Month: July 2023

With this release, we have restructured various core features to improve performance and functionality as well as optimized our render engine. These changes enhance collaboration and communication, allowing developers and designers to create products with faster loading times, smoother animations, and more responsive user interfaces. Additionally, these changes enable more complex and data-intensive projects to be created without compromising on performance.

Core stability improvements

Incari’s fundamental features and capabilities are essential to the operation of our development platform. These functionalities provide the foundation upon which developers can build and create their HMI solutions. These building blocks need to be reliable and intuitive to navigate. Here are some of the changes and optimizations we have implemented in Incari Studio 2023.1 for a better user experience:

• Material efficiency improvements for faster and greater accuracy of scene renderings.
• Improved project loading time for the player profile and the logic editor.
• New target support for arm 32 and arm 64.
• Undo and redo functionality added to the Logic editor and Attribute manager.
• General application stability for a better user experience.
• Messages in Incari console are now linked for easier and faster actions.

Single-threaded vs. Multi-threaded applications

We are continuously refining our systems for performance and user experience. To this end, we’ve recently added a single-threaded mode to our formerly multi-threaded exclusive operation. In single-threading, one thread of execution is processed at a time, bringing simplicity and predictability, albeit at the cost of occasional application pauses. For instance, when loading a file, the entire application focuses on this operation, momentarily freezing other functions. On the other hand, multi-threading allows simultaneous execution of multiple tasks. This parallel processing keeps the application responsive and swift, especially with complex and resource-intensive tasks. The integration of both modes in Incari Studio is our response to the diverse needs of our users, allowing them to choose the operation mode that best fits their project requirements and computational constraints.

Render Engine

The render engine is responsible for generating realistic images or animations from 3D models or scenes. During the rendering process the interactions of light, shadows, textures, and other aspects of the scene are calculated to produce a final image. A strong, stable, and steadfast render engine is key for any visual production. Key elements like compatibility, customizations, and performance need to continuously be enhanced for the best possible results. Here is what we have implemented with Incari Studio 2023.1:

• Extended compatibility for OpenGL ES 3.0: OpenGL ES 3.0 is the graphics rendering API optimized for smaller devices with limited processing power and memory. It supports 3D textures and texture arrays, advanced shading techniques, and has improved blending and anti-aliasing capabilities.
• Render-to-texture: This graphic rendering technology allows you to render your 3D and 2D scenes to a texture, essentially creating an image. You can place this texture in another scene as a texture map for other objects or combine it with other textures to create more complex effects.
• KTX support: KTX formatting support allows for faster loading times and optimized memory usage. This OpenGL and Open GL ES container format for textures provide efficient compression and streaming of textures.
• Time-based playback: This enhancement is specific to Lottie. The playback method is no longer frame-based but time-based. This gives you more precise control over the animation timing and allows for smoother playbacks.

A new look for Incari

For a more intuitive workflow, Incari has undergone a variety of UX and UI improvements. With the release of Incari Studio 2023.1, we are also introducing new Incari branding elements such as new icons, design elements, and logos. In the workspace, the gizmos for both 2D and 3D have a new look and feel for easier and more instinctive usage. Gizmos are tools used to help developers and artists visualize and manipulate objects in a scene.

Take your HMI project to the next level with Incari Studio 2022.2 and try it out for free with our 30-day trial. If you are interested in our enterprise plan, don’t hesitate to contact our sales team for more information. Start creating with Incari today!

Innovate with ease and optimized speed

With each new release of Incari Studio, we emphasize continuous improvement and value delivery. Through the incorporation of lean principles and practices, we provide a strong development platform that aids in the creation of projects. In this release, we have focussed on communication protocol optimization, memory usage reduction, and simplified APIs.

Stronger communication protocols for larger integration capabilities

Communication protocols determine how data is transmitted, received, and processed between your project and external devices and systems. Various Incari communication protocols have been reworked to be more efficient and streamlined, reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted as well as lower latency and response times. This allows for your projects to be more responsive and scalable.

• Mavlink plugin update: The Mavlink protocol is used for communication between drones and ground control stations. Though important, as not everyone will utilize this communication protocol you can now find this as a plugin. This means we can make Incari Studio slimmer, with a reduced memory footprint and faster performance.

