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.

Each release, we have a list of major projects we focus on. There is also some planned time for developers to do maintenance, and to enhance their areas, even if it isn’t necessarily part of the bigger picture. I think this constant progress in all areas is very important to the product. There is a [...]

Ever gotten an email with a .pic attached and would have liked to be able to just click on it to see it?
My Softimage .pic codec for QuickTime has been updated with a bug fix for a corrupted image issue reported by a few users

Let’s take a look at XSI’s new Material Manager.

Figuring out which user preference you have modified in XSI is much easier since the last few releases.
First and foremost, only the user preferences that are different from the factory defaults are saved. This was partly done to allow overriding a user preference with a workgroup user preference file.
They are saved in your user [...]

QuickTime is in mutation. Let’s quote from Apple’s technote 2140 about the recent API changes :
“QuickTime has been around for some time now and has a deep rich history. First introduced in May 1991 and originally available for System 6.07 and System 7, it was designed as a full media architecture and offers a complete [...]