Early XSI Screenshot of the Day
February 15th, 2007 by Luc-Eric - Viewed 5705 times - Popularity: 8%Really Early XSI Screenshot of the Day… most (if not all) of these buttons aren’t actually hooked up… (in which version did XSI finally get 3D text?) Estimated 1996 or early 1997. At that point in time, the software was just using Softimage|3D code.
My first task in Sumatra was to hook up the command to create, add to, and remove from, clusters. Some code someone had written but could not test because there was no UI - or scripting - to call it. This must have been sometime in 1998 and at that time it was all brand-new code; Softimage|3D was only used for importing scenes into it.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Text was a suprisingly early addition if I remember rightly… v1.5
What do I win ;)
February 15th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Reminds me of the attempt to make the Softimage|3D interface look better around v3.8. What’s this screenshot from? 1996/97?
While this interface looks ugly, I like the layout of animation and edit panels on the MCP better than today’s version.
February 15th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
wow you can really see the influence in design that these different softwares have on XSI…
February 16th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
owd skoo :)
February 16th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Pretty ugly alien thing. hehe
in my opinion xsi today has the best UI (specially because I need to work with maya).
February 17th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Is it my imagination, or does this design borrow extremely heavily from The Jetsons?
February 17th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Looks like you guys have always had an obsession with bevels and embosses. :)
I like the current XSI interface, but I wouldn’t mind if some interface elements were ‘flatter’ and some more compact. (I guess it would help reduce unnecessary screen space usage too)
February 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Hmm, the overall layout hasn’t changed that much, looks still quite the same :)
February 17th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Crazy! Alien vs. Predator spaceship control panel :p
I wonder, where from comes the whole bevel obsession. I hope not because CEO’s grandson loves it.
February 17th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Oh how I miss the days of the soft and rounded DS look in Softimage products. It looks a little goofy now, but at the time it came off so cool.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:06 am
May look strange today but it was state of art.
February 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Ten years from now this is will still be better than LightWave! :o(
February 18th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
i wish softimage would make the xsi interface a little more sleek and “flatter”, yes. I really like blenders “rounded theme” or even modo’s with it’s transparent ui-overlays.
xsi’s ui look feels slowly a bit more chunky, even though it was cutting edge years ago and still is one of the best.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Oh i forgot to say: what an ugly & confusing interface that was! glad it didn’t make it.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:09 am
It’s really interesting to see the evolution of the XSI UI though i have to agree with everybody else: this one simply looks strange if not ugly.
But I can’t wait to see a screenshot of the interface we use today in twenty years from now on which reminds me of how we could use THAT one.