mia_x RenderChannels, an Autodesk Compound…

In Autodesk XSI7, we’ve got the mia_x shader. It gives us multi-ouputs that we can plug in some XSI RenderChannels. I like this new shader a lot but I dislike the way to setup all the outputs in the render tree. To many things to do.  XSI is not so good to deal with Channels as it is with Passes. The exact opposite of Houdini where passes can be long to setup  (see this post here ) but exporting a shader parameter is just as simple as clicking on an export button . So I setup a Render Tree compound to quickly create those outputs. All the mia_x channels are already in the compound. I use some PPGLogic in this compound, so you just need to turn on the output you want to automaticaly create the corresponding channel and add it to the current pass.

Here is a little preview of this compound here.

It is my first Autodesk tool since 1998 when I was an architect forced to use Autocad … You can download it here.

The best 3d application in the world !

http://www.blender.org/

Teaser : Divergence-free Flow in ICE

I think the divergence-free compounds for ICE are ok now. I just need to find some time to clean up some details before uploading them to Softimage.net. Here is a little teaser .

http://www.vol2nuit.fr/guillaume/blog/DivergenceFreeThings/DivergenceFreeThings

PS: There is no sound (sorry to Mr KA), so feel free to choose your web-music while downloading the video (choose a good one please).

Using ICE as a function plotter by Thiago Costa.

In Houdini, math functions are often used in expressions (using a point SOP for example) to get some kind of ripple, wave or spiral shapes. Now, with ICE we can do the same thing in XSI. Thiago push the idea into a Compound that you can try here using the nice drag and drop functionality. Very good idea to quickly understand a math functions .