I’ve been meaning to build an index, or maybe a categorized listing, of my posts and videos. But until then, here’s a flat list of all posts.

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• Softimage training kit notebook
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• Converting EMDL files
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• Softimage mailing 2016 year in review
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• 2015 year in review for the Softimage mailing list
• Friday Flashback #255
• Season’s Greetings from Softimage!
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• [Arnold] Rendering OpenVDB in Softimage
• Friday Flashback #217
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• Friday Flashback #215
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• Friday Flashback #213
• Using ICE to do UV remapping on instances
• Friday Flashback #212
• Friday Flashback #211
• Installing PyQtForSoftimage in Softimage 2015
• Friday Flashback #210
• Friday Flashback #209
• FLEXLM checkout error for feature 3D_NINTENDO
• Friday Flashback #208
• [ICE] Converting integers to strings
• Friday Flashback #207
• [Scripting] Opening a page in a web browser
• Friday Flashback #206
• Friday Flashback #205
• 2014 year in review for the Softimage mailing list
• 2014 in review
• Friday Flashback #204
• Friday Flashback #203
• Friday Flashback #202
• Friday Flashback #201
• Installing aaOcean
• Installing Softimage 2015 SP1
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #200
• Friday Flashback #199
• [SItoA] Installing the alShaders in Softimage
• Friday Flashback #198
• ha ha hA HA…
• Obfuscated ICE
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #197
• [Arnold] Rendering XGen in Softimage
• Old-school logo pins
• Friday Flashback #196
• Screenshots of the week
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• Screenshots of the week
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• Screenshots of the week
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• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #182
• The case of Sendori64.dll and the Softimage startup crash
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #181
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #180
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #179
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• Friday Flashback #177
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #176
• Undocumented environment variables #2
• Wednesday word cloud
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #175
• Reporting Softimage bugs
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #174
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #173
• Emitting particles from instances
• Friday Flashback #172
• Friday Flashback #171
• [Tip] Decluttering your XSI browser Add-on Paths
• Friday Flashback #170
• Wednesday Word Cloud
• Tip: Get the XSI logo as a mesh
• Friday Flashback #169
• Friday Flashback #168
• Softimage 2015 User Guide compiled help file
• Wednesday word cloud
• Softimage 2015 Install Now
• Friday Flashback #167
• How to check if an object exists with no error handling
• Getting the plugin path
• Friday Flashback #166
• ICE: Getting the edge index of the longest edge
• Wednesday word cloud
• Loading order of workgroup plugins and addons
• ICE: Calculating edge midpoints
• Friday Flashback #165
• Friday Flashback #164
• Wednesday word cloud: Softimage Top 5
• Loading PLY files into Softimage
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #163
• How many Softimage licenses do you need for an Arnold render farm?
• ICE: Volume of a grid
• Friday Flashback #162
• la fin d’une époque
• ICE: Selecting every N points in a grid
• Autodesk Softimage EOL
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #161
• ICE: Summing up array elements by group
• Softimage standalone licenses and Arnold
• Rotating vectors around the global X axis
• Friday Flashback #160
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #159
• Rotate Vector
• The asteroid belt challenge
• Friday Flashback #158
• Sorting points with Sort Array with Value
• Instancing a different object at each point
• Raycasting
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #157
• Get Closest Location and position coordinate systems
• Wednesday word cloud: Autodesk privacy policy
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #156
• Getting all shaders under a light
• Using ICE attributes to control point light instances
• Integer division in ICE
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #155
• Getting the texture support created by CreateProjection
• Getting the selected FxTree nodes
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #154
• Missing ICE nodes in the preset manager
• Context matters: Using weightmaps with point clouds
• Installing PyQtForSoftimage
• 2013 hot topics on si-community
• Friday Flashback #153
• Softimage mailing list – Year in Review
• 2013 in review
• Friday Flashback #152
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #151
• Fixing DLL problems
• ICE: Deleting Polygons
• Scripting FBX export and import
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #150
• Emitting strands from a polygon cluster
• Adding ReferenceWidgets to PPGs?
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #149
• Using geometry queries to find and update points
• ICE: Removing every Nth element from an array
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #148
• Copying vertex attributes to polygons
• Scripting: Getting the StrandPosition arrays
• Troubleshooting 101: Startup Crashes
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #147
• Getting values and fcurves for the port parameters of an ICE node
• Scripting: Toggling the constraint compensation mode
• Linking an ICE compound to a help page
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #146
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #145
• Objects and default properties
• Wednesday word cloud: object model methods
• Finding hidden objects
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #144
• Checking if center mode is active
• Finding custom properties by type
• About transformation matrices…
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #143
• Minidumps and crash logs
• Debugging interfaces not available – debugging is disabled..
• DataRepository.GetCount versus FindObjects
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #142
• Dispatching XSI.Factory versus using the intrinsic XSIFactory object
• .scn could not be found
• Why you cannot use shortcuts to access the ViewportCapture settings
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #141
• Using environment variables in .wkg files
• Scripting – Creating an empty polygon mesh
• Screenshots of the weeks
• Friday Flashback #140
• Some pricing info from the Autodesk Store
• Word cloud wednesday
• Getting ICE attribute values with greater precision
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #139
• Getting the neighbors of a specific point, part 2
• Getting the neighbors of a specific point
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #138
• Tip: Exploring scene relations with the XSI Explorer
• Licensing and port 2080
• Context matters: Get Set Size versus Get Array Size
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #137
• Generating the Fibonacci series with ICE
• Getting crash, dirty exit, and clean exit counts
• More fun with arrays
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #136
• Wednesday word cloud: SHOOT Summer Top 10
• Set Flags and bitmasks
• Friday Flashback #135
• Instancing a random shape with a random start frame
• Wednesday word cloud: Autodesk Jobs
• Applying deformers to point clouds
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #134
• PPG callbacks and variable scope
• Wednesday word cloud: spdl parameters
• Adding a check mark to a custom menu item
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #133
• Scripting: Changing the default value of a shader color channel
• Getting the Softimage installation location from the registry
• Tip: Entering the same value in multiple boxes of the Transform Panel
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #132
• Hyperbolic function compounds
• Diffuse rays
• Oops. Multiply scalar by scalar by array may crash Softimage
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #131
• Syntax highlighting in the text editor widget
• ICE Loxodrome
• [Linux] Softimage, network licenses, and License.env
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #130
• Troubleshooting plugins that won’t load
• CHM version of Softimage 2014 User Guide
• Scripting: Finding all materials that contain a specific shader
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #129
• ICE: Getting data from other frames
• Finding shader nodes with no connections
• ICE: Building an array from an fcurve
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #128
• Softimage 2014 cachedat files
• Wednesday word cloud
• Identifying tear-off menus
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #127
• Workarounds for caching ICE attributes [and sidestepping ICE optimizations]
• Softimage 2014 SP2 available
• Finding materials used by a model
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #126
• Checking what attributes are in a cache
• Wednesday word cloud: keyboard mappings
• Fun with PPG shortcut keys
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #125
• Re-downloading Autodesk software
• Wednesday word cloud: Planet Softimage
• Fit Subcomponent UVs To Image
• Subscription Extra: CrowdFX Plotting Plugin
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #124
• Lost connections to license servers
• Wednesday Word Cloud: Advanced Support
• Avoiding exceptions when populating XSICollections
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #123
• Softimage 2014 SP1
• xsisupport vacation pics
• Checking if a renderer property is local to a pass
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #122
• Saving scenes outside of projects
• Friday Flashback #121
• Cannot add a project in the Project Manager
• Friday Flashback #120
• dsprojectinfo file
• Screenshots of the week
• xsisupport is…
• Friday Flashback #119
• Shared ICE trees
• Wednesday word cloud: Support snippets from the old SPM days
• Emitting points from polygons
• Tip: Finding commands in the Keyboard Mapping editor
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet
• Friday Flashback #118
• Using a texture map to filter a sample set
• Wednesday word cloud
• Working with large scenes and models
• Creating points on a group of meshes
• Screenshots of the week
• Coming soon: xsisupport on vacation
• Friday Flashback #117
• ISIVTCollections, output arguments, and implicit return values
• Wednesday word cloud: DSScripts functions
• Unlimited batch rendering with xsibatch -processing
• Starting the license server service from a batch file
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #116
• Compiled CHM version of the Softimage 2014 SDK guide
• Wednesday word cloud: setenv.bat
• Missing shaders in the preset manager
• Try or Activate is not for network licenses
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Checking if two objects have the same wirecolor
• Friday Flashback #115
• Copying colors from point cloud to polygonizer mesh
• Wednesday word cloud: Softimage SDK what’s new
• Copying StrandColors from cached strands to a point cloud
• Installing Softimage 2014
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Selection, LAST, and SubComponents
• Friday Flashback #114
• Tip: Quickly explore any user, workgroup, or factory location
• Wednesday Word Cloud: What’s New in Softimage 2014
• Softimage 2014 new commands
• ICE element-wise addition of two arrays of different sizes
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Parsing a file from a batch file
• Friday Flashback #113
• ICE: Doing an element-wise stretch on an array
• Softimage 2014 What’s Fixed Word Cloud
• Softimage 2014
• Aha! Setting DataArray2D with JScript
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: How many operators in Softimage?
