VRED 2024.2 - Design vs. Professional, Full Product Comparison Chart

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Please find below our VRED 2024.2 Design vs. Professional Product Comparison Chart and check out our latest What´s New online documentation.

Data Import/Export & Preparation	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
CAD Data Import Formats Native support of more than 40 different CAD formats, WIRE, CatiaV5, NX, JT, IGS, STEP, IFC, 3MF...	✔	✔	✔
Other 3D Import Formats Alembic, C4D, 3DS, CSB, OSB, OBJ, DWF, VRML, *FBX, *PLMXML	✔	✔	✔
FBX File Import Format Support for Cameras, Joints, Skins, Keyframe & Vertex Animations, Lights, UV´s	✔	✔	✔
PLMXML Import	✔	✔	✔
Alias Interoperability Cameras, Lights, Variants, Switch Materials, Template Geometry, Layer, Layer Folder, empty Layers, Alias Reference Assemblies	✔	✔	✔
True NURBS Shell and Components allow on demand re-tesselation of CAD data at any time	✔	✔	✔
Smart References CAD assembly monitoring and work with non-monolithic VRED files	✔	✔	✔
Geometry Editor	✔	✔	✔
Decore Allows users to reduce 3D models to visually relevant information	✔	✔	✔
Optimization Tools	✔	✔	✔
Scene Graph Editor	✔	✔	✔
Node Attribute Editor	✔	✔	✔
Asset Manager	✔	✔	✔
Example Asset Installer Geometries, Materials, Environments, Sceneplates	✔	✔	✔
Web Shops Substance, Maground, Domeble, VRED Library	✔	✔	✔
Multiple Render Windows	✔	✔	✔
Customizable UI	✔	✔	✔
Selection Modes Select Components, Objects, Groups, Sceneplates, by Material, Adjacency, References, Parent, Hierarchy, Object Behind	✔	✔	✔
UV Editor Material UV- & Lightmap UV Set	✔	✔	✔
Metadata Editor	✔	✔	✔
Scene Tags	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Data Import/Export & Preparation	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
File Export Formats VPB & OSB, CSB, FBX, OBJ, WRL, 3MF, STL, JT, SLP *VRED LE is limited to VPB & OSB export	★	✔	✔
A/B Side Handling Toggle visibility of non-visualization relevant data without removing them	✔	✘	✔

Lighting & Materials	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Delta Lights Point, Spot, Directional	✔	✔	✔
Area & Objects Lights Disc, Rectangular & Spherical Lights	✔	✔	✔
Light Textures	✔	✔	✔
HDR & LDR Image Based Lighting	✔	✔	✔
Skylight Environment	✔	✔	✔
Real-time Shadows Real-time shadow map support for Delta, Area & Object Lights	✔	✔	✔
Real-time Shadow for Environments	✔	✔	✔
HDR Light Studio Live Link Area Light support with Tungsten Release or higher	✔	✔	✔
VRED Material Types	✔	✔	✔
Rounded Edges Ratyracing only	✔	✔	✔
Multi Pass Material	✔	✔	✔
Layered Material	✔	✔	✔
Switch Material	✔	✔	✔
X-Ray Material	✔	✔	✔
Subsurface Scattering	✔	✔	✔
Substance - SBSAR Material	✔	✔	✔
MaterialX	✔	✔	✔
Nvidia - MDL	✔	✔	✔
Light and Shadow Baking Vertex- & Texture-based AO, Shadows & Light and Shadows on CPU & GPU (Cluster). *GPU only in VRED Professional	✔	✔	✔
IES Light Profiles	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Lighting & Materials	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Volume Rendering Homo- & heterogenous Scatter Volumes, VDB Volumes * VRED Design read-only support	✔	★	✔
Rayfiles Visualization Plain ASCII, Osram ASCII & ray file format, LucidShape ASCII, binary & spectral ray file format, Speos ASCII & ray file format (RAY_SPEOS10 & RAY_SPEOS20	✔	✘	✔
X-Rite BTF Materials * VRED Design read-only support	✔	★	✔
X-Rite AxF Materials * VRED Design read-only support	✔	★	✔
Office Color Science - BRDF Materials * VRED Design read-only support	✔	★	✔

