EON Ultra™
What is EON Ultra™?
EON Ultra is a tool for finalizing and visualizing 3D content and displaying it through various media.
It provides real-time feedback on adjustment of lights, materials and shaders, by displaying the image constantly as it will appear in final frame. This in turn effectively eliminates the rendering times associated with the iterative process of fine tuning the image’s visual qualities. Content visualization work culminates in ultra-fast creation of both off-line and on-line content through the use of advanced rendering and presentation technologies.
By using drag and drop graphical user interface with the sliders, the user sets up the lights, adds textures, shaders, global illumination, ambient occlusion etc and is able to see the results instantly. Even very complex models above one million polygons can render above 20 Hz.
EON Ultra is the latest module built on top of EON Professional™ with stunning visual effects using a wide range of new CG shaders. Using technologies such as screen-space-ambient-occlusion (SSAO) and pre-computed-radiance-transfer (PRT) EON Ultra is capable of delivering real-time global-illumination (GI) visual effects that takes realism to a new level.
EON Ultra key features:
- Real-time planar reflection on any plane object.
- CGFX support for external CG shaders created by 3rd party tools - such as Mental-Mill™, etc.
- Screen-space-ambient-occlusion (SSAO) and pre-computed-radiance-transfer (PRT) based global illumination (GI).
- Improved image based lighting workflow for specular and diffuse environment map creation
- Global –screen-space-multi-pass support for: camera bloom, lens flare, depth of field and tone mapping.
Why use EON Ultra™?
Today’s 3D visualization process is long, cumbersome and time consuming.
It is an iterative process that is limited by the very long setup and rendering times required by traditional animation and CAD tools. EON Ultra™ emphasizes real-time workflow during the creation of final content; it allows users to create photo realistic still images or videos, while extending the utility of the content by porting it into a 3D experiential viewing engine, capable of creating interactive simulations and presentations.
Key advantages
- EON Ultra users can generate a full real-time photorealistic 3D interactive environment within minutes.
- The visual parts of the content-creation-process are taking place through a fully interactive user interface, designed to respond to user gestures in real-time through use of advanced rendering technology.
- The high quality and the immediate nature of the process, allow users to get a very clear idea of their project without having to resort to traditional - slow and costly - content creation methods.
- Furthermore, EON Ultra can run on a single computer with a good graphics card and do not require a render farm to deploy; thus it does not require major investment in specialized hardware.
EON SDK
Although EON Studio offers a wide range of features, sometimes there are unique requirements for more functionality. EON SDK™, our most versatile tool, extends all the standard features of EON Studio and EON Icatcher (sold separately), by adding the ability to create new nodes, modules, and applications for use with EON applications. |
