Softimage Blog

With the set of Gerstner Waves available for purchase it was obvious that there should be some usage videos posted here so here is the first one describing how to install it and the basic parameters. Of course the compound installation methodology applies to any compound you might download off the Softimage Community Site or [...]

After some hard work and some great feedback from a few people I’ve decided to put my Gerstner wave compounds up for sale.
At their current price of 40$ they’re a steal, as far as I’m concerned.
If you want to get your mitts on your own copy, check out the purchase page where you can securely [...]

For the first time I was confronted this week with running XSI 32bits and XSI 64bits on the same Windows x64 system. I’d tried it in the past just as a challenge to get it to work but now the crew I was working with actually had some production needs for it.
It was so simple [...]

Quite a few people have been asking how the unsupported feature of ICE Kinematics can be enabled in XSI.
The video below will give you a rundown on how to activate the feature within the context of a really simple example of getting a ball to float and bounce around on the top of a particle [...]