erikals Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 (edited) hi, just wondering, is it possible to export the Lava texture to another app, like LightWave ? Dave Stewart scene file > http://tinyurl.com/Dave-Stewart-Lava Edited March 3, 2016 by erikals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Netvudu Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) well, the shading is happening at render time, so it´s a Mantra thing. On the other hand, what Mantra is doing is nothing but reading some attributes that drive the shading, so if you can export those attributes to Lightwave as part of the geometry, then you can certainly replicate what the shader does in Lightwave with gradients and such. Edited March 5, 2016 by Netvudu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikals Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) yes, it's a bit difficult getting my head around this. the shading is based on the velocity, but it's a bit difficult exporting that to LightWave. i'm thinking maybe i could use eetu's LW motion blur plugin somehow... the other option is to render a curved greyscale of the lava in Houdini, through camera view. then map on, and use the exact same camera view in LightWave. it'd be easier to do it in Houdini of course, though that means learning shading / rendering in Mantra... character animations would be imported from LightWave via MDD. this one is tricky... Edited March 5, 2016 by erikals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikals Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 just a link to a LightWave Octane thread asking for this feature, if possible http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?150709-Houdini-Indie-15-5-supporting-3rd-party-renders&p=1474545#post1474545 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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