SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.3.5.1 Fixes and Enhancements

User Interface Fixes

91331 Display/Viewing Camera is corrupted in specific XSI scene.
92697 Display/Viewing Focus behavior in KDE 3 is unpredictable and doesn't respect window manager settings.
92464 Manipulation - SRT Autokey triggered when using manipulator selection tool option.
93947 View - Netview Right-clicking Netview can cause XSI to crash on Linux.
91538 View - Schematic Children of collapsed nodes disappear from schematic view when re-parented.
91749 View - Schematic Crash when rearranging schematic view with Ctrl+r.
93083 View - Schematic Collapsed object disappears by Parent/Cut operation in schematic view.

General & Data Management Fixes

91593 Persistence/Load/Save XSI crashes when merging a scene in which modifications have been made to the schematic vew.
93742 Add-ons Add-ons cannot be installed (filepath to script too long).
93497 Environment Variables SI_TXT_EDITOR_ENV doesn't work.
92615 Audio Problem loading sound files on Linux.
91810 Persistence/Load/Save XSI crashes when reloading a scene with path constraints referencing a model.
92317 Overrides Sources are locked when propagated material is driven by overrides.
92362 Persistence/Load/Save Specific XSI SaveScene error message in which image clips are created when duplicating a model.
92882 General Error when specific XSI scene is saved: "objects were not saved normally, XSI saved them separately..."
93216 Project Manager NewScene's first argument doesn't work anymore.
93394 Persistence/Load/Save Crash when loading/merging a specific XSI scene.
93757 File Management Crash when loading/merging a specific XSI scene.
93875 General Crash when loading a specific XSI scene - cannot allocate contiguous memory.
94293 General Crash when no more nodes remain after a collapse operation.
94333 General Crash when exiting XSI after a long period with no interaction.
94427 Models/Reference Models Extract Segment Op not properly persisted when exporting a model.
94468 Persistence/Load/Save Crash when loading a specific XSI scene.
94681 Undo/Redo Kinematics Local transform - undo permanently removes rotation order.
94799 Models/Reference Models A model with 2 complex compound clips takes a long time to load.
94933 Misc Corrupt scene - Error:"objects were not saved normally, XSI saved them separately..."
91673 Core/Architecture Internal clusters still remain after a freeze.
91228 Models/Reference Models Instantiated models can be indirectly parented under their master.
91082 Operators Operators connected to operators don't properly update the operators to which they are connected.

Converters/Import/Export Fixes

90220 dotXSI dotXSI does not support constant shading.
91880 SI3D Loader Convert To Shader Tree option does not work for multi-textures.
92598 dotXSI Animation on effectors is imported incorrectly with SOFTIMAGE|3D style chains.
92608 dotXSI XSI crashes when exporting a particular scene.
92907 dotXSI Parent > Child orientation is not preserved.
93088 dotXSI Shading is wrong when exporting and then re-importing to dotXSI.

Modeling Fixes

94604 Construction History Scene with corrupt model crashes on load.
87630 Deformations StaticKineState property cannot be deleted after deleting or freezing an envelope.
92836 Deformations Editing envelope weights does not work with normalize off and add%.
92612 Geometry Crash with polymesh and bad texture coordinates.
95164 Topology Editors Weld tool crashes with snapping.
92422 Instances Instance transformations are broken in render when mixing classic and Softimage scaling.

Hardware Fixes

94627 Hardware Dependency ATI Radeon 9600 Raycast Problem: refresh problem with some modeling tools (Add Edge, Add Polygon Tool, Raycast Selection.)

Animation Fixes

92595 Kinematics Local Transforms - SRT values in presets do not load properly.
95308 Kinematics Local Transforms - Euler angles are lost when the parent has a rotation of [0,0,0].
94929 Marking Incorrect marking highlight when there are two custom parameter sets under an object.
91396 Fcurve Editor Unified Slope Orientation issue with copy/pasted keys.
91746 Fcurve Editor The Frames field does not display the keyframe value correctly.
94966 Fcurve Editor Moving the left slope handle is abnormal when Snap Slope Angle is active.
94807 Fcurve Editor Fcurve tangency problem: when the first key is created using Zero Orientation, any new key added after that will also be set to zero.
92447 Dopesheet Scaling regions in the dopesheet causes incorrect results.
91236 Dopesheet Cannot copy/paste Global Position keys to Local Position.
91403 Dopesheet Cannot copy/paste keys from second selected model to first one.
89517 Dopesheet Copy/paste behavior is different from SOFTIMAGE|3D.
91771 Dopesheet Support scaling of empty regions (no keys).
92447 Dopesheet Scaling a region causes incorrect results.
92815 Envelopes The order of points is not sorted correctly in the Weight Editor.
93464 Skeletons Expose error tolerance on chains. Effector pops around constraint when animating chain root on 3D chain.
91526 Animation Mixer - Actions Freezing to a new source always generates linear fcurves.
91541 Animation Mixer Mixer ghosting crashes XSI.
92861 Animation Mixer Offset and crossfade problem in the animation mixer.
93675 Audio Using AddAudioClip() in scripting fails to initialize the audio system correctly.
95280 Audio Audio clip moves but the sound doesn't.

Performance Fixes

95465 Fcurve Editor Select the keys on all fcurves at once, then manipulate the curves.
95279 Fcurve Editor Move Points (including Undo/Redo performance).
95618 Dopesheet It takes longer for XSI to clear out the dopesheet (after deselecting an object) than to populate it in the first place.
93872 Envelopes Weight Editor has poor performance.
94737 Constraints/Path Faster property page slider performance for path constraint updates.

