Export vray data from max to houdini without solaris

[mori4h]

Hello,
Following this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwD_pHSv9M
Is there any way to transfer assets and materials from max to houdini but without being forced to use Solaris? We would like to use the conventional ways of rendering inside Houdini, since solaris with vray is very very a wip.

[bdancer]

> Is there any way to transfer assets and materials from max to houdini

*.vrscene.

> since solaris with vray is very very a wip

May I ask what makes you think that? Have you tried it? What functionality are you missing?
Have you seen videos in this post? https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray...goodbye-kansas

[mori4h]

Hi! thanks for the prompt answer.

Yes, we've begun to dive into vray+solaris, right now the biggest limitation we find is the VFB (or lack of), yes there's the experimental feature but for me most of the time it doesn't popup and it's not very responsive. We're coming from 3dsmax+vray so using the solaris viewport without the VFB controls is like going 5 years backwards hehe.

Will definitely test this more and more, just wanted to know for now the best way to transfer production ready assets from max to houdini, without relying on solaris since we're in the early phases of testing.

[bdancer]

> We're coming from 3dsmax+vray so using the solaris viewport without the VFB controls is like going 5 years backwards hehe.

Well not much could be done here unfortunately (and what could be done - already done).
And it has nothing to do with V-Ray or our wish to not allow VFB in Hydra -
it's the way Hydra works and it works one way only (from USD stage to the renderer, even DCC itself is not involved).

> but for me most of the time it doesn't popup

There is a button in the render settings to show VFB once it gets hidden.