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Home » Products » Fusion 6.1

	Fusion 6.1 Overview
	eyeon unveils the next generation of the GPU Supercomputing framework in Fusion® 6.1. This is not just an acceleration technology; this is unprecedented productivity advancement. Exploiting the power of low cost GPU graphics cards with hundreds of cores, coupled with an expanded feature set, makes this release much more productive. The need for network rendering becomes greatly reduced, keeping the studio's infrastructure manageable and cost effective. 3D scene importing via FBX has been greatly expanded, streamlining the process between 3D animation and rendering to directly have the same assets working in Fusion. Produce passes and layers on the fly directly on the GPU at breath-taking speed. Cutting reliance on other applications and departments simplifies the production process. Fusion 6.1 accelerates from the starting line with astounding GPU optimizations, local file caches and particle solution caching. The creative horizon expands with new tools for managing grain, color correction and handling metadata. Scripters will rejoice at the inclusion of native python support, and everyone benefits from the many enhancements to particles. Look below for details. Best of all, this update (as always) is included in your subscription! For Pricing and Evaluation inquiries, contact sales@eyeonline.com.

	Relighting
	Relighting has been pioneered in Fusion for well over 15 years from rich deep pixels and reshading tools to a full GPU renderer. In 6.1 the 3D system has been greatly refined with full importing of scenes with matched animation curves, stereo cameras, lighting and multi level materials from all the major 3D applications. The GPU render outputs multiple layer types for later processing at extraordinary speed. The ability to directly have scenes in the compositing artist hands opens up creative possibilities and relieves the dependence on other departments. Now with Renderman renderer support via eyeon's open source SDK further demonstrates how productive, flexible and extensive the problem solving capabilities of Fusion have become.

	OpenCL GPU Supercomputing Fusion 6.1 now supports the OpenCL language, which allows tools to take advantage of the GPU in modern NVidia and ATI graphics cards to achieve blazing speed increases. How fast? We are seeing improvements as much as 1000% on some of the most processor intensive tools in Fusion (e.g. Defocus, Noise generators). Insert OpenCL code directly into Fuse tools to create your own GPU-accelerated tools. OpenCL’s open computing language is a framework that utilizes the massively parallel operations of GPU's for general computing. Instead of just doing 3D OpenGL rendering on graphics cards, more general processing can be achieved at orders of magnitude faster than possible with just CPU's.
	RenderMan® Support Fusion 6.1 now support the Renderman renderer directly. This demonstrates the open plugin flexibility of the 3D rendering system. Making the production pipeline integration between rendering and compositing better by supporting this industry standard. This is released as open source in the 3D SDK for studios to modify and integrate.
	Python Scripting The MOST requested feature this year! Fusion 6.1 now supports Python 3.1 right within the interface, giving your scripting gurus the choice of using the built in eyeonscript or Python languages when creating Utility, Tool and Comp scripts. Both eyeonscript and Python will work together so existing scripts will continue to work, making the change over painless and allowing better integration for pipelines that prefer a single language.
	RED Camera Mysterium X™ Support With the continued popularity of the RED camera platform, it's no mystery why the R3D™ file format in Fusion 6.1 now includes support for the new Mysterium X sensor and color science.
	Particles & Geometry Fusion's ground-breaking particle system now allows the artist to use geometry as particle regions. Emit particles from the surface or interior of an imported FBX mesh, make a primitive 3D shape which acts as an attractor, or bounce particles from any geometry, dramatically improving the particle interaction with 3D scenes.
	Particle Caching Now Fusion 6.1 particle solutions can be cached to disk! No more waiting for particles to recalculate once the particle system has been solved.
	Film Grain Tool The new Film Grain tool is specifically optimized to make adding film style exponential grain to images easier and more accurate.
	Hue Curves Tool The new Hue Curves tool gives the artist powerful animatable splines for notching or emphasizing a very specific range of colors in the image. In addition to providing adjustable curves for Hue, Luminance, Saturation, Red, Green and Blue, powerful options for color supression are also built in, making the Hue Curves tool ideal for those persistent green edges.
	Local File Caching Loader tools can optionally create a local cache of remote frames as they are loaded, which not only reduces the load on the network, but greatly improves interactive performance over slow networks. The original source frames are monitored for changes too, so the cache never gets out of date.
	Metadata Tools New Metadata tools make it simple to respect the metadata in a project pipeline, by providing tools for copying or inserting custom metadata to any image, and for merging metadata from multiple images.
	The Little Things The big features are awesome, but it's often the little changes that have the biggest impact. Fusion 6.1 is packed full of enhancments to make artists workflow more streamlined. Here are some of the interface and feature tweaks that you can expect in Fusion 6.1 Change tabs while using the simple expressions pick whip. Quickly reset a tool control to it's default value. Hold CTRL while adjusting a slider to reduce it's sensitivity by 1/10. Markers for sliders and screw controls that show the default value when the current value is non-default, and can also act as a button to reset to default. The Custom tool now has LUT inputs. Coordinate transform modifier, like Locator but outputs 3D object positions, taking intervening transforms into account. Use e.g. as simple offset, or to target an object elsewhere in the scene hierarchy. FBX importing has many enhancements, including multi material support.

