BA Shader collection: XSI 6.0 recompilations

[schoenberger]

All BA shaders are recompiled for XSI 6.0.
Support for the new framebuffer system and MRay 3.5.


Download
Essential:
Please download the addon from the BA site:
http://www.BinaryAlchemy.de/index_dev.htm
Volume:
Please use the download link that came with the license.

Help
All help files are included into the addon. Use the ? at the shader PPG.
Some help files are updated with some images like the BA_Raylength and BA_Warp3d. Just take a quick look.

Compability
Some shaders of this release are NOT compatible with XSI 5.x
(old Mray version; exspecially the volume shaders tend to crash if compiled for the wrong Mray version).
You should not use this addon for XSI 5.x. You have to create a new workgroup for XSI 6.0+.
But you are still able to load old XSI 5.11 scenes and render them in XSI 6.0 with this new addon.


Volume 3.0 preview
Don't forget to take a look at the sneak peak of the new volume collection 3.0.

Volume and FG
There are some problems with FG and Volumes in MRay 3.5. It often renders artifacts with the changed FG in MRay 3.5.



Changes ShaderCollection - Essential:

374	New_Features	Color Switcher: Specular Highlight
390	Changes	Warp3d does not require implicit coordinates any more. (enveloped/deformed objects)
394	Changes	Color_switcher: new framebuffer support
377	Changes	Color_switcher: change reflection mix after transparency
383	Bugs	Light: multiple area lights broken
367	Bugs	Raylength: occlusion transparency bug (see bug scene), if clamp enabled
319	Bugs	Raylength: environment lookup for reflection/refraction

Changes ShaderCollection - Volumes:

251	Volume Cloud	set BBparams.our_tag to state->instance before retrieving volume instance
321	Volume Cloud	if light list used, then shaderball does not find scene light
320	Volume Cloud	Count global memory usage of all cloud objects
327	Volume Cloud	Only main Light shading has used table coord for light coordinates
347	Volume Cloud	20-30% memory reductions for lookup table
338	Volume Cloud	FG: March size FG_Rays
340	Volume Cloud	FG colors
323	Volume Cloud	Rayleigh shading is too bright
366	Volume Cloud	Normal was overidden, if diffuse input generates normals
373	Volume Cloud	shadow lines if raytrace mode used, see sponge with lower noise frequency
273	Volume Solid	Self-intersection finetuning
274	Volume Solid	not working if cloud rotated
358	Volume Solid	calculate normal for shadows parameter
359	Volume Solid	change adjust distance parameter from vector to scalar
364	Volume Solid	object intersection, material call has not calculated texture coordinates
337	Volume Solid	water drops scene
250	PT_Metaball	random particle texture rotation
342	PT_Metaball	No density sub or mult, but gradient noise: texture coordinates are not computed
228	Fast_math	Extent for 8 inputs
279	VolumeScalar Meshdist	Complete Rewrite
326	VolumeScalar Primitive	if cubic falloff and size very small, then sphere disappears
391	Fractal4d_scl	Fractal_scl: noise coordinate jump on render farm

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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

[mr_dooo]

Hi Holger
Thank you for the release, and good stuff are comming
Would it be possible to have the list of the shaders that are not compatible anymore with xsi 6.0 to update the rendertrees?
thanks

[schoenberger]

No, I ment something different. (will edit it to make it more clear)
The old addons for XSI 5.x are not compatible with XSI 6.0.
E.g. if you try to use the old cloud shader which was compiled for Mray 3.4 in XSI6.0/MRay3.5, it just crashes right away.
I have not tested all shaders, if they crash or could have strange results.

You don't have to change your render tree. You can load all XSI 5.11 scenes in XSI 6.0 and render it with this new addon.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

[Timz]

Hi,

I no longer have the original email containing my license for the Volume Shaders, so cannot click on a link to download the recompiled version for XSI 6.01. Do I have to repurchase the shader, or is there another way to access the new version?

[schoenberger]

Hi

Please send me an email with your license information (owner, company) to Mail (at) BinaryAlchemy (dot) de.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization