eglaubauf / materialBuildMantra

Builds a Material Based on Texture Selection for Houdini Mantra

A MaterialBuilder Script for SideFx Houdinis Mantra

Moved Permanently

https://github.com/eglaubauf/egMantraTools

Features

• Provides a Materialbuilder for PrincipledShader which converts textures to .rat format on import as well
• Provides an OCIO-Materialbuilder which converts textures to .rat format on import
• Provides a script which converts already linked textures to .rat (via COPs) - orignal files are untouched, new files will be placed in the origin-directory
• creates a tree based on Filnames and works best with strings provided by Substance
  • base_color or basecolor
  • roughness
  • normal
  • metallic
  • reflect
  • height
  • displace
  • bump
  • ao or ambient_occlusion
• The strings to look for can easily be changed at the bottom of each script
• A shelf is provided in the toolbar folder (put it to $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR/toolbar)

Example Node tree for MaterialBuilder

Installation:

Append egLib to Houdini Python path or add to 123.py or 456.py

import sys
sys.path.append("<PathToLib>\scripts")

Notes:

All of the scripts are free of charge for free use, commercial or non commercial whatsoever. But this scripts may brake your workflow.