Why has KeyShot for ZBrush been discontinued? However, the corresponding page on the Luxion website now directs users to a KeyShot Pro subscription, KeyShot having gone subscription-only at the start of the year.Īlthough that lets users render assets from any source, not just ZBrush, it’s a lot more expensive.Īt $1,118/year, even the first payment is more than twice the cost of the old perpetual licences for the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge and KeyShot for ZBrush Pro. The KeyShot integration – the old bridge plugin – now comes pre-installed with ZBrush. Now: free ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge, plus $1,188/year KeyShot Pro subscription It cost $200 or $400, depending on whether you needed the feature set of the HD or Pro edition of KeyShot.īoth products were sold through the ZBrush online store, although only the bridge plugin was actually developed by Pixologic, then the developer of ZBrush itself. The cheapest option was KeyShot for ZBrush, a low-cost edition of the renderer designed specifically for use with ZBrush, with import of assets from other software having been disabled. To do so, users needed the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge plugin, which cost $149, and any edition of KeyShot. That was a surprise, as for the past seven years, KeyShot has been the de facto third-party ZBrush renderer, with a dedicated button in the software to switch from ZBrush’s own BPR renders to KeyShot. We noticed that Luxion, its developer, no longer includes ZBrush in its list of KeyShot integrations. The ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge, which connected the sculpting software to the renderer, is now free, but KeyShot for ZBrush, the low-cost edition of the renderer, has been discontinued.Īrtists looking for new licenses of KeyShot to use with ZBrush, or existing users looking to upgrade to a newer version, will now need to take out a KeyShot Pro subscription, which have a base price of $1,188/year.īefore: $149 ZBrush to Keyshot Bridge, plus $400 KeyShot for ZBrush ProĪlthough the change seems to have been made around three months ago, we only spotted it when researching a story on KeyShot 11.2, the latest version of the renderer, which shipped this month. There is good news and bad news for ZBrush users hoping to render their sculpts with KeyShot. The plugin itself is now free, and comes pre-installed with ZBrush, but KeyShot for ZBrush, the old low-cost edition of the renderer, has been discontinued. The original teaser for the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge.

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