#Python from win32com.client import constants f = Application.GetValue( "PlayControl.Current" ) Application.SelectKeysInTimespan( ".kine.*", constants.siSetKeySelection, f, f, constants.siAnimatedParameters )
' VBScript SelectKeysInTimespan ".kine.*", siSetKeySelection,GetValue( "PlayControl.Current" ),GetValue( "PlayControl.Current" ),siAnimatedParameters
Hat tip: luceric
From the August 2004 issue of Computer Graphics World …it looks like XSI…
But it’s a bit strange to stick a screenshot of XSI in a blurb about Avid Xpress and Avid DS Nitris:
As of the 2013 release, you can now set up your license server and Softimage workstations so that idle licenses are reclaimed by the license server and distributed to other machines.
An instance of Softimage (xsi.exe) is considered idle when there is no mouse or keyboard interaction, no command or script running, and no active progress bar. Softimage is never idle in batch mode.
2013 includes a new Licensing check interval preference (Preferences > General). Basically, this “check interval” is how long Softimage can be idle before it will give up its license. By default, the Licensing check interval is 1 minute. That means that if Softimage is idle for a minute, then the license server could reclaim the license and give it to some other user. To disable the license time-out feature, set the check interval preference to 0.
By default, the license server does not reclaim licenses when Softimage is idle. To configure the license server to reclaim idle licenses, you need to set the TIMEOUT option. To do that, create a plain text file named adskflex.opt in the same folder where your license file is located.
To set the TIMEOUT to 60 minutes for an Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate license:
TIMEOUT 85926ENCSU_2013_0F 36000
To set the TIMEOUT for a 2012 Softimage license:
TIMEOUT 85705SFTIM_2012_0F 36000
You will need to restart the server to read the changes to the options file.
With the TIMEOUT option set on the license server, the next time your Softimage is idle for longer than the check interval, the license server may reclaim the license to give to another user. When you start working actively with Softimage again, it will try to check out another license from the server. If it gets a license, you’ll keep working and you’ll never know your license had been “lost” while idle.
However, if no licenses are available, you’ll see this:
and then you’ll have a chance to save your work:
I see Crosswalk 2013 was posted over a week ago at autodesk.com/softimage-crosswalk.
Here’s the new features and fixes:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crosswalk 2013.0 includes the following new features: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Softimage 2013 support * 3dsmax 2013 support * Maya 2013 support * Softimage FBX plugin now uses the latest FBX library (2013). * Support FBX User Normals * Support FBX ICE Materials and ICE Textures * Add "Import Action Source Only" option (For Softimage 2013 only) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's the detailed list of fixes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crosswalk Setup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOFT-2523 Crosswalk does not register correctly for XSI 2011 SOFT-5213 Crosswalk - Empty Common Softimage Crosswalk folder created during installation Softimage - FBX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOFT-5811 FBX Diffuse port is missing during export / import of Blinn SOFT-5832 FBX material are in the wrong shader node after export import. SOFT-5036 Crash when you assign specific tiff with LZW compression SOFT-5160 FBX XSI crash when export fbx bone using Export Envelope options SOFT-5677 FBX ICE crash during FBX export in "Mesh_With_Set_ICEMaterials_Tree.scn" SOFT-5352 FBX exporter is splitting UVs causing issues in pipeline SOFT-5632 Unused UVs in an object with "Turn Internal Edge" operation will be wrong in the FBX export-import process SOFT-2161 XSI FBX Export LEAKS when there is UV Texture assigned to material SOFT-2588 FBXImport did not import fbx file (Robot_FixedForXSI) correctly SOFT-4921 fbx - Import FBX a file that was exported from 3dsMax and the animation of the Character arms will be wrong. SOFT-5303 Softimage fails to open medium to large FBX files, using both One-Click and FBX Import SOFT-5462 Action Items imported from FBX take the length of current scene's start and end frames SOFT-5430 FBX Import animation - Turn on FCurve by default SOFT-4876 Unlocalized strings in "ExportCrosswalkOptions" window. SOFT-4957 ACME-717 | Mobu to Softimage shape anim export problem SOFT-5106 Truncated "XSIM" under "Crosswalk File Type" on "Scene_Root: ImportCrosswalkOptions" window SOFT-1725 FBX: unable to export an image node with constant shader SOFT-2308 The cancel button is not working in the crosswalk FBX import\export SOFT-5205 "Convert Image Format" is not translated on the "Crosswalk FBX Export" window SOFT-5206 "Materials And Textures" is not translated in "Include" tab on "Crosswalk FBX Import" window SOFT-5107 Description on the "Scene_Root:ImportCrosswalkOptions" window is not translated SOFT-5060 FBX Bone tool : missing a bone during export SOFT-4807 Exporting several actors copies is not working as expected. SOFT-4818 FBX imports possibly corrupted nulls SOFT-4817 Can't rotate null in Z SOFT-4673 Project templates and custom structures SOFT-4686 ACME-404 | Performance issue with Crosswalk 2012 SOFT-4582 ACSO-415 | Please increase more the performance with Crosswalk 2012 Softimage - Collada/dotxsi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOFT-5041 ACME-371 | Crosswalk | Shader parameters animated by the mixer are not persisted properly
JScript doesn’t include anything like the #include statement, or like modules in Python.
But what you can do is read the contents of a file into a string, and then eval() the string. For example:
var fso = ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var f = fso.OpenTextFile( "//server/scripts/toinclude.js", ForReading );
var s = f.ReadAll();
eval(s);
s.Close();
Note that if there’s any errors in the included code, you won’t get the right line numbers in the error messages.
In JScript, another approach would be to create a custom object that has all the helper functions as methods. For an example of that kind of thing, check out the WizardHelperObj object in
%XSI_HOME%\Addons\sdkui\Application\Plugins\SDKWizards.js
Then you just provide one custom command that returns an instance of the custom object to whatever code needs to use the helper functions.
Making of ICE Deep Sea Creature
Distance solver demo
Paper world making of
retrieving edge indicies after slicing polygons, ICE Modeling
Sebastian Kowalski
ICE: Switching geometry emitter
Peter Agg
ICE strand orientation
Rob Chapman
I’ve seen a few cases where a user couldn’t disable Face Robot, because there was no Face Robot module or menu.
That’s because the module menus were hidden. To show the module menus, right click and empty area on the Softimage menu bar, and click Module Menus.\
Then you can click Face Robot > Disable Face Robot.
Promo graphic from softimage.com circa May 2006.
This would be back in the XSI 5.11 days (XSI 6 was released in Dec 2006).
Here’s a video walkthrough that shows how to get tangent data on the source actor and copy it to the actor copies. It’s basically a two-step process: first, copy the tangent data to a custom attribute on the mesh proxy, and the copy the attribute from the proxy to the actor copies. That’s basically what CrowdFX does for you for the default Texture_Projection.
I did this video for a customer who wanted the tangent data for the normal maps on the actor copies.
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