Ptex support

[Chris]

Will Octane inn the near future have support for Ptex texture maps?

Cheers

[WiKKiDWidgets]

Can you not export them to regular UV maps?

[Chris]

Yes you can, but it would be nice to have support

[radiance]

maybe in the future, we've a list of more pressing issues to finish first

Radiance

[WiKKiDWidgets]

@Chris

You have me curious, what are you using to employ PTEX? when i read about it, it was just a library that you could develope on, not an actual program. I'd love to fiddle with it myself.

[Sam]

3DCoat is supporting it
And also The Foundry MARI

Here's an interesting video about MARI (not showing Ptex, but a T-Rex with huge textures)
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep078.mov

MARI is used at WETA (for Avatar they worked with MARI)

Octane + RIB + Ptex = production proof workflow
Since Renderman support Ptex, people using Ptex have RIB pipelines

[Chris]

@Chris

You have me curious, what are you using to employ PTEX? when i read about it, it was just a library that you could develope on, not an actual program. I'd love to fiddle with it myself.

Hey Wikki, like Sam mentioned, im planning to paint Ptex maps in 3DCoat when the next update of it arrives

[Hatak]

I don`t know how u, but i think Ptex it is very need thing. Octane do a photoreal rendring, and result depends from good texture and UV map. And Ptex do a new step to photoreal.