Krakatoa for Softimage - Unofficial

[Bullit]

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James Vecore View profile
More options Mar 22, 2:08 pm


Here is a video of a plugin I started working on for Softimage. I'm
integrating KrakatoaSR as a renderer into Softimage:

https://vimeo.com/62377510

Please excuse the programmer art. I don't actually know how to make anything
look good with Krakatoa yet.

Features So Far:

- Integrated as a renderer plug-in using KrakatoaSR's C++ API

- Works with ICE driven point clouds

- All Krakatoa supported channels are mapped and pulled from
ice if they exist (Emission, Absorption, etc)

- All parameters in KrakatoaSR exposed in the renderer options

- Region render support

- Scene lights can be restricted with a group

- Occlusion mesh support (also through a group)

- Multi-channel EXR output supported.

Now for a real question. While integrating the ICE channel support I noticed
that even if I put a Set Data for an attribute like PointNormal, ICE will
still optimize it away unless it is being directly used for display or
simulation. This seems a tad overly aggressive. My current work around is to
drop a log values before the set data and turn off the logging which forces
the channel into existence. Please tell there is some other easier way to
force a channel to not be optimized away? Or some way from C++ to force the
evaluation of the ICEAttribute. I have to imagine other renderers would have
similar problems with channels that aren't needed for viewport display or
simulation but are needed for rendering.

Thanks,

-James

[jamination]

what is the difference between this and emrpc4 and fury2. taking nothing away from the developer but it seems softimage has this area covered.

[Bullit]

Don't know, i have never used either, but Karakatoa has the reputation of being one of the best.

[Bullit]

Update

This is a quick update to the Krakatoa for Softimage plugin that wrote. It adds some features but more importantly it announces that this plugin has been open-sourced at github.com: github.com/jamesvecore/KrakatoaForSoftimage. Now anyone can download and build this plugin as well contribute to the development of plugin through github pull requests.