SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.4.0 Fixes and Enhancements

SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.4.0 Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements

Animation

86975 Mixer - Missing ability to drag & drop from the mixer weight onto presets.
87248 PathCns - Attach Point not Update after Compensated Move
87892 Envelopes - Weights - bad results with mirror weights and loaded weight presets.
87959 Persist "playback type": ALL/RT, (currently being reset back to ALL when scene or layout is saved).
88000 AE - Freeze cycle is grayed out when it detects some curves without cycles.
88544 AE - Snapping - support relative / absolute snapping of key slopes.
88598 Envelope - vertex jumps if insert move point operator before envelope.
89019 SI3D scenes not loading properly into XSI.
89196 Mixer - NLE - texture sequence control.
89205 Performance problem - Speed issue with XSI and sliders (custom parameters).
89260 AE - Ability to click with middle mouse button in the explorer part of the AE and expand ALL.
90543 Chains/Bones - Changing bone axis alignment.
91657 Chains/Bones - Need ghosting of IK and FK solutions for blending.
92092 Pose constraint rotx offset does not work when constraining a bone
92272 IK| Additive Rotation Problem.
92399 Problems using Static kinestate and duplicate symmetry.
92762 Support NL-editing for rotoscope images in AM.
92766 AE - Cycles of simple constant animation not working after first few cycles.
92798 Support a visual editor/manager for texture sequence list.
92922 AE - Some names in the Animation Editor need to be made shorter.
92936 Support for quaternion keyframing/interpolation of rotations.
93010 Tagged Parameters - Non Animation Fcurves - allow control of FCurves at the parameter level rather than the AE level.
93085 Transformations - Importing matrix data for KinematicState causes unexpected behavior.
93144 IK - Chain flipping when manipulating local when rotation order isn't XYZ.
93236 Quaternions - Add command to convert quaternion keys back to Euler keys.
93243 Add "delete unused tracks" functionality into the mixer.
93453 Linux only - Unstable camera.
93530 Fcurves not seen in AE when scene reopened.
93631 IK/FK Blending: has no effect when start and end of a sub-chain both have position animation.
93701 IK/FK Blending: bones shake when FK comes from global orientation control (like ori cns).
93703 IK/FK Blending: blending problems with chain upvectors.
93862 Kinematics: pivot prototype in the local transform.
94009 Shape animation - performance problems when animating only a few points but saveing shapes on the whole geometry.
94100 ScriptedOp/IK - Scripted operators that write to the entire local transform of an effector have their values overwritten by local f-curve animation.
94144 Animation tracks and Shape tracks cannot be accessed in the same manner.
94177 Mixer - Markers - Ability to attach custom text to any animation clip, while having control over font and size.
94179 Ability to lock objects/parameters: Mixer, Mixer Tracks & Tracks by type, Actions, Compouds, Fcurves.
94334 Blending: interaction problems when blend is between 0 and 1.
94367 AE - Scaling with Pivot - support single-key selection.
94801 Option to add custom color/icon to parameters such that Fcurve Editor/Scene Explorer can display it.
94802 Mixer Explorer - Ability to Hide Animation Mixer tracks.
94964 The result of plot rotation with continuity, last key is not correct.
95603 Timeline - when selecting / moving the timeline , the loop cursors move instead.
95847 XSI crashes when changing from Animation Editor to Dopesheet.
95950 Locked visual cue for proxy parameters (when the master is locked - especially needed for marking sets).
96396 Dopesheet: evaluate in-between keys to display 'phoneme' name.
96397 Method to filter out shape name display in dopesheet by group (filter AT by tag).
96400 Audio Markers with 0 length should still display the label.
96586 AM - crash with Match Clip on imported clip having partial Connection Template.
97013 Extended D&D for audio source (Audio clip menu).
101777 IK | Effector transform is not compensated properly if effector is parented to a bone in chain (SI3D style).

Audio  

87240 Audio Issues (Vari-speed, pan, volume, sharing..).
92397 Support audio stream on Linux (Quicktime).
93194 Capture of audio on imported model files does not work.
96391 Very slow scrubbing won't play back sound at all.
96392 Playback looping is difficult to work (mouse must not move more than 1 pixel, otherwise loop mode is stopped).
96399 Playback audio loop (N frame before and after) will incorrectly playback when either "before or after" is set to 0.
96402 Audio scrubbing in user rate mode won't scrub backward when rate is < 100.

