XSIBlog

Anything pertaining to user interface issues can be found in this category. This is the layer that allows the user to interact with the application either through screen, mouse, keyboard or any other input method.

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You may not be aware that in XSI scaling is handled differently than in other 3D software packages or perhaps you have encountered situations where scaling a hierarchy did not quite give you the results you were expecting. In this article I crack open the mysteries surrounding Softimage scaling.

For better or worse, XSI has many menus and many user preferences. In XSI 5.0, we added this switch that allows setting the application to “Alt Key Navigation and QWERTY tools”. In other words, Maya-like mode. This global switch in fact toggles a bunch of existing options and picks the Qwerty keymap. [...]

XSI keyboard processing accommodates sharing the keyboard keys in different contexts by searching for the target of a key in a priority list. The items at the top of the list are high priority, and if an item doesn”t handle that key the next one down the list is queried for it. It’’s [...]

Here are couple of changes we made to the layout manager in XSI 5.0 that I like..

XSI 5 has a keymap that remaps many keys to location more familiar to users comming from Maya. What’’s in it for you if you”ve never used Maya?