HOOPS Luminate 2024

Luminate 2024 (5.4)

We are excited to announce the first release of Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS Luminate.

  • HOOPS Luminate is 3D graphic API that can produce high-quality and high-customizable renderings at interactive rates and stunning photorealistic images thanks to its rendering technologies.

  • HOOPS Luminate is a single integrated API that includes and can combine, thanks to its hybrid rendering mode, OpenGL real time rendering and photorealistic CPU-based ray/path tracing.

  • HOOPS Luminate utilizes proprietary realistic materials for ultimate quality and realism of its renderings. Leveraging their high level of customization and their physically-based rendering parameters, the realistic materials offer superior quality and fidelity.

  • HOOPS Luminate is integrated with HOOPs Visualize, enabling the development of engineering applications capable of adding high-performance, photorealistic rendering. This technology opens new opportunities for engineering applications, which can now incorporate capabilities of producing stunning realistic images, or use high-fidelity, realistic ray/path tracing for simulating sophisticated light interactions and behaviour, simulate components, materials and manufacturing quality and finishes.

Rendering quality and fidelity is becoming increasingly important in many industries. HOOPS Luminate is Tech Soft 3D’s solution for adding top-class quality and realism to your application, offering multiple rendering techniques, as well as a sophisticated proprietary algorithm and materials.

Note

For the release of HOOPS Luminate, we will be moving forward with a new version convention. As shown in the title, the release version is 2024, and will from here on continue to follow the same as our other HOOPS version products.

Key Features

Here is a compiled list of the key features of the release:

  • Advanced lighting effects for photorealistic reflections, refractions, soft shadows, caustics and global illuminations

  • Advanced realistic materials library, based on physical properties, highly customizable and optimised for both real time and ray tracing

  • Material editor application for easily creating realistic materials and modify all their rendering parameters

  • Native Hybrid rendering mode, can combine OpenGL and CPU based ray-tracing technologies

  • Advanced Real Time mode, for rendering high-quality, highly realistic 3D scenes at interactive frame rates

  • High-performance software ray and path tracing engine

  • Proprietary scene graph algorithms for efficient management of large 3D scenes

  • Supports Windows, Linux, MacOS

What’s New

Here is a compiled list of what’s new of the release:

  • Initial Release of Core OpenGL graphics and software ray and path tracing engine

  • Delivery in individual .zip packages per platform (Windows 64bits, Win32, Linux 64bits, and MacOS)

  • Deprecation of Win32 platform. In accordance with the general HOOPS policy, the Win32 platform will be deprecated by end of calendar year 2024

  • Changed compiler from Intel Compiler 11 to Visual Studio 2015

Note

We are planning to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 by the end of 2024, further communication will be available in advance.

  • Sample material library available in .zip format for product evaluation

  • Support for HOOPS unified licensing

  • RNet has been removed from the packages

Fixed Bugs

  • RED

    • Fixed an instance counter error in the case of material layerset switch with different instance callbacks configurations

    • Changed Luminate version to 5.3.3

    • OSX porting compilation fix

    • Added new Luminate image API to setup or to access a small region in an image

    • Removed old restriction on floating point format cube mipmaps that weren’t allowed

  • RedCore:

    • Fixed render error when using large environment maps on AMD

    • Fixed picking error with negative sized viewports

    • Corrected path-tracing diffusion color computation

  • RART

    • Fixed a bug with local textures handling in a REDart customer workflow and materials from the Luminate material library

    • Fixed in SSAO to avoid having too dark roofs: Removed the normal based lighting modulation term

  • ART

    • Improved geometry atlas hash to speed up the atlas update

    • Added light instance matrix accessor

    • Added light instance selection custom shapes

    • Fixed bug with camera focus on geometry (NDU-668)

    • Fixed bug with geometry private shadows border (NDU-424)

    • Improved observer focus on geometry

    • Fixed bug where reflection probes are not blended with skybox. (NDU-252)

    • Fixed bug with geometry picking done on vertices instead of triangles that could lead to wrong result in case of shared vertices

  • RedArt

    • Added double-sided support for transparent surfaces

  • RPL

    • Fixed bug with light shadows after removal of another light

    • Fixed bug with light static shadow maps at loading

  • Misc

    • Luminate & REDart version change to 5.3.1