Re: dotXSI5 texture files fixed paths desaster

[André Adam <a_adam(at)49games.de>]

Hi Aloys,

now, unfortunately we don't try to load back the dotXSI export into XSI 
itself but into a custom converter on its way towards our game engine, 
which obviously doesn't come with a noicon.pic but with a crash in case 
it doesn't find associated texture files. Our current workaround is to 
modify that utility so that it does a pre-parse of the dotXSI file, 
replacing the noicon texture with something that is more accessible. 
However, this is a rather nasty workaround...

Nonetheless, many thanks for the suggestion!

   -André


Aloys Baillet wrote:

> Hi André,
>
> The "good" thing is that when XSI doesn't find the 
> "C:\Softimage\XSI_5.0_x64
> \Application\rsrc\noIcon.pic" file, it replaces it with it's own 
> noicon clip:-)
> The "bad" thing is that it displays 15 lines of error before doing so...
> What we did here is that we put the noicon file on a shared location, 
> usefull for this kind of problems...
>
> Good luck with that!
>
> Aloys
>
>
> On 04/11/05, *André Adam* <a_adam(at)49games.de 
> <mailto:a_adam(at)49games.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone!
>
>     We're currently looking into implementing dotXSI5 for our pipeline and
>     I'm kind of stunned that there doesn't seem to be an option to
>     copy all
>     associated texture files into the export directory. Are they serious
>     about this? As a result, in the export file you can find absolute file
>     paths like this one:
>
>     XSI_ImageLibrary {
>         2,
>         XSI_Image noIcon_pic {
>             "C:\Softimage\XSI_5.0_x64\Application\rsrc\noIcon.pic",
>             256,
>             256,
>             4,
>             0,
>             0.000000,
>             1.000000,
>             0.000000,
>             1.000000,
>             0.000000,
>             0,
>             0,
>             0,
>         }
>
>     Complete desaster if anybody in the company wants to work with
>     that file
>     who doesn't have a 64bit XSI copy installed...
>
>     Please, can somebody tell me that I'm missing the magic button
>     here? Or
>     any other advise on how to work with this mess? Cheers, and many
>     thanks
>     in advance for a few comments...
>
>         -André
>
>
>
> --
> Aloys Baillet - XSI Technical Director
> Character Dpt - Animal Logic
> --


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