	HDRI GPU Rendering
	With a full HDRI floating point GPU 3D renderer capabable of complex material shading This is a major core architectural development that exploits the latest in computing technology. Multi-core optimized, GPU powered, Fusion 6.1 marks a major milestone in delivering a rich artist environment for creative production.


Behold the power of the GPU The new generation 3D system takes advantage of GPU and Shader pipelines to render final production quality HDRI images with full deep pixel output. The extensive toolset opens up the abilities for complex shaders and procedural materials. Speed. The new GPU renderer is raw power, computationally expensive operations like depth of field and motion blurring are a breeze on modern graphic cards. Hours of render are now delivered in fractions of seconds. Importing and exporting of scenes and animation make interoperability with 3D Animation pipelines slick and streamlined. For the first time, Fusion compositing artists can really feed the 3D departments easily via the export of scenes and animation. This by-directional workflow makes the CGI production process smoother and more productive. More 3D finishing tools in Fusion 6 allow compositing artists to control more of the assets to finish a shot, giving great flexibility for control in the highly interactive interface. Production Quality GPU Renderer Resolution independent and floating point rendering. Super-sampling with reconstruction filters. New plugable CG Shaders. Deep Pixel rendering of Z depth, Normals, Texture Co-ordinates, Material ID, Object ID, Material ID, etc. Advanced CG Shader Materials Fully Controllable 3D Fog Object ID's Easily Created From Any Geometry 3D Environment Tools Environment mapped reflections and refractions. 3D Cube and Sphere mapping. New 3D Material Tools New lighting materials, Blinn, Phong, Cook-Torrance and Ward. Material merging tool. New Bump Mapped Materials Bump mapped from height maps. Bump mapped reflections and refractions. UVW Mapping Set spherical, planar, box, fit, etc, mapping co-ordinates. Alpha Projections Project alpha and re-light the projection. 3D Blend Modes All 2D blend modes supported in 3D, including Screen, Multiply, Color Dodge, Difference, Exclusion, etc. 3D blend modes can be assigned to any 3D object. Matte Objects Use 3D geometric primitives or meshes as 3D mattes in the scene, with Z-depth and alpha control. FBX Caching Performance of FBX loading by caching of FBX model data. FBX Updated Improved importing of scenes, camera paths, lights, geometry, baked animation, etc. FBX Exporter Exports geometry, lights, camera and animation. Stereoscopic Imaging System Fusion 6 has stereo tools and enhancements, and supports a number of 3D stereo viewing systems like OpenGL quad-buffering (used with most LCD shutter glasses and passive stereo monitors), anaglyph, side-by-side viewing, and iZ3D and True3Di monitors. The 3D system supports stereo materials, renders left and right eye views, and an Anaglyph tool is included. DOD/ROI Domain Of Definition / Region Of Interest System. This system allows for user-definable areas to limit processing, significantly improving performance and memory usage for large scale compositions. RED Camera RED camera support both 32 and 64 bit. Fully integrated into Fusion, including Floating point image generation and real-time proxy loading. All associated Metadata is carried through workflow. UI Enhancements, Including File Browser Includes image previews and metadata, with gamma control for non-linear images. Toolbars Can contain tools, scripts, macros and settings. New 2D Tools and Updates Optimization to tools include dramatic speedups to Blur and Glow code. Many workflow improvements have been made to existing tools such as Loader, Corner and Perspective Positioner, Color tools. Tracker has XY path and Bspline options. New tools include Anaglyph combines two image streams into a stereoscopic image using a variety of anaglyph modes as well as cross-eyed and vertical or horizontal stacking techniques. Export Bumpmap to convert a 2D image into a bumpmap for use with 3D materials. Set Bg Color to define a custom color which lies outside the current image or tool's domain of definition. Set Domain overrides the current Domain of Definition for the image. Color Matrix is an advanced color correction tool that uses a 3D matrix to transform the colors in an image. 3D LUTs have a variety of GPU tools that can be chained together to create conversions and apply multiple 1D and 3D luts operations.

	Fusion Help and Resources
	To get started, please visit the Fusion's Wiki Help Site. Read the full feature notes on VFXpedia Fusion 3D GPU Examples VFXpedia Fusion Development Blog


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