Atoms support supports Renderman, Arnold, Vray and Vray renderer. There are Redshift renderers. Atoms is shipped with a procedural for each of these 3 renders that renderer which can be used inside mayaMaya/houdini Houdini or standalone.
Maya
It is possible to render each agent group as a normal maya node, just lunch a render and the procedural are automatically loaded. But please be aware the You can directly render agent groups, just launch a render and they will be automatically replaced with a procedural by the renderer.
In general, you should always export a cache of your simulation and then replace your agent groups with AtomsProxy nodes reading those caches.
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Please be aware motion blur will not work if you render directly from an agent group. |
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You must export a cache of your simulation and then use an AtomsProxy node to load it in the scene. The Atoms proxy node support the motion blur.
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Motion Blur only works with AtomsProxy nodes. |
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Redshift and VRay only work with Atoms Proxy nodes. It is not possible to render directly |
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from agent group nodes. |
Houdini
In houdini to To render you your simulation in Houdini, you must export an atoms cache and the create a Renderman/Arnold procedural node from the Atoms menu.
Variations
To create agent variations please check the next section
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