Compositing

88669 Crop Operator needs to support negative value
95993 Fxtree : FileOuput needs Codec picker
91263 PainterlyFx - use multiple CPUs and run on all 9 image formats

82401 Reverse Squence in Compositor
xxxxx support 16-bit and float texture image clips
94735 FxViewer Menu with keyboard shortcuts, and settings, local proxy scaling
68179 "image compare" function in the Fx viewer
94307 PSD Layer Extract : Offset image to proper position and premultiply alpha
xxxxx simpler color correction PPG layout, with preview graph for Gamma/Gain/Offset/Constrat
xxxxx New recommended compositing layout with all fx views
xxxxx new virtual memory, caching architecture and region-of-interest management for faster rendering, lower memory requirement

Converters/Import/Export

87637 Problem converting an image with imf_copy.
91880 Convert To Shader Tree option does not work for multi textures.
93088 Shading is wrong when exporting to dotXSI and re-importing.
95614 DotXSI Exporter with triangle strips causes XSI to crash.
95752 Importing SI3D scene with 3DGlobal Texture crashes XSI.
95840 Wrong <bitsPerPixels> value in XSI_Image.
96063 Load weight by "Ascii Envelope Weight" missing last line.
96531 OBJ Export : Normal values should be obtained from PolygonNode (not vertex ).
97086 Creating a straight chain in Y imports incorrectly.

General/Data Management

86885 A reference model's mixer isn't saved correctly when linked to expressions.
87067 Change cpm entries for project list to reflect what the command are handling.
87111 Referenced models and selective lights problems.
88249 Resetting the property editors, user preferences to the default state.
88658 Preferences - need Load / Save setup ability like SI3D.
89938 Setting hide members for a partition won't work if the object's hidden is animated.
92316 Can't delete the camera root on any camera.
92791 Reorder/sort elements in explorer.
92882 Error when clients scene saved - 'objects were not saved normally, XSI saved them separately'.
93089 Explorer View sorts object by name, but it shouldn't.
93401 PPG Layout - Support Color Slider for CustomPSet.
93477 "Rotoscope cache overflow..." message should be suppressed during screen captures.
93988 Support multiple workgroup paths
94262 When importing as model only - nodes are lost when using more than 2 color math basic nodes.
94933 Corrupted scene: 'ERROR : "2000 - Save: [2] objects were not saved normally, XSI saved them separately . . .
95116 Customer corrupted scene.
95422 Corrupted scene - error on load that the scene root object is missing components.
96168 Can't reconnect sub-models' animation when switching references.
96331 Import /Export mixer failed to reconnect shape when the cluster is renamed.
96845 Referenced model with group override on color broken.
97625 Reference models with constraints outside of the models won't constrain correctly if constraint compensation is active.
98222 BackComp Scene with 2 new selected Topos causes incorrect wiring.
100100 Can't export model - bad camera stops export.
100383 Changing name of a reference model causes problems.
100907 ActiveProject.Name empty when first starting XSI.
101361 Time Control not being imported properly with models.

Modeling

75787 Ability to Bevel Text without changing the outline or shape (Interior bevel).
87063 Ability to change subdiv level while in component selection mode.
88087 Wrong results when duplicating symmetry on camera.
88273 Snapping - need method to snap picked vertex like in TE.
88354 Instance -duplicate from animation = wrong scaling for instances.
89263 Need option to have revolution/extrusion around/along local axes of curve.
89360 Smoothing of vertices.
90459 Copying weights from 1 model to another is broken.
91726 Merge Mesh - Removing transfer task and Deleting Clusters on Result Mesh generates wrong clusters.
92705 "Collapse Points When Snapping" option should be renamed.
92772 Problems with larger numbers of UV's/Clusters.
93137 Support delete or freeze for "Static Kinestate" nodes.
93608 Implicit Grids show up as shaded and cannot be forced to wireframe with the display properties.
93864 Subdivide - divided by Subdivide bounding box but it does not add new edge.
94713 Problems with duplicate symmetry.
95897 Scene with ghost models crashes XSI.
97805 Mesh doesn't load properly - looks corrupted.
99721 Cage Deform - Add weight maps to cage assignment parameters.
101030 Infinite loop evaluating mesh.

