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XSI_Material

Defines a SOFTIMAGE|XSI material. This template contains the list of connections and the name of the sources (if connected).

This new material template is closer to the XSI conceptual model. In XSI, a material is essentially a placeholder for shaders. So now there is an entity that is a placeholder for both realtime and mental ray shaders in the dotXSI file format as well.

See also XSI_MaterialInfo.

Limitations

SOFTIMAGE|3D does not export this template. See SI_Material for the corresponding 3D template.

Introduced

3.5

Template

XSI_Material <material name>
{
   <cnx_number>,
   <cnx_name>, <cnx_source>,
   // for each connection
   XSI_Shader {
       ... // usually contains one or more XSI_Shader 
           // templates
   }

   XSI_TextureLayer
   // for each texture layer

   XSI_ShaderMultiPortConnection
   // for each connection with a multi-output shader

   XSI_UserKeyword
}

Members

Example

In the example below, the material’s surface, shadow and photon ports connect to a shader called Phong:

XSI_Material sphere 

{ 
10, 
"surface","Phong",
"volume","",
"environment","",
"contour","",
"displacement","",
"shadow","Phong",
"Photon","Phong",
"PhotonVolume","",
"normal","",
"RealTime","",
...
}

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