Hello,



Is it possible to set a background color for rendering in Houdini and how ?


thanks

You can set it in mplay by going to display options/background. This won't actual chnage it in the render but you can then view your renders with the correct background. AFAIK you can't set it in a render, you would typically comp it afterwards.
But maybe there is a setting somewhere I don't know about, it wouldn't surprise me….

there was an option in renderman to activate “backplate” in render globals, and make a constant/flat shader named “backplate” and it will use it as a bckground col.
it was some time ago I used rman so naming convenctions may be wrong :wink: but the workflow is correct.

Hello,



thanks for the replies. Like you said , you can set it in mplay but not in the real Mantra Renderer. Maybe in future releases it will be possible ?…

I think it's very handy if you need to make render tests with diferent backgrounds, without having to work with shaded “background spheres” and so on…



thanks,


bern

I think that's the point of being able to set it in mplay. That way you can do tests without having to bake the result into the final output. I can't see that changing.