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OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration

Postby win » Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:47 am

win Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:47 am
OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, MotionBuilder, Unreal Engine 4, and Digital Molecular Matter Engine

Versatile holographic video pipeline using OctaneRender™ also detailed, along with powerful uses of holographic data for 3D simulations

SIGGRAPH 2014, VANCOUVER, Canada – August 13, 2014 – Cloud graphics company, OTOY Inc., today announced expanded support for its acclaimed OctaneRender™ software, giving artists and animators more choice in where and how they work and accelerating content creation by bringing lightning fast true-to-life rendering to four more popular 3D applications. Along with previously announced plugins for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects, OctaneRender™ plugins are also in development for The Foundry’s NUKE compositing software, Side Effects Software’s Houdini™ 3D animation software, Autodesk’s MotionBuilder® 3D character animation software, and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

Following the unveiling this week of holographic video, a groundbreaking new media format for immersive, photorealistic content, OTOY also revealed further details of the content pipeline that will allow artists, animators, designers and engineers to capture, create, publish, and display their own holographic videos by harnessing light field rendering technology in OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition in the months to come. OTOY also revealed new means of applying the same holographic light field data within 3D engines such as Unreal, physical simulation engines such as Pixelux’s Digital Molecular Matter (DMM) Engine, and audio engines to simplify design of games and other interactive applications while improving realism. OTOY is demonstrating both OctaneRender™ and ORBX holographic video this week at the annual international conference on computer graphics, SIGGRAPH 2014, in booth 1447 of the Vancouver Convention Center.

“OTOY has achieved the impossible task of simplifying the complex science of true-to-life rendering down to a series of mouse clicks,” said Vik Sohal, co-founder of Pixelux. “With the integration of Pixelux’s Digital Molecular Matter Engine into OctaneRender Cloud Edition, we’re providing the same intuitive simplicity to finite-element-based destruction, letting content creators apply the intricate math behind the material properties and object interactions that make up the real world without needing to be simulation experts themselves.”

“Working with a growing list of exceptional partners, OTOY continues to make OctaneRender more accessible to content creators everywhere while adding functionality,” said Jules Urbach, Founder and CEO, OTOY. “Holographic video is an exceedingly elegant format that simplifies the production and sharing of incredible 3D experiences while holographic light field data opens the door to extraordinarily sophisticated, yet easy to implement simulations of physics and audio, and streamlined game and 3D application development. OTOY’s holographic video pipeline is flexible not only for how it allows content creators to work, but also for the myriad of options content creators will have in harnessing holographic data to make their work easier.”



Extending the value of holographic data through OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition

OctaneRender™ is renowned for its simplicity and ease-of-use, taking advanced material rendering concepts that traditionally have required knowledge of shader programming, and transforming photorealistic scene-building to a simple point-and-click exercise using OctaneRender™’s efficient node graph. Now OTOY is bringing the same simplicity to other advanced simulation elements including physics, audio, and other 3D engines in its forthcoming OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition, harnessing the holographic data for faster, more accurate simulations.

> Improving destruction simulations – Pixelux’s acclaimed DMM Engine is the physical simulation engine that will be integrated into OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition, giving content creators access to the same advanced technology used to create high-end destruction simulations for major motion pictures. With the integration, content creators will have an easy means of applying real-world physical simulation to their scenes without worrying about performance limits. Using DMM’s incredible ability to allow the simulation of complex structures bending and breaking made of anything from diamond to jelly, content creators will be able to create the visual reality to match their imagination all through advanced simulation.

> Improving audio simulations – Audio has always been a challenge for interactive 3D scenes, particularly for VR experiences that are wholly immersive. Using holographic data within OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition, complex acoustic simulations can be made to match a rendered scene perfectly, including the way audio bounces off of objects in a scene much the way light does. Combined with DMM, audio associated with the collision, bending, tearing, and fracture of objects within a scene can also be easily simulated.

