Here’s a handy way to navigate through a scene and show the selected object and its connections in the Schematic: use the XSI Explorer with Viewer set to Schematic.
hat tip: David Barosin
For the more recent versions of Softimage, you can get the install location quite easily from the registry. Just look for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Softimage\Install key:
The GUIDs are the names of C:\Windows\Installer folders:
Shift+Right Click the axes icons in the Transform Panel to select the values you want to set. The backgrounds of the number boxes will turn blue. Enter a value in any one of the boxes, and press ENTER.
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It’s not hard to do:
I used to do it with a few ad-hoc perl and python scripts, but that utility works great.
You can use the PageUp and PageDown keys to move back and forward through the history of recently inspected nodes.
If you right-click one of those arrows, you can see the history list of inspected nodes, and select a specific node to inspect:
If there’s no property page open at the moment, pressing PageUp (or PageDown) will open a property page and load the most recently inspected node.
Here’s a related TD Survival video on PageUp (and some other handy shortcut keys):
When you click Fit Subcomponent UVs to Image in the Texture Projection property editor, you’ll get these ERRORs in the script history:
' ERROR : Object doesn't support this property or method: 'in_uvprops.IsClassOf' - [line 1842 in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2014\Application\DSScripts\Texture.vbs] ' ERROR : - [line 25] ' ERROR : Property Page Script Logic Error ' ERROR : [23] end if ' ERROR : [24] (null) ' ERROR : >[25] FitSubcomponentUVsToImage Pset.InspectedObjects, filtered ' ERROR : [26] End Sub
The fix for this requires that you edit $XSI_HOME\Application\DSScripts\Texture.vbs. You’ll probably need to edit the Permissions on Texture.vbs so that you have Full Control or Modify permissions.
Find line 1842 in Texture.vbs, and then replace the if..else..endif with this:
set coll = CreateObject("XSI.Collection")
if in_uvprops.Type = "XSICollection" then
set coll = in_uvprops
elseif in_uvprops.IsClassOf( siUVPropertyID ) = True then
coll.Add in_uvprops
end if
The fix I posted on the Softimage mailing list awhile ago was a one-liner that would enable you to use Fit Subcomponent UVs to Image on a single texture projection. This fix will work if you have multiple texture projections in the property editor.
From the Plug-in Tree, you can quickly open up Windows Explorer (or a Command Prompt) on the location of a workgroup, plugin, or addon. Just right-click a folder in the Plug-in Tree and click Explore (for Windows Explorer) or Command Prompt. Or click Browse to open a Softimage browser.
The default project is the active project at startup (the project whose name appears in the Softimage title bar).
When you first install Softimage, the default project is XSI_SAMPLES.
After that, as you open scenes and exit and restart Softimage, the default project becomes the project that contained the scene you last opened. This is saved in your Default.xsipref file like this:
data_management.last_sequence_dir = C:\Users\SOLIDANGLE\Projects\My Project\Scenes
But you can explicitly set a default project with the Project Manager, then that is saved in your Default.xsipref like this:
xsiprivate_unclassified.DS_SZ_LOAD_DEFAULT_PROJECT = #STRI#C:\Users\SOLIDANGLE\Projects\Support
Sometimes it can be useful to turn on Use Global Coordinates for Display. Because otherwise you’re going to be looking at points in local space, and that can mess up your thinking.
Here’s a simple example to show the difference. Purple is global, light green is local. As you can see, the purple points match up with the actual coordinates.
Now here’s a better example of the usefulness of Use Global Coordinates for Display. Red is local (and misleading). Yellow is global. Imagine you’re doing all kinds of coordinate system conversions in a complicated tree, and then you decide to show values as points. If you’re not careful, like me sometimes, you end up doubting everything you’ve done and pulling it all apart.
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