• Friday Flashback #112
• Trying and failing to set DataArray2D with JScript
• Setting the DataArray2D attribute in scripting
• The default project
• ICE: Storing vectors in a color at vertices property
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Remember perlscript?
• Friday Flashback #111
• Objects not saved normally?
• Finding degenerate polygons by area
• Getting the DataArray2D for the Materials ICE attribute
• ICE: translating polygons
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Converting strings to objects
• Friday Flashback #110
• ICE: Finding the array elements that occur the most frequently
• ICE: Removing duplicates from arrays
• Collection methods and the documentation
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Python classes, __getattr_, lambda, and-or trick, and getattr
• Friday Flashback #109
• Getting all visibility.viewvis parameters
• Use Global Coordinates for Display
• Getting selected text from the script history
• Get from PolygonIndex to PointPosition with PolygonToVertices
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Selecting a range of polygons by polygon index
• Friday Flashback #108
• PolygonPosition is read-only
• ICE: adding consecutive elements in an array
• Given vertex index get point position
• Using Generate Sample Set to avoid the Repeat node
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Getting data from a DataArray2D ICE attribute
• Friday Flashback #107
• Softimage announce and release dates
• Hexagon tiling with ICE
• ICE: Building a regular hexagon
• Tip: Importing 3ds files
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Getting the object under the mouse in a context menu callback
• Friday Flashback #106
• ICE: Using Split Edge offsets
• Wednesday word cloud: xsi.exe cannot strings
• Getting the vector between edge vertices
• Splitting an edge into equal-length new edges
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – ShaderDef attributes
• Friday Flashback #105
• Assigning a per-object random value with ICE
• Wednesday word cloud: Top Reasons to Buy Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites
• Deleting particles by ID
• Using an ICE attribute to drive a procedural texture
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: russian roulette
• Friday Flashback #104
• Getting PointPositions from a group
• Wednesday word cloud: Softimage scripting commands
• Writing a python script for processing scenes with xsibatch
• Was it something I said?
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet – Building a cross-platform path
• Friday Flashback #103 3Dwillneverbethesame.com
• Adding points along the trajectories of emitted particles
• Autodesk Upgrade pricing changes
• Shortcuts and default properties for custom parameters
• Using modulo to delete points from a cached simulation
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – Getting the Renderer options for the current pass
• Friday Flashback #102 Tools to Break the Rules
• Beneath the hood: why ApplyOp doesn’t pop up a PPG
• Wednesday word cloud: Autodesk NDA
• ICE – Setting all array elements less than X to array minimum
• si-community 2012 year in review
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – Launching a command-line utility and viewing its output
• Friday Flashback #101
• Softimage mailing list 2012 retrospective
• Wednesday word clouds – 2012 activity on the Softimage mailing list
• 2012 Softimage Year in Review
• 2012 in blogging
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – Tuple assignment
• Friday Flashback #100
• Cycling particle colors through gradients
• Building an array for weighted random selection
• 2012 images and screenshots
• Scripting – Shuffling a collection to randomly select by percentage
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet – XSICollections and CollectionItems
• Friday Flashback #99
• The case of the dotXSISceneConverter that wouldn’t load into Maya
• Wednesday Word Cloud – ICE node usage in shipped compounds
• Tip: Middle-click ICE tree connections to hide and show values
• Brush properties saved in scene file
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – simple example of Python list comprehensions
• Friday Flashback #98
• Showing per-sample colors in ICE
• The case of McAfee antivirus, VBScript, and the Softimage startup crash
• Randomizing with weighted probabilities
• Scripting – Finding the objects in different SimulationEnvironments
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – checking if two objects are the same
• Friday Flashback #97
• Checking the environment of a running program
• Sticking points to an enveloped mesh
• Arnold licensing explained visually
• Can you reset an expired Autodesk trial license? No.
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – Getting local properties of scene items
• Friday Flashback #96
• Softimage network licenses explained…visually with ICE
• Getting the ICE tree view from a menu callback
• Error – The segment is not in a valid project
• Advanced troubleshooting for shader DLL dependencies
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet – Hiding the Name parameter on a dynamic PPG
• Friday Flashback #95
• Under the hood – Composite 2013 licensing
• Flattening a two-dimensional array
• Boolean operations on ICE arrays
• Unable to access file. Another process is currently using it.
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet – Wrapping an Undo
• Friday Flashback #94
• Context matters – per object attributes for point clouds
• The case of the fatal missing registry key
• Scripting – Writing the DataArray of an ICE attribute
• Have license, will travel?
• Screenshots of the week
• Out of the office
• Friday Flashback #93
• Help! My Arnold render channels are missing
• Arnold gamma correction settings
• Rendering a world position pass with Arnold
• Softimage 2013 EULA is eighty thousand characters
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: XSICollection has no class
• Friday Flashback #92
• Arnold – Rendering shapes distributed along strands
• Creating 2d arrays from strings
• Confounding String to Array gotcha
• Tip: Copy colors with drag and drop
• Screenshots of the week
• Half a million can’t be wrong
• Friday Flashback #91
• Glossy reflections in the Arnold standard shader
• Troubleshooting with Dependency Walker
• ICE Modeling – Setting extrusion length and inset based on polygon area
• Might as well…change the default scene renderer
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Finding the Python and PyWin version
• Friday Flashback #90
• Using Point in Volume
• Supported versions of Python
• A procedure couldn’t be found in library
• A new beginning…
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: short-circuit evaluation
• Friday Flashback #91
• Finding empty polygon meshes
• Tip – UI color widgets have a visual cue for gamma correction
• Importing multiple FBX files with drag-and-drop
• Fresh work from Polynoid
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday Snippet: Getting a list of properties and methods with Python introspection
• Friday Flashback #90
• Using the Select Case node to make multi-way decisions
• Introduction to Arnold
• CrowdFX with multiple emitters and different goals
• True or false?
