In nuce: The Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine version 22.05. The Open 3D Engine is based on the Lumberyard engine, developed by Amazon Web Services. Open 3D Engine is aimed at developers of complex gaming productions.
New functions of version 22.05: The most princely features in fast-forward below.
- User Defined Properties (UDP): This allows you to read metadata from source assets into the asset processor. Sounds painfully technical? It can also be more practical: UDP allows you to change your assets directly in DCC tools such as Blender or Maya. You can also save user-defined light properties, animation nodes or meshes via UDP. Meta data can also be read in that comes in the usual 3D file formats – for example: FBX or gITF.
- New motion matching system: This allows you to create new animations, even if you are working with faulty motion capturing files. The following tedious work steps should be eliminated: “Prepare motion sequences in an animation graph” or “Create transitions between different types of motion”
- New features for the Atom renderer: This allows you to add user-defined passes to the render pipeline. Also included: Debugging for Scene Lighting – with which you can overwrite certain scene properties. With the release of Open 3D Engine 22.05, Atom was defined as the default renderer in the Animation Editor viewport. This should make rendering as performant as in the in-game
- Cesium & PopcornFX plugins: These third-party plugins bring real-time particle effects and real-time geodata streaming to the Open 3D Engine
Click further: Our feature list is too superficial for you? In the official release note you can read in detail about the range of functions you can enjoy with Open 3D Engine version 22.05. Or click on the video below, which explains what the Open 3D Engine is all about in pictures, sound and colour.
click on (again): If you need a lesson in the Lumberyard engine, we refer you to our large-scale engine safari from DP 06 : 2018, which we put online for free on 9 June 2021 as part of our series of retro articles.
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