Tag Archives: passes

How to render an object’s x,y,z position

Posted on February 28, 2012 by sitexgraphics

A user asked how to render an object’s world-space position into an image.  To address this question, we’ve included a new ShowPosition surface shader in Air 11.04 and later.  Here are the shader parameters: Surface “ShowPosition” “float UnitSize” [1] “float[3] … Continue reading →

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Shader Networks and Layered Shaders

Posted on July 31, 2011 by sitexgraphics

SiTex Graphics Air version 11 (press release) introduces the ability to use multiple shaders to compute the shading for surfaces, displacements, imagers, and environments. This new capability provides a simple solution to several common shading tasks that would otherwise require … Continue reading →

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Adding an occlusion pass

Posted on December 21, 2010 by sitexgraphics

Air’s surface shaders provide a consistent set of output variables for common rendering passes such as diffuse, specular, reflection, and per-light channels.  Any or all of these values can be saved during a single invocation of the renderer, either to … Continue reading →

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