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

["Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>]

Aaahhh - ok - gotcha - yeah - their workaround for a lack of model does indeed seem to be broken. Log it to support with repro steps.

I didn't realise they'd even implemented a workaround for maya types - it used to just throw an error saying no model selected and I thought this was the problem you were hitting.

Cheers,

Alan.

On 5/31/06, Joey Ponthieux <j.g.ponthieux(at)larc.nasa.gov> wrote:

Alan,

Make a cube, a sphere, and a cone.
Select the cube.
Go File>Export>Model.
Give the Model name Temp.
Import Temp.emdl into a new scene in a separate XSI session.
You will note that Temp is a Model with the cube underneath.

Now go back and select sphere first, cube second, then cone.
Go File>Export>Model.
Give the Model name Temp2.
Import Temp2.emdl into a new scene in a separate XSI session.
You will note that Temp2 only possesses sphere.

The ability to export selected objects is either broken or needs to be
removed as it misleads the user into thinking that this is a functional
way of doing business.

It is not. Single vs Multi selection distinction was done away with Soft
3D. This should be a multi-selection procedure. It is not. It is broken.

--

Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and
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Alan Jones wrote:
>
> ummmm - I don't see how it's broken. The only way it would appear
> broken is if you weren't familiar with XSI terminalogy. In which case
> it's a case of PEBKAC, not a bug.
>
> A model isn't a generic piece of geometry - it's a specific type of
> object in the scene hierarchy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
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