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Autodesk to open-source RV

Aug 08, 2022 by CGPress Staff
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Autodesk has announced that it is to open source RC, its media review and playback software. According to the announcement, “code contributions from RV along with DNEG’s xStudio and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ itview will shape the Open Review Initiative, the Academy Software Foundation’s newest sandbox project to build a unified, open source toolset for playback, review, and approval ”. Find out more on the Autodesk website.  

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Juang3d
2 years ago

The thing is to know what is the actual license they would use and what are their requirements.

.Disto
2 years ago

I like the direction Autodesk is going.
First they announced an open source real time path tracer and now this.

Juang3d
Reply to  .Disto
2 years ago

I missed that announcement, where is it?

Badbullet
Reply to  Juang3d
2 years ago

This is the first result when I do a search, so I’m assuming it’s this.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/engineering-hub-blog/aurora-a-real-time-path-tracing-renderer-that-enables-fast/ba-p/11322421

.Disto
Reply to  Badbullet
2 years ago

Yeah thats the link, i heard they showed it briefly during the ADSK Vision Series on August 4th 2022, wasn’t able to watch it myself, but they should upload the video soon on their youtube channel.

Juang3d
Reply to  .Disto
2 years ago

Thanks, I’ll take a look, it seems to be under Apache, could be an interesting project as long as they don’t abandon it 🙂

Tack
Reply to  .Disto
2 years ago

That renderer can’t be more than a publicity stunt. Autodesk has Arnold, so why would they ever release some concurrent software for free?

.Disto
Reply to  Tack
2 years ago

Why should it be a publicity stunt? They have released some open source stuff before.It would make sense to have a Real Time Path Tracer for the LookdevX project.

villain
Reply to  Tack
2 years ago

read the announcement at least. how is a realtime renderer concurrent to an offline renderer?

Beck
2 years ago

Even if RV is open sourced, it’s still pure garbage. It needs 30 secondes to be open, it wastes ram faster than a memory leak and the user interface is at the top level of what unintuitive can be.

bob
2 years ago

‘to’ being the operative word here. is there a timeline or ” possibly maybe in the bext 10 years’ like everything they do

.Disto
2 years ago

https://youtu.be/GCjVO4UVlRA Here is the link to the presentation.

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