(July 7, 2008) - SOFTIMAGE|XSI announces feature list and demos of the upcoming release of XSI 7.0! Built on a new, highly extensible architecture, XSI gives 3D professionals unparalleled power and flexibility to bring your creative visions to life quickly and profitably.
XSI 7 introduces ICE (Interactive Creative Environment), a groundbreaking technology that transforms XSI from just another 3D product into a powerful and flexible open platform.
ICE greatly improves collaboration between artists and technical directors, allowing them to create custom tools and effects visually, see the results interactively, and do it all without scripting, or writing a line of code. Effects built or modified in ICE are performance tuned and multi-threaded, so they perform at maximum efficiency across all available processors.
XSI 7 will be available before September 30, 2008. All purchases of XSI from July 1st, 2008 will be upgraded to XSI 7 for FREE when it ships. Don't wait!
New Features in XSI 7
- ICE - Interactive Creative Environment
- Gigacore II Architecture
- Lighting & Rendering
- Integrated mental ray 3.6 Renderer
- Importons
- Stand-ins
- New Final Gathering Algorithm "Exact" mode
- Auto-Configuring BSP 2 Raytracing Acceleration
- Irradiance Particles
- Render Manager Improvements
- New Realtime Shading API - RTS 3.0
- Text Editor Widget
- Vertex Shader Input Semantics
- User Interface and Workflow Enhancements
- Referencing that works - delta II
- Texturing & Maps
- Editing Multiple Texture UV Sets
- Color Management
- Streamlined Licensing System
For more information on XSI 7 and its demo's please visit: www.softimage.com/products/xsi/default.aspx
About SOFTIMAGE|XSI
SOFTIMAGE|XSI is production-proven 3D animation software for games, film and television. XSI offers a complete 3D modeling, animation, rendering and development toolset out of the box.
