Omen

Simon
I think there are a lot of lurkers, don't know why they never reply, maybe shy students, who knows.

The other supported renders are Mental Ray and any renderman complient renderer.

we use Mantra only, but we are a small shop with very limited budget. When you get a class renderer like mantra for free with pretty much unlimited render licenses you don't worry about any others. But for the big boys Renderman is usually the only choice I think, mantra too for the same reason as us, it's there it's good and it's free.

Could you elaborate on “renderman compliant renderer”? From what I understand, RenderMan is not an actuall renderer but a tool that tells a “renderer” how and what to render, is this correct?

arctor
Pixar's renderman (don't know why they stopped calling it Pixar's Photorealistic Renderman…)
and mantra
are thee top two I'd say….

“EDIT: I'm beginning to think no one here actually uses Houdini. ”

?…not sure what you mean…most of the people who post to these forums either work for side effects or are working in the industry with Houdini…there are people here from C.O.R.E., Digital Domain, R&H, Axyz, Henson etc etc…

Well arctor I was just getting a little confused as to why there were so many views and no responces. I didn't think it was such a confusing question.

Then the answer is Mantra and RenderMan but RenderMan has to be installed separately. If you are saying these are th top two then there are other choices?
I liked Brazil when using Max but don't see it supported for Houdini.
What are the other supported renderers and their advantage or disadvantage if any?

What renderers are used (within this community) the most with Houdini?
And why?

EDIT: I'm beginning to think no one here actually uses Houdini. :roll: