This screenshot takes me back. I like how the first tool listed in the "Tools" section is "Delete All". What kind of message were you guys trying to send? ;-) Also interesting "Revert" is further down the list. Shouldn't it be immediately next to Delete All?
The screenshot is from the Twister era, but not Twister specific. A "phenomena" is mental ray terminology for any number of shaders connected to create an effect. Most often it's what we'd refer to as a render tree graph, but often it would be an encapsulated shader preset such as the material shaders which were exposed to users as individual shaders but were actually connections of many shaders under the hood. The Phong material shader, for example, was actually a phenomena because phong.dll only computed the direct illumination (specular highlight, diffuse, ambient terms). The reflection, refraction, incandescence, translucence, and global illumination were outsourced to different shaders behind the curtain in a shared library. Phong, Lambert, Constant, Ward, Cook-Torrance, Anisotropic, and other illumination shaders were constructed in this way. While the material library has since been overhauled and updated, the toon shaders and many others still use the phenomena declaration and can be verified by inspecting the shader .spdl in a text editor. Many of the mental images supplied effects were phenomena too such as the car paint shader. Matt Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:47:33 -0400 From: Stephen Blair <[email protected]> Subject: Friday Flashback #383 To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. <[email protected]> An old Softimage Sumatra screenshot. Still a bit of DS stuff showing. And Get > Phenomenon ? That?s Twister stuff isn?t it? https://u9432639.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=lIXdN6W56FnEjHCwrBXqOq0HQNpV0huvAGw1zu6Xp8eVQuk2cNZiNFjx2k-2FfTNchE18B7lYLnvRU16qf6Hf-2B5l0okETS4xN3UfKCvMXrkPWwhyjGUy-2FUyWUtCRdZkikdOpu6H3p-2BPpukiavd970ESMVtwgTLFyWgHE-2B6dIOd-2BYYne0SOtZj7q2SXSx2xaZxXG9rXk0D-2FK8X4MdU8-2FLqO9Zi5aUvr-2Bs2Th50IHG183NxXvx8j-2FUg4KOYlIdOhTKSR2vl5UnZkv4DjE0ZqAf4flasXQSDdY19kPnPo4fe3zB-2FUgewTOt7MAUDFmrzGrKJJEs290V66JrOJltWkVEc1XOfqIUVaXVfr55XHTe0i-2B0W9La0R5H-2BAjiQ0vnSJnL6s_a6oQc7tnfcb0GKvoO27fPkrQ0ATQyF1SDBXJOg7-2FbuQZlPCKSaXuwsQkZez2lLdGgu9cCAqgnBI-2FvxTbgh5RFtNc8sNeVQRWEX6UGdH8dTg-2BEuhRs6iVHonjN9dqV4qVVxbhnZ75aZq7MnqDtnZcpUOEGUjq4HSDCBg-2B9-2BIqpXWmIQrBkZc-2FgWasN0Uwk9okPzpCxD7si1plCcf5VZ0Z-2BBrvQf0ui2cc98ta-2F9FNi14-3D ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
