Custom Renderer

Software Plugin developers can use a custom Renderer as a plugin for MotionBuilder using the Custom Renderer API.

You can select the Renderer via the Render window, in the Render Source area. To accommodate the needs of higher quality renderers, the following changes have been made in this release of the software product.

several objects have been updated
lights include additional features such as animatable barndoors
Spot lights include inner and outer cone settings
area lights have been added but are only available for the custom renderer
new light properties are supported in Maya
Primary Visiblity, Casts Shadows and Receive Shadows properties have been added to the models to enable the custom renderer to access pe rmodel shadow setting. These properties are enabled by default.

The custom renderer has the ability to distinguish objects that are hidden by rendering only the objects selected to be shown.

See the MotionBuilder SDK Help at http://www.www.autodesk.com.motionbuilder-sdkdoc-2014-enu.

File format support for custom renderer
Although MotionBuilder does not support OpenEXR and DDS file formats, you can load an arbitrary video file format such as OpenEXR or DDS to render using a custom renderer. The custom renderer would be able to draw the OpenEXR or DDS image type.
Assigning Viewer panes for custom renderer
You can specify a renderer for each Viewer pane via the Viewer Renderer menu similarly as you choose a Display mode for each View pane.

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Custom Renderer

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