Softimage Blog

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.

[Note: this problem no longer applies to Softimage 2011 SP1 and later version] There is a strange user interface lag that affects Softimage XSI when you use a Wacom tablet. With heavy scenes or simulation, you may never be able to stop playback. Other users have reported problems with the render region. The best work-around [...]

In 2011 SP1, there are three new commands to get Face Robot lip sync data out into your own tools. One of them doesn’t even require the use of Face Robot and calls the speech recognition library directly

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, the link [...]

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 [...]

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 top-level [...]