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CHRiTTeR
06-27-2004, 01:37 PM
Since there are many awesome free renderman shaders available. I was wondering... cant i use them in max? I know Maxshade does this, but its only available for max4. I'm a max6 user... Any other (preferable free) plugin that can do this?

Thnaks
Stroker
06-27-2004, 02:06 PM
http://www.doberman.3d.pl/

Scripts for using Max as a frontend to RenderMan.
Rendering done with RM renderer.

That's all I got.
CHRiTTeR
06-27-2004, 02:10 PM
Thank, but that isnt what i'm looking for...

I bassicly want to be able of using (and rendering ofcourse) renderman shaders in max itself.
Is this possible?
Stroker
06-27-2004, 02:48 PM
As far as I know, it's not possible in Max 6.
Last I knew, Maxshade went belly-up. But I have also heard that is it open source. If you can find the source, maybe you can find someone to give you a hand with a recompile...?

Or maybe learn MR's shading language and try to translate the shaders.
Is MR's SL as robust as RM's SL?

That's all I got.

edit:
Just found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxshade
I haven't looked too hard just yet, but there might be something of use in there.
stew
06-28-2004, 12:38 PM
Not sure, but I think MaxShade could work with version 6. I remember using it with version 5.
CHRiTTeR
06-28-2004, 12:51 PM
Yeah, but MAX5 was backwards compatible with Max4. Max6 isnt... :/
CHRiTTeR
06-29-2004, 08:19 AM
The sourcecode seems to be public now...
Don't know anything about programming or compiling, but can this be (easily) compiled so it works under MAX6?
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