Vray Hair and Shave

[alainfx]

We are subject to the American blockage thanks to Joe Alter.

I don't think Joe created this blockage, the following 2 messages are his side of the story :
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost...6&postcount=75
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost...&postcount=112

[jpwestmas]

I don't think Joe created this blockage, the following 2 messages are his side of the story :
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost...6&postcount=75
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost...&postcount=112

No, but who started the inquiry for what Yeti actually was, JoeAlter inc. wasn't it? Just sounds like everyone got confused for what Yeti technology actual is and where it came from. Joe didn't even know what it was apparently. Somebody got too excited I guess and Perigrin got scared and ran away from the US market.

[alainfx]

No, but who started the inquiry for what Yeti actually was, JoeAlter inc. wasn't it?

To sum up, if I understand correctly :
-Joe Alter sued Disney/Pixar over XGen.
-Later, Peregrine Labs claimed to use part of the XGen technology.
-Joe says he didn't asked Peregrine Labs for anything, they decided to give up the US market to get immunity to the Disney suit.

If you have information that says otherwise, please tell us.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/05/yet...old-in-the-us/
http://gametimeip.com/2011/10/07/inv...ney-runaround/

[aweidenhammer]

Yes, I understand the point... the V-Ray hair shader would help with hair render times quite a bit, if only it worked with Shave I'll bug Joe about it a bit more...

Best regards,
Vlado

Isn't Joe too busy suing the makers of Yeti to integrate proper feature requests? Sorry... I'm a bit ticked at that. I've not been a fan of Shave for reasons of bad support, sloppy updates, and crappy licensing.

Again, even more sorry, I'm reading up a bit on the links provided above... but my opinion of his flaky support and updates still stands.

[vlado]

Well, the hair material support would be up to us to implement...

Best regards,
Vlado

[dougWilkinson]

Vlado. Do you mean that he will not help you? If he doesnt help make this happen then its just left to you?

[vlado]

Joe has always been very helpful, I don't have any complaints in that regard. To make hair material work, the shave primitive must support some additional shading interfaces which are not documented in the V-Ray SDK so we have to do it here.

Best regards,
Vlado