XSIBlog

Luc-Eric Rousseau has been working for Softimage for the last 10 years in the user interface group, and is currently the User Interface Team Leader and Designer of XSI. 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 Softimage Co., Avid or its employees.

We’ve added a couple of things that are nice in the Animation Editor, which are enabled by default if you pick “Qwerty” Interaction Mode, aka the Maya Interaction Mode. They are also interesting for users who choose the XSI interaction mode, but we haven’t yet taken the risk changing of the default behavior, [...]

First, stuff you already know.  You need to take a look at your temp folder once in a while.  The folder’s location is placed at a tedious location on Windows, something like C:\Document And Setttings.. then into a hidden folder.  Some people move it to an easier location, but it’s in fact really easy to [...]

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 figure out from where XSI is loading your user preference from, look in File|User Preference, choose “Data Management” and scroll down to “File/Project Locations”.  “User Path” is what you’re looking for.
To change it, you must edit the setenv.bat batch file used to start XSI.  You can do this with the “UserTools” utility in the [...]

XSI 6.0 was being finished pretty much at the same time as Vista was on RC so we didn’t have to fully test XSI on Vista in depth, there was just too many things going on at the same time. New compilers, new MainWin, new render core, new setups, etc.
On one hand, 6.0 adds [...]