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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!

Those of you who are long time readers of Softimage Blog (or XSIBlog way back when) might remember a 2006 article by Homam Bahnassi. In the article Homam describes a method to run code stored in annotations in the scene at arbitrary moments by selecting an object and manually invoking code execution. Recently we had [...]

[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 [...]