TIW dte mental
DarkTree Shader for Mental Ray

Image by Jan Sandström

 About

TIWdtemental is a shader plugin for rendering DarkTree procedural textures in Mental Ray. TIWdtemental is developed and maintained by The Image Works using the DTE.

 Shaders

The Mental Ray shaders in this package provide an interface to the procedural texture trees created with DarkTree 2.0 or higher by Darkling Simulations. By simply giving a DarkTree texture file as an input parameter to one of the shaders, the texture will be rendered without having to generate bitmaps first.

 Softimage XSI Package

This plugin package, based on TIWdtemental, provides DarkTree support for Softimage XSI.  The add-on packages the SPDLs, the HTML helpfiles, the icons, builds a DarkTree toolbar and, best of all, automatically registers the Mental Ray/DarkTree shader twimental.dll.

This XSI package was put together by Felix Gebhardt, an animation student at HFF.

 3ds max Package

This plugin package, based on TIWdtemental, provides DarkTree support for 3ds max using the Mental Ray renderer. The add-on package contains installation instructions and a modified shader declaration specifically for 3ds max.

 Download

Download TIWdtemental and enhance Mental Ray output with DarkTree procedurals.

 System Requirements

TIWdtemental has been tested with mental ray 2.1x, 3.0x, 3.1x under Windows 2000 Pro. We have also tested them within Maya 4.5 and the mental ray for Maya 1.5 plugin. They will also work with any application that can use and integrate custom mental ray shaders under Windows.  The XSI package has been tested with XSI 3.01 and 3.5. The 3ds max package has been tested with 3ds max 6.

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