Re: 3Delight for XSI RELEASED!

[Julien Stiegler <julien.stiegler(at)free.fr>]

Raffaele Fragapane wrote:

> It's not like there's been a rib exporter out there for 4 years and a 
> free OSS one for one anyway right? :D

Sure you are right there are very good tools already, but it's hard to 
convince a lot of people to convert from lightwave because of the 
learning curve. I think if we use MR basic shaders translation this 
integration can make the transition safer , for a begining.
Then the excellent OSS affogato would be a great complement for people 
who can't afford the studio version for rib conversion asdn other big 
pipeline requierements.
There have been good quality rib converters for maya for years but in a 
similar fashion, it looks like renderman for maya has made the user base 
sundently bigger, attracting people without serious renderman knowledge. 
This tool will certainly help in the negociation with that kind of people...

> 3DL for XSI though is an amazing effort, and the DNAsoft guys are 
> definitely people who give a damn about their product and their 
> customer base.
> Most heartfelt congratulations to Aghiles and team for the release.
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 7:42 PM, Julien Stiegler <julien.stiegler(at)free.fr 
> <mailto:julien.stiegler(at)free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     I can now convince my company to use xsi for the whole pipeline ...
>     Excellent integration ...
>
>     Vincent Fortin wrote:
>
>     >Agreed with you this looks solid and lovely integrated. Thanks to
>     >Softimage for making this possible in v6!
>     >Personally, transparent access to features like RIB boxes, riCurves,
>     >riPoints, and of course displacement and motion blur speed is a huge
>     >plus for my work. I'm sure I'm not the only one missing these
>     constantly
>     >in MR.
>     >Oh and loading external shaders is indeed allowed :-)
>     >
>     >
>     >-----Original Message-----
>     >From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
>     [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>]
>     On Behalf
>     >Of Steven Caron
>     >Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:07 PM
>     >To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
>     >Subject: Re: 3Delight for XSI RELEASED!
>     >
>     >The 3delight crew mentioned a workflow like this. Setup materials in
>     >maya and light in xsi. I don't use maya nor 3dfm so I couldn't
>     test it.
>     >
>     >This is a solid rendering plugin though, and DNAsoft is a great
>     >company with talented developers. Have fun with it
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >On Feb 12, 2008, at 6:18 AM, "Adam Seeley" <Adam.Seeley(at)vtr.co.uk
>     <mailto:Adam.Seeley(at)vtr.co.uk>>
>     >wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >>Nice.
>     >>
>     >>Haven't had a good route around the specs. but does anyone know if
>     >>there's any compatibility between the shaders generated between XSI
>     >>& Maya. i.e. Could you generate materials in one package and export
>     >>to the other?
>     >>
>     >>Adam.
>     >>
>     >>
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>     >>From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM>
>     on behalf of Marc-Andre Carbonneau
>     >>Sent: Tue 12/02/2008 14:00
>     >>To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM <mailto:XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
>     >>Subject: 3Delight for XSI RELEASED!
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php/products//3delight_xsi_videos
>     >>
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