Qt 3D and Qt5 / Qt4 news and releases
Well its taken 3+ years for Qt 3D to be an overnight success, but here it is: we are now part of Qt5 and we’ll be front and centre in the exciting picture that will be powering a new generation of QML...
View ArticleBlog on Qt 3D 2.0 from KDAB
Sean Harmer of KDAB has written an excellent two part blog entry on the upcoming Qt 3D 2.0. In the first part he goes in to what a modern 3D engine should be able to do and then goes on to explain the...
View ArticleQt 5.5 Beta Released
It’s my pleasure to announce the release of the Qt 5.5 Beta today. Since we released Qt 5.4, a lot of effort has been put into fixing bugs reported both by our customers and the community. With this in...
View ArticleQt3D 2.0 Technology Preview
This blog post is written by a guest blogger, the maintainer of Qt3D module and the Managing Director KDAB UK Ltd, Dr Sean Harmer. KDAB is pleased to announce that the Qt 5.5.0 release includes a...
View ArticleQt 3D: The Asset Conditioning Pipeline
Qt 3D development has been coming along nicely and is scheduled to be released with Qt 5.7. One of the issues we face with offering a high-level 3D rendering API is facilitating the asset conditioning...
View ArticleUsing Qt 3D to visualize music
As the development of the Qt 3D module is proceeding we wanted to give it a try and test how one could visualize music using the module. The result of this experiment was a new example, Audio...
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Introducing Qt 3D
Introducing Qt 3D One of the major new features in Qt 5.7.0 is the fully supported release of a stable Qt 3D module! Although Qt has long offered facilities for taking advantage of accelerated graphics...
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ArcGIS Runtime SDK 100.0 by Esri is here
In 100.0, Qt developers have even more capabilities for adding mapping and geographic analysis to native apps than ever before. 3D geographic visualization, 2D vector tiled basemap support, enriched...
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What’s new in Qt 3D with Qt 5.9?
I am pleased to announce that there are lots of new goodies coming along with Qt 3D as part of the Qt 5.9.0 release as well as the usual round of bug fixes. Engineers from KDAB and The Qt Company have...
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Qt 3D Studio Source Code and Pre-Release Snapshots Available
As you may remember we announced in February that we are working on a new 3D design tool called Qt 3D Studio, which is based on a major contribution from NVIDIA. Now we are happy to announce that the...
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CPU usage improvements in Qt 3D
Many improvements have been made to Qt 3D since the release of Qt 5.6, our previous long-term-support (LTS) release. Engineers from KDAB and The Qt Company have been working hard to bring new features...
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Qt 3D Studio 1.0 Released
We are happy to announce that Qt 3D Studio 1.0 has now been released. Qt 3D Studio provides a 3D user interface authoring system that caters for both software developers and graphic designers. Qt 3D...
View ArticleIncreasing the number of lights in Qt 3D
While it is possible to draw scenes with almost unlimited numbers of lights using deferred rendering in Qt 3D, the default materials in Qt 3D Extras have been limited to eight lights because they are...
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Towards an Improved Qt 3D Studio Runtime
Now that Qt 3D Studio 1.0 has been released, it is time to have a sneak peek at some of the upcoming developments. As outlined in the release announcement, there is work on-going to move the runtime,...
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Memory usage improvements in Qt3D
Together with engineers from KDAB and the Qt community, we are continuing to improve performance and stability of Qt3D. Back in November, I wrote about how we have reduced CPU usage in Qt3D. In this...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.0 Beta Available
We are getting close to releasing the Qt 3D Studio 2.0 and the first Beta is released today. First beta packages are now available through the Qt online installer & Qt download. Let’s have a quick...
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Get Started with Qt 3D Studio 2.0 beta 1
Now that the beta 1 release of Qt 3D Studio 2.0 is out, let’s go through the steps involved in trying it out for real. Pre-built runtime binaries As outlined in last year’s post, the runtime component...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.0 released
We are happy to announce that the Qt 3D Studio 2.0 has been released. We are making this release together with our newest addition to the Qt design tool family: Qt Design Studio. To get an overview of...
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What’s in a Qt 3D Studio Scene?
Now that Qt 3D Studio 2.0 has been released, let’s look at what some of the new features enable. In particular, we will visit the so-called in-scene debug and profile views, as these handy, built-in...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.1 Beta 1 released
We are happy to announce the release of Qt 3D Studio 2.1 Beta 1. It is available via the online installer. Here’s a quick summary of the new features and functions in 2.1. For detailed information...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.1 Released
We are happy to announce that Qt 3D Studio 2.1 has been released. Qt 3D Studio is a design tool for creating 3D user interfaces and adding 3D content into Qt based applications. With Qt 3D Studio you...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.2 Released
We are happy to announce that Qt 3D Studio 2.2 has been released. Qt 3D Studio is a design tool for creating 3D user interfaces and adding 3D content into Qt based applications. With Qt 3D Studio you...
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Qt 3D Studio Performance Improvements
Good performance of 3D applications is essential for achieving the desired user experience. While the 3D assets are the most important items affecting the performance, the 3D engine itself needs to be...
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Qt 3D Studio 2.3 Released
We are happy to announce the Qt 3D Studio 2.3 release is now available via the online and offline installers. Here’s a quick summary of the new features and functions in 2.3. For detailed information...
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Optimizing Real-Time 3D for Entry Level Hardware
When more and more cars are being equipped with digital instrument clusters, it is very important to consider the cost of the electronics needed to achieve the desired user experience. In volume...
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