# StaticSite:Main Page

### From PixieWiki

The documentation here has been prepared on the online wiki [[1]].

You add to it by heading over there.

- Documentation Documentation and reference on Pixie's features
- Tutorials Tutorial-sytle / How-To gudes for Pixie
- FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

You may also find these links useful:

- [Pixie homepage ]
- [Pixie on sourceforge ]

Documentation

How Pixie relates to the RiSpec, and documentation on Pixie's non-standard features and extensions.

- Installing / running Pixie
- Multithreading
- Hiders
- Display drivers
- Options
- Attributes
- Occlusion culling
- Baking 3D Textures
- Network parallel rendering
- DSO shading
- Transparency shadow maps
- Global illumination
- Point based occlusion and color bleeding
- Raytracing in SL
- Raytraced shadows / reflections
- Hardcoded shaders
- Shader library
- Version management
- Performance / Quality Tips
- Source at a Glance
- Using Pixie with Maya
- Conditional RIB
- RIB Resources
- Ptc API
- User Attributes And Options
- SL Functions

Examples / Tutorials

Tutorial-style guides to various features in Pixie.

- Basics, Running Pixie
- Raytraced shadows
- Soft raytraced shadows
- Global Illumination
- Dispersion
- Baking To Textures

News

Pixie 2.2.1 is out! New features include:

- Point Based occlusion and color bleeding - Get occlusion and color bleeding without raytracing
- Improved AOV support (color AOVs are alpha composited like rgba)
- Improved non-raster-orient dicing
- Raytracing improvements - more robust, faster raytracing, with PRMan-compatible visibility and shade attributes
- Shading language compiler `sdrc` is more robust and supports some syntax it previously didn't

Download here [2], release notes here [3] Previous Releases

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