Linear
New shaders + linear tools
Hi all I have just compiled new shaders for mentalray:
New features ::
- ar_pointPosition — misc shader for generating screen and or world space position of current surface point
- ar_bufferWrite — now working with named buffers
Also you can now download a little tool for converting tifs to linear openEXRs
This file contains executables for linux 32 and 64 bit, intel based mac os x, and windows 32 bit.
You will need to have openexr and tiff libraries installed on linux and mac os x .
useage:
from a console/terminal simply run :
sRGB2Linear “file_to_be_converted.tif”
this will spit out an exr image that can then be used as your colour texture inside your rendering package.
Tutorials should be out by the end of next week.
Ash -out
Linear Tools etc
Hi all
Just a quick post to say that I’m currently writing up a tutorial on linear workflow in Maya/Mentalray.
As part of this i have made a little converter for tiff->openEXR.
All source and executables will be uploaded shortly 
Stay tuned
Ash