I've finally managed to get 3Delight working with Houdini but I get issues whe trying to create shaders, as Houdini is still looking for prman.exe.
Also i've set a system-wide environment variable pointing HOUDINI_RI_SHADERPATH to the 3Delight shader directory but i'm still getting issues within Houdini.

Can anyone give me a detailed account of how to get it to work properly?
(I've looked at other posts on here and odforce and they don't help)

Thanks

If you want the shader balls to render correctly you'll need to do two additional things.

First change the HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN environment variable from prman to 3delight.

In order to get your RenderMan VOPs to compile you'll need to modify hrmanshader to point to the 3delight shader compiler.

$HFS/houdini/public/hrmanshader

thanks that worked great

Hello i do the hrmanshader modification and set HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN to renderdl (and not 3delight cause theres no 3delight exe file)
but houdini still want to genrerate a slo file “hrmanshder -o *.slo *.sl” and not a sdl file can you help me where i can force houdini to generate sdl output file
please, help me
thks

More explicit ,the problem is houdini launch hrmanshder with “-o *.slo” and i want to modify it to *.sdl
please if anyone can help me
thk

benco
More explicit ,the problem is houdini launch hrmanshder with “-o *.slo” and i want to modify it to *.sdl
please if anyone can help me
thk

As you noticed one of the options Houdini passes to hrmanshader is the full output path of the shader including the .slo extension. For this to work with 3delight you'll need to parse that string and change it from .slo to .sdl.

Our hrmanshader does three things different from the default one.
-Checks for a HOUDINI_SL_COMPILER environment variable. This way instead of recompiling hrmanshader each time we want to use a different renderer we could just set an evironment variable like “setenv HOUDINI_SL_COMPILER shaderdl”. (If the environment variable isn't set it just uses ‘shader’)

-We also added another environment variable “HOUDINI_SL_OPTS”. This allows us to pass extra options to the compiler. (Like include paths etc)

-Depending on what HOUDINI_SL_COMPILER is set to, the outfile (compiled shader) has its extension renamed.

Wolfwood
As you noticed one of the options Houdini passes to hrmanshader is the full output path of the shader including the .slo extension.

…and the VOP machinery really has no business doing such a thing – it should pass a shader name (the shop's type name) and leave all the file management to hrmanshader. This is probably a good RFE, but maybe the whole mechanism is changing for H9… not sure…

Mario Marengo

Wolfwood
As you noticed one of the options Houdini passes to hrmanshader is the full output path of the shader including the .slo extension.

…and the VOP machinery really has no business doing such a thing – it should pass a shader name (the shop's type name) and leave all the file management to hrmanshader. This is probably a good RFE, but maybe the whole mechanism is changing for H9… not sure…

Yes, I think so.

Ok i made some modification on rmanshader.c and using the HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN =renderdl then COMPILER = “shaderdl”
and the extension EXT = “sdl”;
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN = air COMPILER “shaded”;
EXT = “sli”;
else COMPILER = “shader”;
EXT = “slo”;

works well
thks again

benco
Ok i made some modification on rmanshader.c and using the HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN =renderdl then COMPILER = “shaderdl”
and the extension EXT = “sdl”;
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN = air COMPILER “shaded”;
EXT = “sli”;
else COMPILER = “shader”;
EXT = “slo”;

works well
thks again

Thanks ofr the info benco

benco
Ok i made some modification on rmanshader.c and using the HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN =renderdl then COMPILER = “shaderdl”
and the extension EXT = “sdl”;
if HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN = air COMPILER “shaded”;
EXT = “sli”;
else COMPILER = “shader”;
EXT = “slo”;

works well
thks again

Hello,

Could you go into further detail about how you got it to work please?… (I'm a Renderman n00b that wants to learn more)

thx ops:

Wolfwood
If you want the shader balls to render correctly you'll need to do two additional things.

First change the HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN environment variable from prman to 3delight.

In order to get your RenderMan VOPs to compile you'll need to modify hrmanshader to point to the 3delight shader compiler.

$HFS/houdini/public/hrmanshader

Hello,


how can you compile Renderman VOPs and how can you put the renderman shader in the shader palette ?




thanks,



bern

Bernard
how can you compile Renderman VOPs and how can you put the renderman shader in the shader palette ?

Based on your other posts I assume you are using prman. If this is the case then you don't need to worry about any of the posts in this thread since it pertains to use renderers other than prman.

RenderMan VOPs get compiled automatically, just make sure that $RMANTREE/bin is your $PATH

The RenderMan VOPs don't support the shader pallete.

here a compiled version for windows
you should set this env variable “HOUDINI_VIEW_RMAN”
with renderdl if its 3delight
with air if its air
if not it will be prman

thats all.


PS you should rename the original hrmansahder.exe to hrmansahderORG.exe and replace with this one

I got my 3Delight licence installed. But Houdini tells me PRman proccess failed, when I try to render with prman ROP (set to 3Delight).
I am on Windows, so all the previous posts on this thread make no sence to me. Where are all these environment variables and paths you guys are talking about, on Windows. Everyone seems to speaking Linuxise.

What is the step by step process to making Houdini work properly with 3Delight on Windows box.

DR

DavidRindner
I got my 3Delight licence installed. But Houdini tells me PRman proccess failed, when I try to render with prman ROP (set to 3Delight).
I am on Windows, so all the previous posts on this thread make no sence to me. Where are all these environment variables and paths you guys are talking about, on Windows. Everyone seems to speaking Linuxise.

What is the step by step process to making Houdini work properly with 3Delight on Windows box.

DR

Go to control panels->system. In the advanced tab, you'll see environment vars.


–Mark

OK I see the variables. WHat do I do with them?

THere is no step by step instructions of how to get Houdini to use 3Delight as its renderer.
The 3Delight licserver is working properly.

However when I try to render using parman ROP set to 3Delight, I get Failed to create prman proccess error.

NExt step is?

Search and ye shall find

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=5801&highlight=3delight [sidefx.com]

THX

However all those instructions are for Linux version. How do I translate all those Linux instructions into Windows version.

Just out of interest, is rmands / delight / windows similarly a problem?