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

This tutorial will teach you how to paint textures in the SoftImage/XSI 3D program. The tutorial is available for free download at


http://www.noesisinteractive.com/index.php?x=media&y=extra


It is the first of a four part series and you can find the following videos here on YouTube or at "www.noesisinteractive.com". Be sure to check out more tutorials and products about video game development and modding at http://www.noesisinteractive.com/

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Howto & Style

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• texture
• painting
• tutorial
• SoftImage
• XSI
• 3D
• video
• games
• Half-Life2
• noesis
• interactive
• noesisinteractive.com
• modding
• game

[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.

[mohanidzhd]

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

[harrym2457]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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?