Some XSI news
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http://www.softimage.com/Products/pipeline/FXaddon/default.asp
"The Softimage .FX Add-on is a complete solution for previewing, editing, and tuning advanced next-generation shaders directly within SOFTIMAGE|XSI. The .FX Add-on enables rapid iteration of the sophisticated real-time shaders for tomorrows advanced game titles."
http://www.xsibase.com/news.php?detail=1421
Second is about Xbox 360 support.
should interest the slowly growing number of XSI users here.
"The Softimage .FX Add-on is a complete solution for previewing, editing, and tuning advanced next-generation shaders directly within SOFTIMAGE|XSI. The .FX Add-on enables rapid iteration of the sophisticated real-time shaders for tomorrows advanced game titles."
http://www.xsibase.com/news.php?detail=1421
Second is about Xbox 360 support.
should interest the slowly growing number of XSI users here.
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Artists can use the .FX Add-on to import .FX files authored in RTZen, FXComposer, and RenderMonkey into XSIs unique Render Tree.
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What are these programs, and how are they used? How is this different from the realtime shader views? Just wondering. Sounds cool.
Rendermonkey is ATI's version
http://www.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey/
FX Composer is Nvidia's
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html
and RTZen seems to be a seperate one
http://www.rtzen.com/