Custom Shader Parser Example

To install the example

• Connect to the Softimage SDK workgroup at %XSISDK_ROOT%\examples\workgroup.

  1. In the Plug-in Manager, click the Workgroups tab.
  2. Click File and then click Connect.
  3. In the Connect to Workgroup dialog box, click , locate the workgroup folder and then click Select.

To view the help page for an example

• Do one of the following:
  • In the Plug-in Tree, expand the SDK examples workgroup, right-click the example add-on and then click Help.
  • Open a Net View and click to go to XSI Net local. In the top navigation bar, click add-ons, and then click the SDK example add-on.

To instantiate the Puck shader definitions

• Start Softimage and open the render tree.
  
  You can see a number of presets in the preset manager under the Parsed (Good) and Parsed (Bad) sub-categories under the main Example Shaders category:
  
  

• You can instantiate it by running the following in the Script Editor::

  // [JScript]
  NewScene("", false);
  CreatePrim("Cone", "MeshSurface");
  CreateShaderFromProgID("Puck.ArrayCnxPuck.1.0", "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material");
  SIConnectShaderToCnxPoint("Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material.Array_Cnx_Puck.out_vector3",
     "Sources.Materials.DefaultLib.Scene_Material.Phong.bump", false);
  

Keywords

This example uses the following keywords:

JScript example, JScript, RegisterShaderLanguageParser, QueryParserSettings, Parse, ParseInfo, ShaderDef, Context, GetSource