the material is applied. See further explanations
below in the section on how to edit materials.
Once you made the edits to the core material you have chosen, you can save the material to the
library for later use in other scenes. See below for more information on how to save materials to
the library.

Editing an Existing Material

This is essentially the same as creating a new material described above. The only difference is
that you don’t change the Material Type. Keep in mind that editing a material from the Material
Library will not change the material in the library. To overwrite, delete the original material first,
then save the updated material in the library. Read below for more information on how to save
materials to the library.
Texture Mapping
Non-transparent materials can have a texture applied to replace the base color. This texture will
can be a jpeg, tiff, png or other common file format. To apply a texture, create a new material or
edit and existing material. Then select the Map button next to the color. This will open up a new
dialog.
Texture: Select a jpeg, tiff or any other image file. When you selected an image once, and then
open a different material to map a texture the previous texture is available for immediate use, yet
with default settings. You can select a new texture if you choose.
Use Texture: Turn texture on or off
Shift u: Move the texture in horizontal direction over the surface.
Shift v: Move the texture in vertical direction over the surface.
Scale u: Change the width of the texture. Change to a negative value to flip the texture map.
Scale v: Change the height of the texture. Change to a negative value to flip the texture map.
Intensity: Change the brightness of the texture
Angle: Rotate the texture around its center.
Repeat: Switches between single and multiple copies of the texture.
Projection: Determines how the texture is being mapped:
UV coordinates: Your object may not have any uv coordinates and the texture may not show up
initially. Change the projection type.
Box Map: Mapping uses a “box”.
Planar x, y, z: uses the planar projection from the x, y, or z direction. To determine the direction,
turn on the coordinate system in the Image Tab, or use [SHIFT] + C. If the surface you would like
to map to is at an angle, you may want to try and rotate the object so it aligns with the projection
direction. After mapping you can move the object back to its original position. The mapping will
stay.
Cylindrical (beta): Uses a cylinder standing up (y-direction) for mapping. If your object requires
cylindrical mapping in any other direction, rotate the object to align the object with the projection
direction. Move the object back to its original position after mapping.
Spherical (beta): Uses a sphere with y being the up direction. If your object requires spherical
mapping in a different direction, rotate the object to align the object with the projection direction.
Move the object back to its original position after mapping.
Reset: Reset all parameters and mapping type
Pick texture center: Select where the center of the applied texture should be by picking on the
surface on which you are applying the texture. Then fine tune using the Shift u and v parameters.

Bump Mapping
You can apply a bump map to any material by using any kind of image, allowing you to create
super-realistic materials, and stunning visual effects. The bump maps can be combines with tex-
ture maps mentioned above, or used by themselves. There is no particular order in which a bump
map and a texture map need to be applied.
To apply a bump map, create a new material or edit and existing material. Then select the Bump
Map button on the bottom of the dialog. This will open up a new dialog that looks nearly identical
to the texture map dialog.
Both the bump map and the texture map dialog can be open at the same time.
Bump Map: Select a jpeg, tiff or any other image file. When you selected an image once, and
then open a different material to map a texture the previous texture is available for immediate
use, yet with default settings. You can select a new texture if you choose.
Use Bump Map: Turn texture on or off
Normal Map mode: Normal maps give generally a more refined definition and allow for even bet-
ter control of the bump map. When using actual normal maps select this mode. Toggle back and
forth to see the difference
Shift u: Move the texture in horizontal direction over the surface.
Shift v: Move the texture in vertical direction over the surface.
Scale u: Change the width of the texture. Change to a negative value to flip the bump map.
Scale v: Change the height of the texture. Change to a negative value to flip the bump map.
Bump Height: Determines the height of the bump. Negative values will give the impression of
embossing or engraving.
Angle: Rotate the texture around its center
Repeat: Switches between single and multiple copies of the texture.
Projection: Determines how the texture is being mapped:
UV coordinates: Your object may not have any uv coordinates and the texture may not show up
initially. Change the projection type.
Box Map: Mapping uses a “box”.
Planar x, y, z: uses the planar projection from the x, y, or z direction. To determine the direction,
turn on the coordinate system in the Image Tab, or use [SHIFT] + C. If the surface you would like
to map to is at an angle, you may want to try and rotate the object so it aligns with the projection
direction. After mapping you can move the object back to its original position. The mapping will
stay.
Cylindrical (beta): Uses a cylinder standing up (y-direction) for mapping. If your object requires
cylindrical mapping in any other direction, rotate the object to align the object with the projection
direction. Move the object back to its original position after mapping.
Spherical (beta): Uses a sphere with y being the up direction. If your object requires spherical
mapping in a different direction, rotate the object to align the object with the projection direction.
Move the object back to its original position after mapping.
Reset: Reset all parameters and mapping type

