Rm & Mr Renderers In Houduni

[kunlej]

OK, I always liked Maya, but when I've met Houdini 8, I was aghasted. Not because of 'winning awards' or great performance, but it has some magic- I can't explain!

So, the first distress was (the reason of this topic) attempt of use the both famous renderers(RenderMan&MentalRay) - I thought you can easy accede to their operations(like in Maya), but it seems to be a little complicate(I tryed things such as env.variables, but no effect) - so I started to believe that I need to have both renderers installed externaly as a standalone aplications, so that can be used.

I wish I had the wrong impression about this thing, so if somebody can help, please reply (it would be a pity using a Houdini and not be able to use these renderers)!

[3dani]

You really should be asking at http://www.sidefx.com/forum ... Anyhow, the non-commercial version (ie. Houdini Apprentice) doesn't output to these renderers. Note that it only outputs to the standalone versions of these renderers even when using Houdini Master (as you suspect). Anyhow, Houdini's own native renderer, Mantra is pretty good. You should give it a try. Join us at http://www.odforce.net/forum

[allegro]

If you know RM, you should be able to figure out Mantra, they're pretty similar