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For the first time I was confronted this week with running XSI 32bits and XSI 64bits on the same Windows x64 system. I’d tried it in the past just as a challenge to get it to work but now the crew I was working with actually had some production needs for it.
It was so simple [...]

Quite a few people have been asking how the unsupported feature of ICE Kinematics can be enabled in XSI.
The video below will give you a rundown on how to activate the feature within the context of a really simple example of getting a ball to float and bounce around on the top of a particle [...]

Here is me playing around with Gerstner waves in XSI’s ICE.

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For about the past five years I’ve been doing pipeline stuff. ICE has gotten me yearning for production work again.

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, [...]

Hey gang,
working on some characters with secondary motion I came up with a pretty simple spring op including some caching / plotting functionality and thought I’d share it.