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Stefano is a shader writer and td at Pumpkin-3D, Paris. He previously served Lumiq Studios, Softimage, Phoenix Tools and Action Synthese. He has been working with mental ray since its first release in Softimage 3D.



Writing a Phenomenon for Softimage XSI and Mental Ray

July 2nd, 2006 by Stefano Jannuzzo. Viewed 40607 times.

Have you ever used Apple’s Shake? Have you ever built macros with Shake? Have you ever wished you could create macros in XSI’s Render Tree? Well you can, these are called Phenomenon. A Phenomenon is group of shaders exposed to the users as a single entity. You can hide or show, as you see fit, [...]