Getting Started

About

MoonRay

Arras

RDL Scene Format

Documentation Images and Models

What's Included

Installation

Building MoonRay

General Build Instructions

Building on Rocky Linux 9

Building in a Rocky Linux 9 Container

Building on macOS Sonoma

Source Repository List

Dependencies

Test Scenes

User Reference

Execution Modes

Scene Objects

Cameras

BakeCamera

OrthographicCamera

PerspectiveCamera

SphericalCamera

Displacement

CombineDisplacement

NormalDisplacement

SwitchDisplacement

VectorDisplacement

Display Filters

BlendDisplayFilter

ClampDisplayFilter

ColorCorrectDisplayFilter

ConstantDisplayFilter

ConvolutionDisplayFilter

DiscretizeDisplayFilter

DofDisplayFilter

HalftoneDisplayFilter

ImageDisplayFilter

OpDisplayFilter

OverDisplayFilter

RampDisplayFilter

RemapDisplayFilter

RgbToFloatDisplayFilter

RgbToHsvDisplayFilter

ShadowDisplayFilter

TangentSpaceDisplayFilter

ToonDisplayFilter

Geometry

BoxGeometry

RdlCurveGeometry

RdlInstancerGeometry

RdlMeshGeometry

RdlPointGeometry

SphereGeometry

UsdGeometry

UsdInstanceGeometry

VdbGeometry

Joint

Layer

Lights

CylinderLight

DiskLight

DistantLight

EnvLight

MeshLight

PortalLight

RectLight

SphereLight

SpotLight

LightSet

Light Filters

BarnDoorLightFilter

ColorRampLightFilter

CombineLightFilter

CookieLightFilter

CookieLightFilter_v2

DecayLightFilter

IntensityLightFilter

RodLightFilter

VdbLightFilter

LightFilterSet

Materials

Dwa Materials

DwaAdjustMaterial

DwaBaseMaterial

DwaColorCorrectMaterial

DwaEmissiveMaterial

DwaFabricMaterial

DwaLayerMaterial

DwaMetalMaterial

DwaMixMaterial

DwaRefractiveMaterial

DwaSkinMaterial

DwaSolidDielectricMaterial

DwaSwitchMaterial

DwaToonMaterial

DwaTwoSidedMaterial

DwaVelvetMaterial_v2

Hair Materials

HairColorCorrectMaterial

HairDiffuseMaterial

HairLayerMaterial

HairMaterial_v3

HairToonMaterial

RaySwitchMaterial

SwitchMaterial

UsdPreviewSurface

Maps

AttributeMap

AxisAngleMap

BlendMap

CheckerboardMap

ClampMap

ColorCorrectContrastMap

ColorCorrectGainOffsetMap

ColorCorrectGammaMap

ColorCorrectHsvMap

ColorCorrectHueShiftMap

ColorCorrectLegacyMap

ColorCorrectMap

ColorCorrectNukeMap

ColorCorrectSaturationMap

ColorCorrectTMIMap

ConstantColorMap

ConstantScalarMap

CurvatureMap

DebugMap

DeformationMap

DirectionalMap

ExtraAovMap

FloatToRgbMap

GradientMap

HairColorPresetsMap

HairColumnMap

HairMap

HsvToRgbMap

ImageMap

LayerMap

ListMap

LODMap

NoiseMap_v2

NoiseWorleyMap_v2

NormalToRgbMap

OpenVdbMap

OpenVdbMap_v2

OpMap

ProjectCameraMap

ProjectCameraMap_v2

ProjectCylindricalMap

ProjectPlanarMap

ProjectSphericalMap

ProjectTriplanarMap

ProjectTriplanarMap_v2

ProjectTriplanarUdimMap

RampMap

RandomMap

RemapMap

RgbToFloatMap

RgbToHsvMap

RgbToLabMap

SwitchColorMap

SwitchFloatMap

ToonMap

TransformSpaceMap

UsdPrimvarReader_float

UsdPrimvarReader_float2

UsdPrimvarReader_float3

UsdPrimvarReader_int

UsdPrimvarReader_normal

UsdPrimvarReader_point

UsdPrimvarReader_vector

UsdTransform2d

UsdUVTexture

UVTransformMap

WireframeMap

Meta Data

Normal Maps

CombineNormalMap

DistortNormalMap

ImageNormalMap

ProjectCameraNormalMap

ProjectPlanarNormalMap

ProjectTriplanarNormalMap

ProjectTriplanarNormalMap_v2

RandomNormalMap

RgbToNormalMap

SwitchNormalMap

TransformNormalMap

Render Output

Scene Variables

Shadow Set

Shadow Receiver Set

Trace Set

User Data

Volumes

BaseVolume

CutoutVolume

VdbVolume

How-To Guides

Adaptive Light Sampling

Adaptive Sampling

Baking Textures

Base Volume Ramp

Checkpoint/Resume rendering

Checkpoint Rendering

How to use Checkpoint Rendering

Optional checkpoint settings

Post checkpoint LUA script

Interrupting a rendering process with SIGINT

Resume Rendering

On-Resume LUA script

Checkpoint/Resume Image File Output Logic

Example RDLA for Checkpoint/Resume rendering

EXR Header Metadata

KJ Subpixel Sampling Sequence

Dicing Camera

Displacement

Glitter Shader

Instance-Level Transforms

Iridescence

Light Normalization

Look Dev Transparent Surfaces

Motion Blur

Meshes Best Practices

Overlapping Dielectrics

Path Guiding

PBR Validity

Point Rendering

Ray Depth

Render Outputs

Cryptomatte

Extra AOVs

Material AOVs

Motion vectors

Visibility AOVs

Render Inside a Medium

Shadow Controls

Shadow Ray Manipulation

Shadow Terminators

Textures

Writing Efficient LPEs

Tools

arras_render

denoise

Hydra Delegate

HdMoonRay Features

HdMoonRay Setup

HdMoonRay Render Settings

HdMoonRay Houdini Integration

Command Line

moonray

moonray_gui

rdl2_convert

rdl2_print

render_profile_viewer

usd_mipmap_images

Maximizing Performance

Adaptive Tessellation

Texture Cache Size

Texture Format

Sampling Settings

ALab Rendering

Benchmarking

Developer Reference

Source Structure

Scene RDL2 Library

Writing Shaders

Cameras

Displacement

Display Filters

Geometry Procedurals

Lights

Light Filters

Maps

Materials

Normal Maps

Volume Shaders

Arras

Distributed Arras

Arras Session Definitions

Arras Client API

Arras Doxygen Pages

Coding Standards

Math Library

Scene RDL2 Attributes

Formatting

Naming Conventions

File Names

Header Files

Body Files

Include Statements

Comments

Primitive Types

Macros

Classes

Conditional Statements

Namespaces

Exceptions

Templates

Singletons

Asserts

Meta Topics

IDE Hooks

C++

ISPC

Python

Miscellaneous

Release Notes

Legal/Licensing and Contributions

Macros

Avoid #define for constants. Use constexpr instead.
Avoid macro functions. Use inline and templates instead.

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