Autodesk – Autodesk Softimage Services & Support – Softimage 2011 Essentials Learning Videos
I’m late on this one.
Judging by the history of the Softimage wiki page, these videos went up on 19 Nov of last year 2010.
It’s a “collection of videos created by Digital Tutors introduces new users to the features of Sofimage 2011.”
Setting the XSI_UNSUPPORTED_METASL environment variable should enable the MSL parser, so MetaSL shaders will show up in the Preset Manager. I believe you have to re-register mentalray.dll too.
So, in a Softimage command prompt:
set XSI_UNSUPPORTED_METASL=1 cmdreg mentalray.dll xsi
I haven’t tested this myself, so no promises 😉
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