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 2024. Your current license will continue 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.
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.
The license supports your current entitlements and components on your shipping platform(s).
See Licensing — HOOPS Luminate documentation for details.
HOOPS Luminate 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. Extract the package into the appropriate location.
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 has been removed. This tool is largely obsolete with Windows driver compliance. Use the RedSDK 5.3 version of the tool, if necessary.
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 documentation. https://docs.techsoft3d.com/luminate/master/ of HOOPS products is available online.
Miscellany
Updated https://docs.techsoft3d.com/luminate/master/ for HOOPS Luminate
Use https://cmake.org/ to generate the project files to compile samples and demos. Pre HOOPS Luminate project files are deprecated and will be replaced to use CMake in the HOOPS Luminate 2025 release (late in CY 2024).
https://www.qt.io/ has been upgraded from Qt 4 to Qt 5.