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This post is about writing interactive manipulators such as the transform tool or the newly introduced tweak tool, something XSI doesn’t support in its catalog of plugin types by default, but still possible to develop by going through a crazy round trip.

When it comes to real-time plug-ins, XSI allows writing custom operators able to react [...]

I”ve made a little fxtree plug-in that implements photoshop blending modes

In this article I will discuss one way of how can plugins benefit from the XSI 4.0+ plugin architecture. I will look into what I call “multi-layered plugins”, that is, a particular software structure design for XSI plugins. This articles is more about design than technical content.

So you’re starting to texture a character and think:
“It would be nice if I could select all the polygons that are facing the camera…”
Okay, so maybe you haven’t had that reflection but Gabriel Tremblay sure has, and one fateful evening he talked to me about it over a beer. So here it is, from his [...]

Remember Softimage|3D? Remember Jitter+?
Here is my take on Jitter+ for XSI: PB_Jitter! Just drop both files in the Application/Plugins folder and don’t forget to install the buzz.xsi library first.
Back in the days of Softimage|3D there was a plug-in called Jitter. It was used to create random movement on objects. My take on this idea, thanks [...]