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Hi there.

I've been out of the loop on Octane development for a few months now and I see there's a new file format for Octane scene sharing. It appears to be a binary format.

My question is: is this format closed & proprietary? And if not where can I read the specifications? There doesn't seem to be much info on site.

If I understand correctly it supposed to be functionally the same as Alembic - a file that contains all the scene data?

matej wrote:Hi there.

I've been out of the loop on Octane development for a few months now and I see there's a new file format for Octane scene sharing. It appears to be a binary format.

My question is: is this format closed & proprietary? And if not where can I read the specifications? There doesn't seem to be much info on site.

If I understand correctly it supposed to be functionally the same as Alembic - a file that contains all the scene data?

Orbix is a compressed file, like a zip, that contains your entire scene (although you can save only part of your scene, such as some specific node, and imported it into another scene).
It has two main purposes, one is to pack all your scene's data in one convenient file, and also it's the format used to send data to the cloud server.