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Using the connection stack to find all expressions driven by a given parameter
• Friday Flashback #89
• Finding phantom passes created with Duplicate
• Rescuing corrupted scenes
• Context matters: Add Point is always per-object
• Visual C++ compiler versions for Softimage
• Screenshots of the week
• Saturday snippet: Getting at the Texture Projection Definition
• Friday Flashback #88
• The Softimage customer improvement program
• You, ICE, and position vectors
• Sending Customer Error Reports (CERs)
• Intro to rotating vectors in ICE
• Screenshots of the week
• My posting history
• Friday Flashback #87
• Converting a wildcard expression to a object collection
• Tip – Matching multiple regular expressions in a search
• Copying the global transform into a 4×4 Matrix ICE node
• CER uptime and session count stats
• Screenshots of the week
• Things you could buy instead of a network license…
• Friday Flashback #86
• Quickie intro to the Softimage command prompt
• Tip – Using the * wildcard for filtering in the ICE preset manager
• Entering the right product key during installation
• Putting a customized setenv.bat in a deployment
• Screenshots of the week
• ERROR File not found in SPDL registry during render
• Friday Flashback #85
• How to periodically delete a random number of particles
• This is blog post number 1001
• Scene names and .scn file names
• MatchMover licensing and environment variables
• LMTOOLS: Putting the debug log in append mode
• Screenshots of the week
• Licensing troubleshooting on Linux
• Friday Flashback #84
• Scripting – How to get the active objects for component selection
• Using wildcards and string expressions to find objects by name
• About the Selection Change Command
• Whoops I guess Softimage did need that sitecustomize.py file…
• Screenshots of the week
• Scripting the creation of text objects
• Friday Flashback #83
• Applying a sequence of polygon ops with ICE modeling
• Another look at IsElement problems
• The case of Error 2000 Failed creating scripting engine XSI.SIPython.1
• Lip synching
• Screenshots of the week
• Friday Flashback #82
• Bullet Rigid Body Simulation with States
• Understanding backwards and forwards compatibility
• Resizing polygons with ICE
• Getting a list of all shaders in a render tree
• Screenshots of the week
• Stick to emit location on moving emitters
• Friday Flashback #81
• Context matters: point versus polygon
• Keyboard shortcuts for adding nodes to ICE trees
• Sorting point IDs by distance to Null
• Online help search is back!
• Screenshots of the week
• The case of the FLEXnet Licensing error:-97,121
• Friday Flashback
• Updated CHM for the Softimage 2013 SDK Guide
• The case of the missing entry point
• Softimage license cascading sequence
• Disabling command logging in the script editor
• Screenshots of the week
• Python – Getting the Softimage version numbers from the registry
• Friday Flashback #79
• ICE powers of 10 array
• Softimage build versions
• Adventures with Composite 2013
• Getting actor data from CrowdFX
• Screenshots of the week
• Number of Undo Levels reset to zero
• Friday Flashback #78
• Report a Softimage bug
• Troubleshooting install failures with install logs and Process Monitor
• Sending ICE instances from Softimage to Maya
• Extruding random polygons with random lengths and random insets
• Custom wire colors in the palette revisited
• Screenshots of the week
• This week in video
• Friday Flashback #77
• The case of the SIDeploy install that silently fails
• Compiled CHM version of the Softimage 2013 SDK guide
• Custom wire colors in the palette
• Tim Borgmann Shot Breakdown
• Screenshots of the week
• Checking if an optional panel is open
• Friday Flashback #76
• Basic learn from surgery ICE
• The case that wouldn’t clone points
• Searching the SDK docs
• Warning? Verifying failed access?
• Screenshots of the week
• Somethings not right on xsibase…malware?
• Visual representation of Softimage 2013 SP1 Fixes
• Friday Flashback #75
• Render tree tricks using Mix2colors and Map lookup
• Yet another change to the Python shortcuts
• Putting particles on a polygon cluster
• Softimage 2013 SP1 available for download
• Creating XSI objects in Netview
• Screenshots of the week
• Unable to create object[CLSID\{A8BF89CA-1025-11D2-006094EB029C}] : %SUMATRAPATH%\moaudio.dll, Cleanup will be performed
• Friday Flashback #74
• Downloading the compiled 2013 User Guide CHM
• Using Get Data as a pass-through for references
• Randomize Values by Range and integers
• Selecting the object master for a clone
• Screenshots of the week
• FBX Converter
• Friday Flashback #73
• ICE Modeling – extruding polygons with random lengths
• Finding the camera used by a texture projection Part II
• Gotcha! ApplyICEOp and embedded compounds
• Finding the camera used by a texture projection
• Screenshots of the week
• Checking whether Get Closest Location nodes use the cutoff distance
• Friday Flashback #72
• Checking if a material is being used by somebody anybody
• Spawning particles into a different point cloud
• The case of the scene that wouldn’t Undo
• Setting a per-point boolean attribute
• Screenshots of the week
• Scripting – Selecting keys at the current frame
• Friday Flashback #71
• Switching between multiple emitters
• Understanding the new Licensing check interval
• Crosswalk 2013 available
• #include statement in JScript
• Screenshots of the week
• The case where there was no way to disable Face Robot
• Friday Flashback #70
• Copying tangent data in a crowd
• Copying tangent data with ICE modeling
• More on getting the version of Softimage used to create a scene
• New Tool: ICE Tree Trace from Bradley Gabe
• Screenshots of the week
• Checking the version used to create a scene
• Friday Flashback #69
• Crowds and actor texture projections
• New product support offerings from Autodesk
• Crosswalk, Common Files, and the PATH environment variable
• The case of the missing dotXSI.dll (NT) or libdotxsi.so (IRIX)
• Screenshots of the week
• Preset Manager and custom material presets
• Friday Flashback #68
• ICE Modeling – Extruding a random polygon
• Python print statement in Softimage 2013
• Toggling the polygon selection tool between Raycast and Rectangle
• Packaging toolbars and script commands into addons
• Screenshots of the week
• Softimage 2013 Python shortcuts gotcha
• Friday Flashback #67
• ObjectIDs and objects that don’t exist
• The case of the missing crowd
• The case of the missing Previous Version licenses
• # ERROR : 2356 – This plug-in is not installed
• Screenshots of the week
• Checking the Softimage 2013 startup with Process Monitor
• Friday Flashback #66
• Coloring crowds – using a custom ICE attribute for the shirt color
• Coloring crowds
• ICE modeling – Extrude and extrude
• New Python methods in 2013
• Screenshots of the week
• Workaround for forcing the evaluation of ICE attributes
• Friday Flashback #65
• Getting your new Softimage network license
• Installing Softimage 2013
• Recommended Hardware for 2013
• ICE Modeling example – extruding and extruding a grid
• Tip: Use drag-and-drop to automatically connect ICE nodes
• Deleting overlapping particles
• Screenshots of the week
• Disabling Customer Error Reporting (CER)
• Friday Flashback #64: Easter Egg
• What’s new in the 2013 SDK
• Basic ICE how-to: changing things in after a collision
• New in Softimage 2013: Getting the selected materials in the Material Manager
• The case of the write-protected disk
• New in Softimage 2013: Script the codec for viewport captures
• Screenshots of the week
• New in Softimage 2013: Filtering XSICollections
• Friday Flashback #63
• Scripting – Finding all cameras in a scene
• Particles flowing along curve at regular intervals
• Finding your serial number and product key in Sub Center
• Downloading your software with the new Autodesk Downloading Manager
• Screenshots of the week
• This week on the frontline
• Friday Flashback #62
• Removing duplicates from an array
• Polygon Islands, arrays, and indices
• Python versus JScript for Softimage scripting
• Writing good bug reports
• Life of #softimage
• Screenshots of the week
• Python example constraining nulls to components
• Friday Flashback #61 Animation R3Defined
• ICE – Getting the number of characters in a string
• Changing the default startup layout
• OO AddPointToNull in Python
• Setting up Softimage for network rendering
• Screenshots of the week
• Finding the menu commands added by a plugin
• Friday Flashback #60
• Vector multiplication in ICE versus the Dot Product
• Finding interior points with valence two
• Getting the unique values in an integer array
• Scripting – Getting the target in a context menu callback
• Screenshots of the week
• Pop quiz: Get X coordinate out of a vector without using a conversion node
• Friday Flashback #59: 1997 vision of a Sumatra-DS integration
• ICE Trigonometry nodes: degrees or radians?
