Store shaders inside proxies

[ultrasonic]

Hi guys,

sorry if this has been asked before, but i am in a hurry.....can i store shaders inside the vrmesh and render them straight away without any shadingGroup connection?

thx in advance
Oliver

[vlado]

Unfortunately no. You'll have to connect some actual shaders. We have some ideas in that regard though.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bigbossfr]

Hi guys,

sorry if this has been asked before, but i am in a hurry.....can i store shaders inside the vrmesh and render them straight away without any shadingGroup connection?

thx in advance
Oliver

Hi,
Create a scene with your proxy, connect your shaders. Export all.
In the final scene, create a reference with the exported scene.

[Richard7666]

I use Sunday Pipeline for this.

I just save my proxies to its library and when I import them from the library, any shaders come along with them.

[ultrasonic]

@Richard7666 & bigbossfr: Sorry guys, but that was not the initial question...i know how to reference a file containing proxies in maya...i am working on a larger scale pipeline where i would like to incorporate some features that other renderers already support.

[vlado]

The proxy is not like an ass file or like a .rib file; it does not store a full scene description - and there is a good reason for that. We could make it to store shaders, but that wasn't its original intent (and sometimes it doesn't make much sense either, as native 3rd party shaders from e.g. 3ds Max have no meaning in Maya).

If including assets during render time is all you want, you can also include entire .vrscene files through the pre-render Python callback.

Best regards,
Vlado

[ultrasonic]

If including assets during render time is all you want, you can also include entire .vrscene files through the pre-render Python callback.

That is exactly what i want! But how would i translate,rotate and scale the stuff inside that vrscene? Is that possible with the vray python module too?

regards
Oli

[vlado]

Yes, it is possible, but it's not very straightforward...

Best regards,
Vlado