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[Matt Hsu]

For still works,it's no problem exporting XSI scene to mxst or max,but work flow is a problem if I need to change something in my scene.
For instance,in a architectural or interior scene,there may hundreds or thousands of objects.If the designer want to change some design(ex. window opening,room size and layout...),it's not possible to make the little change in XSI and export all the objects to mxst or max and apply materials for all the objects again.
Is there any work flow that can do this kind of job?

[Mihai]

Well I think since all the separate objects in your XSI scene, will remain separate objects in the mxs scene inside Studio, you can simply just export the changed objects, delete the old ones in the Studio scene, and import the changed objects. It would then be pretty quick to reapply the materials to the new objects, you wouldn't have to re-create them from scratch.

[rmw]

I also want to see a Maxwell plugin for softimage.

But in the mean time I am trying to develop a simple one. You can click on one button in a custom ppg in softimage which has all the properties (eg. physical sky), it then creates a .mxs scene and then renders it in maxwell. It works much like the Max plugin. But still I dont know how long it will take to finish and it is really simple.
But it might be of help to someone.

[cyberjuls]

Cool, maybe wait for the next SDK. Or get in touch with NL, that will avoid you some work maybe.

By me my raid 0 is destroyed. reinstalling everything here . All is backedup hopefully. thanks to ultrabackup and astase.com by the way.

Never use raid 0 config, always raid 1 (mirroring) or above (mirroring+stripping).

See you later.

[oz42]

rmw,

that sounds fantastic, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress...

Thanks for your help with this.

[oz42]

monica at nextlimit is currently in charge of a survey about applications and o/s's used.

All us XSIers must respond and put pressure on nl to get the plugin for XSI finished.

[Duncan]

I put in my vote for XSI !!!

[cyberjuls]

same here

[gattomanzo]

its about time

[rmw]

rmw,

that sounds fantastic, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress...

Thanks for your help with this.

Well, currently it can render a triangle from inside xsi.

[oz42]

rmw,

sounds great. A triangle today, tomorrow the world!

Keep us posted with the good work.

[oz42]

Bad News?

Softimage|XSI has been removed from the "suggested 3d apps" paragraph at the begining of the manual! - I fear the worst...

[cyberjuls]

???!!!!!

ok it's not in the pugin list (p4) that are released, seems logical since we were not supposed to get it. But under compatibility, it is there. page 6.

I think that plugin work will start again when the V. 1.0 will be out. If someone from NL could confirm or infirm that it'll be good. Don't know if they still plan a plugin for xsi since we have an .obj import option. Having at least a geometry exporter for xsi to studio would be cool anyway.

[Kevin Olson]

add my vote for an XSI plugin