Rendering

88796 Batch will not start if Windows font display settings set to Large Fonts.
89638 Gradient Shader - wrong marker color updated after selecting blend point.
91558 The alpha of marker of Gradient shader turns to zero.
91559 CgFx - Effect Manager.
91560 CgFx - Support of Texture & Cubic Texture.
91561 CgFx - Implement CgFxVar.
91562 CgFx - Clean up SPDL for shaders.
91565 CgFx - Net View for CgFx.
91579 Camera projection creates distorted image.
91808 LINUX | Instances do not render properly in mi2 files on linux.
91811 Imf_copy | Crash when creating remapped pyramid map files from grayscale images.
92140 Freeze | infinite loop when rendering on high speed cpu.
92814 ToonHighLight shows intersection when Light's intensity is at zero.
92819 Line Missing in sib_diffuse_refraction_phen.spdl.
93020 Linux rendering artifacts in customer scene.
93086 Memory Leak When Rendering customer Scene.
93140 First Frame Of Motion Blur Output On Hair Is Incorrect.
93166 Linktab.ini paths not converted when pushing texture paths to raylib.
93372 Ability to insert node between existing render tree nodes.
93821 Environment shader with particles gives strange results.
93848 Need full support for contour shaders.
94719 Integrate the latest fish eye/Toon ink shader.
94811 Caustics not correct with Anisotropic shader.
95153 Specific Model Crashes XSI with Motion Blur and Hair Turned On.
96129 Min Level of Sampling has no effect.
96792 Add Fisheye and bulge lens FX capabilities to Toon Ink shader, such that users can do lens fx while using toon inking.
96793 Create a standalone FX lens shader (fisheye/bulge).
97140 Implement a mechanism to avoid forcing trace off when Hair renderer shader is used with geometry hair.
98371 Xsibatch renders fail with "-skip true" option.
98376 Irregular bump map in shadow zone.
99860 Rendermap - Canceling vertex rendermaps freezes XSI.
101686 OGL display of animated texture does not update [polymesh specific].

Scripting

88358 Abilty to have many script editors open at the same time to ease editing, cut and paste.
90229 Dotxsi - importing partially enveloped chain will fail.
92293 Problems when packaging presets and addons via scripting.
94036 Support get environment command like "Environ" function of VB.
94337 Python: Can't call base interface method on enumerated objects.
95829 Problems returning code from "xsi -script" (linux only)
99719 XSIUIToolkit with JavaScript.

SDK

81100 Command to get the current tool (Scale, Rotate, Translate, None).
87571 SPDL - Layout & Logic should be kept after adding a new parameter on Pset.
88287 CValue's DataType should define all of possible returned values : 13 or 31.
89021 OM API to specify an Custom Property Set Layout.
89269 Getnumkeys returning wrong number.
89316 Support for Grid Control exposed in generic property pages.
91919 Filters - add command: GetSelFilter.
92025 Jscript function.toString method doesn't work on linux.
92130 GetMaster and GetInstances commands should not be logged (or undoable).
92355 CRASH loading SPDL into scripted operator.
92613 Problems with OpenNetView command on linux.
92869 InspectObj + siModal don't return "true" when Cancel button is pressed.
93014 Problems with the Application.Unadvise() Object Model API that means that the default for the second argument is false instead of true.
93245 CComAPIHandler and ConvertObject() documentation need more information.
93886 MIF Converter: Provide list of methods and properties available to scripted operators.
94621 Array elements order of ControlPointCollection.Array is wrong.
95559 Kinematics|Constraints: different behaviour when applying constraints programmatically.
95650 Implementing all of commands as a method of one class of a C++ API class.
99802 What does Model::FindChild return on error?
100082 From CPP, trimmed nurbs surface bug on getting the nurbs curve data of the trim.
100483 Adding particles to a ParticleCloud in a scripted or compiled operator.

