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1. DirectX rendering in XSI 6

   

   Topic by Husch · Jan 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Rendering images of the directx preview with normal maps was pretty easy in XSI 5. I used ultimapper to create the preview material and then I had to change the rendering engine to directx to render images of the directx viewport. In XSI 6 I use the same method to create the material but the render options has changed.…

2. Re: DirectX rendering in XSI 6

   

   Reply by Husch · Jan 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Got an answer on the www.xsibase.com rendering forum from a xsi developer. Seems I have to wait for a patch: "The problem is that DirectX9 and below don't really support off-screen buffers in any usable fashion. We've been working on a fix for that but it didn't make it in time for the XSI 6.0 release."…

3. Re: DirectX rendering in XSI 6

   

   Reply by xysdf · Jan 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   What you can also do is use a CG Shader Node from the NetView, it will create a normal map material for the OpenGL Viewport. (my fav. because of 2lights) 'Alt+5' -> add-ons -> Cg Addon -> Pixel lighting -> (often used choice) "Phong Bump Textured SpecularMap 2L" and drop it onto your model. Adjust the maps in rendertree…