Feature
Comparison
Features and benefits |
Natural Scene Designer 5 |
Natural Scene Designer Pro 7 |
Natural Scene Designer Premium 7 | Natural Scene Designer Pro 6 |
Views terrain from any perspective or point of view |
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Creates animations and 360 degree panoramas |
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Imports and exports DEMS (Digital Elevation Models) |
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Multiple CPU ray tracing | ![]() |
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Creates shaded relief maps |
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Creates rocks, trees, and bushes which can be exported |
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Seamlessly combines multiple terrain models |
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Includes built-in terrain editor |
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Positions sun according to date and time |
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Imports and renders 3D objects |
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Loads terrain models by selecting them on a map |
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Reprojects terrain models |
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Reprojects images |
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Decollars maps | ![]() |
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Georeferences terrain models |
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Georeferences images |
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Supports US State Planes |
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Supports 230 map datums |
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Spherical earth rendering | ![]() |
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Distance, height, and sky mask rendering | ![]() |
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Transparent sky option | ![]() |
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Transparent overlay support | ![]() |
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Transparent TIFF loading, rendering, and saving | ![]() |
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Adjustable Camera Window aspect ratio | ![]() |
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Floating point elevation storage option | ![]() |
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Overlay manager window | ![]() |
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Bump mapping | ![]() |
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Includes 32 bit OS support | Windows only |
Windows only |
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Includes 64 bit OS support | ![]() |
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Shapefile support | ![]() |
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Planimetric oblique relief rendering | ![]() |
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Copies GeoTIFF tags from one image to another | ![]() |
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Tabbed settings panel | ![]() |
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Importable background tree maps | ![]() |
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Improved terrain clipping | ![]() |
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Adjustable water reflectivity | ![]() |
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Adjustable brightness and contrast | ![]() |
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Creates contour maps from DEMs | ![]() |
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Creates viewshed maps | ![]() |
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Improved shapefile support | ![]() |
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Multiple lights | ![]() |
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Exports vector artwork | ![]() |
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Texture shading | ![]() |
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IMG DEM Import | ![]() |
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Ray Trace Preview | ![]() |
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