> Supporting other 3D engines – For game development or the production of interactive environments for design, architecture, and attractions, other 3D rendering engines may be desired rather than OctaneRender™’s. OTOY’s cloud-based, real-time photorealistic 3D engine, Brigade, and Epic’s Unreal Engine will be supported, allowing for holographic data to be used as environment maps simplifying things such as collision detection.



Building out the holographic video pipeline

OTOY’s end-to-end pipeline brings together several technologies for the production and publishing of holographic videos and supports the most popular third-party software so that content creators can work where and how they prefer:

> Capture: OTOY’s LightStage™ marks the first step in creating true-to-life holographic videos, enabling the capturing of people, objects, or environments to generate virtually perfect “digital doubles”.

> Create: Whether using LightStage™ to capture real-world objects or forgoing that step for the purposes of creating entirely computer-generated scenes, OctaneRender™,OTOY’s suite of advanced 3D rendering software for workstations and the cloud, is the key ingredient in bringing the visual elements of holographic video to life. Using OctaneRender™ Standalone Edition, or an OctaneRender™ plugin for one of more than 20 of the most popular 3D modelling applications, content creators can optionally import objects captured within LightStage or existing 3D assets from other film or entertainment properties, then build their scene in their application of choice, saving it to a static, non-holographic .ORBX file.

> Publish: To export the static .ORBX scene file to an interactive holographic video, content creators will need to use OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition which will support one-click exporting to holographic video. For those looking to enable movement within a scene, OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition will also export to Brigade. Virtual reality head-mounted displays such as the Oculus Rift will also be supported, allowing holographic videos to be exported and immediately viewed.

OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition and the .ORBX holographic video player are both currently in closed betas and will be released to content creators later this year. Integration of Pixelux’s DMM Engine will also be available on OctaneRender™ Cloud Edition at that time. OctaneRender™ plugins for Photoshop, After Effects, NUKE, Houdini, MotionBuilder, and Unreal Engine 4 will be available this year. For more information, or to become a part of the OctaneRender™ and holographic video ecosystem, contact OTOY at [email protected].

About OTOY Inc.

OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for media and entertainment organizations around the world. OTOY’s Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud. For more information, visit www.otoy.com.



Additional Resources:

> Read more about OTOY’s holographic video announcement on the OTOY blog here.

> See OTOY’s demonstration of holographic video on YouTube here.

> Arrange a meeting with OTOY at SIGGRAPH 2014, August 12-14, booth 1447 in the Vancouver Convention Center by contacting us here.

> See video and examples of LightStage™ on YouTube here.

> Get more images rendered using OTOY software on OTOY’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/OTOY/photos_streamhere.

> Read more details about the versatile .ORBX interchange file format on OTOY’s blog here.

> Follow OTOY on Facebook and Twitter.

> Download the OTOY logo here.

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—OTOY’s Brigade real-time pathtracing engine working with Unreal Engine 4





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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby alien » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:08 am

alien Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:08 am
wow.. thats a good news.. but the pricing for each plugin is a problem.. if it was like redshift / arnold that will be great (plugins are free you pay for core only). and special pricing for rendernodes. This was it make more sense specially for c4d users as we don't pay extra for rendering nodes
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby j7th » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:21 am

j7th Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:21 am
Sorry, Octane Render or Brigade for Unreal Engine 4, or both?
The license is requred on developer side or also on gamer side?
It will be available for indie game developers or only for large companies?

P.S thanks for Houdini integration, any plans for The Foundry Katana?
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby radiant » Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:02 pm

radiant Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:02 pm
It will be seeing how it will work within nuke, givens its 3D system is mostly for projection mappings and such (still learning it ;) )
Also how will the unreal engine plugin work, given that its a 20$ per month cycle. Will the octane one be a 1 hit purchase and will be updated with each monthly release? I currently stopped by subscription a few months ago, do i have to have the current build of UE?

