FW: particles from Maya to XSI, ligthing from XSI to Maya?

["Matt Lind" <mlind(at)carbinestudios.com>]

Almost forgot: If you convert shader .spdls to .mi shader descriptors for Maya, you'll also need to update your environment variables in your Maya mental ray setup to include the XSI shader libraries.

 

Matt

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Matt Lind
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:23 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: particles from Maya to XSI, ligthing from XSI to Maya?

I don't think you can import Maya particle simulations.  If you're doing instances, then you should plot animation on the instances and export those to XSI.  Then XSI can treat them like any other object.

 

As for the shaders....not sure how they're compiled/linked in XSI.  If they don't rely on any XSI specific technology, then you might be able to convert the shader .spdl files to .mi files and use them directly in Maya as long as you match them with the proper version of mental ray running in each application - the latter being the trickier part.  If that doesn't work, then you're next best bet would be to write your own shaders and compile them for both XSI and Maya and make sure artists use only those shaders for work that has to cross the bridge.

 

 

Matt

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Mathieu Leclaire
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:14 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: particles from Maya to XSI, ligthing from XSI to Maya?

2 XSI/Maya info transfer questions :

 

1 – Any way to transfer Maya particles to XSI. We have a Maya particle simulation using instances that we would like to light and render in XSI. Any easy way to transfer them or do I need to write my own tool to do it?

 

2 – Any way to transfer XSI/Mental Ray lights and shaders from XSI to Maya? It’s for the same problem. We figure that worst case scenario, we set-up our lighting/textures/shaders in XSI and then transfer them into Maya for rendering.

 

We would much prefer option 1 as we have much more XSI licenses then Maya licenses but I’m curious about both. Any tools and/or options I should know about??

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Mathieu Leclaire

R&D Programmer

Hybride Technologies

 

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