Daily Archives: December 17, 2010

ICE troubleshooting with Show Values

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Troubleshooting doesn’t have to be fancy. Sometimes you just have to focus in on a specific part of an ICE Tree, and use Show Values to understand what is going on.

For example, as part of a larger ICE tree, I was using Test in Geometry and Get Set Sum as described by gray on xsibase (reply #8). But I wasn’t getting the result I expected.

So I broke out the Test in Geometry and Get Set Sum branch into a simple test scene, and used Show Values to help understand what was going on. As you can see in these screenshots, Get Set Sum is giving me different results based on the set I feed into it.

If I start with a set of Bools per Point and use an If node to map those boolean to integer values, I don’t get the result I expect.

Troubleshooting with Show Values

Simplified tree for testing

Creating a desktop shortcut for batch rendering

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You can use scriptXSI.bat in %XSI_HOME%\Application\bin to create a desktop shortcut for batch rendering. When you drag and drop a scene file on that batch file, that starts a batch render.

To create a desktop shortcut, right-click scriptXSI.bat and click Send To > Desktop (create shortcut).

If you want to drag and drop multiple scenes:

  1. Copy scriptXSI.bat to your desktop.
  2. Edit the batch file and change it to this: 
    @echo off
call "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack\Application\bin\setenv.bat"
:next
if "%1"=="" goto end
set SCN=%1
"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack\Application\bin\XSIBatch.exe" -render %SCN%
shift
goto next
:end