Will Chaos cosmos be integrated in Houdini in the near future?

[gagui]

I'm just wondering if there are some plans on integrate Chaos cosmos in Houdini in the next version of Vray...

[manuel_kotulla]

Interested in this, too!

[bdancer]

There are currently no plans for Cosmos integration.

[gagui]

Really? But Cosmos is a great Vray feature and doesn't seem to be very complex to implement.
I'm very disappointed.

[seandunderdale]

There seems to be a new trend of not having all features across all platforms...us Maya users arent getting Chaos Scatter tool as things stand. I wonder if these differences will be reflected in the prices? Cosmos in Maya has made some tasks much much faster than they would have been without it, so I would be disappointed as a Houdini user.

[manuel_kotulla]

There are currently no plans for Cosmos integration.

Any reasons for this?

[bdancer]

Tnx for your insistence, the initial Cosmos support will be added to nightlies very soon.

[gagui]

Ahh, great news!!
Thanks!

[bdancer]

It's already in the nightlies for a few weeks so you could give it a try.

[ronald_a]

How would that work? When I go to V-Ray-->Import-->Cosmos Browser a window pops up and I get a connection refused error. Not sure if I missed any installation steps.

[bdancer]

> Not sure if I missed any installation steps.

Well, probably Cosmos service is not installed / running? QAs may help.

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hey ronald_a ,

I managed to reproduce the "connection refused" problem by removing the Cosmos Browser from the Windows Add/Remove panel. Could you please verify you actually have a "Chaos Cosmos" entry there?

A couple more things that pop to mind:
1. Are you using the installer or the zip builds? The zip builds won't work right away - the Chaos Cosmos service needs to be installed from the installer itself - you can then safely remove the V-Ray files generated by the installer in case you prefer using the zip builds.
2. Could you please copy the info from the Houdini top menu -> V-Ray -> About V-Ray so we can test with the exact version that you are using?

Hope that helps!

[ronald_a]

Hey Gosho.Genchev ,

we use zip builds so installing the service did the trick. thanks for the pointer!