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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 [...]

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

This must be the most stupid piece of code I’ve ever written in Softimage XSI but unfortunately, sometimes I can’t help myself. And, truth be told, some of these wacky possibilities are some of the reasons I prefer Python over other scripting languages for a lot of my work.
A while back I talked about the [...]

I was helping out a buddy the other day, helping him get a script running in Softimage XSI. I had the error fixed in a few minutes and then I started goofing off with his code and cutting it down. Then I hit a part of his script where XSI returns an array of data. [...]