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Hey folks,
time to release another plugin under the flag of Sixbirds Barcelona!
As already shown in a teaser video on vimeo.com, we worked on a plugin to use particles as pixels to unleash the power of ICE to textures.

Hey folks!
Edit: I upgraded the addon to version 1.3, see the 13th solver for new description of the Nulls 2 Nurbssurface. Additionally I fixed two bugs and removed some nasty logmessages from the Null 2 Curve solver. Some solvers are NOT compatible with the version 1.3, so I will keep the link to the previous [...]

So the keen folks at the german XSI forum (http://www.xsiforum.de) discussed the topic of generating separate objects out of all of the polygon islands making up a polygonmesh. Even though this doesn’t seem to be a too tricky scripting problem, using commands to achieve this split-up can slow down XSI quite alot, especially if the [...]

Hey gang,
working on some characters with secondary motion I came up with a pretty simple spring op including some caching / plotting functionality and thought I’d share it.

When dealing with camera projections, which are very helpful for image based modeling, scene layout etc… you sometimes experience some limitations. The camera projection in XSI is not available as a sub-projection, neither can you limit the effect of the camera projection based on surface angle or distance. Another problem are quite weird looking stretches, [...]