node in xsi

[tc]

Whats fatial ratio? never heard about...
But in XSI every material has a shadow input. So you can control shadows through light shaders and/or material shaders.

For example this is a directional light with a simple raytraced shadow, and each one of this objects has a different shadow shader connected to it.

http://www.thiagocosta.net/temp/shadows.jpg




So you can do pretty much everything with shadows in XSI out of the box...

[biancaNieve]

thanks,

actualy I think that incidence is very much what fatial ratio is. However, thanks

[ThE_JacO]

Fatial ratio returns the facing rate of a shading point's normal and the camera.
Incidence returns the incidence of the same two attributes.
If I remember right (haven't used maya's standard shading nodes in a while) the only difference is their results at default are inverted. Inverting incidence should give you the fatial ratio.

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