I often get asked “What games have been made with Softimage?” The answer in a single word – loads!

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A simple to use plugin that can be used to create (and generate) a list of cubemaps for use in realtime shaders or mental ray®.

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When modelling with polygon meshes you can set a vertex or edge as hard. However, if you freeze the operator or delete the cluster it is difficult to remove the hardness. This tool is a simple command to do this.

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This is a simple plugin which allows you to draw the SOFTIMAGE®|XSI™ primitves where you click in the viewport. This is useful for people coming from a 3DS Max background, or level designers who just want to place an object.
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When modelling for games, its important to make sure you are creating a model that runs efficently in-game. One of the main ways of doing this is by limiting the number of triangles/points that make your mesh. In order to do this effectively, here is a handy technique which will display that info in the viewport while you are working.
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When working on low res models or sub-d cages it can be useful to work in what is commonly called “Flat shading”. There isn’t a display mode built in to cover this, but instead it is a property controlled on the object.
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Although there are many display modes available, sometimes you will want to have different modes on different objects. This can be very useful when creating model planes in your scene.
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I went to London Zoo today.

Well worth going if you haven’t been for a while. There’s a great new monkey exhibit that lets you get right up close with no fences. I want a monkey of my own.

Here are the pics…