foetz Posted September 22, 2002 Share Posted September 22, 2002 hello, is there any possiblility to use the mr shaders from si/xsi with houdini? especially the lensflares and glows. thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Yeah, why not? I only think the assignment of the shaders could be a little troublesome. But then, I don't have a lot of experience with mental ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 I guess it should work at least with si3d shaders, and maybe some "legacy" xsi shaders. But I don't believe xsi's VOPS (rendertree) outputs genuine standalone shaders. I think those are generated and embebed into the .mi file at rendertime. Anyway if you want to use any of the softimage3d mr shader databases all you'd need to do is to reference them in your rayrc file, have the libraries in your PATH variable, maybe add the include dirs from that database (these are needed for on the fly compilation of shaders, i think). All this from MR point of view. For houdini there's mids program to generate dialog scripts, but i don't know if it likes these compiled dlls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 Shame on you! XSI's rendertree isn't comparable with the VOPs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted December 14, 2002 Share Posted December 14, 2002 It was just an analogy. All 3d softwares are called "3d softwares", houdini included, and none is comparable to it right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foetz Posted December 29, 2002 Author Share Posted December 29, 2002 For houdini there's mids program to generate dialog scripts, but i don't know if it likes these compiled dlls. thanks for this nice answer. but especially the integration part would be interesting. i've never used x86 and hopefully will never so i don't care dlls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted December 29, 2002 Share Posted December 29, 2002 well foetz, the same goes for compiled dso on the the unices... nothing to do with x86, alpha, whatever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foetz Posted January 1, 2003 Author Share Posted January 1, 2003 well foetz, the same goes for compiled dso on the the unices... nothing to do with x86, alpha, whatever sure, i know. just didn't want that somebody does work for nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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