LuxMaya Overview

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Features Overview

These features are for python plugin that is currently in development.

Mesh:

• Full polygon mesh support
  • Only the first UV set is used

External PLY mesh:

• Placing of external PLY meshes in your scene with the custom luxObjectLocator locator.
  • No materials yet.

NURBS:

• Experimental NURBs support.
  • Trimmed surfaces won't export properly.

Subdivs:

• Coming soon (hopefully)

Light:

• Point
• Spotlight
• AreaLight by assigning luxshader to a mesh and using "Area Light" type.

Material:

• Full support for all Lux material types via custom luxshader node
• Translation of lambert nodes -> matte materials
  • Color -> Kd (diffuse)
  • Translucence -> sigma
• Translation of phong nodes -> plastic materials
  • Color -> Kd (diffuse)
  • specularColor -> Ks (specular)
  • (1 - (cosinePower * 0.01))*0.1 -> roughness

Texturing:

• File textures or custom lux_* or blender_* procedurals on any luxshader parameter

Cameras:

• Perspective
  • Supports "shift"
• Orthographic
• Environment

Output image:

Untonemapped:

• EXR
• IGI

Tonemapped:

• TGA
• EXR
• IGI

Set up:

• Installers available for both windows and linux. You need to install lux first.
• Also available as a simple .zip package for manual installation.

GUI:

• Easy to use GUI presenting you with commonly needed options, and rendering presets.
• Addition of Lux menu to Rendering menu set.

Next page -> LuxMaya_Installation