In this case, a Softimage user reported that on a machine where Softimage had worked on consistently for years, XSI.exe was now crashing at startup with the “Failed to save scene before system failure” error. He’d done all the troubleshooting … Continue reading
If you ask me, these are all bad ideas: Downloading missing DLLs from some DLL download site you found via a web search Copying DLLs to your system32 folder Copying DLLs from one version of Softimage to another Fixing DLL … Continue reading
After all these years, this one still pops up from time to time: most recently from an XSI 7.0 user who emailed the old Softimage Licensing inbox. The solution: run runonce.bat. And, just don’t use registry cleaners unless you like … Continue reading
A customer reported that he couldn’t import or export dotXSI, and that he got this message in the history log: From past experience I was pretty sure this was a PATH problem, but just in case I also suggested running … Continue reading
Several customers have hit this error when using PyQT with Softimage. On Windows, Softimage 2011 includes four Qt DLLs in the %XSI_BINDIR% folder. QtCore4.dll QtGui4.dll QtOpenGL4.dll QtXml4.dll We don’t use the Qt DLLs. I believe the idea was to ship … Continue reading
A Subscription customer reported getting this error during the Softimage 2010 SP1 install. I also saw this reported on the AREA for ModTool. However, these are the only two reports of this error that I have ever seen. Error Number: … Continue reading
Hirazi Blue beat me to it, but I did have this post in draft form for awhile. Really, I did. Given a .mi file and a dll, Softimage 2011 can automatically load and register a shader. For example, in the … Continue reading
Download https://bitbucket.org/amaanakram/aaocean/downloads Install for mental ray Extract the aaOcean download package. Create a new workgroup (or use the Softimage User location). Copy the aaOceanDataShader.dll and aaOceanShaderDefinition.dll from here: aaOceanRev255\aaOcean\MentalRay\Softimage2014 to $MY_WORKGROUP\Application\Plugins Copy aaOceanDeformer.dll from here: aaOceanRev255\aaOcean\Softimage\Softimage2014\ to $MY_WORKGROUP\Application\Plugins\ $MY_WORKGROUP is … Continue reading
Cross-posted from the Arnold Support Corner. Here’s how to install third-party, SPDL-based shaders, like alShaders, so that you can use them with SItoA. In these instructions, $AL_SHADERS is the location where you extracted the alShaders download. For example, C:\solidangle\alShaders\alShaders-win-0.4.0b18-ai4.2.0.6. $SITOA_WORKGROUP … Continue reading
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