XSIBlog

If the only thing you want to do is download some files to make your life in XSI easier, you”ve come to the right place. This is basically a compilation of articles and posts that have some downloadable toys.

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

Ever gotten an email with a .pic attached and would have liked to be able to just click on it to see it?
My Softimage .pic codec for QuickTime has been updated with a bug fix for a corrupted image issue reported by a few users

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.

QuickTime is in mutation. Let’s quote from Apple’s technote 2140 about the recent API changes :
“QuickTime has been around for some time now and has a deep rich history. First introduced in May 1991 and originally available for System 6.07 and System 7, it was designed as a full media architecture and offers a complete [...]

Updated Dec 12, 2006
I have written a codec which allows QuickTime to understand .pic files.
A few people have manually associated .pic files with the XSI flipbook or another viewer, but most people have them associated with the QuickTime Picture Viewer by default.
Installing this will not change your current file associations, but will allow the Picture [...]