Ray Switch

DEPRECATED. This shader is unsupported, but it may still get installed with Softimage to provide compatibility with older scenes that use it. It is recommended that you replace unsupported shaders in your scenes with equivalent shaders from the current Softimage shader library.

| Ray Switch Advanced

Shader Type: Texture

Output: Color (RGB) value

The Ray Switch (mip_rayswitch) and Render Tree Usage (mip_rayswitch_advanced) utility shaders allows different types of rays to return different results. There are many cases in which this can be useful, including but not limited to:

• Separating primary and secondary rays into calls to other shader.

• Returning a different environment to eye rays (such as a photographic background plate for a screen background), reflection rays (such as a spherical high resolution environment to be seen in reflections) and final gather rays (a filtered environment suitable for lighting the scene).

• Limiting time-consuming shaders where they are nearly invisible. For example avoiding a complicated secondary illumination or ambient occlusion shader in the refractions seen through frosted glass.