This page brings together all the changes that will be faced by an existing RedSDK partner wishing to adopt the new versions released under the HOOPS Luminate name.RedSDK is becoming HOOPS Luminate with the release of our HOOPS Suite 2024 release in December 2023. Significant changes with this release are highlighted here for our existing RedSDK partners attention.
Changes of Note
Upgrade to HOOPS Luminate 2024
There is no obligation to upgrade to HOOPS Luminate , the 2024. Your current license will still work. But you will need to upgrade to HOOPS Luminate if you want to benefit from all the fixes introduced after RedSDK 5.3, which will be the only product supported.The list below covers most of the differences between the old and new licensing systemscontinue working. If you desire the benefit of bugs resolved after RedSDK 5.3, you are encouraged to upgrade to HOOPS Luminate.
Additionally, HOOPS Luminate 2024 becomes the officially supported release version. Older versions (of RedSDK) will not be updated. All bug fixes and enhancements will be released in subsequent versions of HOOPS Luminate in keeping with the https://techsoft3d.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SPD/pages/2367979552/Developer+Support+Policy#Release-Lifecycle.
HOOPS Licensing
HOOPS Luminate 2024 introduces the following changes to licensing. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our partners will need to use the Unified HOOPS licensing to use HOOPS Luminate.
The HOOPS key will give access to all HOOPS Luminate requires a HOOPS license available from the https://developer.techsoft3d.com/start under the HOOPS Luminate product area. You may need to register a new account for Access to the NEW Developer Zone.
The unified license provides access to all HOOPS products across platforms and modules.
This does not change the The license supports your current entitlements and components on the platform your software is shipped on or which component you include in ityour shipping platform(s).
See Licensing — HOOPS Luminate documentation for details.
HOOPS Luminate
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2024 Packages
The Developer Zone provides one HOOPS Luminate package (i.e. zip archive) per platform. Download the package(s) of interest. The new packages are 100% compatible with the old ones. All you need to do is update the folder Extract the package into the appropriate location.
We currently do not have a package for Win32, as we are planning to stop the support for Win32 in the future.
All that is in the old package is still present, exception made for the Config Recommendation tool - used to check if The full material library will not be initially available, when HOOPS Luminate 2024 is released. A sample library will be available. The full library will be available on the Developer Zone as quickly as possible. If you license the full library, it can be downloaded from http://redway3d.com/ or contact us. It will work with HOOPS Luminate.
The package for Win32 is not available as this platform will be deprecated soon. If you require this package, please contact us.
The contents of the HOOPS Luminate package remains consistent with RedSDK. However, the Config Recommendation tool to check support for a specific graphic card and driver was supported - which will be has been removed. This tool is an obsolete tool, which has been updated in years as now Windows takes care of largely obsolete with Windows driver compliance. The existing one from Use the RedSDK 5.3 is still good version of the tool, if necessary.
For the first iteration, we are changing the package names and labels to HOOPS Luminate but keep the version consistent to the current system (i.e
5.4). In a future release, we will move to2024.Xto be consistent with the HOOPS portfolio.There is a new location for the documentations
.Status colour Red title add links You can now use CMake The product and package naming for this initial release will be “HOOPS Luminate 2024”. Internally, the (binary file) version will be
5.4in keeping with the RedSDK version numbering. In a subsequent release, this internal version will adopt the HOOP Suite numbering and be consistent with the product and package numbering.The new HOOPS Luminate packages do not include HOOPS Luminate Documentation which is available online.
Miscellany
Updated HOOPS Luminate Documentation
Use https://cmake.org/ to generate the project files to compile samples and demos. Older native Pre HOOPS Luminate project files are deprecated and will be replaced by CMake ones by 2025
.QT to use CMake in the HOOPS Luminate 2025 release (late in CY 2024).Status colour Red title to be documented https://www.qt.io/ has been upgraded from QT Qt 4 to QT Qt 5.