Guest xionmark Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Hi, So I've been using Mental Ray for the last few months with both Houdini and Maya ... just gotta say, thank you SESI for making .mi files so nicely from Houdini. I rarely have to do any parsing/fixing of the gen'd file as opposed to Maya's Maya2MR, oh what a pain! Guess I just needed to vent ... --Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickWork Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Hi,So I've been using Mental Ray for the last few months with both Houdini and Maya ... just gotta say, thank you SESI for making .mi files so nicely from Houdini. I rarely have to do any parsing/fixing of the gen'd file as opposed to Maya's Maya2MR, oh what a pain! Guess I just needed to vent ... --Mark 24351[/snapback] Yes they are very nice and clean. I had to write a mi parser for maya & softimage mi files. Go Sesi! I had a RFE a while back asking to allow us to save geomety to a mi file like we can with rib files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I'll stay tuned here an dI'll might ask you guys some question about MR and Houdini pipeline if you dont mind... cause I also need to make some concrete tests about it since we're going to get Houdini really soon and we have a MentalRay renderfarm I want to use if possibile... cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Wasn't Crescent Moon involved in the mental ray output from Houdini? What happened all those guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 No, they weren't. BTW, I think they were called Moon Cresent Productions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 No, they weren't. BTW, I think they were called Moon Cresent Productions. 24356[/snapback] Oh yes; thanks for the info. They just seemed to happen around the same time, Moon Crescent's ill-fated production and the mental ray support they were planning to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Oops, I just checked and apparently I was wrong. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Hi guys, since my "Crusade" to bring houdini into our pipeline continues... I need some feedback for MR integration ... about how to work in Houdini.. considering the rendering would be done in MentalRay ... can I make my VOP shaders and export a MI file?... is latest MentalRay supported?... any help would really be appreciated since I cant try anything right now for obvious reasons... (apprentice) .. but reading your experience/guidelines/feedback is really precious for me. cheers. any news about Phenomenon into Houdini 8.1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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