[daisuke]

Since I have a houdini license to play with at home.. I may as well try out 3delight in houdini..

Here is a guide how to set it up with houdini.

http://odforce.net/w...p/3DelightSetup

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3Delight is our full-featured, fast, fully mature and RenderMan®-compliant renderer.

houdini.env file was found in
(Vista)
C:\Users\username\Documents\houdini10.0

Some links that may be useful later:
http://www.virtualri...-with-3delight/
http://www.sfdm.scad...te/lod/lod.html
http://www.3delight....t_24.html#SEC34
http://odforce.net/w...p/3DelightSetup

Discussions on setup:
http://www.3delight....opic.php?id=626
http://www.sidefx.co...hlight=3delight
http://www.sidefx.co...hlight=3delight
// my questions
http://www.3delight....?pid=8982#p8982
http://forums.odforc...using-3delight/

tuts:
looks like cmivfx has a tut on shading in houdini
DT has one on mantra
3dbuzz doesn't have any atm

Related to houdini VEX shaders:
Writing VEX shaders for physically based rendering (PBR)- http://www.sidefx.co...dini9.1/vex/pbr

[daisuke]

RSL -> VEX
http://sfdm.ca.scad....conversion.html

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Upon writing in RSL and VEX, it is quickly noticed as to how similar each language is to one another. By citing those similarities and the differences between the two, it is feasible to write a script which will convert one into another. In this case, a basic RSL plastic shader is to be converted into a VEX equivalent. Before this can be done - the differences between the languages should be noted: