Sneak peek: RTX ray tracing in Substance 3D Modeler
Friday, February third, 2023 | Posted by Jim Thacker
Adobe’s February 2023 livestream on new options in its Substance 3D instruments. The part on upcoming options in Substance 3D Modeler, together with real-time ray tracing within the viewport, begins at 00:13:00.
Adobe has offered a sneak peek of upcoming options in Substance 3D Modeler, its VR sculpting app.
The brand new options, proven throughout a livestream yesterday, embrace GPU-accelerated ray traced lighting within the viewport, GPU-accelerated sculpting, CAD mannequin import, and higher mesh decimation.
GPU-accelerated ray traced lighting now in closed beta on desktop
Though Adobe typically exhibits instruments in improvement throughout its Substance 3D livestreams, yesterday’s session centered primarily on latest releases, together with Substance 3D Sampler 4.0 and Substance 3D Stager 2.0.
The exception was a short sneak peek at upcoming options in Substance 3D Modeler, the agency’s new desktop and digital actuality sculpting software program, which was launched late final yr.
Of these, the one one proven with a picture was hardware-accelerated ray tracing, meant to enhance the standard of lighting within the Substance 3D Modeler viewport.
Substance 3D product director Jérémie Noguer described the characteristic as “RTX ray tracing” and commented that “totally ray traced lighting when you’re sculpting inside Modeler on desktop [is] fairly superb”.
Noguer didn’t say whether or not ray tracing would even be accessible whereas sculpting in VR, or if it might require a Nvidia RTX GPU: in different Substance 3D instruments, ray tracing is now supported on different producers’ GPUs.
Different upcoming options talked about within the livestream embrace GPU acceleration for the sculpting instruments themselves, the choice to import CAD fashions, and higher mesh decimation.
Whereas Substance 3D Modeler does at the moment have primary choices to set the polygon depend of exported fashions, the brand new decimation instruments had been described as “on par with the most effective you’ll find in the marketplace at this time”.
Launch dates, value and system necessities
Adobe hasn’t introduced a launch date for the brand new options previewed within the livestream.
The present secure launch, Substance 3D Modeler 1.1, is offered for Home windows 10 solely. It’s rental-only, and is offered by Adobe’s Substance 3D Assortment subscriptions, which price $49.99/month or $549.88/yr.
Learn extra about Substance 3D Modeler on Adobe’s web site
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