Pick texture center: Select where the center of the applied texture should be by picking on the
surface on which you are applying the texture. Then fine tune using the Shift u and v parameters.
Decaling
You can apply decals as textures, bump maps, or both. If you are working with a logo, make sure
that the image has transparency, also known as an “Alpha Channel”. Only .tiff or .png files can
have an alpha channel or transparency. The transparency will allow the color of the material to be
visible. For bump maps, it will only raise or indent the actual graphic part, and leave the transpa-
rent area flat.
Saving Materials
After editing a material it can be saved to the material library. To add a material to the library:
1. Open the Material Library.
2. Click on the material assigned to an object you want to add to the library. Note that it will not be
highlighted.
3. Select the tab to which you would like to add the material. You can also add a new tab as de-
scribed below.
4. Right click into the material library. A pop up dialog with the following options will appear, de-
pending whether you click onto the material, or the material library window:
− Add current material to library: Adds the selected material to the library under the cur-
rent tab. A dialog box opens for allowing you to enter a unique name for the material.
− Remove material from library: This option is only available when right clicking onto the
material inside the library.
− Undo remove material: Puts the deleted material back into the library, under the original
tab.
− Add material group: Adds a new material tab to the library. Do this first if you want to
store your new materials under a new tab. The new tab is saved under the given name in
HyperShot Content\MaterialLibraries in a separate bip-file. If you want to share your ma-
terials with others, just send the file to the other HyperShot users. All they need to do is
save the bip file into their MaterialsLibraries folder, and they are ready to access the ma-
terials in the next session of HyperShot.
− Remove material group: Deletes the material tab. The tab can only be deleted if it is
empty. Delete all materials first before deleting the tab.
− Refresh all materials: Render all materials with the current environment settings. Save
material library: Saves all changes that were made to the material library. All tabs are
saved as individual files under their given name in the MaterialLibraries folder. HyperShot
will prompt the user to save the material library upon exiting the current session in case
changes have been made to the library but not been saved.
− Close material library: Closes the material library.

Rendering
The ability to render images in addition to taking screenshots provides greater flexibility. You can
render images that are larger than your screen resolution (up to the maximum number of pixels
allowed by your version of HyperShot), include alpha channels, and more. Please see Render
Tab section below for more information on rendering images.
The HyperShot Menu

Pressing [SPACE] in HyperShot opens the HyperShot Menu.
Menus
The top edge of the HyperShot Menu contains the File, Edit, and Help menus.
File Menu
The File menu has the following functions:
• New: Selecting File>New creates a new, blank HyperShot scene.
• Open Model: Selecting File>Open Model opens the Import 3D Model window, which allows
you to load a 3D object into your HyperShot scene, or open a previously saved .BIP file.
Please see the section on Loading 3D Objects for more information on importing 3D objects.
• Open Recent: Selecting File>Open Recent list the last 5 opened BIP files for quick access.
• Open Environment Map: Selecting File>Open Environment Map opens the Load Environ-
ment Map window, which allows you to load HDRI environment images into your HyperShot
scene. Please see Loading Environment on page 24 for information on loading environment
images.
• Open Backplate Image: Selecting File>Open Background Image allows you to load a 2D
backplate image into your HyperShot scene. Please see Background Images on page 27 for
information on background images.
• Save: Selecting File>Save allows you to save your current HyperShot scene file. Subsequent
saves will overwrite previously saved versions of the same file.
• Save As: Selecting File>Save As allows you to save your current HyperShot scene file un-
der a different filename.
• Render Image: Selecting File>Render Image renders and saves an image using your speci-
fied image rendering settings. Please see Render Tab on page 39-40 for more information
about rendering images.
• Save Screenshot: Selecting File>Save Screenshot saves a screenshot of your current
HyperShot scene.
• Quit: Selecting File>Quit exits the HyperShot application.
Edit Menu
The Edit menu has the following functions:

• Undo last Material Change: Selecting Edit>Undo Last Material Change undoes your last
material change. Selecting this option more than once undoes your previous material
changes one by one. You can also undo material changes by pressing [CTRL]+[Z].
• Undo All Material Changes: Selecting Edit>Undo All Material Changes undoes all of the
material changes you made since opening the current HyperShot scene.
• Clear Background Image: Selecting Edit>Clear Background Image removes the current
backplate image from your HyperShot scene. You can also do this by pressing [B].
Help Menu
The Help menu has the following functions:
• Quickstart Guide: This will open the Quickstart Guide which takes you through the 6 basic
steps of HyperShot.
• User Manual: Opens up this user manual.
• Hotkeys Overview: Selecting Help>Hotkeys Overview opens the Keyboard Shortcuts
window, which displays a complete list of the hotkey combinations available within Hyper-
Shot.
• System Info: Selecting Help>System Info opens a window with license, CPU, and memory
information.
• About: Selecting Help>About opens the About HyperShot window, which displays version
information.
The Tabs
Main Tab
The Main tab on the HyperShot Menu allows you to load 3D objects, HDRI environment images,
and backplate images into your HyperShot scene
This tab has the following functions:

