Re: shader writing: Array picking menu question

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Sorry to butt in, Claus, got intrigued...

When *hinting* to the architectural.dll>portal lights
you´re refering to XSI 6.5 right?

There´d be no way of getting that out of the
(otherwise binary compatible) XSI 6.0 scenes?

Cheers

tim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Claus" <rclaus(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: shader writing: Array picking menu question


> Hi Rob
> have a peek into the spdls from the phenolib directory. contour.out.spdl 
> has
> a "obj_array" named parameter which might be what you're after.
> mib_geo_instance_mlist.spdl has a material array (type=material)
> I don't know whether all these are handled ui wise by xsi
> some other interesting new shaders are in the new version of the
> architectural dll by the way (e.g. portal lights).  Not intending to sound
> like *hint * hint * ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhard
> On 10/30/07, Rob Wuijster <rob(at)glassworksamsterdam.nl> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm looking into the production shaders from the MR 3.6 library, to see
> > if I can write a PPG or two....
> >
> > The mi code states the subset shader as follows:
> >
> > declare shader "mip_render_subset" (
> >          boolean "enabled"        default on,
> >          array geometry "objects",
> >          array integer  "instance_label",
> >          material       "material",
> >          boolean "mask_only"      default off,
> >          color   "mask_color"     default 1 1 1 1,
> >          color   "background"     default 0 0 0 0,
> >          color   "other_objects"  default 0 0 0 0,
> >          boolean "full_screen_fg" default on
> >      )
> >      apply lens
> >      version 5
> > end declare
> >
> >
> > How can I set an array for the geometry picking:
> >
> >         Parameter "objects" input
> >         {
> >                 GUID = "{6E5F6515-FF4B-42FA-B9D6-9F4E1231359D}";
> >                 UI "mapping" = "{38D56C23-8C0D-11D0-857D-00A02417D029}";
> >                 Inspectable = off;
> >                 Type = array
> >                 {
> >                         Parameter "objects" input
> >                         {
> >                                 GUID =
> > "{B4A7E44E-6C8B-46CA-8698-6DDB36C244D8}";
> >                                 Type = ????????;   <----How to have XSI
> > look at geometry here? -->
> >                         }
> >                 };
> >         }
> > }
> >
> > The same goes for the "material" entry as well....
> >
> > cheers for any answers, as it has been a while since I did this
> > conversion writing, and am slowly working my way through the SDK now,
> >
> >
> > Rob Wuijster
> > Glassworks Amsterdam
> >
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