• Aligning particles and making instances look at something
• Making a Null follow a particle
• Overriding SPDL defaults
• Screenshots of the week
• Evenly distributing points on a sphere with the golden section spiral
• Friday Flashback #58
• Animating the Environment shader Transformation parameter
• Simple example of a parametric point cloud
• Scripting the output file format for viewport captures
• ICE tree for “Transforming through textures” master class
• Screenshots of the week
• Tip: Absolute point translation
• Friday Flashback #57 SOFTIMAGE|3D custom dialogs
• Using the Schematic view to understand ICE scene setups
• Scripting – Getting reference model Resolutions
• Moving the timeline pointer back to frame 1 with xsibatch
• Tip for using Show Values with the Filter node
• Screenshots of the week
• Pop quiz: Troubleshooting mip shader errors
• Friday Flashback #56: Moondust, a visual-programming approach to building FX
• Making circles on the surface of a mesh
• Creating ICE Trees after you create a cluster
• Making parts of an object circular
• Using vector subtraction to move a point onto a circle
• Screenshots of the week
• Instance master models and point clouds
• Friday Flashback #55 NL3D: To infinity…from behind
• Vectors and Get Maximum in Set
• ICE Troubleshooting – IsElement is always False
• Removing elements from an integer array without using Repeat
• Emitting particles at regular intervals
• Screenshots of the week
• Finding ICE trees in a scene
• How to pronounce Softimage
• Friday Flashback #54
• Selection filter for objects with ICE trees
• Scene Search – searching for objects by type
• Copying a polygon attribute to vertices
• Using arrays to avoid Repeat part II
• Screenshots of the week
• Running batch files from inside Softimage
• Friday Flashback #53
• Sweating 3d objects…a 3dmastermind tutorial
• Using arrays to avoid Repeat
• Licensing: Buying new licenses to run older versions
• Creating a point cloud using the positions of model instances
• Intro to arrays in ICE
• Screenshots of the week
• Breaking up with ICE modeling
• Friday Flashback #52
• Getting texture map colors in ICE
• Disabling command logging temporarily
• Scene walkthrough – Polygons following particles
• Tip: Use String to Array to quickly populate arrays
• Screenshots of the week
• Intro to scene references and Get Data daisy chaining in ICE
• Friday Flashback #51
• ICE brain teaser
• Rigid body dynamic (RBD) precision and subframe sampling
• Using ICE to invert weightmap values
• XSI List – 2011 retrospective
• Screenshots of the week
• 2011 in review
• Finding and deleting ICETrees on an object
• Friday Flashback #50
• Finding closest point with boolean flag equal True
• Tip: Use compounds to organize your ICE trees
• Using Delay Set Data to set attributes that depend on each other
• Troubleshooting xsibatch license problems on render nodes
• Screenshots of the week
• Tip: Use wildcards to find the Logic nodes
• Friday Flashback #49
• Understanding how and when to use Delay Set Data
• WARNING : 3000 – Objects were not saved normally
• The case of the While loop that didn’t evaluate
• Top 10 things to learn for the ICE newbie
• Screenshots of the week
• Placing instances on polygons
• Friday Flashback #48
• ICE Modeling – rotating copies
• ICE Modeling – placing copies on another object
• Tip: Getting links to specific help pages
• Filtering object selection by volume
• Screenshots of the week
• Scripting – Applying an ICE compound to multiple objects
• Friday Flashback #47
• Tip: Inspecting compounds in a PPG
• Masters Award Winner – Helge Mathee – Softimage​
• The case of Error 1603 and the corrupt PIT file
• While versus Repeat
• Beware of ICE optimizations
• Screenshots of the week
• Tip – Keyboard shortcut for repeating last command
• Friday Flashback #46
• Troubleshooting 101: runonce.bat
• The case of the scene that wouldn’t play back
• In a nutshell: ICE and the Post-Simulation region
• In a nutshell: ICE and the construction stack
• I’m off to Autodesk University this week
• Screenshots of the week
• Scripting – Importing models without popping up PPGs
• Friday Flashback #45
• Downloading and using undocumented compounds
• Quick tip for using Select SubArray in Array
• Adding a button to save preference changes
• Managing ICE compound versions
• Screenshots of the week
• User locations for 32- and 64-bit Softimage
• Friday Flashback #44
• Scripting: Finding comment nodes in ICE compounds
• Using the PolygonArea ICE attribute to select similar polygons
• The case of Find in Array that didn’t find anything
• Understanding data sets and arrays
• Screenshots of the week
• The case of the missing anchors
• Friday Flashback #43
• ICE attributes: user-defined versus built-in
• Polynoid MTV EMA 2011
• Setting workgroups at startup
• Accumulating values in a weightmap
• Context Matters – Using Set in Array when setting point positions
• Screenshots of the week
• Tip: Repeating logged commands in the script history
• Friday Flashback #42
• Offsetting ICE simulations
• Checking .xsicompounds for no category and no tasks
• Workgroup ICE compounds missing from Preset Manager
• Flash in 64-bit Softimage
• GraphicSpeak » Autodesk invests in Otoy to advance rendering, compression, and cloud use
• Screenshots of the week
• ICE Voxelization compounds
• The odd case of Maya Help opening in Chrome instead of the default browser
• Friday Flashback #41
• Using animated nulls with Syflex Mimic Null
• Quick peek under the covers: Send To functionality
• Getting equidistant points on a curve revisited
• Interpolating between array elements
• Screenshots of the Week
• Tip: Selecting objects from inside an ICE Tree view
• Friday Flashback #40
• ActiveX component can’t create object: ‘Scripting.FileSystemObject’
• Using addons to distribute ICE compounds
• Tip: Using ICE to drive the OpenGL vertex color display
• Context matters: from PolygonToVertices to VertexToPolygons
• Infographic of the month: Softimage hotkeys
• Screenshots of the week
