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When dealing with camera projections, which are very helpful for image based modeling, scene layout etc… you sometimes experience some limitations. The camera projection in XSI is not available as a sub-projection, neither can you limit the effect of the camera projection based on surface angle or distance. Another problem are quite weird looking stretches, [...]

Some time ago, I stumbled across the MapVIZ node in Maya and was surprised, that Softimage didn’t implement something like this in our beloved software package, XSI. Well, last weekend I decided to code it myself.
The first step to take, was to decipher the the file structure of the FG and Photon maps. Since the [...]