• Open Model: Clicking the Open Model icon opens the Import 3D Model window. It allows
you to either open a saved scene (bip file) or import a 3D object. Please see Loading 3D Ob-
jects for information on importing 3D objects.
• Import Environment Image: Clicking the HDRI icon opens the Load Environment Map
window. Please see Loading Environment information on loading HDRI environment images.
• Open Backplate Image: Clicking the Backplate icon opens the Load Background Image
window. Please see Loading Backplate Images for information on loading background im-
ages.
• Display Material Library: Clicking the Display Material Library icon opens the Materials
window. Please see Materials for information on working with materials.
• Save Screenshot: Clicking the Save Screenshot icon takes a screenshot of your HyperShot
scene.
• Render Image: Clicking the Render Image icon renders your HyperShot scene. Please see
Render Tab information on rendering images.

Image Tab
The Image tab on the HyperShot menu allows you to adjust the appearance of your HyperShot
scene.

• Brightness: Entering a value in this field increases or decreases the scene’s overall bright-
ness, including the backplate image, when present. 1 is the default number. You can also in-
crease the brightness by pressing [UP ARROW] or decrease it by pressing [DOWN AR-
ROW].
• Gamma: Entering a value in this field increases or decreases the scene’s overall gamma,
including the backplate image, when present. 1.3 is the default number. You can also de-
crease the gamma by pressing [LEFT ARROW] or increase it by pressing [RIGHT ARROW].
• Adjust Backplate: Checking the Adjust Backplate checkbox will apply brightness and
gamma set tings to the backplate. Unchecked, the backplate will remain in its original state.
• Legend: Checking the Legend checkbox enables the Heads-Up Display, which lists the
camera’s focal length, total number of triangular polygons in the image, and the current frame
rate of the HyperShot real-time rendering engine. You can also toggle this display on and off
by pressing [H].
• Show Coordinate System: Checking Show Coordinate System will display a world coordi-
nate system. This coordinate system is only displayed in the realtime window and will not be
displayed in screenshots or renderings. Use [Shift + C] to toggle the coordinate system on
and off.
• Full Screen: Checking the Full Screen checkbox makes the HyperShot application fill the
entire screen. Clearing this checkbox displays the HyperShot application in a window. You
can toggle full-screen mode on and off by pressing [F].
• Resolution: Use the Resolution pull-down menu to select your desired HyperShot scene
resolution. Selecting Custom opens the Set Custom Resolution window, which allows you
to enter your desired scene width and height, up to the maximum number of pixels allowed by
your version of HyperShot. If you are setting a custom resolution, checking the Lock Aspect
Ratio checkbox preserves your scene’s aspect (width to height) ratio. You can also resize the
image by grabbing the bottom left corner of the realtime window and dragging it to the de-
sired size.
Camera Tab
The Camera tab on the HyperShot menu allows you to select, create, and work with cameras.
Please see Moving the Camera on page 25 for more information about cameras.

• View: Use the View pull-down menu to switch to any available camera. You can also cycle
through the available cameras by pressing [ALT]+[N].
• Keep Above Ground: Checking the Keep Above Ground checkbox forces the camera to
remain above the ground level of your HyperShot scene.
• Lock Current View: Checking the Lock Current View checkbox locks the current camera in
its current position with its current settings.

• Save Current View: Clicking the Save Current View button creates a new camera in the
same initial position and with the same initial settings as your current camera. You can also
create a new camera by pressing [ALT]+[C].
• Reset: Clicking the Reset button resets the current camera back to its default position and
settings. You can also reset the current camera by pressing [ALT]+[R].
• Focal Distance: Entering a number in the Focal Distance field changes the camera’s focal
length to the specified number of meters. For example, entering 35 will set the focal length to
35 meters.
• Enable Depth of Field: Checking the Enable Depth of Field checkbox enables distance-
based blurring in your HyperShot scene.
• F-Stop: Entering a value in the F-stop field changes the camera’s F-stop setting. This setting
specifies the size of the camera lens aperture, which controls how much light the camera
receives. Increasing this value decreases the light reaching the camera, and vice-versa.
• Pick Focus Point: Clicking the Pick Focus Point button allows you to select the location in
your HyperShot scene where the camera lens will focus on.
Environment Tab
The Environment tab on the HyperShot Menu allows you to control various aspects of the
loaded HDRI environment map. Please see Environment Images on page 26 for more information
about environment maps.

