Realtime Stereo Addon
Note: Stereo display is now included in Softimage 2011.5. This Addon provides stereo display for earlier versions.
Realtime anaglyph stereo viewport for Softimage. The addon has been updated and now features control over the anaglyph color mixing and output. This can be used to produced optimized anaglyphs with decreased "retinal rivalry" as well as anaglyphs for different color filter systems.
There is also a new, experimental option for interlaced stereo output (requires interlaced stereo monitor).
Here is the new ReadMe
A basic off-axis parallel stereo rig which will work with the plugin is available here
The addon should work with any stereo rig which has a left and right camera.
Here is a Demo version which has the same function but which will only show one camera at a time.
The price is US$ 50 for a single user or US$ 100 for a site license.
Vector Displacement
This addon allows you to generate and apply displacement maps which displace in arbitrary directions, not just along the surface normal.
Binder 1.2 for XSI 7
Binder 1.1 for XSI 6
Binder 1.1 for 5.11
Displacement alternative. Binds a base object in XSI to a high-poly sculpted object file. Animate and deform the base version in XSI. At render time the sculpted version is rendered.
XSIBase thread
BHairy
Hair generating plugin for XSI. Generates hair for any version of XSI including Foundation and Essentials. Requires XSI 5.11 or 6.01.
Basically defunct now that hair is included in all versions of Softimage, but has a few interesting features such as unlimited number of segments.
zbump
Bump mapping shader. Just plug a texture or two into the inputs.
Note: As of XSI 6.01, zbump is included with Softimage XSI as the new bump node.
solid volume
Basic ray-marcher. Can use procedural input or volumetric datasets (See volume loader below). It can do limited non-solid ray-marching but you probably want to check out Binary Alchemy Volume shaders if you want something production-worthy for that.
solid volume basic example scenesolid volume non-solid example scene
XSIBase thread
volume loader
Loads 3D volumetric datasets (such as medical cross-sectional imaging data). This can then be rendered using Solid Volume ("Direct Volume Rendering").
Parallax
Steep Parallax shader. This can achieve displacement-like effects, except at the edges of an object. It uses a local ray-marching method around the ray-object intersection point rather than displacing geometry. It seems like it's usually slower than displacement.
Framestamp
Addon with output shader which will overlay text. Options include frame number, time, and render time; current date and time; XSI and MR versions; scene name; as well as arbitrary text input.
This uses the FreeType library and can display .ttf fonts.
