HOOPS Luminate Documentation

Welcome to the HOOPS Luminate product documentation! HOOPS Luminate is a graphics API for all your visualization needs for photorealism and real time in high quality.

HOOPS Luminate is a C++ API, meaning it can be used immediately to start writing C/C++ applications and has no dependencies.

In this document you will find guides called books that provide collections of information on subjects within the HOOPS Luminate package. You will also find tutorials to demonstrate Luminate features and sample code in the form of tasks designed to help you in your HOOPS Luminate journey.

To get started please see our link boxes below. If it is your first time, we recommend starting with the book: Beginning with HOOPS Luminate.

If you have any questions, please see our Additional Resources section in the table of contents, check out our Contact Us page, or visit our Support Portal.

Getting Started

Beginning your journey with HOOPS Luminate, including what it is capable of, where we recommend to start, and how to find information

• Beginning with Luminate and HL Features at a Glance

• Licensing and Evaluating HOOPS Luminate

• Building a HOOPS Luminate Application

• Startup Tutorials

Books

Collections of information particular to subjects within Luminate’s features and capabilities

• Scene Graph Overview

• Building HL Materials and HL Textures and Images

• Rendering Photo-Realistic Images

• Rendering with HOOPS Luminate and Advanced Real-Time Rendering

• Importing Data and The .red File Format

Tutorials

Example implementations demonstrating HOOPS Luminate features

• Real-Time Tutorials

• Advanced Real-Time Tutorials

• Rendering Tutorials

• Miscellaneous Tutorials

Tasks

Code excerpts which demonstrate the implementation of an atomic task with HOOPS Luminate

• Application and Scenegraph

• Material, Image, and Light

• Rendering and Advanced Real-Time Rendering (ART)

• Animation and Miscellaneous

API Reference

HOOPS Luminate reference manual, listing all API methods, functions, and data structures

• Functions

• Classes and Data Structures

• Files

• Namespaces

Additional Resources

Stay up to date with the latest changes and improvements

• Release Notes

• Acknowledgements

• Community Forum

• Knowledge Base

• Support

• Contact Us