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Before you start rendering stuff out, chances are that you”ll have to texture them. Layers, render-trees, procedurals, camera-projections, you might even find a few presets along the way: our contributors are very generous!

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The current bump node (formerly known as zbump) became very popular for its simplicity, and for its ability to get procedural textures as inputs.
However, it has some limitations, for instance not supporting texture pre-filtering, and the fact that its spacing is expressed in world coordinates instead of uv coordinates like the old node. This leads [...]

The graphics pipeline from source art to final output is complicated, and requires the artist to work in several different colour spaces along the way. In this article I”ll give a brief overview of colour spaces, and then detail a commonly overlooked area in the texture pipeline where gamma is important.

Let’’s see how it is possible to texture a spot light’’s color based on the angular distance from the spot direction.

ABSTRACT
This article is intended more as a tutorial rather than technical or idea discussion. In this article I will explore a few texturing techniques to avoid the use of cluster materials.
INTRODUCTION
Fundamentally, putting materials on clusters seem to be the most logical approach to put different materials on a single mesh. For example, when I came [...]

There is a little command-line utility on the net that you can find, called HDRtoXSI. If you run it at the command line, you get the following message :
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HDR to XSI.
(c)2001 Avid Technology Inc.
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Luc-Éric Rousseau, Softimage, May 05 2001

Converts “Radiance” floating point images for use with Softimage|XSI
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