Setup

86982 SPM | License Server processor spikes during rendering.
88183 Licensing - Add an option to spm_key to rename the spm-kf file if the dongle id doesn't match.
93601 SPM not installed properly if Ibutton Serial is chosen.
94598 .xsi setup script - $XSI_USER_SHADERPLUGINS env var is set to the system directory (should be set to the user directory).
95527 Help information for add-on installation is incorrect (xsibatch -h).
100712 SPM server crashes with "Too many open files" message.

Simulation

88802 Particles| Use Particle Size for Collision uses double the particle size in calculations.
88805 Particles| Use Particle Size for Collision behaves incorrectly if Event set to Stick.
88863 Particle - force strength increases when force moved away from cloud icon.
91282 Particles| seed value repeated when particles emitted by particle event.
92096 Fan force has drag component even if there is no drag force applied.
92313 Hair disappears when subdlevel of hair increased.
92472 Particle instances don't render.
92844 Particle - missing particle instances with multiple clouds sharing single pType.
93787 Particle Event : Script Context>Particle doesn't have inTriggerParticleInd.
94034 Geo hair artifacts with shadows.
94606 Problems with shape animating and guide hairs.

Texturing

88541 Keep shape of UV when rotating in Texture Editor.
88953 RenderMap: Cannot get the value of the CAV map being used by RenderMap.
89391 Projections - spatial projection to have a control object for easy manipulation and animation.
93261 De-interlacing / field rendering support for video-on-a-texture.
94227 Can not drag and drop image from Internet via Netview for mapping
100223 RenderVertex | Crashes on large scenes with FG.

UI

87575 Adjust Zooming speed for navigation tool.
87629 Selecting multiple polys and using local transform with adding +2 value in the translation field - moves globally.
88139 Transforms - MCP - SRT values disappear when more than one object is selected.
88197 Selection - option to display selected samples (like SI3D Paint).
88532 Support Ghost Frames similar to SI3D.
88631 SE - missing refresh of Decompose Branch Selection option.
88826 Transforms - MCP - SRT - when multiple objects are selected, the similar srt values should show up in the transform panel.
89005 Viewing - support hardware texture Alternate and Repeat.
89060 Layouts - Support changing layout automatically according to window size.
89087 Sub routines OnChanged in the Logic part of the SPDL are executed each time the time-line is moved and the SPDL window is open.
89233 Viewing/interaction: Support for a Show unselected center feature.
89344 Toolbars - Tool Tips for scripts.
89348 Menus - SDK - Ability to build custom pull down menus at the top of the interface.
90703 Frame selection, Hide/Unhide do not update properly if object is child of it's texture support.
91592 Support symmetry rotation while in Pivot Xform mode.
92034 Object View: Position, Orientation toggles.
92184 Crash with virtual slider and selected components.
92298 Snapping - add snapping option to snap to visible grid in View mode.
92438 Mouse pointer does not update over 3D manipulator with SI3D-style option.
92523 Preferences - Add pref for Transform -> Collapse Points When Snapping and other entries in Transform menu.
92867 Linux: Colour picker gamut displayed upside down.
93196 Menus - Select member for clusters and partitions.
93229 Snapping - Component snapping jitters after undo.
93232 3D Views - Add ability to isolate (i.e. restrict display to) selected objects in a normal 3D view.
93400 Support display CameraDepthCue color keying.
93950 Timeline - for Mixer - support display in seconds.
94170 Preserve pivot when switching between SRT tools.
94796 3D View - camera/spotlight dropdown list is not usable when there is a large number of scene cameras.
94857 Different camera is checked in Viewport Menu.
94858 Camera Node disappears from Schematic view when Action Clip is deleted.
95874 Schematic - support filtering by name containing specified character string.
96127 Weight Editor - missing refresh after deleting components.
96192 Manipulators - add preference to hide transform manipulators during interaction.
96290 Please support change name in the "Material and Texture Explorer" (in a driven shelf).
96398 splitting RV in a specific sequence will corrupt the layout.
96621 Can only open Schematic view a certain number of times.
98711 Dual screen : Render Preview window always appears split in the middle of the monitors.
99172 Drop down menu does not work on second screen (Dual monitor).
99593 Refresh problem of selected points on the Weight Editor.
100052 Crash when pressing TAB in numeric widget of SPDL dialog.