The XSI Resources Index is a full list of links to the CGI tools, plugins, tutorials and articles available on this site. Nearly all of these resources are for Softimage's 3D animation application XSI (www.Softimage.com for details)

I do this partly for fun but mostly to keep my head from turning to mush and because I just can't stop. Everything's free, If you like what you use send me a pizza. Or a million dollars. Or a car. I like cars. Here's the list. Feel free to comment, I like to hear how the tools work and what people think of them.

• XSI Tools

  • The ICE Blog

    • Tutorial: Basic flocking using ICE
    • ICE Flocking, a Start
    • Crawling Particles Over a Mesh Surface Using XSI's ICE

  • General Tools

    • Export mesh geometry to EPS
    • An Interpolated duplicate script.
    • KA_Slate: a configurable geometry slate.

  • Animation Tools

    • A plugin for automatically building RBD driven chains and ropes.
    • Align Particles to Direction with Upvector

  • Modeling Tools

    • Tiny modelling tools compiled for 64 bit
    • TinyCurveExtrude
    • Tinythickness: add profiled thickness to a mesh.
    • Roadkill For XSI: one click UV Unwrapping
    • TinyMeshDeform: A tool for deforming geometry onto meshes.
    • TinyCap: Profiled capping of holes in a mesh
    • TinyPusher: Use meshes, curves, surfaces or a centre to push points on a mesh

  • Rendering Tools

    • Launch XSI's flipbook to show a sequence of images from Windows Explorer Context Menu
    • Watch: A simple folder watching queue system for sequentially executing executables and batch files.
    • KA_Batchmaker: Easily create batch files from within XSI for standalone rendering.

• Articles about XSI

  • How to really quickly set up XSI workgroups on many machines
  • Creating an 'edit in photoshop' button in XSI's image clip property page
  • Using the mixer to create camera cuts in an animation

• XSI Tutorials

  • Basic techniques for XSI's Rendertree