For Capture 2021 the focus has been distributed equally among the three pillars of the product - design, documentation and visualisation.

With the new polygon editor you can create more complex geometries within Capture. Improvements have been made to DWG handling. MVR import/export enhances interoparability with other systems. Plots and reports are now far more customisable. A line object and a ruler has been added to the library. Special effects like flame Jets and CO2 jets are now available so as to visualise all aspects of a show along with enhancements in camera handling and rendering framerates. Last but not least there are numerous new material properties that breathe life into your designs, like normal maps, metallic and roughness textures, and alpha channel support.

Design highlights:

Extruded Polygons. Create extruded Polygons using the new Polygon library form and the new Polygon model editor.

Mirror Function. Mirror the arrangement of objects, or create a mirrored duplicate.

MVR Import/Export. Import and Export MVR models, including fixture and patch information.

More library tab filters. For fast and detailed searches

Documentation highlights

New plot editor design. A library tab has been added instead of the context menu to add insets.

Report table customisation. Report tables and columns can be renamed. The default ascending column sort order can be changed to descending.

New ruler object. Rulers with different alignments and segment lengths are now available in the library.

Visualisation highlights

Flame Jets & CO2 Jets. New particle effect technologies added in the library as built-in fixtures.

New material properties. Alpha mode & cutoff, metallic & roughness textures, normal maps, occlusion, luminance color & texture, fluorescense, back projection, double sidedness and forwardisation.

Increased projection resolutions. The resolution of gobos and framing shutter cuts has been increased from 128px to 512px.

Vortex effect. As seen in the Clay Paky A.leda B-EYEs.