• Crash recovery in Softimage
• Friday Flashback #39
• Scene defaults for primitives and operators
• Context Matters: weight maps and polygons
• Downloading and installing ICE compounds
• Finding where an operator reads from the construction history
• Screenshots of the week
• Copying and pasting fcurve keys in a script
• Friday Flashback #38
• ICE Basics – Data sets and arrays
• Animating Monty Python’s Latest Chapter in Stereo 3D | Studio Daily
• Effets spéciaux: la banlieue québécoise d’Hollywood
• Activating the Paint tool in scripting
• Animated weightmaps with ICE
• Softimage 2012 AP Documentation
• Grouping parameters on an ICE compound PPG
• Screenshots of the week
• Creating all factory ICE nodes
• Friday Flashback #37
• Finding back-facing polygons with the dot product
• Doc updates for 2012 Advantage Pack
• PPG logic for ICE compounds
• It’s Alive! Get it Now!! Softimage 2012 Advantage Pack
• Animated transitions in the viewport
• Screenshots of the week
• Startup comparison for Softimage, 3ds Max, Maya
• Friday Flashback #36
• Understanding the dot product
• Softimage startup times
• Setting up machines for satellite rendering
• Daisy-chaining and compounds
• Screenshots of the week
• Checking if you have the IPv6 version of the Autodesk Network License Manager
• Friday Flashback #35
• Announcements and updates
• Uninstalling Softimage
• AnimSchoolBlog: Malcolm Character Now Freely Available
• IDs and indices in ICE
• 1 easy step to dealing with the e-mail flood – STOP ORGANIZING, START SEARCHING
• Softimage on Ubuntu in VMware Player
• Friday Flashback #35
• Severity 1 catastrophic failure
• The problem with Point Index to Location and deleted points
• Getting the image clips for a material
• The principles of support
• Implosia FX – ICE-based shattering
• Support case word cloud
• Friday Flashback #34
• Enabling and disabling satellites
• Tips for troubleshooting satellite rendering
• Maximizing a viewport through scripting
• Strands between meshes
• I got an iPad for work..what am I going to do with it?
• The case of the missing registry values
• Friday Flashback #33
• Netview and Internet Explorer 9
• Portal: No Escape – ICE used for live action short
• Using sine and cosine for procedural animation
• Handlebar taping with ICE
• Understanding the basics of states and triggers
• Scaling about an arbitrary point
• Inserting newlines in LargeMsgBox
• Adding your ICE operators to menus
• Carl Bass talks to Architosh about Apple in the CAD/3D industries
• Friday Flashback #32
• Creating strands without an emitter
• WildStar™ trailer
• ICE Kinematics: SRT values in transformation matrices
• The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus on Vimeo
• Adding a named section to a menu
• Select in Array and the structure type of the Index port
• Getting equidistant positions on a curve
• Alpha, transparency, and specular in the render tree
• Troubleshooting Softimage on Linux
• Friday Flashback #31
• Zoom on Cursor
• Emitting a particle from each object in a group
• Mouse’s XGen to Autodesk
• Server is unreachable. Marked as invalid for the next 300 seconds
• runonce.bat to the rescue yet again
• Softimage 2012 SAP Features
• Autodesk Announces Subscription Advantage Packs for 2012 Entertainment Software
• Finding the .fx file for a realtime shader
• Back from vacation
• The case of the pass that wouldn’t duplicate
• Checking the version of JScript available in Softimage
• Friday Flashback #30
• Finding commands you didn’t know about
• The case of the MatchMover license problem
• The case of the slow render, low CPU usage, and framebuffers
• On vacation
• Using the Reserve Array node
• ERROR : 21000-REND-RegenerateMaps – Unspecified failure
• Python copy-and-paste gotchas
• Getting Texture Map colors in ICE
• Friday Flashback #29
• Project Photofly 2.1 Now Available – It is Alive in the Lab
• Creating keyboard shortcuts for scripts
• Writing particle point positions to a CSV file
• Silly ICE tricks: randomizing the primitive particle shapes
• Understanding locations in ICE
• Operating systems
• Menu Window view
• Friday Flashback #28
• Understanding context part II
• The case of the write-protected directory ‘.’
• Creating a batch file for rendering frame sets with xsibatch
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon’s Powerful Visual Effects: 5 Things to Know About How They Did It – The Hollywood Reporter
• Inserting an Execute node before the ICETree
• A little fun with modulo
• Friday Flashback #27
• The baffling case of Softimage and the MYECSP license
• Using the FCurve node in ICE
• Building a large array of booleans with the modulo trick
• SIGGRAPH 2011 – Autodesk Student Experience Event
• Setting boolean flags in ICE
• Reserve Array
• Understanding Context in ICE
• The Autodesk Book: Imagine Design Create
• Softimage Procedural Bridge Pt. 1
• Friday Flashback #26
• EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable for tmp/.X11-unix/X0
• Send to Maya: Destination folder is invalid or not writable, operation cancelled
• Copying envelope weights
• 64-bit Softimage and Netview and Flash
• Installing addons
• AAARGH! Licensing frustrations on Linux
• JScript Array.push on Linux = Object doesn’t support this property or method
• BlackRedKing Blog » Default Primitive settings for Softimage 2012
• Friday Flashback #25
• Paperworld for “Skoda – Curriculum Vitae”
• Specifying the help file location in SPDL
• Setting expressions/scops on the transformation of an Environment shader
• MotionBuilder – Customizing keyboard shortcuts
• The Art of VFX » THOR: Jonathan Harb – VFX Supervisor & Founder – Whiskytree
• The case of the Filter node that didn’t work
• Walk through of building a Lagoa effect from scratch
• Changing versions of a compound
• Building Lagoa ICE trees from scratch
• Friday Flashback #24
• Toggling LUT on and off for the render region
• Raycasting to points on the opposite side of a mesh
• Using .tx files with Arnold in Softimage
• Green points in the viewport???
