I have been working through all the legacy material….The shops are sort of the most difficult, because of the change over to SHOPs and VOPs… NO more Tops or Materials… So I am doing the rendering 1 tutorial and I am suppose to put place from the generator list a render cop… Can't find it or its equivalent.. Seems like a strong workflow… For realism multipass rendering is key… Would love to get this working… Any help would be fab..

Hi Todd,

The Render COP is currently not available. Please use COPsv1 instead for the tutorial you're doing.

Cheers!
steven

Will the render cop be available in future releases? How to I get into cops1? The render cop seems like a good idea, but I could see it causeing problems wtih cacheing schemes… Thanks for your reply

Hi Tod,

To get COP1 back, you'd have to set your environment variable COPTOPMAT to 1 on your system. Remember, tho, by version 6, this will all be fade to memories (then we can consider ourselves old and start telling our children stories. )