MG Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 I was thinking, I'd love to write a custom ROP. Say, for WinOSi. (I don't have much experience with the HDK yet). Where should I start? With what and how? What do I need? (Tools, compilers, libraries etc.) What are good resources? Does anyone here have any experience with this? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dezra Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 I was thinking, I'd love to write a custom ROP. Say, for WinOSi. (I don't have much experience with the HDK yet).Where should I start? With what and how? What do I need? (Tools, compilers, libraries etc.) What are good resources? Does anyone here have any experience with this? Thanks in advance! 14357[/snapback] Hi I am considering writing a ROP as well for my custom mini renderer. A good place to get started is the HDK documentation. If you are developing for win32 then you need the Microsoft compiler (there is a free version somewhere on the ms site I think). I don't know of any resources specific to writing a ROP but I presume you must be a little bit fluent in C++. I think the HDK is pretty well designed so it shouldn't be too hard finding your way around. There are a couple of examples for a custom output operator in the examples section of the toolkit as well. Please post any tips you may come along because I'm also very interested in this . Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 You can't use the free version as that won't compile code that links with DLLs. The wiki is the best place to start I think: http://www.odforce.net/wiki/index.php/HDKF...yAskedQuestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Marengo Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 You can't use the free version as that won't compile code that links with DLLs.The wiki is the best place to start I think: http://www.odforce.net/wiki/index.php/HDKF...yAskedQuestions 14366[/snapback] Can't link to DLLs? LOL! I knew there *had* to be a catch the first time I heard of it... and now I see... "Free and Useless"... eeeexcellent... I'll take a dozen. :bag: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dezra Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 You can't use the free version as that won't compile code that links with DLLs. The first time I read that I thought you were talking about the hdk that comes with Houdini Apprentice(don't ask why) and I was just staring at the screen for a whole minute(while I was thinking "Does not compute - Does not compute"). Considering that the free version of the ms compiler doesn't link code with dll's then it's pretty much useless for anything more complicated than a "hello world" prog.I had to know better than that.It's MS after all . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 WinOSI? I've come across this one about a year ago when I was searching for a way to render light dispersion. Rainbow, in particular. I dunno about now but back than... sheesh! That thing was slower than a dead turtle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I'm pretty sure I've heard of someone writing a light dispersion shader for mantra ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted October 29, 2004 Author Share Posted October 29, 2004 WinOSI?I've come across this one about a year ago when I was searching for a way to render light dispersion. Rainbow, in particular. I dunno about now but back than... sheesh! That thing was slower than a dead turtle! 14566[/snapback] It's slow, but due to it's infinite progression style rendering method, you could take in-between snapshots and update them with more recent progressions later on. It sure is an amazing renderer, at least to me it is... Aside that, I just want to try to write my own ROP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 You probably want to check out $HT/samples/ROP ... Be sure to document your experience on the wiki! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 I'm pretty sure I've heard of someone writing a light dispersion shader for mantra ... 14572[/snapback] Does that someone have an internet connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDunadan Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Does that someone have an internet connection? 14612[/snapback] Can't remember his nick name, but some user of this board who works at CORE had once a korean houdini page online; there were many intresting shaders there, but unfortunally the site was offline when I tried to download them a few weeks ago. Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 Can't remember his nick name, but some user of this board who works at CORE had once a korean houdini page online; there were many intresting shaders there, but unfortunally the site was offline when I tried to download them a few weeks ago.Jens 14613[/snapback] Nam Ji-Hyun? I used to speak to him in MSN, on a daily basis, until he got a job at C.O.R.E. DP As for the Wiki suggestion, edward, thanks. I'll get into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDunadan Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Nam Ji-Hyun? I used to speak to him in MSN, on a daily basis, until he got a job at C.O.R.E. DP ] Yep, that's the one. InitialFX was his nick here... hopefully his website will get online again some time. At least I cannot connect to this page. :cry2: Jens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aracid Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 hey TheDunadan i cant hit that page either, somethin to do with permissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 Yep, that's the one. InitialFX was his nick here... hopefully his website will get online again some time. At least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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