Mayalicious: Liquid | Aqsis vs. MTOR
- Sep. 25th, 2004 at 1:42 PM
Have any of you heard of Liquid (an MTOR-like Maya-to-Renderman back end for generating geometry, lighting, texture, and shading models) and Aqsis (a free RenderMan compatible open source REYES renderer)?
One of the KDD students is using it in a cartoon shader project this semester. It might work for MacOS 10.x, too, depending on the IDE and compilers. Tentatively, I would recommend the above combination for Linux and Windows (Intel and AMD) platforms, on the strength of what I've seen.s.
Edit, 06:15 CDT Thu 30 Sep 2004: I was telling
darana about this and got a link in return.
--
Banazir
One of the KDD students is using it in a cartoon shader project this semester. It might work for MacOS 10.x, too, depending on the IDE and compilers. Tentatively, I would recommend the above combination for Linux and Windows (Intel and AMD) platforms, on the strength of what I've seen.s.
Edit, 06:15 CDT Thu 30 Sep 2004: I was telling
darana about this and got a link in return.--
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Yanking for further experimentation: Aqsis and K-3D.
Did you get Liquid, too?
Let me know what you make of it, please.
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Banazir
No, I didn't download that. Liquid bills itself as a plugin for Maya, which I don't have. I spend money on software only when there is no freeware equivalent and not having the functionality "puts me out of business".
While 3D rendering is limiting one of my avenues of science fantasy composition, it is hardly business-critical at this time.
Are you looking to do production-level stuff or just learn?
Because Maya 6 Personal Learning Edition has most of the useful features of Maya Complete, just with some watermarking and exporting limitations IIRC from my students' reviews.
I spend money on software only when there is no freeware equivalent and not having the functionality "puts me out of business".
Hrm... you make me wonder: what is a free, full-featured 3-D modeling environment for animation and rendering? The closest good one to Maya?
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Banazir
Aha.
Might want to talk to
Would you be interested in discussing joint venture possibilities along those lines? Especially the e-book content? (I've actually got a specific direction in mind if you want to take this to e-mail.)
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Banazir
It's pretty interesting and has a lot of various plugins and user groups. I haven't done a lot with it. It's not very intuitive and well I am a lot more familiar with Lightwave and Maya.