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  Integrated Composting for Softimage
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 web2n3d Writes "Softimage users who'd like to perform compositing tasks within the modeling and animation program may now do so with Version 2.0 of Softimage|XSI.
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This newly integrated capability is based on the company's previously existing compositing programs - Avid Illustion and Softimage Eddie - and allows for the use of more than 65 effects for 8- and 16-bit film through a graph-based interface. The fully scriptable compositor also allows animators to verity and tweak the results of multi-pass rendering from within Softimage.
The latest version of the software also features real-time shaders and an integrated dynamics simulator for creating both short and long hair and fur. Related options for this last capability include grooming, photo-realistic rendering, and control over the interaction between the hair and its surrounding environment.
The new Softimage|XSI also has 3D text generation improvement. Users may now employ TrueType fonts or EPS files to create 3D text and complex curves directly in the system. The 3D text geometry can then be edited, deformed, textured, animated, and rendered within XSI. Last, 2.0 users can create Web-ready content with the software's new Shockwave 3D or Flash exporters.
Softimage|XSI 2.0 cost $12,000 and runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux, and SGI Irix platforms.
from Computer Graphics World, December 2001." |
Posted On 2002-05-05 20:50:03
Topic : Softimage
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