XSIBlog

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. [...]

A few years ago I did some work to make the .pic parser blazingly fast. One day, I noticed that the load time for an image sequence had doubled.
That’’s a big difference! Waiting 6 seconds instead of 3 for a sequence to preload in the flipbook can have big impact on how you work, [...]

Hot on the heels of Luc-Eric’’s blurb on XSI’’s Autosave, lets talk a bit about the Scene Backups.

You can enable AutoSave in XSI in the Data Management group of user preference.
At the set interval, and if the scene has been modified since the last save, the application will save a copy of the scene. (This file will be located inside the project folder, under a hidden directory called “system/“, for example [...]

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 [...]