Generates photo-realistic images and movies of digital mock-ups for validation and or reuse.

Photo Studio 1 (PH1) provides users with an easy way to produce photorealistic images at the early stage of the product development. It has been designed to fit casual users needing to quickly create high quality renderings.

Product highlights

Easy to learn, easy to use photorealistic rendering solution
Photo Studio 1 (PH1) has been designed to fit the needs and skills of casual users who need to produce rendered images. From a usability perspective, only a few options are customizable and users are able to preview the results before launching computation to obtain fast results and try out different different options quickly.

Photo Studio 1 (PH1) provides users with :

• High quality photo-realistic images creation engine based on Mental Ray TM
• Simple light and viewpoint management
• Easy to use shooting, available from any V5 workbench
• Smooth shadows
• Environment samples

Fosters product design modifications - appearance validation loops
The ease of use of Photo Studio 1 (PH1) coupled with the fact that it is seamlessly integrated with CATIA V5 enable to decrease the time required to create and validate product appearance. No need to convert or export / import data, users just need to click on the icon in the V5 toolbar to start generating pictures.

Enables an early assessment of product appearance
Because it is simple to use and part of the complete V5 set of tools, it's very easy to integrate product appearance validation in the product developmentat the very beginning of the process.