Get shaders in custom AOVs

[hsz]

What I would like to know what is the best way to get a custom AOV into vray I know the extra tex can give you custom stuff but if playing with shader in the MAT context and I created a nice noise lets say. what is the best to get that noise into an extra tex? Do I have to copy the whole network into the render elements? that will be extremely annooying let say if I have 100 shaders. Redshift and Mantra do this the right way where you can output any AOVs as seen in the screeshot with RS. Maybe missing something from Vray?

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hey there,

try specifying the path to the node using op:/path in the Texture field of the Extra Texture RE.

Although it may be worth thinking of a more robust way of handling this. Please ping us if you stumble into any issues.

Cheers!

[hsz]

Thanks for the workaround but that is definitely not the way to go, it can be extremely curmbersome to do this with many shaders.

[Gosho.Genchev]

Yup, I think it should be possible to add an AOV export vop or something along those lines for a workflow similar to mantra. I'll check with the dev team if we can improve things.


Thank you!

[hsz]

Hi Gosho.Genchev I read a post in odforce that you fix this or is working now? Can you please tell me if you guys added a node or what is the workflow? Thanks

[bdancer]

hsz, select material output node, in the parameters you should see "AOV" tab, pressing "+" will add new input sockets to the node. Make sure to setup "Name" attribute.