Also given all of these intergrations will we see all of these piplines within the standalone? with a universal octane exporter? Replacing the obj/mlt?
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby emihich » Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:58 pm

emihich Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:58 pm
Thank you !After Effects integration and Photoshop integration is a revolution.
It is more than good enough, However :
Consider Clarisse in the future, it is so similar to Octane but the Renderer is nothing like Octane ! ;)
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby bartosh44 » Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:32 pm

bartosh44 Thu Aug 14, 2014 7:32 pm
What about Zbrush 4R7? As Octane 2.0 and Zbrush user I think it would be great if you will make seamless rendering engine for Zbrush.
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby xxdanbrowne » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:51 pm

xxdanbrowne Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:51 pm
Not sure on whether or not this is a plugin for unreal or merely hosting unreal on the octane cloud and streaming it....

So which is it guys?
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby mastergoo » Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:11 am

mastergoo Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:11 am
Waiting for Photoshop and AfterEffects plugin=) This seems to be very useful. Thanks.
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby ivankio » Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:45 am

ivankio Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:45 am
Wow! What's next? OctaneRender for Microsoft Excel? :P
Amazing how portable it is. Well done.

I'm really looking forward on the Unreal port. I would appreciate some hints on the future since we are on topic:
1. Is the scene reconstruction being reworked? Is it intended to support everything a typical interactive application does? Things like spawning, deforming and destroying entities. Or will it be more walkthrough-maker-ish?
2. Why is "OctaneRender" being used instead of "Brigade"?

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If Brigade is still a thing, I really suggest Otoy would study Act3D's Quest3D as the user's tool for development of interactive games/applications. Quest3D is still an awesome tool for visual scripting and so was long before conservative game developers would admit visual scripting usefulness after the ascension through Epic's Kismet and Blueprints, Crytek's Flow, Playmaker, Antares and more commonly shaders editors and rigging tools everywhere.

I credit Act3D not only for pioneering, I find Quest3D still more empowering and fast to work with than the highly abstract blueprints black boxes of Unreal Engine. Quest3D nodes design produces more recognizable logic trees allowing the view of a much bigger scope of the application being programmed instead of the isolated pieces of blueprint that do not have a clear dependency track. There's also the advantages of a interpreted language that is quite stable and crash-free (now more than in 2004 we have spare computing power to use interpreted languages for WYSIWYG) that is just so good on usability.

The problem with Quest3D was it's unpopularity and consequent lack of growth. They couldn't justify migrating it's graphics engine past DirectX 9, port to other platforms, fix the importing pipeline on it's peak popularity, and the OO workflow feels somewhat rushed in version 4 before they would turn their focus straight to the architectural visualization market with Lumion, unofficially dropping the offer of the development tool since most of Quest3D users were in the arch viz segment.
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Re: OTOY expands OctaneRender™ integration to NUKE, Houdini, Mot

Postby cgstrive » Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:52 am

cgstrive Sun Aug 17, 2014 6:52 am
Dear Octane team. It's amazing to see you guys expand so fast, but please also concentrate on the DEPTH of these implementations and understand the production needs of these very softwares you target.
For instance houdini is probably the most complex 3d software on the market with a rather specific function - vfx for video production. Noone will render a 360 teapot with DOF and call it a day. Volumetrics are important, passes are important, scripting control is very important - none of what you have. The same applies to NUKE that is all about working with PASSES.

So let me ask - though so much energy is put into expansion, why are the existing implementations still "modest"? I own a max license and frankly i am a bit annoyed how shallow the material integration is (black in viewport, no shell/multimat*); lights do not update on moving (killing interactivity/forcing you to rerender and wait 10seconds as you reposition lights); MAINLY that you cannot even save RENDER PRESET and that it is very hard to batch out animation or access "DEEP CHANNEL" automatically because SCRIPTING API is non existent (forcing you to a lot of manual labor). Also these "deep channels" are nice and all, but even leading architecture company in this country refuses to use octane in max despite it's insane speed and realism because world class architecture cannot rely on 1 press renders but needs artistic control over image(illumination/lights, reflections, masks etc) to create the MOOD in composition.

The point is - you are quick to expand but the implementation, even in 3ds max, makes it very hard to apply in production scenario. With Nuke and Houdini i am left scratching my head(being user of both), because such shallow integration will not cut it. At very least make sure every aspect is accessible and scriptable so users can work around present constraints as the software matures.

Thank you
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