XSI Notes Measurements XSI unit = 10 cm Wall Thickness 4" 10 cm 1 xsi 1 foot 12" 30 cm 3 xsi 1.5 feet 18" 50 cm 5 xsi 7 feet 84" 210 21 xsi 8 feet 96" 240 24 xsi 10 Foot Wall 120" 300 30 xsi Doorway 30" 76 10 xsi Hallway 60" 150 15 xsi Road 240" 60 xsi Lampost 7" 21 xsi GI Turn it on in the Region Turn it on in the light Slowly increase the Number of Emitted Photons Then the GI Accuracy in the mental ray options. Accuracy is done in the Region->RenderOption Shortcuts SPLIT EDGE RING - Middle-clicking works fine here. ] key 5 Browser 6 Layers 7 Render Tree alt-7 Texture Editor ctr-7 Material Manager 8 Explorer 9 Shematic alt-9 Mixer 0 Animation Editor f3 - synoptic Create Shadow Rig Create/Character/Guide Create/RigFromGuide w/Quaternion Spine & Head w/Shadow Delete guide In Shadow Move spine into envelope Group Chest Chest1 Spine2 Spine2 Spine3 Spine4 Spine5 Spine6 Envelope Mesh to Shadow /* ****************************************************************************** * Rotate the weapon * pi = 180 * pi_over_2 = 90 * pi_over_4 = 45 * ******************************************************************************/ X == Red, Y == Green and Z == Blue Players face red/x // ************************************************** // Paint Weights // ************************************************** Select Mesh Select Bone Add/Solo/Pallette // ************************************************** // Ultimapper // ************************************************** Get / Property / Ultimapper // ************************************************** // * Export a skeleton // * http://www.terathon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2801&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=xsi+animation // * http://www.terathon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2894&p=24453#p24453 // ************************************************** 1. Select the skeleton (tree) Select the Children Plot all 2. Animate/Actions/Store Fcurves 3. Copy/Cut keys Name it Remove Original Animation 4. Select nothing 5. Go Plot to Shadow Rig 1. Select Tree/Child of Shadow 2. Plot 3. Save ** Dont Plot the Rig Skeleton Man Basic works. Skeleton Man Complete works (Delete the up_vectors). // ************************************************** // Transferring Animation // ************************************************** Set Neutral Pose on both Always PLOT the rotations and the positions onto the target rig. Transferring BVH w/ Shadow - 1. import the BVH / Set the base pose with the mixer. 2. Match all transforms to the hip of the shadow. 3. Hide the shadow. // ************************************************** // Parameter values // ************************************************** L(0,1) - Linear // ************************************************** // Batch // ************************************************** C:\Softimage\XSI_7.0_x64\Application\bin xsibatch -render "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\Scenes\BlockA.scn" -frames 1-100 -script "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\RenderOPTS.vbs" xsibatch -script "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\RenderOPTS.vbs" xsi -script "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\RenderOPTS.vbs" xsibatch -render "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\Scenes\BlockA.scn" -skip xsi -nobatch -render "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\Scenes\BlockA.scn" xsibatch -r -scene "C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials\Scenes\BlockA.scn" -startframe 1 -endframe 5 -step 1 -pass "BlockA" C:\Data\My Game Resourses\XSI\Tutorials Render_BlockA.bat // ********************************************************** // Animation scripts // ********************************************************** // rotate a wheel from a null ( null.kine.global.posx / ( torus.torus.radius * 2 * PI )) *360