I have been working my way through the legacy material. I have made my way to rendering which so far seems to be the most difficult for me to get working. First trying to find where the old button or field is in the new interface or trying to finds its newer counterpart is a little frustrating. I have been able to get most all the concepts, but I just can not get the atmosphere object to render. I have tried the user guide example, intro_shops, and rendering_01. I must be doing something wrong. Is there anyway to get a simple proof of concept scene so that I may debug what I am doing wrong. Maybe the userguide file setup. I think that I almost have the user guide file, but I am unclear how Houdini references
/temp/$OS.pic.
What is the $OS variable. Could I render the $OS.pic to say
ctemp,
or say
dsomearbitrary_directory/$OS.pic.
Does Houdini keep track of the path entered in the z_depth file field?
What are the crucial elements that make atmosphere objects render in Mantra?
Do I need to switch anything in the output settings? I really want to beat this problem.
Thanks in Advance