Update to OCIO v2.0

[theartofsaul]

Can we please get an update to the OCIO support in Affinity Photo? OCIO has been updated to OCIO v2 which supports a lot of cool new features including built-in transforms for ACES etc. Currently we cannot use OCIO v2 configs and this is rapidly becoming the standard as Nuke is beginning to integrate it, Maya 2022, Arnold Renderer, Redshift Renderer, both Photoshop/After Effects OCIO plugins and more. It would be great to have it upgraded to use OCIO v2 configs inside of Affinity Photo. Thanks!

 

https://opencolorio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrading_v2/_index.html#upgrading-to-v2

[Stuckpixel]

I also would like to see OCIO v2 support.

[mdriftmeyer]

It's a big upgrade, but one that will be universally adopted and should have already been on their radar for the past twelve months or so. I'm looking forward to it as it is required to build the likes of Blender 2.93 and newer.

[Mike_A]

'Plus one' on this please. It's a key feature for those of us working in CGI.

[travisrogers]

+1 Here as well. Would love any update from the Affinity team on the planned or in progress support for v2.

[keerah]

I just realised Affinity is not OCIO v2 compatible, and its a bummer. All 3D renderers and Houdini now OCIO v2.
And since the OCIO system path is SAME for all the apps, and it's v2 for me now, in Affinity OCIO is completely unfunctional 

So, + 100 please!
Or at least let us choose custom configs even when the OCIO environment variable is present, now it's locked.

[Guillermo Espertino]

+1 This is super important in 2022.

[DQ_C]

I'll bump this with a +1 as well, ACES is moving to 2.0, AgX is on 2.0, there's a need for this.

[MattSc]

With the launch of Affinity 2, can we expect OCIO v2 support anytime soon?

[ADRs]

+1 as well for OCIO v2, as i'm using AgX too. 

because 1 of the main reason i choose affinity back in the day is for 32-bit editing and OCIO support

[ashf]

+1

[Poffel]

+1 

Would be great to be able to use the OCIO 2.0 AgX Package!

[Napkin6534]

On 11/29/2022 at 4:18 AM, Poffel said:

+1 

Would be great to be able to use the OCIO 2.0 AgX Package!

YES. Bought V2 license in hopes to use AgX render pipeline with OCIO v2... but no dice, it is not yet working. Any timeline when can we expect it?

[Guillermo Espertino]

For all the people wanting to use AgX on Affinity apps, I have somewhat good news:

MrLixm has forked AgX to work with OCIO v1:
https://github.com/MrLixm/AgXc

The fork works flawlessly for linear rec.709 CG, although it can't yet deal with potential negative values from RAW photos. AFAIK, the lack of clipping methods in OCIO v1 was what made Troy Sobotka use OCIO v2 for AgX.

So, it's not a perfect solution and it might present some issues when working with photographs, but for the people who want to edit their EXR renders in Affinity Photo with the AgX view or OCIO layer transforms, it will be a good temporary solution until Affinity are upgraded to OCIO v2.

Hope this helps!

[Napkin6534]

53 minutes ago, Guillermo Espertino said:

For all the people wanting to use AgX on Affinity apps, I have somewhat good news:

MrLixm has forked AgX to work with OCIO v1:
https://github.com/MrLixm/AgXc

The fork works flawlessly for linear rec.709 CG, although it can't yet deal with potential negative values from RAW photos. AFAIK, the lack of clipping methods in OCIO v1 was what made Troy Sobotka use OCIO v2 for AgX.

So, it's not a perfect solution and it might present some issues when working with photographs, but for the people who want to edit their EXR renders in Affinity Photo with the AgX view or OCIO layer transforms, it will be a good temporary solution until Affinity are upgraded to OCIO v2.

Hope this helps!

Thank you! I will try it. I see there was even an update 6 hours ago I will also post this info into another thread about v2.

 

[cdordelly]

+1 for OCIO 2.0 Support.

I hope that we can have it in Photo v2.

[Guillermo Espertino]

On 12/12/2022 at 10:20 AM, Guillermo Espertino said:

For all the people wanting to use AgX on Affinity apps, I have somewhat good news:

MrLixm has forked AgX to work with OCIO v1:
https://github.com/MrLixm/AgXc

The fork works flawlessly for linear rec.709 CG, although it can't yet deal with potential negative values from RAW photos. AFAIK, the lack of clipping methods in OCIO v1 was what made Troy Sobotka use OCIO v2 for AgX.

So, it's not a perfect solution and it might present some issues when working with photographs, but for the people who want to edit their EXR renders in Affinity Photo with the AgX view or OCIO layer transforms, it will be a good temporary solution until Affinity are upgraded to OCIO v2.

Hope this helps!

Good news, the problem with negative values has been fixed in MrLixm's AgXc

[___]

Any updates?

[Alexey Adamitsky]

Yeah, this is a huge deal to support OCIO v2. I mainly bought Affinity because it was better with modern standards and supported OCIO at a time when Adobe Photoshop was a mess (and still is!) in that regard.

Found the workaround in that thread but full OCIO v2 support is badly needed.