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
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  
 
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
Transparent sky option
Transparent overlay support
Transparent TIFF loading, rendering, and saving
Adjustable Camera Window aspect ratio
Floating point elevation storage option
Overlay manager window
Bump mapping  
Includes 32 bit OS support  
Windows only
Windows only
Includes  64 bit OS support  
Shapefile support  
 
Planimetric oblique relief rendering  
 
Copies GeoTIFF tags from one image to another  
 
Tabbed settings panel
Importable background tree maps  
Improved terrain clipping  
Adjustable water reflectivity  
Adjustable brightness and contrast  
Creates contour maps from DEMs  
Creates viewshed maps  
 
Improved shapefile support  
 
Multiple lights  
 
Exports vector artwork  
 
Texture shading  
IMG DEM Import  
Ray Trace Preview