Rib Exporter

[hugh-macdonald]

Is it real to making a RIB exporter for nuke's 3D scene? This may be very useful for rendering particles (I mean Particle node by Frank Rueter) with renderman's fast MB and DOF.

[user_deleted]

In theory this should be possible but I don't know the PRMan rib format and probably wouldn't have time to look into that at the moment. The tricky thing would probbaly be to write out motion vectors for each vertex to make sure you get the information you need for motion blur and such.

I might be looking into an export to 3dsMax soon and if I do I'll keep that in mind. Can't promise anything at the moment though as I'm a bit swamped with heaps of other dev tasks.

frank

[joojaa]

Well the format is way simpler than writing into 3dsmax.

Its just ascii text basically you just need a startup block and a list of point or whatever positions. Its about a 5 minute job. but bear in mind prman needs the vecotrs too.

[user_deleted]

yeah, the vector thing may be tricky for me but I need to look into that and catch up on a bit of my high school maths.