Hi animagic…I am now thinking that the video card I have is not the issue but more likely my CPU which is 5 years old now is really the issue.
WOW!!! I had not heard about this regarding Omniverse.
I find it a bit ironic that Reallusion would be encouraging people migrate to Unreal engine when the New FREE bundled metaHumans threatens to make
the upcoming CC5 moot in the eyes of many.
Yes, perhaps in the eyes of those not already invested in the iClone/CC universe, but I think there are a number of current iClone users who may want to render with an engine other than the one in iClone itself, and with iRay and (apparently) Omniverse being deprecated, there are not too many alternatives, unless you want to render in Blender (as a “free” alternative to UE).
Creators like @Alley probably just want to make their product promos look a little better than what is possible in iClone alone. Others, who want to create longer animations or use tools/features in their work that are not available in iClone anyway, need to include other tools as a matter of course and, thus, integrating third-party tools such as Blender, UE, etc. is probably easier for/more acceptable to them.
There is a lot of confusion about that. This only concerns the Omniverse Launcher, as they are moving to a new way of “launching”. I don’t have the details of that, but the idea is to streamline their offering.
The Launcher itself will still be availble but will receive no further updates after October. Omniverse itself is too important for Nvidia to abandon. It may require RL to update the way Omniverse is launched or connected to but I’m sure they are aware of that.