This is great stuff! So I guess it will work on anything that Alembic can handle, and is not really tied to any package in particular?
On 21 feb 2013, at 21:14, Paul Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone - I'm happy to share some news about a module we've been working > on for handling scene assembly, lighting and shaders. We're pretty happy with > the connection between our real-time renderer and offline renderers. You'll > see from the video how deeply we've integrated with Arnold. It's also a > pretty good advert for the development speed of the core platform - this is > under two weeks of one engineer's work. > > http://fabricengine.com/creation-modules/stage/ > > "Stage is a scene assembly, lighting and shader authoring system. It provides > a tight relationship between your offline renderer and our realtime renderer. > At this time we are integrating SolidAngle’s Arnold renderer, but Stage is > designed to support any offline renderer that provides an API, such as > ChaosGroup’s VRay or Pixar’s Renderman." > > Stage is in alpha and we are seeking studios that want to support and > influence development. If you are interested in working with us to develop it > further, please contact me directly. > > Thanks, > > Paul > > p.s. obviously this isn't directly related to Softimage, but I figure there's > a bunch of Arnold users on here that might be interested. If I've broken any > posting rules, please let me know. > > p.p.s cross-posted on 3DPro
