It seems that 3delight (3.0.6) is not traversing shader graphs inside a compound within Softimage (2011sp1 Hotfix2); I get no errors or warnings, the shading just doesn't evaluate (the nodes inside the compound, nodes external to the compound render fine). However this seems to be the case only with compounds which were previously created & then saved to disk (in a workgroup, then dragged into the Render Tree). If I create a compound in the scene I'm currently working in, then there are no problems, 3delight renders fine.

Also, if I explode a compound that doesn't render, then it will render. If I then grab all the nodes which were previously in the compound and create a new compound in the current working session, 3delight again renders fine.

Download a repro scene here (unzip it into a workgroup): NormalMapBlend

See below, 3delight on the left & mental ray on the right:



There also seems to be something a little off with the shading of normal maps. The result is really close, but something is off. You can see that shading range is clamped on the 3delight render, as if the normals aren't completely normalized or maybe the blue channel isn't correctly interpreted for the biased texture (this is a straight XSINormalMap3 node plugged into the bump, not my crazy noodle):




Lastly, is there plans to support the PNG image format. Seems like a very popular format & it's a shame 3delight cannot convert it.

Last edited by lard (2011-05-15 07:58:20)