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Wohooo! Whatever! Bablings and ramblings galore! Let’’s throw in a couple of photos of yesterday’’s party on top of that, just for kicks!

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When working with XSI in a facility I often use Python modules to better package my code and allow easy reuse of key parts in the different tools that are developed. These modules I usually keep in a location on the main drive of the workstations, for example: C:\<facilityName>\libs\python.
I’ll also put in place a system [...]

What do all these things have in common?
The weird wirings in my brain. That’s what.
Back to the beginning
At the end of last October Steven Caron sent me a plugin he wrote that allows an XSI user to drag and drop .obj files into the interface and have them import automatically according to settings in a [...]

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 [...]

A few algorithms to distribute points on the surface of a sphere.

I went to Adapt 2006 this weekend and decided to post about it. You’ll see some stuff on here in the future that will be born of some ideas I picked up during this weekend, of that I’m positive.