XSIBlog

What did Softimage trade off to get the Fx Tree?
A common question that comes back often, usually when the flames are high and the knives are flying low!
Could the time spent on the XSI compositor have been used instead to build a particle engine, integrate Render Man, do a PaintFx clone, or that thing that’’s [...]

Presently getting movie formats on Windows 64-bit is difficult.
Here’’s the situation.
You can’t mix 32-bit and 64-bit in one application
Windows 64-bit runs both 32-bit (Win32) and 64-bit (Win64) applications. However, Win64 applications cannot use 32-bit DLLs, and vice-versa. (Video codecs are DLLs) Both binary formats live in completely different address [...]