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Geek heaven! I personally consider programming / scripting an art but that’’s a whole other debate, I digress. If you read further you”ll find posts dealing with scripting, quick fire-and-forget tidbits as well as larger application development ideas. Some articles in here won”t even talk about XSI but the general knowledge you will gather from them will be applicable to your XSI scripts in whatever language you prefer.

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In 2011 SP1, there are three new commands to get Face Robot lip sync data out into your own tools. One of them doesn’t even require the use of Face Robot and calls the speech recognition library directly

1. compile with copy, 2. oops, error, file in use, 3. switch to XSI, 4. dig down and unload plugin, 5. switch to VS, 6. compile ……. yaddda ….. you know the drill.
For years I’ve been doing this and for years I’ve been meaning to get around to making it slicker but somehow there [...]

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 [...]

So the keen folks at the german XSI forum (http://www.xsiforum.de) discussed the topic of generating separate objects out of all of the polygon islands making up a polygonmesh. Even though this doesn’t seem to be a too tricky scripting problem, using commands to achieve this split-up can slow down XSI quite alot, especially if the [...]

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 [...]