Max exporter

[losbellos]

yes, that was the problem.
Anyway thanks for the help, uvw looks fine with your code.

[PerPixel]

New release

Its much easyer that I tought it would be. I'll keep adding more LuxRender material and texture but next thing I want to add is Area light.

Here my road map for the week,

Area light
Glossy Material
Metal Material
Glass Material

I also keep working on the C++ plugins that replace the render dialog. It make it possible to select LuxRender as a renderer from the render option and also render the materials preview with LuxRender. Its also much faster.

Material support: Matte
Texture Map support: Constant, Checkerboard, Image
Light support: point light
Render settings support: default

Install
1. Copy the script and plugins folder to your max folder.
2. Edit the LuxRender.ms from the script folder to match your installation.

Usage

1. model something
2. add a point light
3. add a material to you object and chose a material type starting with LR ex: "LR Matte"
3.a. Add a Texture map using one of type LR ex: "LR Constant"
4. Set perspective viewport or a camera. Make sure its active
5. Execute the LuxRender script

[klemar]

Thanx for script, perpixel, my script developing is stopped when I fight with maxscript manual for export geometry.
perhaps I can help with the development of some parts of the script?

[Radiance]

how about i open a max exporter development forum, and we open a HG source repository on our lux repo ?
like this you can all work together and create a neat exporter for max...

Radiance

[PerPixel]

Give me some more time to get all the pieces together and then we can share development. I'm moving so fast right now and soon people can just take the matte material for example and extent it to metal or something.  Got the area lights done also I wish I could post here from my office computer but security is tight.... I had a very productive lunch hour.
 

[PerPixel]

This update add the area light material. Apply it to a mesh.

[klemar]

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   format "Camera \"perspective\" \"float fov\" [45]\n" to:tmpLxs   
   format "Film \"fleximage\""    to:tmpLxs   
   format "\"integer xresolution\" [%]" renderwidth to:tmpLxs   
   format "\"integer yresolution\" [%]" renderheight to:tmpLxs   

My 2 cents code for width and height from 3dsmax render settings.
I looking for info on camera fov and instances.

[PerPixel]

If you can make a function that return the camera string that would be great. Need to get the active camera from the render panel. Need to write the render preset from luxblend also.

[klemar]

maybe this code?

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fn dumpcam = (
   for c in cameras do  (
      if iskindof c camera do (
         format "LookAt   % % %\n   % % %\n   % % %\n\n"  c.position.x c.position.y c.position.z c.target.position.x c.target.position.y c.target.position.z  (c.position.x*(-1)) (c.position.y*(-1)) (c.position.z*(-1)) to:out_file_scene
   format "Camera \"perspective\"" to:out_file_scene
   format "   \"float fov\" [%]\n" c.fov to:out_file_scene
     format "   \"float screenwindow\" [-1.000000 1.000000 -0.750000 0.750000]\n\n" to:out_file_scene
      )
   )
)

I have idea that we can not do the processing instance, a to do something like mr proxy or vray proxy, when lxs model will be loaded through the scripted plugin modifier.

Little macro for for ease of launch script from toolbar:

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macroScript Macro_LR category:"Luxrender" buttontext:"LR Render" tooltip:"Render in Luxrender"
(
on execute do (filein "LuxRender.ms")
)

[losbellos]

Hej, just a note to your code, especially in the geometry export. Dont use functions in it. It will greatly slowing it down. Also, You will have to write the data out in smaller chunks, because on bigger models, and scenes, itt will be very slow, or fail. Furthermore, using - dotnetobject "System.ComponentModel.BackGroundWorker" you can have few threads exporting it, this way you could get full use of multicore processors, but minimise the use of the arrays (doesnt work well with multithreading)
Have one background thread as a manager, then while you export max will not hang.