http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks/softimage_2011

저도 지금 보고 있습니다만 편의적인 기능개선 위주인것 같습니다.
각자 자신의 관심분야에 대한 신기능 동영상을 보시고 평가좀 댓글로 부탁 드립니다

130여개의 아이쓰 컴파운드 등장 및 키네매틱 지원 (ICE 유저들  입 찢어질듯 ㅎㅎㅎ)
170여개의 멘탈레이 쉐이더 등장 ( 아크비즈 유저들 만세~ ) - 
30여개의 유틸리티 쉐이더 등장 초보유저분들도 일단 만세들 부르세용
NVIDIA® PhysX ® 2.83 plug-in 등장
게임쪽 리얼타임 기능 강화
이외 다수의 상당한 편의기능 제공 및 강화

A quick breakdown of the new features in 2011

General

• Icon to Maximize Floating Windows
• Extra-wide icon to close PPGs and Views
• New Views
• Shader Code Editor
• Shader Version Manager
• Cache Manager
• Lip Sync
• New Preference to get Softimage text announcements

Camera and Viewports

• Viewport object transparency
• Object>Display>XRay Surface Display Opacity slider
• Change the viewport opacity of geometry using a slider
• Display Options>XRay Display Type>Transparent
• Viewport visibility menu>XRay Surfaces
• New buttons in Camera PPG to keyframe camera
• Camera frustrum display
• Camera clipping planes values now sliders
• Viewport Slate
• Text or tokens can be used to display scene information
• New menu toggle for X-Ray (display option)

Modeling

• Updated Booleans
• Booleans are now faster and more stable
• New implicit bone primitive
• Useful for ICE kinematics

Texturing

• Update to UV unfolding
• New option to unfold islands generated by the unfold operator
• Symmetry - if the geometry and cutlines are symmetrical so will be the unfold
• New PPG option to update the Unfold without packing as well
• Multiple UVs in the Texture Editor
• control+click to set the UV editable/non-editable
• Copy/Paste UV Improvements
• Edit > Paste UVs
• Edit > Paste Special > Using Source UVs Indices
• Edit > Paste Special > Using Target UVs Indices
• RenderMap/Ultimapper now use Pass Renderer (including 3rd party)
• Automatic Tangents and Binormals

Animation

• Function Curve Editor & Dopesheet & Mixer
• Highlight playback range in background
• Preference for Collapsing Animation Layers
• Preserve Animation or Preserve Tangent Handles
• Preference for scanning for old plug-ins in fcurve editor
• Get>Property>Static Kinestate
• Used for reference (neutral) poses

Face Robot

• Automatic Lip syncing
• A new workflow for creating phonemes (and visemes)
• A new lip sync tab for Stage 5>Act
• Viseme Setup
• Support for English and Japanese phonemes
• Lip Sync Creation options
• Use AIFF, AVI, Quicktime or WAV
• Add text
• Automatically creates animation
• The new view can display the Phonemes and weight curves

Simulation

• Update PhysX library to version 2.83
• NOTE: Due to a change in the PhysX library, actual shape collision results will be different in 2011
• Support for CUDA acceleration for PhysX Rigid Body Dynamics (including ICE)

ICE

• Springs and damper attributes for ICE rigid bodies
• ICE Kinematics
• ICE can now drive the Global kinematic property
• The rigs' relationships can be expressed in a graph contained on a separate object (like a null)
• You can use the simulate ICE tree to easily do secondary dynamics
• ICE Kinematics and traditional Kinematics can live side by side
• ICE Tree
• User Tools>Replace model name with this_model
• Preference for disabling cycle checking when connecting nodes in ICE tree
• ICE Compounds and Nodes
• Includes much of Phil’s ICE Pack
• Around 130 new compounds and nodes

