Re: Final Render Stage-2

["adrian" <adrian.wyer(at)fluid-pictures.com>]

hmmm, don't hold your breath!

they didn't say WHICH August!

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Adrian Wyer
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Final Render Stage-2


> Let's hope they do a decent job of it - their ability to produce a
> plain mesh exporter to realflow from XSI doesn't exactly inspire
> faith.
>
> Remember the new one for version Realflow 4 and XSI 5.11 - It must be
> coming out tomorrow seeing they said August.....
>
> On 8/30/06, Marc-Andre Carbonneau <marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com> 
> wrote:
> > I spoke to the Next Limit guys at Siggraph about having a real exporter 
> > from
> > XSI to Maxwell and they told me they are going to work on it. Hope it's
> > true. For now you can just bring in .obj and make beautiful scenes with 
> > no
> > characters animated in XSI. ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > One thing that is a turn off when it comes to Maxwell, there is no
> > possibility to have passes. (Not at the moment, dunno if it's ever going 
> > to
> > be possible)
> >
> > So that means you can't isolate a specular or a reflection.
> >
> > Speculars, reflections, refractions, diffuse, ambient occlusion etc, were
> > all invented for rendering 3D to mimic reality. Now because Maxwell is
> > physically based, and uses real-life material calculations, it doesn't 
> > take
> > things apart. Everything needs to be rendered in one shot. Might not be 
> > the
> > best when the director wants a change in the tint of this object or less
> > reflection on that character's helmet…
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, something like that….Sorry I am poor at explaining things…
> >
> >
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >
> >
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> > Of
> > Kris Rivel
> >  Sent: August 30, 2006 11:21 AM
> >  To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> >  Subject: Re: Final Render Stage-2
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cool.  Motion blur and DOF stuff was pretty cool.  Hell of a lot fast 
> > than
> > MR from the looks of it....especially with DOF.  Sure would be nice to 
> > have
> > another renderer within XSI somehow.  I know with things like Point Oven 
> > we
> > can move everything to another "package" and use it there but it just 
> > seems
> > kind of weird and scary that we are "locked" into one renderer at the
> > moment.  Don't get me wrong, I love MR and its integration, just would be
> > nice to have more options.  On a similar note, can XSI work with the 
> > Maxwell
> > renderer?  I imagine you just export obj or something into the 
> > standalone?
> > Any word if there is a plugin for XSI coming out?
> >
> >  Kris
> >
> >  Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote:
> >
> > FYI, videos of FR Stage-2 for Maya
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.cebasusa.com/finalRender%20Stage-2%20for%20Maya/finalRender%20for%20Maya%20Stage-2.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Marc-André Carbonneau
> >
> > FX artist Cinematics
> >
> > Ubisoft Montréal
> >
> > "Ce qui effets est fait."
>
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