I am trying to bring VRoid Studio characters into NVIDIA Omniverse. Omniverse has powerful deformers and particle cloth physics support which I am still exploring to get better movement out of clothes and hair, but they can interact strangely with each other and frequently I am just after some simple bounce bounce for hair a … More Implementing Springbones in Omniverse

Pixar USD (Universal Scene Description) is for modeling 3D worlds such as used in computer animated movies, 3D video games, VR/AR experiences, architecture, and robotics simulations, has a wide range of features, including variant sets. In this blog post I give a quick summary of variant sets. Introduction to Variant Sets Personally, I am used … More USD Variants and Variant Sets

I have been working on getting a VRoid Studio character imported into NVIDIA Omniverse. VRoid Studio is free software by Pixiv for creating 3D avatars. You have less control than a product such as Character Creator from Reallusion, but the price is great! It can be useful to explore animation if you don’t have the … More First Steps for VRoid Studio characters in NVIDIA Omniverse

I am an individual developer, but would like to have the option of running renders in the cloud without tying up my desktop. Most of the time I am fine on my desktop, but if I use my desktop for final path tracing renders, then I cannot use my computer for anything else. So having … More NVIDIA Omniverse Rendering Options with Google Cloud

NVIDIA Omniverse has two levels of licensing. A free license for up to 2 users, and an enterprise license designed for teams deployed on premises. For me, I would love a third option: a cloud hosted version for individuals, or the ability for me to host my own cloud hosted version where I spin up … More Should Omniverse have another license level?

I am exploring the ability to import VRoid Studio created characters into NVIDIA Omniverse for animation and rendering. NVIDIA Omniverse is based on the USD file format originally created by Pixar to help manage their animated movies, so it seemed a natural fit. This blog is not a final solution but is rather an early … More VRoid Studio, meet NVIDIA Omniverse

Today’s NVIDIA Omniverse livestream featured what, to me, was the most compelling vision of the potential of their platform I have seen yet. Meta placed a big bet on the metaverse being the future of social (Ready Player One anyone?), but it has not taken off (yet). VR is cool, but remains a niche market, … More Is USD + 3D Browser the next HTML + Web Browser?

I want to create NDVIDIA Omniverse projects with a backup of all my files in the cloud so I don’t lose everything if my desktop dies. How best to do it? The files can be large. In this blog I explore a few options: Note that a different approach is to use a more robust … More NVIDIA Omniverse and Backing Project Files to the Cloud

The “Omniverse Basics, Create for Production Part 1: USD and Layers” video describes how things work technically, but I found the “why” hard to understand at times. (Looking at the comments left on the video, I don’t think I am alone!) Here is my understanding from the video (combined with other reading), expanded into the … More NVIDIA Omniverse Shot Scene Standards