Hi all,

It's not often I visit these forums but I'd love to know if this is possible, basically I've been creating some illustrations of dancing ribbons, it's not dynamic, but I control various elements within the SOP build.

This is all fine when using OR to render as I can remain in the SOP context. However, I have shifted the project over to Karma / Solaris. With that, when in the Stage context I cannot access the SOP CTRLS anymore, is there a way of importing those pre-made CTRLS into the Solaris environment? I hope this makes sense!!!

My CTRLS are exposed:



When in Solaris I would love to tweak in the Stage context?

You should be able to float a pane of those parameters/controls and as you tweak them, they will update in Solaris since it's a live connection. Alternatively, pin the network that has those controls in a separate pane and keep that open when you are in Solaris.

Keep in mind that every time you change a parameter in SOPs, the USD sent to Solaris is being updated and written to disk, so you might experience a bit of lag as you tweak your parameters.

Thanks for giving that info, I wouldn't have thought about a separate pane.

Do you know of a better way of doing this then? I guess I'm used to working in SOP mode due to using OR / RS in the past, however, I really want to drive down subscriptions hence going for Karma as my choice of render engine.

I would love to avoid the lag of writing to disk via this route, maybe for the next part of the project I can implement that, but is there definitely a way of doing so, I do get frustrated with the lag. At the moment, I can easily animate in the SOPS environment for this phase of development, do you know of any good tutorials or even have suggestions yourself?

Cheers

Scott

Pixelised
Thanks for giving that info, I wouldn't have thought about a separate pane.

Do you know of a better way of doing this then? I guess I'm used to working in SOP mode due to using OR / RS in the past, however, I really want to drive down subscriptions hence going for Karma as my choice of render engine.

I would love to avoid the lag of writing to disk via this route, maybe for the next part of the project I can implement that, but is there definitely a way of doing so, I do get frustrated with the lag. At the moment, I can easily animate in the SOPS environment for this phase of development, do you know of any good tutorials or even have suggestions yourself?

Cheers

Scott

This is a normal workflow. USD/Solaris is a separate environment that works best if everything is cached. If you want to quickly preview animation in Solaris, you should cache out to USD after your SOP Import / Scene Import.