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If you are new to Okino and our software then please take a moment to
read this page about what has made our software's
usage so wide spread throughout the 3D industry. Okino's core and founding philosophy has been
"one to one" personal customer communications, an often overlooked and neglected aspect of
today's software industry.
Our well known software is used throughout the world by tens of thousands of 3D
professionals in mission & production critical environments, backed by respectable personal
support directly from our core development team. As engineers, we take the development of this
software very seriously.
Do you need professional, educated and experienced answers to your 3D data translation or 3D graphics problems, but haven't
found someone with the right answers? If so, please feel free to send email to Robert Lansdale
(our CTO and founder). Robert is a walking Wikipedia of the 3D graphics and data translation fields,
drawing on 24 years of data translation, animation & rendering development for all major 3D CAD and
animation packages. Robert can provide you with fast, friendly & accurate answers.
Okino Products - Now in 24th Year of Development
For more than a decade and a half Okino has set the standards and provided
the toolsets to translate & re-purpose complex data assemblies and scenes
between all major CAD, DCC (animation) and VisSim packages. Whether you
need bidirectional 3D animation/gaming/multi-media conversions, or the
re-purposing of large CAD assemblies into your favorite animation/VisSim
package (Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, Cinema-4D, Lightwave, SketchUp
and many others), we have the solid and robust solutions available now,
used by tens of thousands of industry professionals just like yourself.
as well as native conversions for Lightwave, Softimage and dozens more.
NuGraf is Okino's primary software product. For $100 extra it contains
all the functionality of PolyTrans in addition to full material & texture
editing, an extensive lens flare system, a sunlight study/calculation plug-in system,
photon mapped based caustics, multi-threaded ray tracing, interactive
texture projections, font creation and much more. It is the preferred
solution unless you only need to run PolyTrans inside 3ds Max or Maya.
Since 1988 Okino has been developing an extensive series of APIs that allow third party developers to easily write new plug-in modules for
Okino's NuGraf and PolyTrans products. These are highly developed and documented, made available to third party developers by way of the "Okino Plug-Ins SDK". Using the SDK, a wide variety of plug-in module types can be created, from import converters, export converters and "System Level" plug-in modules. Click here to view the current list of Okino plug-in modules developed and distributed by third party developers.
Qualified developers can also easily make PolyTrans converter functionality accessible within their own 3D programs by way of the Okino PolyTrans!ProServer COM interface SDK. Well established bundling and resale opportunities are available to such developers.
The NuGraf Developer’s 3D Toolkit is a drop in solution for OEM software vendors seeking to incorporate high quality 3D computer graphics into existing or new software applications. The toolkit provides "photo-realistic" scanline and ray trace renderers, primitive modeling and database management, coordinate space mapping, object and polygon picking, color space mapping for images, automatic smoothing and processing of raw polygonal data, and more. All Okino software, and the Okino plug-in SDK, are based upon the NuGraf Developer’s 3D Toolkit. The PolyTrans 3D converters are layered on top of this toolkit and are made available to developers using a different licensing model (see previous paragraph above).
For inquiries please contact Okino Computer Graphics at:
Email is always the most efficient and direct means of communication with Okino as we run
on a wide-world business time clock, not a North American aligned time clock. You can
communicate with our same staff at some point during your world-wide business day.
March 7th 2011:
Okino celebrates its 10th Anniversary of supporting Rhino/OpenNURBS .3dm File Format by releasing
a new version compatible with Rhino v5.
Provides robust support for converting Rhino .3dm files between all major 3D packages and file formats.
October 26th 2010:
View and read about Peter Allen's creation of 52 visualization images, created over a decade
at the University of California (Santa Barbara) with the aid of Okino's PolyTrans-for-Maya software. Quite dazzling imagery!
November 18th 2009: A new process tutorial has been written
on how to fix 'Error 1402. Could not open key: UNKNOWN...' which all Windows Vista/Seven/2008-Server users will find very useful
(for those upgrading to these new operating systems).
September 17th 2009:
Several new customer-related images placed online, with descriptions, in our "Customer Image Gallery".
September 17th 2009:
For those who feel comfortable knowing that they are using software used by much of the 3D industry, we've added another
2880 companies to our well known customer list. If you want to see
some of the best WEB sites in the world, randomly click through this list! Our customers do amazing work!
November 12th 2008:
Okino Computer Graphics Ships Precise, Solids-Based CATIA v4 & v5 R19 CAD Importers for
3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, Softimage, Cinema-4D, AutoCAD, Adobe Director, Quest-3D,
Rhino, Visual Components 3DCreate, and all major downstream 3D file formats such as
Collada, DWF-3D, FBX, HOOPS HSF, JT, NGRAIN 3KO, OpenFlight/Creator, OBJ, PLY, Sketch Up,
STL, U3D, X3D/VRML2, XAML-3D and many others.
October 17th 2008:
After 10 years of sales and business collaboration, AGI and Okino Computer Graphics
Provide a New, Secondary 3D Conversion Pipeline into AGI's STK Software.
July 24th 2008:
Okino Ships New Version of 'PolyTrans for Adobe® Director®' Xtra Plug-in System which
allows Okino's PolyTrans to re-purpose all major 3D CAD, DCC and VisSim file formats
into Adobe Director 3D Digital Assets. Click here for the technical description.
June 16th 2008:
Read how Okino's PolyTrans|CAD is being used by Husson International to aid in the ProE to AutoCAD 3D conversion process for their children's playground product visualizations (includes 11 amazing customer provided images).
January 25th 2008:
3 dozen new customer-related images placed online, with descriptions, in our "Customer Image Gallery".
For specific additions, click here, here and here.
January 15th 2008:
New plug-in module information for Okino software placed online. Realicon (Virtools .nmo exporter), Visual Components, Pytha-3D and others.
Read how Okino's PolyTrans allowed
Tesco Corporation (a global leader in top-down drilling rigs) to transform vast amounts of SolidWorks CAD
assemblies into long-length animations, online PDF documents and PDF product manuals.
Read how Okino's PolyTrans was used by Bath Iron Works and General Dynamics Corp in the production of their military "Littoral Combat Ship" presentations, media kit and online documentation, derived from Delmia-v5 CAD files.
Read how Okino's PolyTrans aids Pilatus Aircraft Ltd (the world market leader in the manufacture of single-engine turboprop aircraft) in creating interactive aircraft training manuals from a myriad of source CAD data.
Okino's PolyTrans helps to shorten production schedule for new "Entertainment Tonight" (Canadian edition) show opening sequence. Read synopsis and overview here.
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