• Background Color: Clicking the Background Color button opens a standard color picker,
which allows you to specify a background color for your HyperShot scene. This color be-
comes visible when you make the environment image invisible (see below). Note that the en-
vironment image will continue to light your scene and reflect in your object even though it is
invisible.
• Visible Environment: Checking the Visible Environment checkbox makes the HDRI envi-
ronment image visible, and vice-versa. You can also toggle HDR visibility on and off by
pressing [E]. Turning off the environment allows your selected background color (see above)
to appear.
• Brightness: Entering a value in this field increases or decreases the brightness of the envi-
ronment image on the 3D object(s) in your HyperShot scene. 1 is the default number. You
can also increase the brightness by pressing [RIGHT ARROW] or decrease it by pressing
[LEFT ARROW].
• Gamma: Entering a value in this field increases or decreases the gamma of the HDRI image
on the 3D object(s) in your HyperShot scene. 1 is the default number. Changing the gamma
of the environment images may take some time to calculate. It is recommended that you
change the gamma in 0.05 increments to evaluate the results.
• Rotation: Numeric control of the environment rotation around the y-axis (up direction). When
rotating the environments interactively via [CTRL] + Left Mouse Button drag, the number in
the text input box will update automatically.
• Ground Shadows: Checking the Ground Shadows checkbox causes 3D objects in your
HyperShot scene to cast shadows on the ground. Clearing this checkbox results in the 3D
objects casting no shadow on the ground. You can also toggle this option by pressing [G].

• Ground Reflections: Checking the Ground Reflections checkbox causes the ground to
reflect the 3D objects in your scene.
• Flatten Ground: Checking the Flatten Ground checkbox flattens the bottom half of the spher-
ical HDRI image against the ground level in your HyperShot scene. The sphere will take on a
“gum drop” shape. You will notice that the environment image may get distorted, which will
affect how the environment is reflected in the object. Determine for yourself based on the en-
vironment whether this is delivering the desired result. This can be advantageous when creat-
ing images with a backplate. Flattening the ground is usually not recommended when work-
ing with a backplate image.
• Environment Size: Entering a number in the Environment Size field increases or decreases
the radius of the sphere the object(s) are positioned in meters. The light intensity from the
environment image will not change on the object(s), no matter the sphere size.
• Environment Height: This number changes the height of the environment relative to the
overall size of the sphere. In essence the horizon line of the Environment Image is raised (+)
or lowered (-) without changing the ground plane. This gives you additional control when it
comes to lighting your object.
Render Tab
The Render tab on the HyperShot Menu allows you to specify settings for creating rendered
images of your HyperShot scene. This allows you to create smoother, higher-quality images with
additional control parameters. If you are using HyperShot Pro, it also allows you to create render-
ings that are significantly larger than the screenshots created in the real time window. You cannot
work on your HyperShot scene while rendering is in progress.

• Samples [4 - 256]: Smoothes the overall image. Good values are between 16 and 32. Higher
values can significantly increase rendering time.
• Ray Bounces [1 - 64]: Controls the number of ray bounces used when rendering your
HyperShot scene. Increasing this number increases accuracy but impacts performance. A
scene with normal (non-reflective) objects may require about 6 ray bounces while a scene
with highly reflective objects may require 20 or more ray bounces to render accurately.
• Anti Aliasing Level [1 - 10]: Further reduces the amount of jagged and pixilated edges.
Recommended values are between 1-4. Increasing the value can significantly increase ren-
dering time.
• Ground Shadow Quality [1 - 10]: Controls the quality of ground shadows. Increasing this
number impacts performance. Recommended values are between 1 and 4.
• Global Illumination Quality [1 - 5]: Controls the quality of self shadows. Increasing this
number impacts performance. Increase this value when your self shadows appear “blotchy”.
This may occur when using bright colors and diffuse or multi-layered materials.
• Pixel Filter Size [1 - 3]: Controls the amount of Gaussian blur applied to the edges of objects
to smooth edges. The default value of 1.5 provides good results for most images. When plac-
ing an object with respect to a background image, increase this value to 1.7 or 1.8 results in a
smoother transition between the object and the background image. When rendering highly
reflective object such as jewelry, a smaller value (such as 1.3) will result in a sharper image.
• High Quality Texture Filtering: Increases the quality of any applied texture.

• Width: Width of the rendered image, in pixels.

• Height: Height of the rendered image, in pixels.
• Lock Aspect Ratio: Checking the Lock Aspect Ratio checkbox preserves the aspect ratio
(ratio of width to height) of the HyperShot scene in the rendered image.
• Output Format: Select the output format of your rendered image. The image will always be
give a unique name by default.
• Include Alpha Channel: Checking the Include Alpha Channel checkbox includes an alpha
channel in your rendered image, which you can use for various tasks such as masks, compo-
siting, etc.
• Save As: Allows you to specify a filename and location for your rendered images. By default,
all renderings are give a unique name and are saved in the Screenshots folder.
• Render Image: Clicking the Render Image button renders your HyperShot scene to an im-
age file using your specified render settings. The image will go through 2 passes displayed in
a separate window. You will have to wait until the rendering is completed to continue work in
realtime.
Pro Tab (HyperShot Pro only)

