Nvidia Ansel = the next portfolio display standard?

MagicSugar

Just found out about it from the latest Nvidia driver notification (currently only available for Mirror's Edge Catalyst).

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/ansel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc85tPN9zyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qknHKgk-3gA

beefaroni

Ya that'd be a pretty nice way for artists to grab in-game renders of their stuff if they're not able to render at work.

MagicSugar

In the first video, somebody said that you can output to Facebook.  But when I checked the nvidia tech page it's not clear if this will be something like an html 5 file or you'll still need vr viewers.

fdfxd2

Couldn't you just rip the scene before?

ZacD

I don't think the 360 captures will catch on, but I do love the screen shot, great for portfolios, reference, or seeing how stuff is made.

PyrZern

Or, Marmoset Toolbag 3 will be the standard.

beefaroni

PyrZern said:

Or, Marmoset Toolbag 3 will be the standard.

In-game assets don't always translate to Toolbag very well though. Being able to just run around the game and capture assets as they're seen in game may be much easier/look better with less effort. 

Eric Chadwick

Oh this is awesome. Love the free camera idea, will be great for looking under the hood, art-wise.

almighty_gir

so this is essentially just a legit version of 3dripper? seems like it's just taking whatever's currently cached in the GPU and giving you a camera to look at it.

Eric Chadwick

Yeah but it's still using the game's renderer, so you see everything as was intended.

3dripper tries to parse the GPU memory into exportable files, so you often lost a lot... custom shaders, post processing, lighting, etc.

ZacD

I think it literally just creates an unlocked camera where you are in game with everything else going on is paused.

Eric Chadwick

They mention a  time freeze option. I wonder if they let you change the timestep, to scrub time. Even if just a little, that could be really cool.

MagicSugar

Somebody who owns the game may alswo wanna check if you can output an hdri pano sphere that you can use as background in Substance or Toolbag.

ZacD

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, Nvidia has said it supports HDR and raw out. If it supports raw and exposure adjustment, as long as there's an editable cube map image, it should be easy to make cube maps for Marmoset. Even if you have to do a hacked job solution.