Editor’s be aware: This submit is a part of Into the Omniverse, a month-to-month sequence targeted on how artists, builders and enterprises can rework 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 property, garments and different supplies for their 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 growth platform for connecting and constructing 3D instruments and functions.

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7AfPVd8WG4

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 surroundings. This integration empowers creators to make knowledgeable design selections, preview clothes’ reactions to totally different lighting circumstances and simulate lifelike material conduct in actual time.

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

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 study extra about how OpenUSD can enhance 3D workflows, take a look at 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 find out how Omniverse Enterprise can join your group. Builders can get began with Omniverse sources and find out about OpenUSD. Discover the rising ecosystem of 3D instruments related 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 a 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.