The Pro tab is only available for customers of HyperShot Pro. Contact Bunkspeed directly for a
quote for HyperShot Pro. The functions within this dialog are for the rendering professional that
demand additional capabilities to satisfied their personal and their clients’ needs.
• Render Queue: Delivers batch rendering to users of HyperShot Pro. It allows users to add
any number of scenes into a queue to be processed at a later time.
− To use the Render Queue, simply set up your “shot” like you normally do. Also determine
all render settings, image size, type, output name and destination. When finished, simply
hit Add Job. This will add the current setup to the queue. Continue working with the
same scene to set up additional “shots” and add them to the queue, or open a new
scene.
− Once you set up your render queue, you can always review the jobs in the queue by se-
lecting View Jobs. Individual jobs can then be deleted.
− When you are ready to process all jobs in the queue, select Process Jobs. This will
process all saved jobs one at a time.
• Add Job: Add the current setup with all render settings to the queue.
• Process Jobs: Process render queue.
• View Jobs: View jobs that currently saved in the queue. Individual jobs can also be deleted.
• Render Turntable: When checked, this will render out a turntable animation when hitting the
render button in the Render tab.
− Enter the Begin Angle and the End Angle (in degrees), and the number of Frames, and
HyperShot will render out individual images in a specified location using all the settings
inside the render tab.
− These individual movies can be compiled into a movie using QuickTime Pro, or Windows
Movie Maker.
• Render in Separate Process: Lets you continue to work in the realtime window while a ren-
dering is being processed in the background.
− You can even kick off multiple renderings, even though this will mean that multiple ren-
derings will be processed simultaneously.

− Render in Separate Process kicks off a totally separate HyperShot session. You can
safely shut down HyperShot, while the rendering is still progressing.
− After selecting Render in Separate Process, kicking off a rendering, and then shutting
down HyperShot, you can then start a new session of HyperShot with a new scene (Win-
dows only).
• Network Rendering: Coming soon.
Turntable Rendering: This will put all objects in a scene onto a turntable and rotate the objects
around the center of the scene or the center of the (group of) object(s). The output are individual
images that will need to be processed in QuickTime Pro, Windows MovieMaker or similar to
create a movie file.
− Turntable Rendering: Check to output a turntable rendering. When hitting Render in the
Render Tab, HyperShot will create a turntable rendering based on the set parameters.
− Turntable Begin Angle: Start of the turntable rotation in degrees. Negative values work
also.
− Turntable End Angle: End of the turntable rotation in degrees. Negative values work al-
so.
− Turntable Frames: Number of individual images that should be rendered out between
Begin and End Angle. The higher the number, the smoother the final animation
will be.
− Rotate Around Environment Center: If checked, all objects will rotate around the y-axis
in the environment center. If unchecked, the objects will rotated around the y axis located
at the center of the bounding box that encompasses all objects.
Region Rendering
Region Rendering allows the user to select a rectangular region of the realtime window, and
render just that area, rather than the entire image. The selected region will scale accordingly with
the overall size of the image that is being rendered.
− Enable Region Rendering: Enables region rendering when checked
− Min X, Min Y, Max X, Max Y: X,Y minimum and maximum values determining the posi-
tion and size of selected region. These values are determined interactively when setting
the region in the realtime window, or can be entered and adjusted manually.
− Set Region: Select this button to draw the region interactively in the realtime window. To
render a region of the image, first check Enable Region Rendering. Then hit Select
Region, and select the region by drawing a rectangular window in the realtime window
(left mouse button click + drag). The resulting region is highlighted in blue. If the region
needs to be changed, either hit Select Region again and draw a new region, or manually
adjust the x, y values of the region.
− Hitting Render in the Render Tab will now render just this region relative to the overall
image width and height that has been set.
− If you uncheck Enable Region Rendering the selected region is remembered when the
checked the next time.
Settings Tab
The Settings tab on the HyperShot Menu allows you to adjust various miscellaneous settings in
your HyperShot scene. These settings affect the realtime setting as well final render settings
where indicated.

