Modo 801 SP4 Render Cache API support

[diegomaricato]

Gradients and Proxies!

Awesome Paul!

Thank you very much!

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Riggles - the next release of the plugin will allow stepped gradients, giving you the effect you were after with the random instance colors.

Paul

[riggles]

Riggles - the next release of the plugin will allow stepped gradients, giving you the effect you were after with the random instance colors.

Paul

Excellent! Thanks Paul~

[smicha]

Paul,

Could you code this LUA into modo function? This would rock!
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=41388

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Could you code this LUA into modo function? This would rock!
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=41388

Hi Smicha. There are a few options for implementing this sort of functionality. Firstly, A new node could be added which points to an LUA file to run as a Scripted Node. However in that case you would need to covert Marcus's LUA code from a Standalone Script to a Scripted Graph (potentially not trivial for that script). The other option would be to allow a "link" from a Modo Octane Override to a LocalDb material. Then you could create the random texture in Standalone using the current Marcus script, then link to it in the Modo plugin.

Both options would be useful in the plugin, so I will implement them in the next release.

Paul

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Hi Smicha. There are a few options for implementing this sort of functionality. Firstly, A new node could be added which points to an LUA file to run as a Scripted Node. However in that case you would need to covert Marcus's LUA code from a Standalone Script to a Scripted Graph (potentially not trivial for that script). The other option would be to allow a "link" from a Modo Octane Override to a LocalDb material. Then you could create the random texture in Standalone using the current Marcus script, then link to it in the Modo plugin.

Both options would be useful in the plugin, so I will implement them in the next release.

I ended up merging the above two solutions. In a future release there will be a NodeGraph node, where you can copy a node graph node in Octane Standalone, and paste it into an XML String property in the new NodeGraph node. This then directly uses the Octane Standalone NodeGraph nodes - which can be a texture, and material, whatever, and can contain a Scripted Graph. This is the example of using Marcus's Random Texture node graph generate from his LUA script on a Replicator in Modo.

Paul

[smicha]

Paul,

Thank you! I'll take a look into this.