Hi All,
Does anyone knows good website for MR Shader writing tutorials? I bought Programming Mental Ray, but I need little more user-friendly tuotorial based writing. Thank you.
Oh yes, another thing is can XSI license user access stand alone Mental Ray renderer?
You ask "can XSI license user access stand alone Mental Ray renderer?"
It sounds like you are asking if you can execute MR renderings from the command line without XSI running.
Check out Chapter 4 in the XSI Rendering document. It has some details on doing this. Note: The syntax has changed from how 3D worked. All documentation is on CD's if you don't have hard copies handy.
Hope this helps,
Urp
Thank you for the reply Urp!
What I want to do is to use Mental Ray just like BMRT or Renderman. Writing script and linking to the library. Running Ray2.exe only gives me no license fatal error.
Can I write shader and link it within XSI?
Any idea?
I haven't had a chance to get into that area. All my shaders are built inside render tree and render from within XSI. There is a book on MR2 on Softs web site, but otherwise I don't have much info. for you.
Sorry, I can't be of more help. If you have maintenance, you might try soft. Perhaps Eric on the www.xsistation.com could give you some ideas on resources.
Urp
Urp
Thanks a lot Urp!
I have programming Mental Ray and Rendering with Mental Ray.
Since I can't run Mental Ray as a stand alone, I can't really try anything in the text... I will try xsistation.
One thing to give you hope is that it would not be practicle for XSI not to allow MR to run seperately. The overhead of the interface would never be of use in large production rendering.
Also the fact that MR is really a seperate product anyway.
So, there must be a solution. It just may be that XSI is so new that a work flow hasn't been defined well yet.
Good luck finding a solution.
Urp
I hope you know C++...Mental Ray shaders need to be written in C++ (unlike Renderman). In case you didn't realize...
-Don