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Luc-Eric Rousseau has been working for Softimage since the late 90s in the user interface group, and is currently the Development Manager for Autodesk Softimage. In the past, he has created XSI's compositing module, and originally worked on Softimage|DS Disclaimer : These blog entries may contain personal comments and do not reflect the views of Autodesk or its employees.

It’s possible to create symbolic links in Windows Vista just like in Unix. This is helpful if you need to make a directory or file appear to be in different location. In a command prompt:
mklink /D d:\alias_location d:\actual\location\of\directory
The /D stands for directory link, because file links are also supported. Even better, [...]

I think this will be the year that 64-bit Windows really takes off.
We’ve getting more 64-bit machines out to developers and testers. The advantages and problems of 64-bit are pretty much the same as two years ago, when I first wrote about the lack of QuickTime support on 64-bit.
32-bit on 64-bit
The first thing you [...]

Someone asked me if by having the Qwerty Interaction Model in XSI, XSI was beginning to loose its Design Philosophy. I think the answer is no, XSI’s Design Philosophy is not which keyboard shortcuts you use. The Design Philosophy are items such as workflows based on clusters, having all main features visible in [...]

The FxTree is cool, however it really doesn’t handle well not being able to allocate memory and the memory settings are not intuitive.
If the FxTree crashes when you open it, it is because of one of these two causes:

the RAM settings are too high
you’re running out of disk in the drive where the %TEMP% (or [...]

The settings for the File Browser you get when you select File -> Open are stored in three different places in your Softimage user account folder. (don’t shoot the messenger!)

A binary file called DSModalBrowse . It stores whether you are in List View mode or Thumbnail mode, the column settings for [...]