• Resizing an implicit cube
• Troubleshooting satellite rendering with Process Monitor
• ICE modeling: orientation of copies at curve points (Try #2)
• Using workgroups to share LUT files
• Friday Flashback #23
• Using LUT files in Softimage 2012
• ICE modeling: orientation of copies at curve points
• New view attributes in 2012
• Notes from here and there on the frontline
• Displaying topics from compiled help files (CHM)
• Registry cleaners, Softimage, and runonce.bat
• Softimage 2012 SP1 and tablet pressure support
• Customer Error Reports (CER)
• ICE Modeling tutorials on the ‪SoftimageHowTos’s Channel‬‏
• Friday Flashback #22
• 3d World: In depth: Autodesk Project Skyline
• Softimage 2012 Service Pack 1 available for download
• Building an array of values that increase by a fixed value
• Area :: Tutorial :: Mars Police: Hair and Render Breakdown
• Another Error 1092 when trying to start raysat service
• About type and context
• 3ds Max Design and Composite: Cannot check out license from C:\flexlm\maya.lic
• Simulate Rigid Bodies does not support sub-frame simulation
• Surveys, the ultimate question, and the net promoter score
• Overriding local mental ray settings for a pass
• Friday Flashback #21
• Project Photofly 2.0 Now Available – It is Alive in the Lab
• Software Retirement Notice for XSI 7.01 and earlier
• Borrowing a network license on Linux
• Exporting FBX to Maya
• Syflex Pin problem
• Using the ICE Tree performance timers
• Student licenses for Softimage
• Scene debugging tips
• This plug-in is not installed:Arnold Render Options
• Friday Flashback #20
• Converting point positions between coordinate systems
• Emitting particles from points
• Getting PolygonPosition from the PolygonIndex
• Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2012 Review: Greater Interoperability | AWN | Animation World Network
• Case Study: Macross F the movie
• Plexus Productions Opener – making of by Tim Borgmann
• Using arrays instead of loops in ICE
• Using Round Corners with the Architectural material
• Friday Flashback #19 The Complete Line of Digital Media Creation
• Building Bushes in ICE – Demo for Non-Coders #2 on Vimeo
• GraphicSpeak » Luxology and Softimage add Bullet to their arsenal
• Checking if an ICE node is part of a connected branch
• Changing the mini-dopesheet Show Keys settings
• Combining mental mill CgFX shaders with Softimage and ICE FX trees
• Getting model.Mixer.CompoundContainer.mixer.normalize with the OM (or how I learned to love the SDK Explorer)
• YouTube – Amazing ICE: A look at Softimage ICE
• Softimage 2012 startup crash on Ubuntu
• Texturing topology created by ICE modeling
• Products supported by Crosswalk 2012
• 2012 Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites win Silver Edge Award
• Friday Flashback #18
• Service packs and disconnected shaders
• Why a SP instead of a HF?
• Autodesk Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 1 available for download
• Autodesk® Softimage® 2011 Service Pack 2 available for download
• Crosswalk 2012 available for download
• Calling PickObject() from C++
• The case of the capture viewport that was in the wrong place
• Autodesk Softimage Hardware Certification FAQ
• What’s a polynode?
• ERROR : RCMP 0.4 error: cannot open temporary map file “mrmap0_tmp.a08740” for writing
• Friday Flashback #17
• Momentum 2.0.1 – Instancer Operator
• Parent constraint between particles of different point clouds
• Autodesk calls for VFX standard
• Finding image clip connections in render trees
• Entertainment Webcast Series: Autodesk Softimage 2012 – The Incredible Power of ICE
• Autodesk bike-to-work challenge
• Passing arrays of values and indices to Set in Array
• ICE Modeling: Building a faster duplicator compound
• BlackRedKing Blog » Drag and Drop for ICE Caches
• Using texture maps
• Tips for searching the new online help
• Friday Flashback #16
• Softimage 2012 ICE tree for the Artist Guide #2 tutorial
• Making particles spiral upwards
• Running Softimage on other distros like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pardus, and Gentoo
• Emitting particles from polygon clusters
• Softimage compounds, plugins, and scripts from the AREA
• Building a Corkscrew Effect in ICE
• Breakup an object by polygon
• Connecting FX Tree nodes with the FX Operator Selector
• Friday Flashback #15
• Using mesh ICE attributes to drive shaders in a render tree
• Commercial done with ICE and Arnold
• ICE modeling: Building a polygonal description
• Process Monitor 101
• The case of the Softimage 2011 that stopped working after Softimage 2012 was installed
• Getting the number of particles in a given state
• Off Topic: Bike Bling
• Importing, exporting, and restoring preferences
• zaps mental ray tips: 2012 and Unified Sampling
• Friday Flashback #14
• Basics of building your own strands
• Adding a custom search provider for Softimage 2012
• Using local help with different browsers
• CHM version of Softimage 2012 User Guide
• ICE Modeling: Using a curve to position copies
• Setting the default browser for online help
• Diagnosing startup crashes: testing xsibatch
• ICE modeling – aligning copies to edges
• ICE modeling videos
• ShaderOp.com | Using wxPython with Autodesk Softimage
• Autodesk’s 2012 strategy: it’s all about the suites | CG Channel
• Softimage 2012 Info
• Help downloads for other Autodesk 2012 products
• Download the Softimage 2012 documentation
• Friday Flashback #13
• Activating your Softimage 2012 network license
• ICE: Array of cumulative sums
• Softimage 2012 product key
• Python PolygonMesh.Set example
• ICE: Aligning objects using angle and axis of rotation
• Building a brick wall with ICE
• Softimage 2012 – Setting up satellite rendering
• Why does the Edit menu in the Animation Editor take so long sometimes?
• Friday Flashback #12
• Fence Panels – Vector Addition and Vector Rescaling
• Per object data in ICE
• ICE Modeling: Using a curve to position polymesh copies
• Finding point clouds
• Installing Softimage 2012
• Auto-fence-builder tool with ICE modeling
• Friday Flashback #11
• Nice ICE twitpic
• Filtering data sets in ICE
• Softimage 2012 delivery options
• A brief history of the Python multi-dispatch issue
• Particle grow effect tutorial
• Softimage Blog » Simulated Shapes in Momentum 2.0
• Using ICE color attributes to render instance geometry
• Getting the selected ICE nodes
• Installing Python modules in the Softimage Python site-packages
• Friday Flashback #10
• Q&A: Autodesk’s Project Skyline team
• Python not available in Softimage 2011 SAP after you uninstall 2011 SP1
• ERROR : 2000 – Unable to create object [CLSID\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}], Cleanup will be performed.
• Camera Offset Deformer
• Setting up your raysat services for satellite rendering
• MotionBuilder error reading registry key during uninstall
• Project Skyline: Bringing Artistry Into Game Runtime
• Using dotXSI to clean up a material library
• Softimage Blog » Work-Around to Problems with Tablets and Softimage
• Friday Flashback #9
• ICE modeling
• Disconnected shaders and HotFix2 redux
• Area :: Tutorial :: Normal Mapping in Softimage with Ultimapper
• Bandai Namco Games uses Softimage for promotional videos of THE IDOLM@STER
• The case of the missing scripting engines
• Exocortex | Momentum
• GDC 2011 product demos online
• Using Exclude Particles in the Particle Density shader
• Getting the contents of docked views
• Friday Flashback #8
• Documentation moves to the Web for 2012
• A Syflex on ICE snippet
• JPGs that won’t load into Softimage
• A little more about the interactive tool SDK
• Getting the screen resolution
• Viewport Fcurve Editor teaser on Vimeo
• GDC11: Autodesk’s secret ‘Project Skyline’
• PyQT ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found
• Area :: Blogs :: Introducing Softimage 2012 with ICE Modeling
• The Area :: Autodesk® Softimage® 2012
• Monday morning
• runonce.bat cannot start because Crosswalk is missing
• Closing error dialog boxes that pop up during batch rendering
• Games technology preview
• Friday Flashback #7
• MOTOR Load Motion malfunction
• Checking for ICE trees in the construction history
• 37signals: Customer Support Happiness Report
• An error occured trying to save file setenv.bat
• imf_disp: Could not connect to the socket specified in the stubfile
• Non-simulated ICE trees and deforming objects
• ICE: the universal production tool
• nCaching point clouds from Softimage to Maya
• Autodesk at GDC 2011
• Friday Flashback #6
• Fixing corrupted models and scenes
• 2011 HotFix 2 for disconnected shader nodes
• ERROR : 2356 – This plug-in is not installed: FaceConnections
• Local and global coordinates in ICE trees
• Using the First Valid node
• Time FX for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
• Inspirational destruction with 3ds Max and Rayfire
• What the #QNB???
