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The middle-aged of you will probably remember those names from the 90s.
Phoenix Tools was a plugin company for Softimage 3D, and I was one of the founders. We did good and bad, and we eventually closed down in 2002.
Arete had an excellent reputation for their ocean and atmospheric library, called Digital Nature Tools. I think [...]

I really like applications that provide rich SDKs for it’s users to play around with. I also like event based systems and callbacks. These are all things that make me absolutely love writing up plugins inside XSI. But there is one small problem, I find, with XSI’s callbacks.
Callbacks in XSI plugins are functions in the [...]

Two weeks ago Bryan Blevins, CG Supervisor at Wild Canary, asked a question on the Softimage|Net community about the possibility of doing proxy selects.
You all remember the idea of a proxy parameter where editing a parameter in a custom PPG (lets call this one the source) will in fact be changing another elsewhere in the [...]

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 [...]

Some time ago, I stumbled across the MapVIZ node in Maya and was surprised, that Softimage didn’t implement something like this in our beloved software package, XSI. Well, last weekend I decided to code it myself.
The first step to take, was to decipher the the file structure of the FG and Photon maps. Since the [...]