enhancing bifrost support

[corestudio]

Hello-

Any chance vray will be enhancing it's bifrost support? Specifically the ability to render the bifrost liquid, foam and aero shaders directly (i.e. without converting and/or exporting meshes and .prt)? That would be a big help, thanks.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

The bifrost liquid material is supported, without the foam part. There is also a basic support for the aero shader. Of course, we will work on improving this.

[corestudio]

Thanks. Except that you need to mesh the fluid - which isn't necessarily bad - but for look dev it would be nice to not have too.

And yes foam would be good. Basically anything to keep us from having to use mr.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

You don't need meshing in Maya 2016 since Bifrost released an API to access voxel data. V-Ray supports it.

[corestudio]

Really? That's exciting. But what version of vray? We're on 2016 sp4 vray 3.10.01 and I can't find a way to get that work. What am I missing?

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Not sure. What happens when you get a Bifrost example - for example bridgeFall.ma since it's not using meshing, and hit render? It should render as is.

[corestudio]

I just made a super simple bifrost sim and tried to render and I get an empty viewport with vray. But I just noticed this:

// Error: VRay: Could not load the Bifrost module! You will not be able to render Bifrost as isosurface or metaball. Error is:[loadLib] dlopen failed: dlopen(/Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/Maya.app/Contents/MacOS/libvraybifrost.so, 5): image not found //

in the startup, so I'm guessing that's the issue. Not sure why that is though. I did re-did a standard vray install, and I still get the error. Any ideas?

[corestudio]

sorry, that should say "an empty RENDER with vray"

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Oh, yes, sorry, this doesn't work on OSX. We should be able to fix this for the next SP or at least Maya 2017.

[corestudio]

gah!
ok, meshing it is...

[corestudio]

Any update on this for OS X? The docs for 3.4 seem to indicate I can render bifrost natively but might still be an OS X limitation? I hate that... Also, what about foam?

[shaio]

We're currently working on it, I'll update the thread as soon as we are ready.

[corestudio]

We're currently working on it, I'll update the thread as soon as we are ready.

Thanks Ivan. I really hope it's a priority