• Customizing ICE compound property pages (PPGs)
• Friday Flashback #5
• Subaru “Car Parts” Commercial – Some insights into the workflow
• Hacking the name of the Softimage install folder
• Subaru “Car Parts” Commercial
• YouTube – Volkswagen: The Making of the “Black Beetle” Commercial
• Small Annoying Things – Customer feedback for 3ds Max
• Autodesk iPad Game Attempts to Make Engineering Fun | PadGadget
• Composite 2011 SAP: Error while initializing plugin libDLofxUi.dlmodule
• YouTube – Softimage Arnold render engine sneak peek.
• Command line for installing VCREDIST
• Process Monitor: capturing events for a specific application
• Friday Flashback #4
• My kind of demo reel
• Installation aborted, Result=1603
• Student Film Crafted with Autodesk Softimage Wins Visual Effects Society Award
• Python gotcha – Forgetting the parentheses after a method name
• Customer Story – CITROËN Metropolis concept
• Normal mapping tutorial
• ERROR : Permission denied: ‘MakeLocal’ when you create hair from selection
• Quais du Vieux-Port Montreal
• MotionBuilder: Error loading the resource strings at startup
• Softimage stops working everytime computer is restarted
• Friday Flashback #3
• Instructional Standards for Maya, 3dsMax and Softimage
• Python decorators
• Compiling legacy preset-based operators
• 64-bit version of Taut operator
• Softimage UI Basics – SoftimageHowTos YouTube Channel
• Quick start to command-line rendering with xsibatch
• Softimage TEMP folder
• Where I go to work most days
• Running EXEs from JScript in XSI
• Friday Flashback #2
• RPCSS ServiceMain failed with 1702 (000006a6) The binding handle is invalid.
• Standalone licenses, trusted storage, and the boot sector
• The case of the slow 2011 startup on Fedora 14
• Setting XSI_USERROOT in a network deployment
• Lagoa mousetrap
• One year ago I was there
• Refreshing property page UIs to show code changes
• Resetting standalone license activations
• YouTube – Softimage Lagoa ICE Test – Shattering Cup 1080p HD
• Time tracking
• Selecting rows in a GridWidget
• 3DMastermind: Car rendered with mental ray in Softimage
• Friday Flashback
• SoftimageHowTos YouTube Channel
• Centering a button on a PPG
• Softimage timeline akin to the Dark Ages and the destruction of the library in Alexandria ???
• Refresh issues in the fcurve editor
• Automated workgroup switching
• emFluid4 v.4.0 video on Vimeo
• Getting the shader connected to a material
• Softimage tutorial: How to use particle sprites with ICE in 7 easy steps
• 720deg slerp ICE compound
• Motion blur on non-simulated ICE trees
• Python: Using Plugin.UserData to pass data to PPG callbacks
• Plugin user data
• Work with render channels in Softimage | 3D World
• Open Source ICE Cache Explorer
• One year ago today…
• Updating a combo box from an OnClicked callback
• DENIED: Licensed number of users already reached
• FMX Trailer
• Softimage on the Macbook Air?
• Viewport display problems when changing subdivision
• Photo post
• XSI List – 2010 retrospective
• Tip – Quickly find the installation log files
• Lagoa Multiphysics on Vimeo – Melting Fluid by Byron Nash
• CGSociety – 2010 Retrospective
• Softimage 2011 Essentials Learning Videos
• XSI_UNSUPPORTED_METASL
• Windows Search makes me happy
• Using a hidden parameter to store values
• Autodesk Media & Entertainment Webcast Series: Autodesk Maya and Softimage Interoperability
• The strange case of error 211005: timeout waiting for finished rectangles
• Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack Hotfix 1
• i3D Tutorials – Next-Gen Game Development with Unity3D
• 2010 in review, part II
• 2010 in review
• Adding sub-menus in Python
• Using a pop-up scene explorer in a property page
• Finding groups for an object
• The case of the slow license checkout
• Error: Invalid preset argument. cannot load camera.
• The case of Softimage stuck in layout editing mode after a crash
• Passing arguments to xsibatch scripts
• Using modulo to do something different for odd and even values of a repeat loop counter
• Test Inside Geometry and Get Set Sum revisited
• ICE troubleshooting with Show Values
• Creating a desktop shortcut for batch rendering
• Importing SOFTIMAGE|3D HRC and DSC files
• Scripting the Transform panel buttons
• Messing around with vertex colors
• Finding shaders
• Developing with ICE
• Simple bulge
• The support funnel
• Satellite rendering licensing
• ERROR : FATAL: DB 1.0 fatal 041500: interrupted by exception code 0xc0000005 (access violation)
• Installing the Autodesk Network License Manager (aka LMTOOLS)
• Tamu
• New severity levels and service level agreements for product support
• ERROR : ImportSpeech: phoneme recognition failed
• Subscription center update
• ERROR : MSG 0.n error 011326: bad message received from host 1, 0xbad0bad
• Why is my ICE tree all red?
• The case of satellite rendering not working in 2011 SAP on 32-bit Windows XP
• Setting the active project
• Crosswalk 2011.5 is out!
• Channel to gather the best videos done by Lagoa Multiphysics users!
• Troubleshooting installation failures
• Learning movies play in the wrong language
• Switching from Standalone licensing to Network
• ERROR : 2004 – Invalid pointer – [line 2]
• Error 1622 when installing Softimage
• New SDK stuff in the Subscription Advantage Pack
• New commands for isolating objects in viewports
• Object model methods for finding objects
• Python: importing modules into plugins
• Connect to workgroups with a .data file
• My ride to work
• Error 1304 Error writing to file when creating a network deployment
• Checking if a polygon is hidden
• MatchMover or Composite looks for Maya licenses
• The strange case of MatchMover licensing
• The serial number you entered is not valid…(Error 123)
• ICEFlow (aka One-Click) videos
• Copy error when creating a network deployment
• MatchMover FBX export doesn’t work
• Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack (incl Lagoa) is available
• Getting Softimage to render on all cores
• Stopping play back of heavy ICE simulations
• Just add ICE
• Who gets the Subscription Advantage Pack?
• The case of the missing Lagoa
• Softimage Subscription Advantage Pack will be available Oct 7
• Feature videos for Autodesk Softimage 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack
• Assigning a hotkey to a custom script command
• Installing compounds and addons in a workgroup
• ICE kinematics
• Switching material libraries
• Looping through all materials and material libraries
• Putting the history log on top of the script editor
• Over 10 billion served?
