XSIBlog

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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Starting from my last post I’d like to show you how I use Python modules in XSI instead of normal self installing plugins.
You know that XSI automatically recognizes plugins when a proper file is putted under a folder like this: [workgroup or user]\Application\Plugins. We don’t need to specify anything else. Very clever and very useful [...]

From a rigger’s point of view, I think Softimage|XSI is one of the best software around, and as character TD, I really love proxy parameters. The possibility to expose to animators every channel we want can make our rigs definitely cleaner, more understandable and easier to use. On the other hand a simple list of [...]

After a couple of chit chats about referenced models in 6.0, I would take to take a few minutes to explain how you can use the delta referencing system to separate rig and geometry into two different files, which can be edited independently from one another.

You’ll find here some nice discoveries I made trying to use wxPython inside XSI. For that I will assume that you, dear Reader, have some knowledge of Python and UIs…

Animal Logic is also kindly giving you an example XSI Plugin that should be a good starting point if you want to implement a wxPython interface in XSI.

I apologize in advance for the technical and boring stuff ahead… it’s the unfortunate price to pay to get nice and shiny UIs!

A short Python socket server script for remotely communicating with XSI using Telnet