dscowboy
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OK, has anyone else noticed how there is no documentation for XSI EXP? Their 'community page' has a desolate forum and some extrememly high-level tutorials for a lot of features I have no interest in, there's not a whole lot of working XSI tutorials on the whole internet, and they're all crappy... and the Help documentation is completely useless. I can't even find out how to do simple things like select polys by clicking on them instead of having to use a selection box to encompass the whole poly and spend five minutes trying to deselect all the other polys that got in the way. "Edit | Hide Unselected Polys" doesn't even seem to work. When you try to merge two meshes together, it creates a completely new mesh IN EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE AS THE OLD ONES, so unless you think to move your old meshes around, you'll never see the new one. I ended up with 10 different meshes because I kept using the merge function thinking it wasn't working. And get this, when something doesn't work (like trying to weld two points together when you have three selected), it doesn't even tell you that it didn't work. As far as I can tell, the only way to find out is to go to the edit menu and see if your last attempted action is listed as the 'undo' option. Pretty frustrating.
And on top of all that, XSI takes a rediculous amout of time just to do simple things like subdivide A SINGLE POLY. Like 10 - 15 seconds, literally. WTF?
I know there's got to be some real documentation with the full version of XSI. Does anyone have it in PDF format? I know a lot of my problems are just the learning curve, but without any documentation or XSI community (their forums are a joke), it's taking way too long to do very simple things. I started learning XSI under the assumption that with all the half-life tools/integration coming in the HL2 SDK, it will be a lot faster to use than 3DStudio. But it's taking me easily three times as long to accomplish anything.
</rant> So I guess this thread is for people to post any XSI resources/tips they have. While writing this, I finally figured out how to select polys with a click, you have to hit 'u' first. And here is a link to the only site I've found with good XSI info and forums:
http://www.xsibase.com
And on top of all that, XSI takes a rediculous amout of time just to do simple things like subdivide A SINGLE POLY. Like 10 - 15 seconds, literally. WTF?
I know there's got to be some real documentation with the full version of XSI. Does anyone have it in PDF format? I know a lot of my problems are just the learning curve, but without any documentation or XSI community (their forums are a joke), it's taking way too long to do very simple things. I started learning XSI under the assumption that with all the half-life tools/integration coming in the HL2 SDK, it will be a lot faster to use than 3DStudio. But it's taking me easily three times as long to accomplish anything.
</rant> So I guess this thread is for people to post any XSI resources/tips they have. While writing this, I finally figured out how to select polys with a click, you have to hit 'u' first. And here is a link to the only site I've found with good XSI info and forums:
http://www.xsibase.com