Softimage Announces SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.3.5 Featuring Speed, Interoperability, Mental Ray 3.2 And Workflow Advances
Caracteristicas nuevas:
RENDERING
:: Core integration of mental ray® v3.2
:: New Rapid Motion Blur for large scenes
:: Tiled Textures and Shadow Maps for better memory
management
:: New incremental echo allows storing multiple frames
in a single MI file
:: OGL accelerated scanline rendering
:: OGL accelerated shadow maps
INTERNATIONALIZATION
:: Japanese version supported natively
RENDER TREE
:: New quick controls for renaming
:: New Transparency & Reflection controls
FX TREE
:: Cut/Copy/Paste now avaialble
INTERFACE AND WORKFLOW
:: NetView on Linux
:: SRT multi edit
:: Persisted preferred layout
:: Enhancements to transform setups
:: Repeat last command
:: Contextual SRT Manipulators
:: Enable/disable transparency in OGL
:: Thumbnail saved with Model export
:: New snapping options
MODELING
:: New Symmetrize polygons
:: Extended functionality for multi-resolution
Referenced Models
:: Enhanced functionality to welding
:: Quadrangulate triangulated objects
TEXTURE EDITOR
:: Many new tools and enhancements
:: New snapping methods, including multi-snap
:: Pivot for transform tools
:: Flatten UVs - Planarizing selected UVs
:: Freeze UVW transformations
:: Edit UV values
:: Dim texture display
:: New binding options
RENDERMAP
:: Support for non-square images
:: Significant improvements in speed
:: Multiple color correction options
:: Vertex color averaging
GAMES
:: Normal mapping
:: CG vertex and pixel shaders supported in all views
:: Realtime shadow maps
:: Vertex shader to pixel shader propagation
:: Updated support for OpenGL v.1.3 including
support for Linux
dotXSI?
:: Tri-strips support
ANIMATION
:: New constraints and controls. Pin object,
Constraint Query
:: Multiple new up vector controls
:: Improvements to key browsing, plotting and
path animation
:: New IK roll control, root coordinates and interactive
move joint/branch
:: Mixer actions for multiple constraints
:: Ghosting in the time warp f-curve display
:: Improved match clips functionality
:: Cycle checking functions
SCHEMATIC VIEW
:: New options and menu additions
:: Improvements in sorting, positioning and layout
of nodes
:: Memo cameras
:: New Reorder Nodes tool
DOPESHEET
:: New ability to deactivate/activate fcurves
over time and globally
:: New ability to cut/copy/paste empty areas
FCURVE EDITOR
:: Relative and ?nearest grid point? snapping
:: New SOFTIMAGE|3D slope handling tools
:: Support for negative region scaling
:: New Decompose Branch Selection
SIMULATION
:: Accurate Subdivision Surface and
NURB generation
:: Per vertex guide hairs
:: Symmetry maps for hair
:: Texturing spline hairs
:: New ?Stretchy? hair for curve-like control
and grooming
:: Particle control improvements
SDK AND CUSTOMIZATION
:: New commands for unloading/reloading
add-on libraries
:: Multi-language scripted operators
:: New C++ API classes CRotation, CqQaternion
:: Direct updates for custom pset spdls
:: C++ API access to User Data Maps
:: C++ API access to particles and particle clouds
:: New UserDataBlob object for storing binary user
data on objects
AAF INTEROPERABILITY
:: Link and export multiple render passes, via the
integrated compositor in XSI, to AAF format.
Mas informacion:
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/v3/new_v35/http://www.xsibase.com/news.php?detail=387http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/v3/new_v35/media/XSI_v35_new_features.pdf
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