If its poly then maybe 3ds might work, I manages to get in a million+ 3ds
from max with a gazzilion objects and xsi handled it despite it taking a
good long coffee break. Don?t know how it would handle texture-coords though
since this was untextured. Also as additional problem the 3ds had its scale
way buggered and some genius on max liked to have the model 100000+ units
off to positive X (this was in max and not the importer). There was also a
tutorial somewhere online on getting IGES into XSI which seems to be an art
in itself but do-able. I have tried it once on a huge house and gave up
dumping tesselated obj out of Rhino. That was before I saw the tut.
Good luck,
Fabian
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
Rainer Schmidt
Sent: 02 April 2006 03:11
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: 5.1 Download now
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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