Suppose you want to emit particles from the instances in a point cloud. For example, suppose you have a point cloud of instances of a BigFish model, and you want to emit little fish from each BigFish instance.
One simple approach is to set up a point cloud on your master BigFish instance, and do the emitting there.
Then when you emit the point cloud of BigFish instances, use InstanceShape instead of Set Instance Geometry.
From a picture dated 12 May 2004, a variety of memorabilia, including:
POWERUP: power up to SOFTIMAGE|XSI Essentials from 3ds max
we’ll match your upgrade price.
2005 web banner on softimage.com
If you’ve got a lot of add-ons, you probably have a bit of clutter in the browser Paths menu. Like this:
You can get rid of all those add-ons by cleaning out the Addons/InstalledAddons folders in your User and Workgroup locations. Softimage checks those folders (at startup) to build the list of add-ons for the Paths menu.
Don’t worry; removing the .xsiaddon files from the InstalledAddons folder doesn’t uninstall the addons.
SOFTIMAGE Creative Environment User Guide
Apparently that creature on the cover is known as Creeps (note: link is to a youtube video that isn’t available in my country).
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Note the names of the books in the background: “How to be a Genius”, “How to cook a Dinosaur”, and “The Complete DNA”.
Also, what’s up with a “User Guide” being labelled a “Comprehensive Reference Guide” ?
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On the ICE toolbar, click Particles > Model Library > Polymesh to Dust
Ruby the CG parrot in a Softimage-Live virtual set.
From the SOFTIMAGE|3D docs:
You can synchronize live action and computer-generated (CG) animation in real-time to create a virtual set by using SOFTIMAGE channels and SOFTIMAGE Live. This involves creating a set and virtual characters in SOFTIMAGE|3D to interact with real actors that are positioned in front of a blue screen. Real people control the movements of the virtual character and the camera in real-time!
SOFTIMAGE “Sumatra” (code-name) RC2 disk
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It took a bit more work this year, but here’s a CHM version (210MB) of the Softimage 2015 User Guide.
The User Guide is available online , and you can also download an offline HTML version.
Update: If you don’t see any content in the right-hand pane, right-click the .chm file in Explorer, and click Unblock.
The CHM version has a better index. I was able to use all the index entries, not just the top-level entries. See the difference in the screenshot below?
This year, I had to generate the CHM toc and index from these huge JScript arrays of anonymous objects. It was actually pretty simple, I just needed one little recursive function to handle arrays that look something like this:
ixdata = [
{ l: '', c: [
{ l: '_ADSK_LicServers', f: './files/distrib_render_SettingUpForDistributedRendering.htm'},
{ l: '.motor (normalized motion) files', f: './files/mocap_SavingAnimationDatainNormalizedMotionFiles.htm'},
{ l: '.xsi_n.n (Linux environment script), editing environment variables', f: './files/configfiles_EditingtheEnvironmentScriptsetenvbatand.htm'}
]},
{ l: '', c: [
{ l: '2-point constraints', f: './files/constraints_ConstraintsbetweenPoints.htm'},
{ l: '2D and 3D chains', f: './files/char_skel_WhatMakesUpaSkeleton.htm'},
{ l: '2D motion blur', f: './files/cam_motion_blur.htm'},
{ l: '2D paint', f: './files/compfx_paint.htm'
,c: [
{ l: 'also raster paint, vector paint', f: './files/compfx_paint.htm'},
{ l: 'background color', f: './files/2D_paint_GettingStartedPaintingonImages.htm'},
{ l: 'brush cursor', f: './files/2D_paint_GettingStartedPaintingonImages.htm'},
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