Softimage springs XSI 2.0 preview.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

SIGGRAPH2001 visitors had a chance to test out Softimage's upcoming upgrade of XSI. Version 2.0, currently in beta testing, is due for shipping in October.

New features and improvements to the latest version include a fully integrated compositor. Fully scriptable, and featuring over 65 film quality effects (8- and 16-bit) accessible through an intuitive graph-based interface, it offers the ability to quickly verify and tweak the results of a multi-pass render directly within the XSI software. Next generation interactive rendering improvements in final gathering, motion blur, and ...

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