Realtime Settings:
− Ray Bounces [0-32]: Controls the number of ray bounces used when rendering the real-
time HyperShot scene. Increasing this number increases accuracy but impacts perfor-
mance.
− Shadow Quality: Entering a number in the Shadow Quality field controls the quality of
ground shadows in your HyperShot scene. The larger the number, the better your sha-
dows will be. You must move the camera in order to see the update.
− Detailed Shadows: Checking the Detailed Shadows checkbox causes 3D objects in
your HyperShot scene to cast shadows on themselves when appropriate (self-
shadowing). This will affect the final rendering. If Detailed Shadows is unchecked self
shadows will not show up in the final rendering
− Detailed Indirect Illumination: Checking the Detailed Indirect Illumination checkbox
provides more accurate global illumination and lighting but can decrease performance.
This will only affect the real time window. This will automatically be calculated in the final
rendering independent of the realtime setting.
− Fast Updates: Checking the Fast Updates checkbox (checked by default) gives greater
performance when moving the camera. Moving the camera causes pixilation (rough-
looking models) while the camera is in motion. As soon as the camera movement stops,
HyperShot will immediately begin ray tracing the image back to full quality. Disabling this
option can greatly impact system performance and is generally not recommended unless
you are working on computers with multiple CPUs.
− Sepia: Checking the Sepia checkbox creates a sepia effect.
Render Settings:
These settings only have an effect in the final rendering.
− Sharp Shadows: Checking Sharp Shadows provides more accurate shadows. This op-
tion can be disabled when not needed depending on materials to decrease render times.
− Depth of Field Quality: This setting controls how smooth the blur of the out of focus
area is when Depth of Field is enabled in the Camera Tab. The higher the number the
less grainy the blur will be. Increasing the value will increase render times significantly. A
value of 3 is usually recommended.
− Ask for Screenshot Filename: Checking the Ask for Screenshot Filename checkbox
causes the HyperShot application to prompt you for a filename when saving a screen-
shot. Clearing this check box (default) saves screenshots to your default HyperShot data
folder using a default filename that increments the image count to avoid overwriting pre-
vious screenshots.
− Dolly via Right Mouse Button: This turns the right mouse button pop menu off and al-
low to dolly without having to hold down the [ALT] key.
− Disable [ALT} + [SHIFT] object moving: This will no longer allow the user to move ob-
jects using [ALT] + [SHIFT] plus the corresponding mouse buttons. This has been imple-
mented specifically for ALIAS Studio Tool Users.
− Save Camera Angle With Screenshots: Checking the Save Camera Angle With
Screenshots checkbox saves the camera angle the screenshot was taken to the list of
camera angles, which will appear in the Camera tab with the same name as the screen-
shot name.
− Transparent Dialogs: Will make all dialogs transparent when checked.

HyperShot Materials
HyperShot includes a material library that contains many pre-configured materials. All materials
are based on scientifically accurate materials that contain the accurate mathematical description.
Each of these pre-configured materials contains of several user-definable parameters that allow
you to both customize how the material looks and define certain material types.
This chapter lists each material and its parameters. Please see the section on Materialsfor infor-
mation about working with materials.
Anisotropic
This material simulates brushed finishes on metallic surfaces. The material’s parameters are:
• Diffuse: Specifies the color of the material’s diffuse reflectivity.
• Specular: Specifies the color of the material’s specular highlight.
• Roughness x: Controls the roughness of the grain. Typical values are between 0 and 0.6.
• Roughness y: Controls the highlight of the grain. Higher numbers result in a broader high-
light roughness of the material’s specular component. Typical values are between 0 and 0.6.
• Angle: Controls the direction of the grain.
• Glossy samples: Use glossy samples to compute the glossy reflections on the material. For
high roughness, increasing this value to 8-16 or more will reduce noise in the reflections, and
give a more accurate representation of the rough surface finish.
Diffuse
This simple material simulates matte opaque surfaces. This material’s parameters are:
• Diffuse: Specifies the material’s color.
Flat
The Flat material is a material that is perfectly suited for masking. It is, as the name suggests, a
material that is completely flat and only has the color parameter that can be changed.
General
The General material is a material that can be uses to simulate a wide variety of materials. It is
currently HyperShot’s material that enables users to texture map, bump map, and apply decals.
This material’s parameters are:
• Ambient: Specifies the material’s constant indirect diffuse illumination. It is like an emissive
shader.

• Alpha [0 - 1]: Determines the transparency of the material. When making an object com-
pletely transparent (alpha = 0), the object will still cast a shadow.
• Reflectivity: Controls the reflectivity of the environment in the object.
• Diffuse environment: The multiplier of how much diffuse light to receive from the environ-
ment. It is recommended to leave the value at 1.
• TextureModulate: The multiplier between the diffuse and texture color. If textureModulate is
checked off, you will see the diffuse color of the surface.
• ShadowModulate: When checked, it takes the alpha channel of the applied texture into con-
sideration to allow light to pass through.
• Texture: Applies texture (diffuse map) to a surface if texture coordinates are present. Sup-
port formats are jpeg, tiff, targa, dds, and hdr. When using an HDRI as a texture, the object
becomes an actual lightsource in the scene.
• Texture shift s: Shift the texture in u direction of the surface. Negative values will flip the tex-
ture.
• Texture shift t: Shift the texture in v direction of the surface. Negative values will flip the tex-
ture.
• Texture tile s: Repeat the texture in u direction of the surface.
• Texture wrapmode t: Determines whether the texture should be repeated (if checked) in u
direction.
• Texture wrapmode s: Determines whether the texture should be repeated (if checked) in v
direction.
• Bumptexture: Applies bump texture to the object. It can be used in conjunction with a texture
map, or by itself. Any bump texture that is used has to be normal mapped. Use Photoshop to
normal map the texture, or download the NVIDIA Texture Tools Alpha 2 from
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/texture tools.html to turn a jpeg texture into a normal
mapped dds texture.
• Bumptexture shift s: Shift the bump texture in u direction of the surface.
• Bumptexture shift t: Shift the bump texture in v direction of the surface.
• Bumptexture tile s: Repeat the bump texture in u direction of the surface.
• Bumptexture tile t: Repeat the bump texture in v direction of the surface.
• Bumptexture wrapmode t: Determines whether the bump texture should be repeated (if
checked) in u direction.
• Bumptexture wrapmode s: Determines whether the bump texture should be repeated (if
checked) in v direction.
• Bumptexture height: Determines the height of the bump texture. Positive and negative val-
ues are accepted.
• Specularmap: Applies the texture of the highlight and reflections. Common use is for control-
ling where the reflection should show up on the surface. Grid patterns are a good example
where specular maps are helpful to obtain realistic results.
• Specular shift s: Shift the specular map in u direction of the surface.
• Specular shift t: Shift the specular map in v direction of the surface.
• Specular tile s: Repeat the specular map in u direction of the surface.