Simulation Fixes

89266 Hair Rendering hair with rapid motion returns triangle barycentric coordinates.
90849 Hair Hair shadow flag not working with shadow-map lights.
91615 Hair Geometry and volume hair render differently.
93025 Hair Shadow-mapped lights create much darker/broader shadows than raytraced shadows with hair.
93770 Hair Hidden lights render in OGL when hidden in view visibility.
94291 Particles Duplicate particle ID generated when setting the initial state.

Texturing Fixes

91957 RenderMap RenderVertex cannot generate correct vertex color.
92763 Texturing Cannot select a UV cluster when applying a texture to a group.
93743 Texture Editor XSI Freezes when using proportional mode with 'Consider Neighbor' option.

Rendering & Compositing Fixes

93020 Rendering When specific scene is translated and the resultant mi file rendered on Linux, it introduces black dots.
93086 Rendering Memory leaks when rendering specific scene.
91874 Rendering Instance transform data structure alignment problems.
92264 Rendering Loading an XSI 3.01 scene will use virtual memory limit as its final "memory limit" in XSI 3.5.
92140 Rendering Infinite loop when rendering on a high speed CPU.
94086 Rendering Interleave crashes whenever an output shader is being used with rgba_fp frame buffer.
91085 Rendering XSI freezes with distributed rendering.
91912 Rendering mental ray crashes when rendering customer's scene.
92234 Shaders Ray_switch does not work with pure environment rays.
92894 Shaders Elliptical filtering gives incorrect results.
78261 Shaders XSI's and SI3D's refraction are different and both look incorrect.
90818 Imf_Copy Incorrect conversion of JPG and RGB to map alpha.
91133 Imf_Copy Imf_copy -r -p crashes XSI.
91811 Imf_Copy Imf_copy | XSI crashes when creating remapped pyramid map files from grayscale images.
91552 Lights/Shadows XSI 3.5 renders shadows incorrectly.
91606 Displacement Maps Animated displacement image maps no longer work.
93583 Bump Maps Rendering artifacts with bump-mapping.
95148 Bump Maps Latest bump-map generator code will render differently on legacy scene and requires to manually set the bump basis UV.
93072 Motion Blur Rapid motion blur crashes XSI with hair and shadow maps.
93221 Motion Blur Motion blur with displacement maps - some frames render with excessive blur.
95153 Motion Blur Specific model crashes XSI with Motion Blur and Hair turned on.
92220 Batch Rendering Add option to xsibatch -r and -script that allows to prevent rendering and still allow mi file echoing (-norender.)
91684 Batch Rendering Warning message when trying to run two XSI batch processes simultaneously.
91808 Batch Rendering Instances do not render properly in mi2 files on Linux.
92311 Batch Rendering Interactive echo of an mi file and echo through xsibatch -script will produce different results.
95041 Batch Rendering Xsibatch -pass A,B -frames N does not work properly if Timeline Endframe is <N.
95415 Interactive Rendering XSI crashes when an object with animated topology is played back in a render region.
92435 FX Tree The FxTree cannot find any of the files with relative paths.

Scripting Fixes

94602 Core/Architecture Linux: Cannot add shader presets via command line scripting.
90551 Misc Script that works in XSI 3.0 fails in XSI 3.5.
92494 Misc Scripting host hangs (no memory).
91401 Scripted Op Editor XSI crashes with a certain Scripted Operator Editor operation.
94190 Scripted Op Editor Linux: Saving scripted operator with variables as SPDL crashes XSI.
92389 Scripted Op Scripted operators aren't saved properly with a scene (CRASH on setting PositionArray.)
95548 Scripted Op ScriptedOp term/init callbacks don't work even if specified in the scripted operator editor (using this as a object deleted event.)
95550 Scripted Op You can not save a scripted operator as a SPDL file and reload it later if it has parameters.

Setup Fixes

91764 Installation Cannot remove XSI v3.01 after having removed XSI v3.5.
92220 Licensing Add an option (-norender) to xsibatch -r and -script that blocks rendering while still allowing mi file echoing.
93548 Installation Library.so 3.2.7.23 has undefined symbols.

SOFTIMAGE|XSI SDK Fixes

93742 Add-ons Addons cannot be installed (filepath to script too long)
94515 C++ API Cannot convert COM API nested FCurves to C++ API FCurves.
92667 C++ API CRef::Set( const CString& ) CRefArray::Set( const CString& )
95560 C++ API C++ ut: Parameter test returns errors.
92803 Commands CreateScriptCommand creates commands that contain wrong flags.
88374 Object Model Object Model access to elements of SymmetryMap ClusterProperty
91910 Object Model Problems accessing custom properties (problem with parameter shortcuts.)
92046 Object Model Access denied on InHair.Value.Geometry.Points.PositionArray.
94833 Object Model AddParameter won't work if min/max are provided using variables.
93984 Object Model Cluster.FindIndex does not work depending on what is initially selected.
92389 Scripted Op Scripted operators aren't saved properly with a scene (CRASH on setting PositionArray.)
95548 Scripted Op Scripted operator term/init callbacks don't work, even if specified in the scripted operator editor (using this as a object deleted event.)
95550 Scripted Op You can not save a scripted operator as a SPDL file and reload it later if it has parameters.