Softimage Blog

So you’re starting to texture a character and think:
“It would be nice if I could select all the polygons that are facing the camera…”
Okay, so maybe you haven’t had that reflection but Gabriel Tremblay sure has, and one fateful evening he talked to me about it over a beer. So here it is, from his [...]

I’m off from work today, national holiday, and it’s raining… Great!
Well, great time to work on XSI Blog and add a new Downloads page.
If I’m going to be posting more and more trinkets on this site, I might as well offer a centralized area where you can get to them without having to browse through [...]

I’ve gotten a few e-mails of people trying out my PB_Jitter plug-in and getting the following error:
[...snipped by editor...]
”AttributeError: ”” object has no attribute ”OriginPath”
[...more bla bla bla...]
This is due to XSI returning an object with an incorrectly set multi-dispatch interface. Unfortunately in this instance the dispFix function in buzz.xsi doesn’t seem to get the [...]

Remember Softimage|3D? Remember Jitter+?
Here is my take on Jitter+ for XSI: PB_Jitter! Just drop both files in the Application/Plugins folder and don’t forget to install the buzz.xsi library first.
Back in the days of Softimage|3D there was a plug-in called Jitter. It was used to create random movement on objects. My take on this idea, thanks [...]

Buzz, my current employer, has been gracious enough to let me publish selected parts of the Python library I developed for the facility.
The library is split in two distinct parts. The first buzz.cg is generic computer graphics related stuff. These items are meant to be used as much within XSI as outside XSI, in other [...]