Scripting and SDK

• Python now installed with Softimage
• Script Editor now support tabs
• MMB or control+W to close tab
• RMB on tab to open containing folder
• New file options including "save all tabs"
• Scripting Preferences
• Show spaces instead of Tabs
• Use Python installed with Softimage (Windows only)
• Custom Dynamic Shader creation
• RenderMap exposed to Custom Renderers
• Shaders
• Shader Plugin API
• Shader Parser Plugin API
• RT Shader Wizard (HLSL and CGFX)
• ImportFromSI3D Command No Longer Supported
• Many Object Model additions
• many C++ API additions

Data Management

• New Tokens
• [Camera] [CameraAspect] [CameraFormat] [CameraProjection] [CameraType] [Model] [Object] [Version] [CameraDisplayInfo]
• New Tokens and Templates page in documentation
• Cache Manager
• View>Animation>Cache Manager, Animate>Plot>Cache Manager, Simulate>ICE>Edit>Cache Manager
• UI Simplification
• Cache Manager hosts Read, Write and Simulation caches
• New Cache lists
• To read and write multiple objects at the same time (cache list or add one by one)
• Automatically scans the selection for available attributes to cache (listbox)
• Tokens are saved with the scene not copied from the template preference
• Simulation tab list all cache file node in read mode
• Animation read tab lists all source caches with their corresponding object
• Caching Improvements
• Multiple objects can be cached at at time (in the same path)
• Default template Preferences are used at scene creation, but can be overridden per caching session
• Consistent paths and file name tokens for all types of caching
• Current output path for caching is now visible
• Universal tokens supported (see Tokens and Templates [Data Management])
• Version token supported
• No frame padding in the cache File Name mean the frame padding setting from Scene Render options is no longer used.
• ICE particle ID attribute can be cached
• Setting the new XSI_CACHE_ASCII environment variable lets you save the .icecache file sequence in ASCII.
   

Rendering

• Shader Authoring
• All shaders available in Softimage 2011 now use the new Dynamic Shader architecture
• No longer have to load *.cgfx or *.fx files into hard-coded CgFX or DXFX shader nodes.
• Files are read directly by the Softimage CgFX or HLSL parsers
• Shader Versioning
• Shader Version Manager
• Versioning of shader compounds supported
• Option to make shader compounds uneditable
• Shader Editor
• Shader Wizard
• New Shader Events
• OnCreateShaderDef
• OnCreateShader
• OnConnectShader
• OnDisonnectShader
• New Shader Port Types to match ICE types.
• New Array Port Type.
• Improved Gradient Port Type.
• Shader Tree XML Export .xsishadertree
• New CGFX Parser
• New HLSL Parser
• New SPDL Parser
• New .mi Parser
• New generic .xsishaderdef Parser
• Shaders
• Around 35 new utility shaders
• Around 170 mental ray shaders
• General
• Common mental ray
• Softimage, Maya and Max now share the same version of mental ray
• Stand-ins for rendering animated ICE particle instances
• Improved setup for Physical Sky and Sun shaders
• RMB Material commands available in render tree material node
• Render Pass Partitions now support Stand-ins.
• Lighting
• Support IES light Profiles
• Use mia_photmetric_light in the light's render tree
• New flatlight
• Additional Area Lights Parameters
• Use Geometry a light source (Area Light>Geometry>Object)
• Area light>Geometry>User
• Low Samples options
• Raytraced Soft Shadows
• New Light shape attenuation options
• Barn Door effect
• Light lists
• Local Ambient Lighting Property
• Get > Property > Ambient Lighting
• Render Tree
• Connect shaders to the camera node and pass node directly in the render tree (dynamic input ports)
• New shader families and new node color coding
• Shader nodes support new data types
• Render Slate
• Show scene information (using tokens) in renders and render region
• Layout and color options
• Pass options control render, region and preview
• Multi-Camera Rendering
• Specify a "group" of cameras to be rendered per pass
• LUTs
• Softimage now supports Autodesk LUSTRE .3dl 3D LUT files
• New LUT Preconditioning options control linear to logarithmic conversions

Crosswalk

• Version 5.0
• Crosswalk 5 supports 3ds Max 2011, Maya 2011, and Softimage 2011
• FBX 2011
• New FBX scene scaling import and export options
• New FBX batch processing commands to support the scaling options