Customize your very own logic nodes

Boost Incari’s visual scripting capabilities by crafting your logic nodes using C++. Incari nodes serve as components, deployed in the logic to drive events, objects, variables, or data-centric input parameters. Import JSON files to steer the GUI element and delineate the inputs and outputs. Integrate your personalized nodes with the pre-existing ones to construct more intricate and expansive HMI architectures.

Extended Lottie support for high-quality animations

With Lottie, adding animations to your HMI solution is easier than ever before. With this JSON-based animation file format, your loading and shipping times decrease and you can scale without risking pixelation. With Incari Studio 2023.1 Lottie support has been extended and optimized. There is support for a wider variety of file sizes, ensuring that users have greater control over the resolution of their projects. Time-based rendering is also included, allowing for greater precision in animation timing and playback. Incari Studio will also automatically assess whether the destination can handle the size and quality of the animation, ensuring that users can create and render high-quality animations without any issues.

Take your HMI project to the next level with Incari Studio 2023.1 and try it out for free with our 30-day trial. If you are interested in our enterprise plan, don’t hesitate to contact our sales team for more information. Start creating with Incari today!

Enhanced collaboration and communication

Incari Studio’s workflow management enables better collaboration and communication between team members, improving work quality, reducing error margins, and streamlining handovers. By automating tasks and organizing them effectively, you can save on time, monetary investments, and resources. Additionally, you reduce error margins and streamline the handover process. By automating tasks and organizing them effectively, you can save time, resources, and money.

Our agile workflow management has been further enhanced in version 2023.1, providing a one-stop platform for designers, developers, and suppliers to work together more efficiently. The new release includes the following features and functionalities:

• Custom shader editor
• 2D workflow
• Camera system
• Prefabs

Shaping reality with Incari’s Custom Shader Editor

Revise and refine shaders for a more nuanced, realistic visual experience using Incari Studio’s enhanced Custom Shader Editor. This tool allows for selective shading model customization and gives you the freedom to modify your vertex or fragment shader as required, ensuring greater flexibility. In this tool, shader editing goes beyond text; you can configure each shader’s behavior utilizing Incari’s range of uniform values. From integers to boolean values, these uniforms provide additional control to adjust color, texture, and lighting parameters, offering a deeper layer of precision to your material definitions.

Incari Studio’s shader modification tool presents a unique blend of text editing and configuration points. It makes shader editing accessible to both developers and designers, enabling them to achieve stronger, more realistic visual effects, textures, lighting, and reflections. By choosing your shading model and having the ability to override your vertex or fragment shader, you are granted the flexibility needed to make your projects stand out.

Revolutionizing UIs with our 2D workflow

Seamlessly integrate 2D and 3D elements for UIs with our 2D workflow. The newly restructured workflow provides improved performance and functionality, including a range of elements and layouts to create the perfect design. You can now animate your 2D scene for a higher engagement level, customize the CSS stylesheets with ease, and align your assets quickly and easily using intuitive layouts.

Our vector tools, including arcs and pies, combined with a variety of GUI elements like buttons, drop-down lists, sliders, and text areas, give you all the creative freedom you need to create your perfect scene.

Unmatched camera control and precision

Incari’s camera system provides access to unlimited cameras for increased freedom and creativity. The following changes and enhancements have been implemented in our camera system:

• The camera system has been optimized to create a more reliable, efficient, and performant camera system that allows for more creative freedom.
• Easily switch between 2D and 3D cameras.
• Visualize your camera position and movement through the 3D scene player cam outline.
• Render your GUIs in 3D scenes to create immersive user interfaces such as VR experiences.
• Each camera can be rendered to texture.

Create prefabs out of 2D elements

Prefabs allow users to create reusable objects that consist of various components, which can be duplicated and overridden while all contain their unique properties. As an extension of the prefabs capabilities, Incari Studio introduces 2D Prefabs. This allows users to create prefabs out of 2D elements and ship them with unique defined behavior, enabling more efficient creation and reuse of 2D assets and saving time.

With Incari Studio’s 2023.1 release, workflow management optimizations and improvements enable developers and designers to create and reuse assets more efficiently, create more sophisticated visuals, and have greater control over the look and feel of their models.

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, Incari Studio 2023.1 has the tools you need to achieve your creative goals. Purchase your Incari Studio license here and get your first 30 days for free. For Incari’s enterprise plan, please reach out to our sales team here.