Hi all, i've used HDRShop and LightGen to generate a lighting setuo in Houdini. I having a bit of an issue understanding the quote below, havn't really used the textport and have no idea how to open the HScript though the textport.
Any help would be great.
Kind regards
JT
“Source the resulting file into HScript. It will add the lights to the scene description. It also generates a variable called ”lightgen_dimmer“ that can be used to dim all of the lights simultaneously”.
Loading HScritp via object text port?
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Not near Houdini at the moment, but one of the middle menus has “Textport” - select that and a textport will open. In that, type:
source myfilename
where “myfilename” is the complete path to, and the name of, the file that was created. It should create some stuff for you in your current session of Houdini. “hscript” is just the command line version of houdini - no interface - typically used for batch renderings and other things. You probably don't want to use this - strictly speaking that help message probably isn't really worded correctly, even though it's not wrong. You'll want to do this in your current Houdini session…
Cheers,
J.C.
source myfilename
where “myfilename” is the complete path to, and the name of, the file that was created. It should create some stuff for you in your current session of Houdini. “hscript” is just the command line version of houdini - no interface - typically used for batch renderings and other things. You probably don't want to use this - strictly speaking that help message probably isn't really worded correctly, even though it's not wrong. You'll want to do this in your current Houdini session…
Cheers,
J.C.
John Coldrick
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Since Houdini 6.0, you can directly use HDRI maps in Mantra to do ambient occlusion. There's even a tutorial. Click on the question mark in the upper-right corner of the Houdini window to open up the help browser. Choose User Guide Contents, Lighting, Environmental Illumination.
PS. You can get pre-converted light probes in the Houdini .rat format at http://www.odforce.net/codex/tools.php?type=other [odforce.net]
PS. You can get pre-converted light probes in the Houdini .rat format at http://www.odforce.net/codex/tools.php?type=other [odforce.net]
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