In our ongoing effort to improve the Omniverse platform for developers, Omniverse Launcher will officially be depreciated. Launcher will remain available without support until October 1, 2025.
Omniverse resources will be relocated to platforms where they are better accessible for developers:
Omniverse samples and templates can be found on GitHub and the NGC Catalog.
Hi, according to this announcement, the Launcher will remain available until October 2025. However, I haven’t been able to find its installation file. Could you please share a link to it?
I am sorry, but the launcher has now been depreciated. It is available until October, if already installed. However, the installation link has been removed. It is no longer required.
Fixing launcher would have made sense. Removing it and making every aspect of working with this tool a painful struggle that fails to match reems of documentation and video tutorials was foolish.
Installing the Composer with cmd line and making it ridiculously hard to add PhysX the Blender Extension or any number of other tools developed over the last few years is a massive failure of the ongoing effort to improve the Omniverse platform for developers. Sure I was able to run the repo.bat build and repo.bat launch so technically launcher is not needed. However, none of the extensions work and three10 hour days of readding documentation and watching videos has still failed to make Omniverse even remotely useful in its current state. So in that regard this solution doesn’t work. So, this topic has not been solved it has simply had the responsibilities of a multi Trillion dollar company shrugged off and onto the shoulders of its users.
Thanks for the feedback. I can help you with your workflow. Adding physics is very easy. You can just start the Extension Manager and look for the “Physics Bundle”. Very quick to install.
As for Blender, you no longer need any connectors. That really is the power of the work we have been doing. Everything is now fully USD compliant. Build your model in Blender, export it as USD, obj, fbx, bring it into Kit via USD Composer, and you are ready to go.
Thank you for the post and the candid feedback. The Omniverse Launcher provided a quick means of running template applications, however the pure power of Omniverse allows developers to customize and build their own custom applications.
Additionally, while the Omniverse Launcher was deprecated on October 1st, the USD Composer application within it was quite old (1 year+) and wasn’t built using the latest and greatest version of the Kit SDK, so using that version wouldn’t be ideal for production workflows. (i.e., modern versions offer more features w/ bug fixes, etc.)
Do you have access to any agreements within your company tied to Enterprise Support? If yes, please raise a ticket so we can understand your use case more in-depth.
Thank you Richard After updating from Blender 4.5.2 to 4.5.4 I have been able to bring in files.
Not sure why it was failing with the exports from the slightly older version but it was.
As for the extensions, I must have a corrupted build or something as that is not at all how its going down for me. I have every Physx and Sim extension I could find enabled and it just doesn’t work nor do the tools show like they do in any documentation. I don’t mean the old side bar I mean anything in windows create or else where. I simply have no physics tools that I can find.
Thank you Drew.
I’m sure we do have agreements and I will look into a ticket if one of my colleagues doesn’t have a faster answerer. Its great that the power of Omniverse is that you can make custom builds but the current system ignores artists who may not think like developers. When other systems become out dated the standard procedure is to make a new version that improves work flows and increases flexibility for the customization without tossing the existing baby out with the bathwater. I sincerely hope that NVIDIA and Omniverse will consider future tools that may bring back usability for nontechnical users. I was once a professional artist and have been a programmer for around six years now and even with my technical understanding I have found the current system cumbersome and unreliable with spotty documentation that is easily confused due to old documentation being available and not always clearly ladled. I’m sure I will eventually figure this out again but I must be candid, even blunt, in stating I think you have ignored a large portion of your potential audience with the current systems.
@ryan.salway make sure you wait for about 10 minutes before the registry is synced (leave the extension manager window open). you should see the status in blue near the bottom left corner:
Hi @ryan.salway I made this video for you. It may be (as mentioned above) that the Extension Registry is beign slow for you, as reported. We have fixed this issue for 109.
Nope, Still nothing when I search Physics Bundle and the blue text is not at the bottom.
I think I will try making a fresh .bat build and launch to see if I missed checking something in the nexus server or somewhere, I also noted from your video (Thank you very much for making that ) Some of the enabled tools are not set to autoload so i will adjust that as well.
I am behind a firewall. That could be the key. I will reach out to our administrator and see how its set up and if they need to install the extensions on the Nucleus.
Thank you all this has been enlightening. Still not sure how launching with a repo.bat is any better then connecting a repo in a simpler executable launcher but that may just be a preference thing I will likely never agree on.
