 | | | XSI usage for Games/Realtime related things | XSI usage for Games/Realtime related things 2005-05-20 - By André Adam
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Currently we do the platforming outside of XSI, though we intend to
carry part of the process into the realtime shader like you already
thought. It certainly makes a lot of sense.
Cheers!
-Andr�
Daniel Collin wrote:
> Hi Andr�,
>
> Thanks for the info, going to look at the dotXSI format for sure then.
> Was just wonder when you apply your RealTime shaders do you have
> diffrent settings within the shaders for PS2 and PC? Or do you apply
> Shaders depending on if you want specific features just for say PS2
> and not to be included in PC.
>
> Daniel
>
>> We use XSI as our 3d frontend for game development. Regarding
>> customisation, we use an inhouse Realtime Shader representing our
>> engine's feature set. This enables us to kind of work within our game
>> engine right inside of XSI, which is very convenient. Export-wise we
>> simply use the built-in dotXSI exporter. From there on we run a
>> couple of specialised tools to convert the dotXSI files to our native
>> engine format and create platform-specific data (eg splits for PC and
>> PS2).
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> -Andr�
>>
>> Daniel Collin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Not long ago i bought XSI 4.2 Foundation in order to try it out as
>>> using it for realtime things as its just
>>> seems a great price for a great tool.
>>>
>>> What im doing now is a bit of research as im a bit unexperience with
>>> XSI and the workflow.
>>> So what i want to do is how artists prefer to work with XSI (as im a
>>> programmer myself)
>>>
>>> Is it best to write a bunch of Shaders (for mental ray and/or
>>> realtime) or just go with the
>>> standard tools included with XSI, etc? It would be nice if some
>>> gamedevers (both coders and
>>> artists) had a take on this.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
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