Houdini Exporter -- LuxHoud

[DarkSide]

Hi there.
I started scripting Python for Luxrender exporter of Houdini, one of the most powerful and flexible 3D tools.
I just added some basic primitives, but it seems fairly simple to write an exporter since Houdini provides tool for exporter.

I think I can write the first version in a month and hope I can also integrate Houdini's volume and hair into the future version of Lux.

Here are screenshot and basic render result

DarkSide

[Radiance]

Great start

Please keep us up to date as you progress...

Radiance

[Sheltem]

Wow Another exporter! this picking up some momentum now!

Great work!

S

[leifdk]

hey any idea of it wil work the aprentice or hd version
it would be realy awsome thanx a lot

[DarkSide]

Well. Apprentice and HD versions don't support external renderer.
I think I will have to find out some way for exporting lxs file for Apprentice.

DarkSide

[Venxi]

Any further progress on this? Where can the code be downloaded?

Since the last post on this was 2009 I can only assume no more work has been done on it. That being the case I will start coding my own exporter for the Linux versions. If anyone is interested in testing this as I complete the initial code let me know. I want to round out a material preview as well so most likely will incorporate elements of SLG possibly. I need to evaluate since the integration needs to be more than just a simple export.

-V

[Abel]

Great news, good luck!

I want to round out a material preview as well so most likely will incorporate elements of SLG possibly.

The material systems of SLG and LuxRender are not compatible, it is probably a better idea to have a look at Pylux as that works with Python and is used in LuxBlend for the material previews.

[Venxi]

Thanks. I will look at PyLux as you have suggested. I have noticed that the evolution of LuxRender still does not contain enough offload to the GPU when I look at Octane or Indigo (or even SLG). I have looked at the Lux source code with LuxRays and the still evolving SLG (2.0preview). I was leaning towards writing a exporter for Indigo or Octane but like the open source nature of LuxRender and the associated projects.

Again, thanks for the heads up on PyLux. I will have a look at it.

-V