Camera & Effects	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Physical Lens Attributes	✔	✔	✔
Camera Projection Modes Perspective, Orthographic, Spherical Map, Peters Map, Vertical Cross, Horizontal Cross, Omnidirectional Stereo, Custom Matrix	✔	✔	✔
Tone Mapping Reinhard Luminance/RGB, Logarithmic Luminance/RGB, Filmic Tone Mapping, Physical Camera, Luminance & Illuminance	✔	✔	✔
Depth of Field Realtime- & Stillframe DoF	✔	✔	✔
Motion Blur	✔	✔	✔
Glow	✔	✔	✔
Glare	✔	✔	✔
Fog	✔	✔	✔
Lens Flares	✔	✔	✔
ACES Color Space ACES Color Space for all RGB Tone Mappers	✔	✔	✔
Vignette Effect	✔	✔	✔
Camera Blend Maps	✔	✔	✔
Camera Collision Detection	✔	✔	✔
Camera / Backplate Matching	✔	✔	✔

Rendering	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Display Clustering - OpenGL	✔	✔	✔
H/W Rendering Modes Realistic, Vertex/Face Normal, Baked AO, Indirect Illumination, Non- Photorealistic Rendering	✔	✔	✔
Standard Pixel Filters Triangle, Gaussian, B-spline	✔	✔	✔
NVIDIA DLSS-RR (Deep Learning Super Sampling - Ray Reconstruction) Requires GPU with NVIDIA Tensor Core technology	✔	✔	✔
Variable Rate Shading Desktop & Content adaptive, Foveated rendering support for HMD´s	✔	✔	✔
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion	✔	✔	✔
Transparency Modes Object Sorting & Depth Peeling	✔	✔	✔
Downscale Downscales Raytracing render view resolution	✔	✔	✔
Offline Render Passes Color-, Material-, Illumination-, Image Processing-, Auxilary Channels	✔	✔	✔
Variant Set Render Configure and render combinations of Variant Sets within the Render Setting module	✔	✔	✔
Render Queue	✔	✔	✔
32 Bit Output	✔	✔	✔
ICC Color Profiles	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Rendering	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Display Cluster – Raytracing	✔	✘	✔
H/W Rendering Modes Analytic Rendering	✔	✘	✔
Off-line Render Clustering * Requires additional Render Nodes for VRED Design, VRED Pro can be clustered with other Pro´s	✔	★	✔
Real-time Raytracing Cluster	✔	✘	✔
Cluster Manager	✔	✘	✔
Real-time Render Passes	✔	✘	✔
Render Layers	✔	✘	✔
AI GPU & CPU Denoise Filter for Raytracing NVIDIA OptiX AI-accelerated & Intel Open Image Denoiser	✔	✘	✔
GPU Raytracing Supported on NVIDIA GPUs with Maxwell or newer architecture	✔	✘	✔
Advanced Pixel Filters Box, Mitchell Netravalli, Lanczos, Catmull Rom, Sharp Triangle, Sharp Gaussian, Sharp B-Spline	✔	✘	✔
Photon Mapping with Caustics	✔	✘	✔
Spectral Rendering Color Sprectrum using FWHM. Optis/Osram Spectrum file support	✔	✘	✔
Photometric Rendering Parameters	✔	✘	✔
Raytrace Material Overrides Allows changing Raytrace Settings for Materials	✔	✘	✔
Sequencer	✔	✘	✔
Render Farm Support Supports integration with render farm solutions, such as Deadline, Qube/pipeline FX, Smedge. Note, requires custom integration	✔	✘	✔
Histogram Shows Histogram in Viewport for R, G, B, Logarithmic Scale & Grayscale	✔	✘	✔
Image Meta Data Saves Render Settings, Cameras, Scenegraph visibility and Material Switch state in Image Meta Data	✔	✘	✔

