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09-06-2003, 07:17 AM

Hi

I dont want to make Software war (stupid people only do that crap)

I want to hear from professional opinion about Sub-D modeling in XSI and how is it better than MAx modeling tools.

Reason I am asking for, I have been working in MAX for a while now, and worked in XSI 3.5 couple days, in my friend work place. XSI works and looks pritty intuitive, however, I feel like many of my favorite tools from MAX are missing in XSI, like rotational snap and other snap funtions, some primitives I need, ACTools 1.6(favorite plug-in.......... is Muscle system implemented in XSI ? ), interactivity of Softselection, Interactivity of bevel and extrude tools ( in MAX I simply drug, in XSI to extrude I have to type in Numbers)

Thank you. Please do not make this post a war, or Phd proof that XSI is better.

PS I like XSI interface a lot, very easy to navigate, after looing at interaface for several minutes, I was able to make couple primitives, move them around, extrude, bevel. And most important Documentation............amazing, like reading Children books for Adults

StefanA

09-06-2003, 10:48 AM

Hello,

I'll try and answer some of the questions.

Snap Tools. I don't really know what you mean with the rotation snap.. is it angle snap? You can do that with holding down the shift key while rotating. And in 3.5 you should have tons of new features when it comes to snaping. Take a look at the new features tour, or download one of the videos from Softimage.com that explains the new snapping tools.

ACTools, no such thing yet I'm afraid.

Softselection (prop mode in XSI), you can adjust the radius with holding down the R key and drag the mouse with the LMB pressed now. Also you can use the M key for moving points (without going down to tag/point mode).

Extruding polygons is easy. Select the poly press CTRL-D and move it (or what ever you would like to do). Bevels have some features left to desire... but if you can't see a slider in the bevel tools make the popup window bigger and they will appear.

And here are a fewshortcuts I use all the time (when modeling).

T = enter point mode
M = move points in freeform mode
U = select polygons
Y = rectangle select polygons
E = select edges
\ = create edge
CTRL-D = duplicate polygone/line/point
R = adjust radius for paint tools and proportional mode

I also suggest you download RCTools which are great for modeling
http://www.claus-figuren.de/3d/rt/

They will improve the workflow even more. I hope I could help out and that you are having fun learning XSI.

best regards

.stefan andersson

EdHarriss

09-06-2003, 04:59 PM

Grab these XSI tools to:
http://www.mindthink.de/ohm/mt1.0
They are free and they rock!

bolek

10-13-2003, 02:34 PM

can you use these tools in 3.0 EXP version ?

sebek27

10-15-2003, 12:45 AM

I second that, can you use any plugins including these in the 3.0 EXP version ??

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