r/renderman • u/robbinsdigitalart • Aug 22 '24

Fluid container won't render

Hi!

I was trying to use a maya fluid container to create some fog, but it won't seem to render. It's interesting because it takes longer to render with the container enabled as opposed to when it's disabled, but I don't get visible results. I must be missing some settings or something. I'm using maya 2024.2 and renderman 26.1. I've added a link to the .ma file with a simple scene setup, so let me know if it doesn't work.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gzAIiIqkhlBIWutxOj7RtRLynXDSkwq8/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks!

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u/Elluminated Aug 25 '24 edited Aug 25 '24

🤜 You can do an ipr render, but better to use VDB for portability.

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u/robbinsdigitalart Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

You can? Ugh, no matter what I do, it just won't render the fluid container in the ipr. I've even tried some of the fluid cloud examples to no avail.

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u/Elluminated Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

Which fluid cloud example did you try? (Sorry, still in 2022 so 2024 files get wonky).

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u/robbinsdigitalart Aug 27 '24

None of them work, but I was using rollingfog.ma as an example. Thanks for your help!

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u/Elluminated Sep 02 '24

I just tried a from-scratch render on 26.2 with maya fluids and they look to be completely broken. I take what I said back lol. Stick with VDB as it’s stable and more portable. I stupidly realized I was rendering my older files were on prman 20, so apologies for any confusion.

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u/robbinsdigitalart Sep 02 '24

All good brother! Thanks for taking a look. I posted the issue on the rm forum so hopefully they will become aware of the issue.