Re: XSI Montreal "Tips & Tricks" session, looking for presenters

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

> Have you had a bad experience with exporting EMDLs?

I may have used it wrong, or misinterpreted the concept
when I selected a couple of seperate objects (all poly)
and exported them as one model - everything seemed fine.

But on import, two times, only one of the original meshes
showed up - the others where gone. I only used the 3.6 xsi
format since then to export snippets (for backup in a modelDB).

---extra tip---

never hit [W] by mistake, will kill MMB changing between
the last two displaymodes. I´ll log a featurerequest to disable
this behaviour, can´t imagine anyone wanting to see "constant"
exept for wheightpainting an silhoutte checks. That´s why I
often have "wireframe on shaded" activated, you´ll at least see
the mesh/wire if you´re to lazy to "again and again" change the
displaymode just because you hit [W] by mistake while you
wanted to get to an [E]nd.

Cheers

tim

P.S: Seems the nvidia consumer cards are somewhat throttled
or maybe just less optimized for the "wireframe" and wireframe on shaded"
modes. I experiended heavy cutbacks in performance compared to the
default shaded mode (with headlight on).




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Nicholas" <andy(at)andynicholas.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:10 AM
Subject: RE: XSI Montreal "Tips & Tricks" session, looking for presenters


> Hi Tim,
>
> Some good tips there, thanks. But I was just wondering why you said "Don´t
> trust the export as "model" function"?
>
> Have you had a bad experience with exporting EMDLs?
>
> Andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Tim Leydecker
> Sent: 30 May 2006 23:00
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: XSI Montreal "Tips & Tricks" session, looking for presenters
>
> Hi Bernard,
>
> Im not from the area and probably not the most prestigous presenter to be
> sought either. I´ll still take ten minutes to share some tips&tricks that
> would have saved me some time during the last week. Mostly geared towards
> modeling, one tip for the GF 7900 GT (like my XFX 520) range of cards.
>
> -The 7900 GT card will produce serious redraw errors up to complete
> blackouts if you use the current (german) driver.
> Picking the "maya" preset doesn´t help this. Go to nvidia.com, look for the
> betadrivers of the new series 9.x.x. The controlpanel is terrible (geared
> towards novice users) but the glitches disappear.
>
> Modeling:
>
> -Never use the KP/L to insert SRT values manually and hit enter.
> Depending on your settings and the current manipulator mode, you´ll end up
> with an object that is scaled the desired amount but shifted to a remote
> location in your scene. Don´t ask me why.
>
> -If you want to rotate something, get used to holding the [shift] key, get´s
> you reliable rotation in (default>preferences) 15° steps.
>
> -Get used to the advantages of using custom [Ref] planes. It may sound
> tedious but is worth the second it takes to set it. After a while you won´t
> want to live without it.
>
> - Turn off raycast selection in shaded, makes your life easier when
> selecting in broad strokes [U/Y]
>
> - [M/J/L] are great. Get a complete new feeling of power when you shift a
> little polybugger (edge/point) over a surface without changing it´s
> shilhouette. Mergthings to the point is a snap.
>
> -If you really want to p**s off the Maya guys, tell them about the +/- keys,
> then show off with [shift]&[+] and [shift]+[-]. They´ll ask you out.
>
> -Never trust the [Extrude along Axis] direction, it may look straight, but
> basically, it´s useless, deactivate [Y] and move it yourself. Remember,
> using the "Inset" only works for a closed surface. Cap those open edges and
> *just then and only then* do a nice, uniform inset. You´ll still be faster
> than the Maya guys. Regarding the [Y] thing, soemeone here mentioned one
> could edit the spdll to the own liking, I´ll look that up.
>
> -If you duplicate something ALLWAYS freeze it while you still have it
> selected. Otherwise, you´ll later easily hit the "freeze" on it´s (mother)
> object and *baddabing* endup without the (child/dupe) kids. Sound familiar?
>
> -Save early. Save often. Don´t trust the export as "model" function, use
> dotXSI or even *.obj to CORRECTLY export EVERYTHING in your selection.
> You´ll really only notice when it´s (too) late.
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernard Lebel" <3dbernard(at)gmail.com>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:29 PM
> Subject: XSI Montreal "Tips & Tricks" session, looking for presenters
>
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Me, Will and Eric are preparing the next XSI user group of Montreal,
> > which would take place ideally in 3 weeks from now.
> >
> >
> > We are looking for presenters for a very special type of presentation:
> > [b]Tips & Tricks[/b].
> >
> >
> > Basically, during one hour, several presenters would speak in turns
> > for about 10-20 minutes each, just about any subject they want, as
> > long as it fits into "trick that got this problem solved / trick that
> > got this thing done".
> >
> > For instance, I will take one of those spots, and I plan to discuss
> > two things (if time allows): how I got simple crowd shots done with
> > particles, and how I solved certain issues with source paths.
> >
> > So we are looking for presenters willing to share their tricks, just
> > about any possibly conceivable subject related to XSI. We are not
> > expecting any ground-breaking tricks, just the little things that we
> > generally take for granted -and never mention during typical
> > presentations- but can make a big difference.
> >
> >
> > If you are interested, please contact me (3dbernard -at_ gmail.com) or
> > Will (will -at_ xsimontreal.com). Replace -at_ with (at).
> > We look for 3-4 people, on top of me and possibly another presenter
> > that remains to be confirmed.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Bernard
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