Re: shader writing: Array picking menu question

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

Thanks for the info, guys.

Would you mind providing the link to the xsibase
thread, you refered to earlier?

I´m most likely out of work until next year and
would like to use the time to sniff into Maya/XSI
mR shader+phenomenon writing (on a very basic
level, it´s more an enerved expression of missing things).

Ending up with a custom arealight geometry node and
knowing how to write and package phenomena would
be stellar but to be honest, I expect to suck big time :-)

If you´ve got a tip on must read info, shooot.

Cheers

tim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Claus" <rclaus(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: shader writing: Array picking menu question


> Hi Tim -- as far as I've understood, portal lights are area lights
> that do a lookup on the environment - this would mean since there's no
> new core functionality involved, chances are good that portal lights
> work with 3.5 (XSI 6.02 and 6.5) presumed of course you have access to
> MR 3.6 through an autodesk 2008 package (or a trial version thereof!).
> For some shaders (motionblur, mirror ball and white ball) it's already
> confirmed that it works.
>
> On 10/30/07, Rob Wuijster <rob(at)glassworksamsterdam.nl> wrote:
> > Tim,
> >
> > As far as I can tell from the mi files it should work with MR 3.4 and
> > up. Don't know what version is in 6.02 though. But I'm just skimming the
> >   files right now, so there might be some issues to conquer.
> >
> > vr.gr.,
> >
> > Rob Wuijster
> > Glassworks Amsterdam
> >
> >
> > Tim Leydecker wrote:
> > > 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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