Rendering

Atoms supports Renderman, Arnold, Vray and Redshift renderers. Atoms is shipped with a procedural for each renderer which can be used inside Maya/Houdini or standalone.

Maya

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.

Houdini

To render 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

• Building variations
• Preparing scene for rendering
• Variation jsons
• Using agent metadatas inside a shader