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This article discusses some aspects of object model programming and also serves as a tutorial to design your own code to look and behave like the XSI Object Model. I will talk about Python, classic classes, operator overloading, and code design. I will re-implement at a part of the XSI Object Model in Python.

A few algorithms to distribute points on the surface of a sphere.

New to python? Whatch out for that little integer division gotcha.

Recently I ran into a severe problem. Whenever I would try to import modules in the Python command line shell, I”d get syntax error pointing to the first line. In fact, trying to import the module in XSI from a custom command gave a syntax error at line… zero! What the?

As far as I”m concerned, once of the last few really ugly pimples on the face of Softimage XSI is the GUID. A key component of SPDL files in XSI, the Globally Unique Identifier helps identify shaders and their parameters. Here is how you can create GUID from within XSI.