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Iray and ptex

DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
in Daz Studio Discussion

I made some renders with ptex and 3dlight. It works fine.

Than I switch to Iray and my ptex texture is gone.

Is ptex supported by Iray?

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Probably not...ptex is a Disney/Pixar/Renderman (and since 3Delight is a Renderman compliant renderer, it too) thing.

  • DrPingyDrPingy Posts: 78
    mjc1016 said:

    Probably not...ptex is a Disney/Pixar/Renderman (and since 3Delight is a Renderman compliant renderer, it too) thing.

    That is a pity.

    Blender will introduce ptex texturing too.

    ptext has some advantages over uv-mapping.

  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,611

    http://blog.digitaltutors.com/understanding-ptex-is-it-the-future-of-texturing/

    There are also downsides to using Ptex.  It is still very new and it will take time to see how far Ptex will penetrate past the film industry.

  • IceCrMnIceCrMn Posts: 2,142

    I don't know if I would call it new :)  http://ptex.us/index.html

    It's opensource.When I was running Red Hat I saw it in the repo.I didn't try it out back then because I wasn't into 3D art back then.

    The front page says they support mental ray, 3Delight, and a few others.

    here's the download page for the source code http://ptex.us/download.html . It has links to their github where the source is hosted.

    also , Nvidia's PhysX was recently opensourced (this one is on Nvidia's GITHub)

    Lot's of nice things going opensource, wouldn't it be cool if some of them found their way into Studio ( hint  hint )  :)

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Qt is in Studio....

    So PhysX is now going up against Bullet, directly...hmmm.

    Ptex is going to need support from Nvidia and since Otoy has, or will be, adding support, it really is only a matter of time.

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