Thanks Fabian
yes, Rhino is essential when you step into the world of rapid prototyping
and the industrial design world. It is also a quick and reliable way to
convert autocad and other formats into files XSI can load if you want to do
Previz work....
The problem I have is more related to models which are already textured. XSI
is simply broken in that respect after 5.x came out. There is also a story
behind that... The programmer who wrote the 4.2 obj importer/exporter was
not utilized to write the new one and the guy who did it did a shoddy job.
That's life. But they should correct it. It's just so basic. Unfortunately I
have to convert a lot of meshes and am continuously inconvenienced. And like
a boil it continues to aggravate me... grrrrr.
But hey, you know what, I will use XSI do export my animated meshes into C4D
as C4D did not boather me a single time. 3 Grand and the pain is over with.
No maintenance or upgrades for SoftImage this year.
Cheers and have a great weekend!
Rainer
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Fabian" <admin(at)schnuer.com>
> An: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Betreff: RE: 5.1 Download now
> Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:29:14 +0200
>
> You might want to consider adding Rhino to the arsenal. Industrial design
> people I've heard from have it around just as a step between their other
> apps since it writes very clean files with lots of export options. Might
> be
> worth a shot. The industrial folks I talked to rely more on IGES though so
> I
> don't know if what they say about Rhino refers to its obj abilities too.
> There is a demo so giving it a try is free.
>
> All the best,
> Fabian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of
> Rainer Schmidt
> Sent: 01 April 2006 19:11
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: 5.1 Download now
>
> They have various meshes with various problems from me over the past few
> month without any resolution other then I should use 4.2 and convert to
> one
> of the other formats and somehow get it into 5.x.
> Unfortunately the export and re-import between 4. and 5.x is not without
> it's own limitations. It's embarrassing and I lost a few jobs because I
> could not import and render a few scenes I should make for a sign maker. A
> quick workflow consisting out of the procurement of some Daz or
> Renderosity
> or Turbosquid models and setting up a quick scene for a signmaker around
> the
> corner has lead consecutively to time disasters as XSI made it necessary
> to
> re texture the entire models because of the abysmal import capabilities.
> And
> pressing the max import button with the window popping up which tells me
> that I have to procure max 8 to be able to read scenes/models just made my
> jaw drop down to the floor. Probably the next .obj import button fix is to
> install a C4D license with it's flawless .obj import/export... I am not
> happy and discovering the differences between announcements, deliverable
> and
> my own expectations does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling right now
> either...
>
> Good day for gardening...
> Rainer
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2006, at 9:28 AM, Tim Leydecker wrote:
>
> > Hi Rainer,
> >
> > also managed to create an *.obj file that instantly crashes XSI 5.01.
> > Am currently packing it for uploading it to their ftp.
>
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