.VRSCENE crossplatform

[ELECTRIC_GOBO]

Hi,

I would like to export a vrscene from a Modo machine on MacOS, and render it on a standalone on Windows. Naturally (or better not naturally), there are different conventions for paths to textures and assets, which I would have to fix first. I know a vrscene is ASCII and I could search and replace with Python, I would like to ask if there is a script or some other workaround for this issue around already. Any thoughts or pointers?

Thanks,
Axel

[vladimir.nedev]

You can use the VRAY_ASSETS_PATH environment variable to specify additional search paths for the textures.
It's explained in more detail on this page:

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...ment+Variables

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[ELECTRIC_GOBO]

You guys are the best!!!

[ELECTRIC_GOBO]

... will it include subfolders? Else it would defeat the purpose as textures in libraries tend to be in many places.

[vladimir.nedev]

No, I don't think it does.

Actually, the VRAY_ASSETS_PATH might be the outdated way to do this.

If you run vray.exe without arguments, it will show you a list of options.
One of the options is -remapPath (and there is a -remapPathFile as well).
I can't find it in the online documentation, but I think it's designed for exactly what you need.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[ELECTRIC_GOBO]

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks again, -remapPathFile is exactly what I was looking for! Yet as for future versions, maybe it would be nice to have a -remapPathRegex option or something like that? In my case, I now have to create an .xml with hundreds of entries, which *all* follow basically the same simple pattern "/Volume/Path/Subpath/"="X:\\Path\\Subpath\".

Axel

[vladimir.nedev]

Are they sub-folders of a common folder ?
I am not sure, but by the sound of it, "remapPath" should handle that, as long as you remap the common root folder.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[ELECTRIC_GOBO]

Yes, they share the same root. But from Mac/Linux to Windows the slash direction changes, which makes to whole path invalid. Or not?

[vlado]

Yes, they share the same root. But from Mac/Linux to Windows the slash direction changes, which makes to whole path invalid. Or not?

V-Ray should convert the slashes automatically for the current system that it is rendering on. At least, I remember we worked on this at some point. Windows doesn't care which slashes are being used anyways, it's only MacOS/Linux that are picky.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bbgrid]

I think there is also a problem of hard disk drive letter. on Windows it is named with one letter (for example C, D etc...) but on Mac it is named / Volume/OSX (or other name for that partition)... any crossplatform automation will save us tons of work.

[rayvision_inc]

How can I export vescene files in scriptup via script

[vladimir.nedev]

What's scriptup ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev