Combining mental mill CgFX shaders with Softimage and ICE FX trees

This video demonstrates how to export a CgFX shader from mental mill to softimage and combine it with an Ice Effect tree.
It shows techniques to augment your exported CgFX code by hand editing the exported CgFX code and passing data that was generated by an ICE FX tree in softimage to the shader. This enables you to create a completely new type of effects.

Also, join the mental mill forum under forum.mentalimages.com
You can view the full tutorial at mentalmill.blogspot.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mental mill
• Softimage
• ICE
• CgFX
• shader
• render tree
• shader editor
• Color at vertices
• simulation
• vertex stream
• customized shader

[Matic3d]

Request - could you show softimage users how to create a custom realtime shader with matching mental ray shader, and how to bring them into softimage?

[raabix]

@Matic3d I will put this on my todo-list. Sounds like a great idea to show that.

[Matic3d]

This is very useful! Thanks! Suggestion - post this on the vimeo softimage and si tutorial groups, that's where all the softimage folks are, you'll get several thousand soft users viewing it in a day or two.