primvars: send vales from unity to octane
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:21 pmHello,
Heavy one: I was wondering if there is any equivalent to Renderman primvars in Octane. I will explain:
Lets say that I have a model of a brown cat. In my shot I would to have 5 cats, but with different colors, not just brown .
The traditional way to do this is to duplicate the asset, duplicate the shader, change the color in the shader then assign it to the new cat. Repeat this process 4 times to make 4 more assets, thereby making the scene heavy. Technically 4 times more memory occupied, more assets to manage.
In renderman, primvar allows you to send data from host DCC to the renderer. The above example can be efficiently executed by creating a primvar color variable to the shader, then overriding the default color value with the primvar variable. So when you define the primvar color on the particular instance in the DCC, there renderer reflects this change. This is brutally efficient.
I wonder if you have such feature in development ?
regards
Matthew
Heavy one: I was wondering if there is any equivalent to Renderman primvars in Octane. I will explain:
Lets say that I have a model of a brown cat. In my shot I would to have 5 cats, but with different colors, not just brown .
The traditional way to do this is to duplicate the asset, duplicate the shader, change the color in the shader then assign it to the new cat. Repeat this process 4 times to make 4 more assets, thereby making the scene heavy. Technically 4 times more memory occupied, more assets to manage.
In renderman, primvar allows you to send data from host DCC to the renderer. The above example can be efficiently executed by creating a primvar color variable to the shader, then overriding the default color value with the primvar variable. So when you define the primvar color on the particular instance in the DCC, there renderer reflects this change. This is brutally efficient.
I wonder if you have such feature in development ?
regards
Matthew