• Specular tile t: Repeat the specular map in v direction of the surface.

• Specular wrapmode t: Determines whether the specular map should be repeated (if
checked) in u direction.
• Specular wrapmode s: Determines whether the specular map should be repeated (if
checked) in v direction.
Glass
The Glass material is a specialized material that is optimized for windows. It can simulate both
single paned and double-paned windows (i.e. windows modeled using either a single polygon or
multiple polygons). Typical applications are the windshield and headlamp of an automobile, or
window glass. This materials parameters are:
• Ior: Specifies the materials index of refraction. Air has ior=1.0, water has ior=1.33, and typical
glass has an ior 1.4-1.7. It also affects the reflectivity of the material. When using a surface
without thickness (surface rather than solid), the index of refraction will only effect the reflec-
tivity of the surface, but not refract.
• Two sided: This option should be turned on when working with “solids”. A “solid” will de-
scribed as two surfaces close together. In 3D systems that cannot create “solid”, the user
may have created 2 surfaces closely together. Inside HyperShot, the representation is iden-
tical. In this case, two sided should we checked to give the effect of solid glass. The ior will
now have an effect. Checking twosided for single surface will turn everything between the
outside surface and the object behind it visually into solid glass. A sphere will turn into a solid
glass ball, for example.
• Transmission: Specifies the color of the glass.
Leather
This material simulates leather procedurally. This materials parameters are:
• Color1: The color of the leather surface.
• Color2: The color of the leather cracks.
• Specularity: Specifies the materials specular (highlight). It determines the shininess of the
leather.
• Roughness: The roughness of the leather surface.
• Glossy samples: Use s samples to compute the glossy reflections on the material. For high
roughness, increasing this value to 8-16 or more will reduce noise in the reflections, and give
a more accurate representation of the rough surface finish.
• Bumpiness: The amount of bumpiness, cracks, etc., in the leather.
• Scale: The scale of the leather. Decreasing the scale increases the distance between cracks
in the leather.
Metal
The metal material is used to simulate metals such as aluminum, gold, and silver, with different
finishes such as polished, powder coated, cast, etc. This materials parameters are:

• Color: Specifies the metals color.

• Roughness: Controls the roughness of the materials specular component. This influences
the appearance of the highlight (light reflection). A high roughness value (larger than 0.5)
creates a rough surface with a large highlight, while a small roughness value creates a rela-
tively smooth surface with a small highlight. When changing the roughness value without
checking the glossy checkbox, the parameter will have no effect on the surface.
• Glossy: Activates glossy (blurry) reflections based on the roughness parameter. Increasing
the roughness value makes the reflections more blurry.
Metallic Paint
This material simulates metallic paints such as car paints, but can also be used to simulate multi-
layer plastic finishes. This materials parameters are:
• Base: The color of the base paint.
• Metal: The color of the metallic flake.
• Roughness: The roughness of the clear coat. Typical values range from 0.0-0.05.
• Metal roughness: The roughness of the metallic flakes. Typical values range from 0.01-0.2.
Lower values give a more uniform, “flat” spread of the metallic flake, while higher values
make the metallic flake spread rougher.
• Metal coverage: The density of the metallic flakes. Typical values range from 0.0-0.6. If a
value 1 is chosen, the base paint has no effect on the overall appearance. If the value is 0,
the flake will have no effect on the paint. Use this for obtaining non-metallic car paints, or
plastics.
• Metal samples: This determines the quality of the metallic paint. Higher samples mean high-
er quality, but also have a direct impact on render times. A value between 8 and 16 is usually
good for lower end systems, while higher end systems will handle higher values efficiently.
• Ior: The index of refraction of the clear coat. It determines the refraction as well as the shine
of the clear coat. Typical value ranges are 1.3-1.6 for car paint, below that for plastics. Values
lower than 1 will have no effect.
Plastic
The Plastic material is optimized to simulate many plastic types. This material’s parameters are:
• Diffuse transmission: Specifies the translucency of the material. If the color is all black (0, 0,
0), then the material is solid.
• Specular transmission: Specifies the transparency of the material’s. If the color is all black
(0, 0, 0), then the material is opaque.
• Roughness: Controls the roughness of the material’s specular component. This influences

