HOOPS Luminate is reported to provide developers with photo-realistic and advanced real-time rendering for engineering applications in digital construction, product development, and interior design (Photo: Business Wire)
Tech Soft 3D’s new toolkit is said to offer developers “an engineering-focused graphics engine with the ability to create stunning photo-realistic renderings.”
BEND, Ore.—A new graphics software development kit (SDK) from Tech Soft 3D is reported to provide developers with photo-realistic and advanced real-time rendering for engineering applications in digital construction, product development, and interior design.
According to Tech Soft 3D, HOOPS Luminate equips developers with tools and features that empower them to create “visually stunning and interactive 3D applications across different platforms and industries.” The toolkit helps developers bring these applications to market faster. It also gives developers control over the rendering process and image quality for scalability, as well as access to an extensive library of advanced realistic materials, the company said in a release.
“We are very excited about introducing HOOPS Luminate to our partners and the broader engineering world because the speed, quality, and realism of the renderings created with this SDK are state of the art,” said Marco Salino, product manager for HOOPS Luminate, in the release. “With a powerful bridge to HOOPS Visualize, developers get the best of both worlds—an engineering-focused graphics engine with the ability to create stunning photo-realistic renderings, bringing a new level of realism to their applications.”
Tech Soft 3D said HOOPS Luminate provides a highly customizable rendering pipeline tailored for superior graphics quality with different rendering types. Its advanced technologies and proprietary offerings are said to “ensure high performance and state-of-the-art quality in both rasterization and ray tracing.”
With a single C++ API, it can share the same data for real-time and ray tracing renderings. Thanks to its native hybrid rendering mode, it can then combine them concurrently in the same view. It has a multi-threaded Unicode engine and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, the company said in the release.
HOOPS Luminate is expected to be a key component of the integrated suite of HOOPS software development kits (SDKs). By filling a specific need for “the highest-quality, physically accurate, photo-realistic rendering,” it can help the next generation of engineering software applications to push their boundaries, the company said.
Because of the integrated nature of the HOOPS SDKs, applications can easily import CAD data using HOOPS Exchange and render with HOOPS Visualize and HOOPS Luminate. According to Tech Soft 3D, the integrated nature of these toolkits will empower many engineering applications with best-in-class rendering.
The toolkit offers high performance in rasterized and ray-traced rendering, thanks to proprietary data organization algorithms and techniques. These, combined with its hybrid rendering technology, can produce high-quality images at interactive rates, the company said.
According to Tech Soft 3D, HOOPS Luminate’s rendering technologies can realistically simulate all complex light interactions. It can produce highly realistic reflections, refractions, soft shadows, caustics, and ambient occlusion, thanks also to sophisticated techniques like global illumination.
“Using the advanced rendering capabilities of HOOPS Luminate, TopSolid’s users can Explore 3D models in a realistic virtual environment and quickly validate and present their designs in a captivating way,” said Patrice Tiberi, deputy general manager of product and strategy at TopSolid, in the release.
HOOPS is a registered trademark of Tech Soft 3D.