These programs give you direct and satsifying access to the power of ALL RenderMan surface shaders. Non-surface shaders are listed in the shader list window, and their components can be examined in a text window.
Environments maps simulate reflections and are quickly and easily created from any image.
The environment map is similar to an unfolded cube with all six sides containing the image you supply. To simulate the reflection of objects in a scene, one technique, is to render images of the scene itself from different points of view and then create .envmmaps of the scene to wrap onto objects in the scene. ShaderDetective Plus includes tools for automatically testing and viewing shaders on 14 different pre-lit objects. There are two text editing windows for manipulating RIB files and rendering the RIB text directly within the ShaderDetective Plus. The RIB text that is used to generate the ShaderDetective images can be displayed in the text window, altered, and then rendered again.