This course will provide an overview of VRED Professional software’s API, with a focus on how to create custom user interfaces. Topics will include the various VRED software products and the level of API support for each; an introduction to Python scripting programming; instructions on how to use the VRED Professional software’s API; and instructions on how to integrate your Python code into VRED Professional software. We will also cover what's new in the VRED Professional 2016 software’s API; an introduction to PySide software; an example of VRED Professional software custom user interfaces using PySide; and how to control VRED Professional software from a web browser, as well as other topics.

This class teaches the common workflow process used in VRED Professional software to create high-quality, real-time renderings that realistically visualize design ideas. The class will begin by opening a native VRED (.vpb) design model as a real-time rendering in the default OpenGL render method. Students will learn to optimize the model by fixing the geometry and using Scenegraph to organize the parts. We will assign VRED Professional software materials and we will modify them to dress up the geometry so that the visual display is enhanced and the realism is improved. Finally, we will modify the render setting options to obtain a high-quality rendering, and then we will create an image for presentation. The class will finish with a brief discussion about the raytracing render method and how it creates renderings with physically correct lighting, reflections, refractions, and shadows.

This class gives an in-depth look into “how to setup” a virtual light booth as a VRED standard environment that reflects the behavior of the real world. The attendees will also learn about the VRED render pipeline, spectral raytracing, different techniques to measure and visualize light and gives a best practice to push the rendering close at possible to the real image. This class targets everyone who wants to compare and proof virtual materials with their real world examples under similar conditions.

How to apply VRED for best in class CGI production for consumer products and beyond

This course will guide through the first steps of doing high-end visualization using VRED Professional software, and we will explore the capabilities of the software. This session features VRED Professional and VRED Render Node. AIA Approved

Alstom uses VRED Professional software to produce high-quality imagery for project communication, as well as real-time-experiences production for design reviews and communication movies, enabling a single-visualization digital mockup. Meanwhile, Alstom also needs to make sure its designs reach a broader population that includes external teams and individuals, and from this perspective, the communication production workflow is provided by Stingray game engine. This talk will describe the collaboration between Alstom and Autodesk, Inc., to build a VRED data workflow that capitalizes on Stingray game engine as an output source for their designs, consequently extending the reach of their project communication capabilities. This session features VRED Professional and Autodesk Stingray.

This talk will focus on recent work on how to build immersive experiences with support for collaboration.We will focus on three aspects of collaboration:A) Capture of human (e)motion B) visualization of captured data C) network distribution of data.We will illustrate these aspects using prototypes that we constructed over the past year.And we will demonstrate how these prototypes led to various pilot projects and how they utilize Autodesk Forge. (Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

With Autodesk, Inc., solutions, designers and engineers can use virtual models to explore, review, and fine-tune design variations. This talk will cover advanced visualization and design review workflows, including immersive virtual reality design review using head-mounted displays and tracking technologies with VRED Professional software; large-screen powerwall review using high-performance VRED ray-tracing clusters; and collaborative web/mobile design review solutions based on VRED Server. 

Realistic light simulation is increasingly becoming more important to the design process, whether it is to support the design of a car's head and tail lamp clusters, or assessing how lights can is distributed around the interior of a railway carriage to support brand identity or how a room in a building is lit. This class with shed light (!) onto these topics describing how the various features of Autodesk VRED can be used to achieve different lighting effects. Attendees will learn amongst other topics how to differentiate between the various ray trace modes, how to use light simulation data and how the realistic modelling of materials is important to the overall scene visualisation