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When the self-installable plugin reared it’’s head in XSI it blew me away! Gone were the days of all those plugin registration antics and on top of that the the SDK had a whole new branch that dealt with the dynamic creation of PPGs thus destroying the usefulness of SPDL, which in my book was a good thing – one less thing to learn.

If you aren”t allready using self-installables, you should. Hopefully this little case study of my publicly available PB_Render can give you a little hand in getting started. First of all we”ll look at what makes a self-installable plugin tick, then we”ll take a look at our practical example. We”ll then finish off with a little look at PPG control and access.

One of my friends has fun telling me that I”m not really a programmer because my code isn”t compiled. I mostly use scripting languages so I can”t be a programmer, can I?
To which I reply: are you really a programmer if your ubber-complex program fits in twenty lines and the heavy lifting is done by [...]

A while back one of the guys here comes up to me and tells me that he wants to render a frame.
“Good for you! Go right ahead, you have my blessings!” – I tell him.
He then proceeds to make me understand that he can’t. If he wants to render out a single frame of only [...]

Well… I think this is it! The first version of XSIBlog has hit the streets! Hopefully in time this little project can turn into something people like to read and come back to regularly.
For now, thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for some reading material.