Into the Omniverse: Universal Scene Description Support for Marvelous Designer Lets Users Tailor Digital Assets, Clothes for 3D Characters

Editor’s be aware: This put up is a part of Into the Omniverse, a month-to-month sequence centered on how artists, builders and enterprises can remodel their workflows utilizing the newest advances in Common Scene Description and NVIDIA Omniverse.

Whether or not animating fish fins or fashioning stylish outfits for digital characters, creators can faucet Marvelous Designer software program to compose and tailor belongings, garments and different supplies for his or her 3D workflows.

Marvelous Designer not too long ago launched an Omniverse Connector, a software that enhances collaborative workflows that happen between its software program and NVIDIA Omniverse, a improvement platform for connecting and constructing 3D instruments and purposes.

The Connector allows customers to considerably velocity and ease their design processes, due to its assist for the Common Scene Description framework, often known as OpenUSD, which serves as a typical language between 3D instruments.

In a typical laptop graphics pipeline, an artist must trip between software program in finalizing their work. The brand new Omniverse Connector allows creators to avoid wasting time with Marvelous Designer’s improved import and export capabilities by means of OpenUSD.

In a current livestream, 3D designer Brandon Yu shared how he’s utilizing the brand new Connector and OpenUSD to enhance his collaborative workflow, improve productiveness, develop inventive prospects and streamline his design course of.

Mike Shawbrook, who has greater than 150,000 subscribers on his MH Tutorials YouTube channel, walks by means of utilizing the brand new Connector within the tutorial under. Shawbrook demonstrates how he arrange a stay session between Marvelous Designer and Omniverse to create a easy material blanket.

For extra, try this tutorial on utilizing the brand new Connector and see how OpenUSD can enhance 3D workflows:

Improved USD Compatibility

With the Marvelous Designer Omniverse Connector, customers can harness the real-time rendering capabilities of Omniverse to visualise their clothes in an interactive setting. This integration empowers creators to make knowledgeable design selections, preview clothes’ reactions to totally different lighting circumstances and simulate practical cloth conduct in actual time.

The Connector’s expanded assist for OpenUSD allows seamless interchange of 3D information between inventive purposes.

Within the graphic above, an artist makes use of the brand new connector to regulate 3D-animated fish fins, a key digital materials in an underwater scene.

Get Plugged Into the Omniverse 

To be taught extra about how OpenUSD can enhance 3D workflows, try a brand new video sequence on the file framework. The primary installment covers 4 OpenUSD “superpowers.”

Anybody can construct their very own Omniverse extension or Connector to reinforce their 3D workflows and instruments.

Share your Marvelous Designer and Omniverse creations to the Omniverse gallery for an opportunity to be featured on NVIDIA social media channels.

Get began with NVIDIA Omniverse by downloading the usual license free, or learn the way Omniverse Enterprise can join your crew. Builders can get began with Omniverse assets and study OpenUSD. Discover the rising ecosystem of 3D instruments linked to Omniverse.

Keep updated on the platform by subscribing to the publication, and comply with NVIDIA Omniverse on Instagram, Medium and Twitter. For extra, be part of the Omniverse group and take a look at the Omniverse boards, Discord server, Twitch and YouTube channels. 

Featured picture courtesy of Marvelous Designer.