checking glossy checkbox, the parameter.
• Fresnel: Determines whether the material is reflective or not. The Fresnel checkbox must be
checked in order for the material to appear reflective.
• Ior: Specifies the material’s index of refraction. Air has ior=1.0, water has ior=1.33, and typi-
cal glass has ior 1.4-1.7. It also affects the reflectivity of the material, which is tied to the
Fresnel parameter. In order for a material to appear reflective, the Fresnel parameter must be
checked.
Solid Glass
The Solid Glass material is a specialized material that allows the accurate representation of any
type of glass, including crystal and gem stones such as emerald, ruby, diamond et al. It also can
be used to simulate various types of clear or translucent plastic. This material’s parameters are:
• Ior: Specifies the material’s index of refraction. Air has ior=1.0, water has ior=1.33, and typi-
cal glass has ior 1.4-1.7. It also affects the reflectivity of the material.
• Ior out: Specifies the index of refraction of the object in which the glass is placed. In most
cases this “object” is the environment sphere. Therefore the value stays at 1, which is the ior
of air.
• Transmission: Specifies the color of the glass.
• Transmission out: Specifies the color of the object in which the glass is placed. In most
cases this “object” is the environment sphere. Therefore the color stays white, which is the
“color of air”.
• Thickness: Specifies the thickness at which the color is given as defined by the transmission
parameter.
• Roughness: Controls the roughness of the material’s specular component. This influences
checking the glossy checkbox, the parameter will have no effect on the surface.
• Abbe number: Controls the material’s dispersion, which is the variation of the refractive in-
dex with wavelength. The Abbe number is material specific.

• Dispersion samples: Controls the quality of the dispersion set under the abbe_number. The
default setting is 3. Higher values will have a significant impact on performance in both real-
time and offline raytracing.
Thinfilm
This material simulates thin film interference phenomena as seen in soap bubbles, oil slicks, and
protective coatings. This material can be used to simulate the protective and anti-glare coating on
headlamps, LCD screens et al. The material’s parameters are:
• Ior: The index of refraction of the film. Typical values for this material range from 1.3-1.7.
• Thickness: Thickness of the film (in nanometers).
Wireframe
This material allows the user to visualize the object in a wireframe representation based on the
tessellation of the object The material’s parameters are:
• Width: Determines the thickness of the edges of the polygons.
• Wire color: Specifies the color of the wireframe.
• Base color: Specifies the fill color of the polygons.
• Base transmission: Specifies the transmission fill color of the polygons. Setting the color to
white will make the polygons appear transparent.
• Backside base color: Specifies the backside fill color of the polygons.
• Backside wire color: Specifies the backside color of the wireframe.

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Bunkspeed, Inc. HyperShot User Manual: PC Edition 1.9.

Getting Started ..............................................................................................................6

How HyperShot Works................................................................................................ 15

Your First HyperShot Scene ....................................................................................... 15

Right Mouse Button Dialog Box ................................................................................. 19

Launching HyperShot ................................................................................................. 20

Moving the Camera ..................................................................................................... 26

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Cycling Through Cameras ...................................................................................................... 27

HDRI Environment Images ......................................................................................... 27

Background Images .................................................................................................... 28

Working with 3D Objects ............................................................................................ 29

The HyperShot Menu .................................................................................................. 36

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• Revolutionary GUI simplicity

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Graphics card: Any

Internet connection: required for download and activation

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3. Click Next. The License Agreement window appears.

4. Read the license agreement, then

6. To accept the default HyperShot installation folder, click Next.

8. Click Finish to exit the HyperShot installation wizard.

1. Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.

2. Launch HyperShot. The License Activation window appears.

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3. Enter your information in the information fields.

HyperShot is now installed and ready for use.

Supported File Formats

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HyperShot Files/Folder Structure

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• Screenshots: Default location for all renderings.

How HyperShot Works

Your First HyperShot Scene

2. Click the Open Model icon. The file browser appears.

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5. Press [M]. The Material Library appears.

6. Press [SHIFT] while left-clicking the material you want to select.

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File and Application Controls

Right Mouse Button Dialog Box

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Material Properties: Open the material edit dialog.

Hide Part: Hides the current part.

Undo Hide Part: Shows the last hidden part.

Show All Parts: Shows all hidden parts.

Undo Delete Part: Brings back the last deleted part.

Options Dialog: Opens the HyperShot Menu.

To exit HyperShot, either select File>Quit or press [CTRL]+[Q].

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Importing OBJ Files

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Importing SolidWorks Files

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Importing Pro/ENGINEER Files