• PPG doesn’t pop up automatically when you create a null
• Pinning Softimage to the Windows 7 task bar
• Finding all Store in Channel shaders
• Crash when you open the render tree or Material Manager
• VBScript compilation errors with Python PPG logic
• JALSR: Just another licensing service request
• Using environment variables in the XSI browser
• ICE: Looping over group members and setting data
• Lagoa & the Autodesk Subscription Advantage Pack for Softimage 2011
• Refreshing a PPG to see changes to plugin code
• Softimage, Lagoa, premium Suites, and Autodesk marketing
• Softimage 2011 always falls back to 127.0.0.1 for network licensing
• The Valve Source addon and 64-bit Softimage
• Teaser video for Lagoa Multiphysics
• FindObjects() and shaders in Softimage 2011
• rctools for 32-bit Softimage 2011 SP1
• Python not available in 2011 SP1 after you uninstall 2011
• rctools compiled for 64-bit Softimage 2011
• Softimage announcements
• Satellite rendering works in 2011 SP1
• Softimage 2011 SP1 is available
• Error 1092 when trying to start raysat service
• Fatal 041052: accessing unknown tag
• XSI 1.0 first shipped 10 years ago
• NVIDIA GPUs Provide Edge to 3D Animators Utilizing Autodesk Softimage 2011
• Python – Adding parameter to SCOP
• Raytraced soft shadows and infinite lights in Softimage 2011
• Python – Getting rules from a connection mapping template
• Buying Softimage from the online store
• PhysX and CUDA-enabled GPU
• Catastrophic failure
• T2S_MentalRay addon
• Error 0x80040707 DLL function call crashed: gdi32.DescribePixelFormat
• Where did ray3 go?
• Installing shaders with just the .mi and .dll files
• Installing your Softimage 2011 network license
• Combining multiple Softimage 2011 serial numbers
• All Softimage 2011 network licenses include five Batch
• Craft Animation Studio bundled with Softimage 2011
• Instancing geometry on a point cloud primitive
• Installing Softimage 2011
• Not all numbers are exactly representable as floats
• Softimage 2011 restores unsaved script changes after a crash
• Script Editor tabs in Softimage 2011
• Installing the network license version of Softimage 2011
• Using Python for RV_Init callbacks of relational views
• Spaces in the Softimage install path
• Moving an operator to an empty Modeling stack
• Softimage 2011 and Python
• What is logged in SoftimageLicense.log when Softimage cannot connect to the license server
• Finding the SoftimageLicense.log file
• Subscription Center down for maintenance this weekend
• Installing Softimage on the same Vista/Windows 7 computer as the license server
• The case of the disappearing rig
• The case of the missing protocol file
• Deleting reference material libraries
• Getting Python to show up in Softimage
• Sprite sequences on ICE particles
• Toggling between the front and back view of an object
• InitXThreadNotifier() unable to initialize the cross thread notifier
• Scripting: Replacing nodes in the render tree
• Emitting particles from a polygon cluster
• Saving the size and position of the render tree
• Crosswalk not available in Maya
• MOTOR
• ICE instances with SRT animation
• The case of the Softimage startup freeze and the Wacom driver
• Looping over an XSICollection
• ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE value in the registry
• Transferring your license to a new license server
• FLEXnet Licensing error:-125,147: A PACKAGE component must be specified
• Rendering Softimage Zpic files
• Softimage and the Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation
• On vacation
• WTFFFFFFFF ?
• rctools compiled for 64-bit Softimage 2010 SP1
• Using point light instances in ICE
• Yahoo pipe for the Softimage dicussion forums on The Area
• Visualizing with ICE: drawing vectors and lines
• Possible memory leak with ATI display driver
• Positioning the camera perpendicular to a reference plane
• Versioning for custom properties
• Other edit styles for PPG items
• The old Softimage building on St Laurent
• Tech notes on standalone licensing
• Fixing weird problems and odd behavior by resetting your preferences
• One year ago
• Getting the ID of a new edge from the AddEdgeOp
• Upgrading to Windows 7
• Random Values part II
• The dirty count
• Yahoo pipe for aggregating Softimage RSS feeds
• Installing Softimage 2010 SP1
• Random values in ICE
• Adding a password field to a PPG
• Changing the default values on a PPG
• Finding hidden ICE attributes
• Bookmarking in the script editor
• Passing data from ICE into a scene
• XSI mailing list archives
• Using a texture to drive a push deformer
• Softimage and Windows 7
• Sine waves in ICE
• How many mental ray licenses are included with Advanced?
• Editing a Character Key Set PPG
• Recent Webex cases…
• The preset(s) could not be applied to this selection
• Combining license files
• Add points to cloud at geometry vertices
• Home Use licenses
• Getting the selected nodes in an ICE Tree
• FLEXnet Licensing error:-1,359. System Error: 2 “No such file or directory”
• Getting ICE attributes through scripting
• Firewall, ports, and licensing
• Passing a safe array into a method from JScript
• Changing the vendor port number from 2080
• Checking for Character Key Sets part 3
• Using the Modulo node
• Fixes in Softimage 2010 SP1
• Softimage 2010 SP1 is now available
• Using WScript.Shell to get environment variables
• Using XSICollections to check for character key sets
• Converting wildcard expressions to collections
• XSI_EMULATE_OPENGL
• Registry cleaners
• Face Robot workflow tips for combining heads with bodies
• LMTOOLS ignores license path environment variables
• Ambient Occlusion number of samples
• No interactive network license available on Vista, Windows 7
• Error: Camera On Pass ‘Default_Pass’ is not valid
• System requirements and hardware qualification charts
• Autodesk Softimage Promotion
• WARNING – Unknown flag (ignored) : -processing
• Upgrade promos for 2010
• Creating tabs in the Material Manager
• Problems with Face Robot sample scenes
• Crosswalk 4.0
• Setting up your 2010 network license
• registeronce wants a server ID
• Softimage 2010 and Autodesk.lic
• License troubleshooting
• Changing the Licensing Method
• It’s [almost] go time for Softimage 2010
• Subscription Center problems?
• Customer Error Reporting (CER)
• Understanding your .lic file
• Softimage 2010 and Linux
• Tangible View Cube
• Finally, a feature worth upgrading for 🙂
• Installing Softimage 2010
• Installing your new 2010 network license
• SUMATRAPATH
• Setting a thread limit on rendering
• Softimage 2010 licenses and previous versions
• Searching the XSI Mailing List Archive on Google groups
• Legacy licensing support
• Unlimited xsibatch processing
• Subscribe to the Softimage KB
• Getting Softimage 2010
• Getting your serial numbers from the Subscription Center
• Finding Softimage on autodesk.com
• Turning on mental ray diagnostics from the command line
• Toxik 2009 standalone licenses on 64-bit Windows
• 2010 network licenses are cross-platform
• Softimage 2010 Pricing and Availability
• Creating an alpha channel with a black-and-white image
• Changing the default Project folders
• Checking the status of remote license servers
• Virtual servers and the Autodesk network license manager
• The Softimage KB on autodesk.com
• Redirecting ray3 output
• Showing the Y coordinate of each point on a grid
• Use the color picker to pick colors outside the Softimage window
• xsibatch -script -render
• Where does PPG come from?
• The case of the missing VBScript
• Using ray3 to help the render region in XSI
• Show Values doesn’t work if you have Geometry Approximation
• Shaders loaded by XSI
• Borrowing Licenses
• Vista, IPv6, and host names in Autodesk.lic
• The End