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I rarely talk about short lived timely issues such as this one but it was a bit too pervasive to pass up and the facility here has just been bitten by it. I’m talking about spontaneously disconnecting shaders. Background info (read these): The issue as described in a thread on the mailing list. A workaround [...]

Driving rigid bodies’ shapes with simulated deformation opens up a whole new set of possibilities!

[Note: this problem no longer applies to Softimage 2011 SP1 and later version] There is a strange user interface lag that affects Softimage XSI when you use a Wacom tablet. With heavy scenes or simulation, you may never be able to stop playback. Other users have reported problems with the render region. The best work-around [...]

Hey folks, time to release another plugin under the flag of Sixbirds Barcelona! As already shown in a teaser video on vimeo.com, we worked on a plugin to use particles as pixels to unleash the power of ICE to textures.

Hey folks! Edit: I upgraded the addon to version 1.3, see the 13th solver for new description of the Nulls 2 Nurbssurface. Additionally I fixed two bugs and removed some nasty logmessages from the Null 2 Curve solver. Some solvers are NOT compatible with the version 1.3, so I will keep the link to the [...]