Alias studio plugin Render

[Anonymous]

Hello.

I would like to ask if there is some plug-in for Alias studio so I can render from Alias studio by help of other professional render program such as Maxwell V-Ray or Arion.

So far I found out that Maya or Rhino have such a plug in, but does it have also Alias? (So I don’t need to install extra program).

Thank You.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

unfortunatly there is no such plugin for alias to render like vray or maxwell. For alias raytrace only would be the best option to render the highquality

[Anonymous]

You can use your NURBS data in Rhino where you can assign UVs for mapping and for which Maxwell, Shot and V-Ray plug-ins exist 🙂

[Anonymous]

Nurbs Geometry doesnt have UV mapping.

That s one cool thing about nurbs. No uv map needed.... It s explicit.

Bye 

[systembolaget]

Of course, that's what you do in Rhino. We always export our Alias NURBS surfaces to Rhino (IGES 5 file format) to assign UVs there - in order to texture properly in Maxwell Render, Bunkspeed Shot or V-Ray.

Interestingly, after many recent discussions we had with Autodesk technical support, it looks like they could re-introduce UVs with OBJ output (to import into Maxwell Render, Bunkspeed Shot or V-Ray) which was - for some strange reason - dropped after Alias V9. The funny thing is - Alias/Wavefront invented the OBJ format with UVs in the first place way way back 😉

ps: if you're not texturing with directional textures (i.e. wood grain, brushed metal) or you're not texturing with decals (i.e. product graphics, ui-symbols, logos) then you can tessellate in Alias and render in any render software that accepts OBJ input. In the worst case, simple graphics can be photoshopped on the rendering afterwards. But a burl-wood dashboard or gear shift grip can't be done properly that way.