Re: New ZBump

[Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk>]

Whether trivial or non-trivial, decent bumpmapping is an extremely important feature required in XSI.
My concern about individuals writing plugins, that we become heavily reliant on, is that if they (the plugin)  goes wrong (which zbump did) and the individual isn't available to help fix the problem, then I'm in doodoo deeper than a celebrity waiting to eat a sheeps testicle in front of millions of viewers. If I had a problem with nice shiny new XSI Bump node, I would get support from (potentially) a number of skilled people at Soft.
Fortunately for me, when I had a problem with ZBump, Ben *was* available and managed to deliver very quickly a fixed version of the plugin. But, if he had been away from his desk on that day, I would have been in (said) doodoo's. Which is somewhere I'd rather not be.



Halfdan Ingvarsson wrote:

It's a deeper problem than just doing a bump node. To do bump properly requires supporting tangents on polymesh objects. That would give a local coordinate system for each vertex, which is something that NURBS have, by definition, but polymeshes don't. This'll also help with anisotropic materials, normals maps, toon shading, along with a lot of other interesting things.

It requires some development effort but if everyone requests it, it moves up the list.

It's like the congress down south. You gotta lobby for your feature in need. And if you throw me some money... well... you know... wheels get greased :)

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chris Marshall
Sent: 1-Dec-06 08:00
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: New ZBump

I wonder whether XSI 6 will include a 'working' bump node?
Not that it matters, of course, we have ZBump. But it'll be interesting 
to see if we still have to rely on people like Ben to provide us with 
some of the most basic of tools.



Bernard Lebel wrote:
  

Absolutely. Send the sources over, and if you got the make file,
please include it.


Cheers
Bernard


On 11/30/06, Ben Rogall <brogall(at)excite.com> wrote:
Btw if you have the time and inclination to do a linux compile, I'd be
happy to post it.
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