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It’s possible to create symbolic links in Windows Vista just like in Unix. This is helpful if you need to make a directory or file appear to be in different location. In a command prompt:
mklink /D d:\alias_location d:\actual\location\of\directory
The /D stands for directory link, because file links are also supported. Even better, [...]

Two weeks ago Bryan Blevins, CG Supervisor at Wild Canary, asked a question on the Softimage|Net community about the possibility of doing proxy selects.
You all remember the idea of a proxy parameter where editing a parameter in a custom PPG (lets call this one the source) will in fact be changing another elsewhere in the [...]

Some time ago, I stumbled across the MapVIZ node in Maya and was surprised, that Softimage didn’t implement something like this in our beloved software package, XSI. Well, last weekend I decided to code it myself.
The first step to take, was to decipher the the file structure of the FG and Photon maps. Since the [...]

The graphics pipeline from source art to final output is complicated, and requires the artist to work in several different colour spaces along the way. In this article I”ll give a brief overview of colour spaces, and then detail a commonly overlooked area in the texture pipeline where gamma is important.

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