Storytelling	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Sceneplates 2D Backplates (Images, Image Sequences) & 2D Frontplates (Text, Images, Image Sequences, HTML5* read only in VRED Design)	✔	✔	✔
3D Environments	✔	✔	✔
Variants & Variant Sets	✔	✔	✔
Camera Viewpoints	✔	✔	✔
Curve Animations	✔	✔	✔
Clip Maker with Animation Wizard	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Storytelling	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Advanced Animation Capabilities ClipMaker Add Sequence, VRML Animation Editor	✔	✘	✔
Additional Scenegraph Nodes Material Group, ClipPlane, Billboard, Matrix Transform, Sound & Sound Obstructer, Distance LOD, Stereo Switch, Host Switch	✔	✘	✔

Evaluation	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Grid & Ruler	✔	✔	✔
Standard Measurements Point/Point, Point/Object, Object/Object, Line/Object & Circle Measurement	✔	✔	✔
Clipping	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Evaluation	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Direct NURBS Rendering	✔	✘	✔
Gap Analysis	✔	✘	✔
Surface Analysis Analytic rendering modes for high end surface evaluation, Alias Curvature Mode on nurbs data	✔	✘	✔
3D Annotations	✔	✘	✔
Advanced Measurements Gap Measurement	✔	✘	✔

Presentation & Communication	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
HDR10 Display Support	✔	✔	✔
OpenVR & OpenXR* Support * Not supported yet: Full Python support, Eye Tracking & Foveated Rendering, Windows MR, Varjo Quad viewport & Depth estimation	✔	✔	✔
Oculus Rift & Rift S, HTC VIVE, VIVE Pro, VIVE Pro 2, VIVE Pro Eye, VIVE Cosmos & VIVE Cosmos Elite, WinMR, HP Reverb, HP Reverb G2, VRHero/XTAL, StarVR , Varjo VR-1, VR-2, XR-1, XR-3, Aero HMD & Logitech VR Ink Pilot Support WinMR Headsets and HP Reverb HMD are supported via OpenVR	✔	✔	✔
VR/Desktop Multi- User Collaboration Avatar & Controller representation, OOTB Teleport, Laser pointer, VR menu & 3D spatial speech & audio support	✔	✔	✔
Stereo SLI	✔	✔	✔
3D Mouse & Joystick Support	✔	✔	✔
Touch Sensors	✔	✔	✔
Standard Stereo Modes Active (Double Buffer), Horizontal- & Vertical Interlaced, Left/Right & Top/Bottom Split, Separate Left- & Right Eye	✔	✔	✔
Remote Session Connection	✔	✔	✔
Publish Project / Package Save a package containing all referenced data and content. Encryption & Timestamp support	✔	✔	✔
Shared Views	✔	✔	✔
Advanced Presentation & Communication	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
VRED Go Publish Windows Executables	✘	✘	✔
VR Hand Interaction * limited interaction in VRED Design if scene was not prepared in VRED Pro before	✔	★	✔
HTML5 Media Editor * read only in VRED Design	✔	★	✔
Anaglyphic Stereo Modes Red/Cyan, Blue/Yellow, Green/Magenta	✔	✘	✔
VRPN Motion Tracking	✔	✘	✔
VRED Presenter Included in the VRED Pro installation package	✘	✘	✔
VRED App Web/Mobile presentation controller	✔	✘	✔
VRED Stream App Web interface to navigate variant sets, viewpoints, quality settings & create/join collaboration sessions	✔	✘	✔
VRED Stream JPEG, PNG (with Alpha Channel)  & H264 (H264 codec must be installed)	✔	✘	✔

Scripting	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
External Web Interface	✔	✔	✔
Web API Python v2 API access via JavaScript	✔	✔	✔

Advanced Scripting	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Python 3 Scripting API with Editor * Script execution only in VRED Design	✔	★	✔
Script Plugins Add plugins & modules to main menu bar	✔	✘	✔
Command Line Terminal	✔	✘	✔

ADP	VRED LE	VRED Design	VRED Professional
Opt-in/Opt-out options By participating in the program, you add valuable input that helps us to decide how to improve the overall customer experience with Autodesk software	✘	✔	✔

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