Texture Painting with SoftImage/XSI Tutorial- Part 1 of 4

[harrym2457]

how much is this program and will it work on widows 7 do you no?

[mohanidzhd]

@harrym2457 3000$ works in windows , but i think LightWave low price powerful program.

[rwp80rwp80]

This program is extremely overcomplicated.

I understand it's industry standard, but it's extremely difficult to use.

The user needs to navigate a labyrinth just to do the simplest things.

[MrMemag]

@rwp80rwp80 It depends, but if you spend some time with it, like with every other application, you kick ass in no time. It is not intended to paint bitmaps with Softimage, this is just a possibility if you want to do it. Zbrush doesn't have animation tools, but hey, it is awesome sculpting application.And even if UI is horrible, it is used extensively.

Cheers!

[multiverses2009]

@rwp80rwp80 maya suffers from the labyrinth problem too. I think maxon bodypaint is easier than this. The other thing I don't like about softimage are the crappy sliders on most of the polygon modeling controls.

[soundslikedeathvox]

noesisinteractive site doesnt work =(

[GameFreaks24]

wtf wheres the freeze button on the free download it was in my minicourse, but not on the free download, instead, snap is there, i cant make roads wiht the "extrude along curve" option! WHAT TEH HELL PLZ HELP!

[MsHabboMovies]

not free o,o

[MiSsDiVeL]

which one is better softimage xsi or 3d max?

i've been working on 3d max and i hate it!!! please tell me your experience

[thepryest]

nevermind, worked it out. I was merging the object and forgetting to make the new merged object have uv's merge to the new model. Do cubes started off in xsi have uv's? or do you have to unwrap them?

[thepryest]

my object has uv's and i cant show the texture on it? Im a converted to xsi from maya user. Only if i project i see the texture! ????

[RazorShaw]

AWSOMENESS!!

[jakechapy]

Didnt realize you could use a tablet. Thanks :)

[Tobi4444]

lol my programme crashed when i subdivided 4 times

[bluh654]

How did you find the porsche??

[ayottenumber]

My brush is the size of the grid, and I can't figure out how to make it like much less smaller.

[jdcaron]

Use your mouse wheel, he said it in the tutorial.

[torn1232]

whats the size of this program if you can tell me?

[LemonSector]

Over 400 mb download.

Over 800 mb installation

[shirgit]

i cant find no weightmap

[darkslayer98]

hey my team and i are making a 3D MMORPG we need a 3D modeler if ur interested or want more info PM me

[Fl4kers]

What was this for? Flight Simulator X (FSX) or something similar

[Noepel]

as example you can made half-life 2 models with it. also crysis models.

its pretty usefull for many different areas.

[thizda]

please,please get a better quality recorder

[CymexRotundus]

excuse, me... can you show me where can i download softimage? (and of course free download and no virus)

[masterpiraka]

There's main website, that's a possibility...

[LordShagrath]

it's nice and stuff, but I think it's a bit complicated when you want to texture some really simple object, with a really simple texture

[noesisinteractive]

Agreed, but this is certainly a more advanced technique. You can always very simply click on an object or group of polygons and in two clicks apply a "texture > image" command to place a straight forward image texture using the default material.

[thizda]

is this out of date a bit?becuase i got a new inferance

[thizda]

wait soz just realized i hav got this inferance soz and thx

[3Deity]

I'm new to XSI but why do you need the texture projection if you are using vertex based weight maps? Surely the geometry should define the texture space! :o) Then you could use the weight map as a density lookup for a shader.

[teatimebing]

I agree, projecting a UV map but vertex painting?!? Whilst Vertex and Weight map painting both depend on the density of a mesh to add more detail they are for COMPLETELY different purposes!

[3Deity]

But then maybe this is a demo of joining things together i.e. Making melting steel become luminous etc?

[1000000smiles]

thanks very much for this nice tutorial! :)

[JonlEl]

great tuts,but do you have higher quality videos for download?