Re: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help

[Ken McGaugh]

Brendan Bolles wrote:
> In case someone hasn't already mentioned it...
>
> > > - a Maya plugin
>
>
> Maya doesn't provide a general file format API.  Mental Ray in 6.5 
> supports OpenEXR, but it's sort of weird to use files in Maya that don't 
> show up in the UI and can't be picked through normal file dialogs.  But 
> if you have paths to EXR files, Mental Ray should know what to do with 
> them.  OpenEXR is also an output choice from Mental Ray.  No Z-depth 
> though.  :(

You can write an IMF plugin for maya to read/write OpenEXR files.  And
as of maya 6.0 they show up in all the menus and file dialogs.  We have
such a plugin here, but when I asked alias about publishing the source they
said no. :(

I'm not sure what the deal is with distributing the binary though.  Anybody
have an idea?

--Ken