Rendering Procedural shaders

Procedural shaders call a program to replace the object they are shading with their own data. Procedural shaders were available in previous version of Houdini, but since version 9 Houdini includes a few new, very useful shaders. These shaders begin with Mantra in the SHOP list.

For information on specific procedural shaders, see the individual node documentation:

• Mantra: Delayed Load

• Mantra: Fur Procedural

• Mantra: HScript Procedural

• Mantra: Image3D Procedural

• Mantra: Image3D Volume Procedural

• Mantra: Sprite Procedural

• Mantra: Program Procedural

• Mantra: VEX Volume Procedural

Related topics

• Advanced dicing control
• Batch rendering
• Camera tips
• Control dependencies between renders
• Cubic environment maps
• Deep shadow maps and Deep camera maps
• Depth of field
• Expressions in filenames
• How to use AIR
• IFD file format
• Image 3D files
• Motion blur
• Properties
• Render quality and improving render time
• Rendering FAQ
• Rendering an image
• Rendering attributes
• Rendering extra image planes (deep rasters)
• Rendering from the command line
• Rendering on the network
• Rendering particles
• Rendering subdivision surfaces
• Rendering with RenderMan
• Rendering with a large number of polygons
• SOHO
• Saving and loading temp files
• Setting up a render node
• Setting up physically based rendering
• Understanding mantra rendering
• Using Python in mantra renders
• Volumetric rendering