Softimage’s new rendering
Softimage|XSI (avid) was a powerful software fully integrated with mental-ray. Today, Softimage 2011 (autodesk) still renders old scenes from XSI. The following two are a sample.
Model
Softimage 2011 doesn’t rendering this old scene. It’s a simple model composed of several subcomponents, the rendertree/shaders are simple materials emulating gold, silver and other metals.
Logo with caustics
This image was quite simple, it’s a logo with a rendertree of crystal. The colors on the backdrop are pure caustics and global illumination/final gathering (at the time a very hard effect to achieve with Maya). Moreover, the logo model turns around and moves forward causing a blur effect (not present here).
Softimage 2011 amazingly still opens very old scenery, but as shown above, some scenes won’t render and causes frequent crashes.