edward
If you COPs, I'd make sure that Proxy Cook (Edit > Composite Project Settings) is set to something small like 1/8th first just in case.
0.1,22647.5),'camera
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zartirafaels
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I'm posting a piece of the geo, in case you have a chance to look at it.
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the attached file doesnt seem to have any geo ‘data’ inside .. even Locked .
rafaels
Cool! Here's one SOP I've never known existed.
It solves 99% of my problems now…
Thanks
rafaels
Thanks, Tamte, although I have tried that and it didn't really work cause of the intrinsically messed up geometry that I have to work with. when I try to sort by vertex it still doesn't work as I would expect…
I'm posting a piece of the geo, in case you have a chance to look at it.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Houdini 9.7.161: There's a new mantra property, DSM Optimize Shading (vm_dsmoptimize). This setting is on by default and will cause more efficient shading when rendering deep shadow maps. It does this by ignoring most changes to the surface color (thus eliminating many illuminance and ray-tracing calls).
However, in order to generate beauty pass images at the same time as generating deep shadow maps (i.e. from a camera), mantra should shade both the color and opacity of the surface. Thus, the optimization should be turned off.
For example, to generate both a DSM and a beauty image from a single camera:
Add the “Deep Resolver” (vm_deepresolver) property to the camera and set it to “Deep Shadow Resolver”
Add the “DSM Filename” (vm_dsmfilename) property to the camera and set it to point to the desired output image
Add the “DSM Optimize Shading” (vm_dsmoptimize) property to the camera and turn optimization off
Then, when you render from the camera, a DSM should be created along with the beauty image.
wigal123
Yes, deep camera maps render as expected.
wigal123
SESI confirmed today, that this is indeed intentional behavior.
I put in a RFE to make the preservation of shading optional.
Do other people think this would be useful as well?
circusmonkey
sure, here is the default beauty and also a matte image plane. Plus a scene file . I hope this is not a header issue !
osx 10.7.3 H12.0.613
Rob
SYmek
Ah so, makes sense! Thank you Wolfwood!
SYmek
I managed to make a try (looks like I'm about to need it very soon):
http://code.google.com/p/rat4nuke/ [code.google.com]
OIIO plugin for Houdini images would be handy too. Code still needs some attention though. Let me know if anyone feels like he/she'd like to contribute or something to make it ready…
Still buggy. In particular, for some reasons, if you read in any Houdini file first, before any other image, then opening different format will crash Nuke. Doing it in reverse, works fine.
