I dunno, I feel like saying 'What's the point in even asking for
something unless it has to do with ICE?' It's a good thing XSI was as
mature as it was prior to the AD buyout. Call me a Debbie Downer.
-Tim
On 8/28/2013 3:56 PM, Matt Lind wrote:
We need DX11 support to author a game.
Our game has been DX11 for a while now. It would be nice to see our
HLSL shaders applied natively to the assets instead of having to be
wrapped inside of OpenGL shaders where we lose some functionality
because not all HLSL features can be ported.
Matt
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They simplified considerably the problem in Maya DX11: they created
one big "uber" realtime shader that does offers all the parameters but
it's a black box. You can't render it in mental ray or anything else.
On the Softimage side, the high quality viewport's goal (let's avoid
debating for now whether that was a good goal) was to support any
arbitrary render tree and the mental ray shaders, and then it uses of
course metaSL to compile that, etc. You continue to use the render
tree as you're used to. And then you pop open the render region and
boom, you have same results raytraced.
I'm not familiar enough with the OpenGL realtime shader SDK in XSI to
tell if one could write a realtime shader to access use the OpenGL 4.0
tesselation support, but that would be somewhere to look at instead of
DX11, unless you actually need DX11 authoring for a game
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Tim Crowson
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<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
But the problem with the current display options is that it forces you
into specific workflows for animating characters with displacement.
Namely, that you have to avoid generating any large-form surface
changes via displacement (and sometimes even medium-to-small-scale
features as well), for fear that animation will create surface
intersections. If the animators don't know where the final limit
surface is, how will they know if meshes are intersecting? Not
everything can be a sim.
IMHO, Softimage is a weird creature: it is so elegant and powerful,
but has these frankly rudimentary display options... Even Modo has had
GL displacement, bump, and spec for several years now, without having
to create any realtime shaders. And as politely as I can put it, "High
Quality" viewport is anything but.
-Tim
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