XSIBlog

I may be the team leader of XSI User Interface, but the truth of the matter is, deep inside, there is a marketing genius screaming to get out. If it had been me, I would have printed hundreds of t-shirts and ads with the phrase “XSI 6.0: Now With More Balls” to advertise the [...]

Most people know you can take a look at what mental ray is currently rendering by pointing imf_disp at a currently rendering frame. Not so many people know that imf_disp is using a well documented feature of mental ray that lets anyone connect to it and read it’’s output as it renders, regardless of whether the render process is local or happening on another machine. The feature is handy for looking at pictures, monitoring the progress of an image as it renders but you can also use it to check whether a render has failed in mid-frame.