Whats happening with mudbox? Will we see a seamless :) workflow mudbox>maya>renderman?

Mudbox is fully catmull clark compliant already (including creases). OpenSubdiv is basically the same stuff, just now open sourced.

- Neil

Yes , thanks Neil, read your article here
http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_education/opensubdiv_intro/opensubdiv_intro.htm

I guess I have become a bit weary of jumping through hoops for seamless displacement, vdms and UV textures with each of the three renderers I have tried in Maya, MR, Vray, RMS so I was a bit intrigued by Craig Barr’s statement to ‘keep an eye on mudbox’, I was assuming some presets or something for common renderers. The issue seems to be with the renderer implementation so Im not sure what more mudbox can bring to the table. I also use UV layout a lot not sure if it supports creasing I havent kept up with support for the latest versions

I would imagine there could be much faster previewing of high res details in the viewport if they use this librbary, as well as more options for UV interpolation.

Currently I’ve only seen Modo 501 onwards adopt the truest method of Uv interpolation based on the pixar SUBD library (that is a very good representation of what the subdivided model is doing in 3D space, applied to the UVs). Now the ‘old’ Mudbox 2009 smooth Uvs were very good at emulating this, but maybe future MB releases reintroduce this option.

Yes, from the video I saw I got the impression that this code yields speedier performance which would be more than welcome in mudbox.