Alex Fuller

DagorEngine build experience on Linux

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Hi I gave DagorEngine a build on a Ubuntu 24.04 from source and I'd like to document my findings to help others. Specs: - TR 3990x 64-core 256GB - 6900XT...

MSVC 14.3 fixes (adding <optional> includes)

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Hi, I've just compiled with Visual Studio 17 2022 and found that a few `#include ` were required, so I've tweaked that up here. Cheers

Lama shader input name mismatches to Prman

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Hi, I've got Renderman 26.1 here and setting up MaterialX support for Gaffer. I've noticed that there is a naming discrepancy in some of the Lama shaders. In MaterialX `LamaConductor`...

The medium_vdf closure and nested dielectrics priority order

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Hi again, When looking into supporting nested dielectrics, for Cycles we noticed the `medium_vdf` has a priority order number that can be set, although I couldn't find much documentation on...

[BUILD] Cannot find nanobind headers

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### Environment **Operating System: Linux (Rocky 8.10) **Version / Commit SHA: 12.0.1 **CMake Version: 3.31.3 **Compiler: GCC 11.2.1 ### Describe the problem ``` [63/185] Building CXX object openvdb/openvdb/python/CMakeFiles/nanobind-static.dir/Release/home/alex/packages/nanobind/2.6.1/nanobind/src/nb_internals.cpp.o FAILED: openvdb/openvdb/python/CMakeFiles/nanobind-static.dir/Release/home/alex/packages/nanobind/2.6.1/nanobind/src/nb_internals.cpp.o...

Running LookdevXMaya with a custom OpenUSD/MayaUSD build

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**Describe the bug** When building to match (more or less) Maya's 2026 OpenUSD stack, it seems as though `MaterialX*MayaUSD.dll` versions are slightly different from vanilla MaterialX releases, enough to make...

Orochi Summoner script

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Hi all, I am studying the Orochi codebase and I came across this in the cuew and hipew code: `THIS REGION HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY OROCHI SUMMONER` I looked...

NanoVDB : Rename padding to blindDataCount

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Hello, I made a simple patch to address https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/issues/2134 Kind regards

Python module import crash (Windows)

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Hi all, On this line: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/37ccf5c710e30f38699e1906c8021c0722899a47/src/wrappers/python/PyOpenEXR_old.cpp#L1574 We've found that `OpenEXR_error` returns nullptr and will crash when it is run in the next few lines in `PyDict_SetItemString`. I've made the following...