Guerilla Render

Hi Tom!
Welcome aboard!

As of today, Guerilla is terribly lacking of documentation, we are really aware of that. Yet, we are quite short on the time for the present time being, as we have to push more features into the editor and the renderer to make it production ready. This will be done when Guerilla reaches that point. Still, if you have some questions about a thing or another, feel free to post in the forum, we'll check it regularly.

Concerning your issue, Guerilla standalone only accepts (for the moment) projects files that were exported using the Guerilla plugin. It is in discussion here to allow import of 3d data into the standalone...

So, to play with Guerilla, you should:
- Install Guerilla with Maya2008 (both 32 and 64 are supported)
- Run Maya and setup plugin manager to (auto)load Guerilla2008.mll
- Load your favorite scene, then run Guerilla from the Guerilla menu
This way, you can use Guerilla within Maya. Guerilla data are saved into your .ma file, every time you close Guerilla or you push the synchronize button (top left). Beware of the Reset & Run menu, which discards all previous Guerilla data from your Maya project!

If you wish to use Guerilla as a standalone, you must export your scene from the Maya plugin (File menu, export). This action will create a .gproject and a .ghostdata.
Gproject files are Guerilla project (in plain ascii just like a .ma)
Ghostdata files are baked geometry information for every object/camera/light, and for every frame.

For the time being, only Maya2008 is supported (both 32&64). We can provide you with install for other version of Maya (8 & 8.5), but unfortunately we won't be able to support them as much as we do for Maya2008. The Max plugin is in a hibernating status now, but will be revived sooner or later.
So, if you definitely need any other version that those available in the download section, drop us a line, and we'll try to fix you something

A few more tips to use Guerilla:
- The window layout can be freely split/unsplit (try bottom right buttons on each window), you can create tabs for each window (try the + button on top of each window)
- Every window may contain any kind of view. Among these views are :
  - The browser, which displays all root elements of the projects (such as objects, materials, lights...)
  - The properties, which displays attributes of the current selection
  - The cameras viewport (you guess what it is
  - The library, which contains the basic bricks for build custom shaders

There are other views, which I let you discover what they do

A final note about keyboard binding:
- space bar displays the main menu (around the mouse)
- V let you change the view in the window under the mouse (swap from browser to library, for instance)
- C let you select a camera for the window under the mouse
- right mouse button is of course contextual

If you downloaded the 0.2.3 version, I highly suggest you to rather use the 0.2.4 version (or even better the 0.2.5 which should be available today or tomorrow) as the previous one was quite unstable and much frustration ensued...

I guess this is all for now...

Regards,
Ben

Maya2009 will be supported soon, in a couple of weeks, as we've been asked for it.
Sorry for the missing uninstall option, we'll fix that soon. In the meantime, you can simply erase the Program Files/Guerilla directory without problem. There will remain a few keys in the registry, simply delete HKLM/SOFTWARE/Mercenaries Engineering to get rid of them.
Otherwise, there is nothing to do to install another version over a previous one. The installer will replace it. Please notice that if you added some nodes/materials/lights in the library directory of the Guerilla installation, you might loose them. This problem is known and will be fixed as well.

Regards,
Ben

Hi Tom,
I'll do that this weekend, but it will only be for Maya8.5 32 bits, as I have no 64 machine at home...

Regards,
Ben

Hi,
Guerilla 0.2.5 for Maya 8.5 32 bits is now available in the download section.
The next 0.3 will come this week, for Maya 8.5 (32 only), Maya 2008 (both 32&64) and Maya 2009 (both 32&64).

Feel free to discuss any subject related or not to Guerilla in the forum.
You can also submit bug reports in the bug tracker.

Regards,
Ben