Download (Requires XSI v5.0)

Description:
A rather pointless addon to make a Hue Cube, with some configuration options. A Hue Cube is a cube made up of a number of smaller cubes, whose colour is set from RGB values along the XYZ axes. In this implementation, the colour is set via Gradient shaders.

Usage:
Under Get>Primitive>Polygon Mesh is a new entry for called “Hue Cube”. This will open a small interface allowing you to change options such as the number of cubes per axis and the shading type. When ready, hit the “Generate” button to create the Hue Cube.

Installation Instructions:
Drag’n'drop the addon file into a viewport or Use the File>Addon>Install tool.
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Download (Requires XSI v4.0)

Description:
Another little addon that was made to help MAX users transition to XSI by allowing them to place primitives where the user clicks the mouse.

Usage:
Under your Get>Primitive menu you will find a new entry called “Draw Primitives” with a sub menu containing entries to create the main tpes of primitives.

When you click on a menu item, your mouse will gain a light green cross, which is the position of the placed primitive. Clicking on the viewport will place your chosen primitive. You can keep placing primitives until you click the right mouse button to exit the Draw Primitive tool.

Installation Instructions:
Drag’n'drop the addon file into a viewport or Use the File>Addon>Install tool
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So I have been using SOFTIMAGE|FACE ROBOT for a while now, and have got very used to its layout behaviour. If you haven’t seen the software, it basically has small buttons in the interface to quickly collapse/expand panels without the bother XSI’s optional panels.

Of course, once you are comfortable with a workflow, you want it to apply to as much as possible. So I spent a little time adding this behaviour to a new layout for XSI users as an example.

To make one of these layouts, you need to add two values to a switcher object in your layout using a text editor to edit the xml directly. The to values are:

• optionbutton=”container”
• optional=”hidden” or optional=”visible” to set the default state

In the example layout, I have added the buttons to the Left Main Toolbar and added a new switcher containing a bunch of views to the buttom of the View Manager. Check lines 67 and 82-92 for the major modifications.

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Place the file in your Application\layouts directory and restart XSI. The new layout will be available from the View menu. Here is a screen capture…

Download (Requires XSI v5.1)

Description:
This addon creates new entries in your Get>Primitive menu under polymesh and curves for custom presets. For example under your polymesh menu you will find new entries for meshes like “pants” and “mushroom”. You can also create your own very simply. Each preset is stored as a JScript file, so these can be executed very easily outside of the menus (for automatic rigging).

Usage:
To use the polygon mesh primitives…

• Get>Primitive>Polygon Mesh>Mesh Presets…>%preset_name% - will load a preset
• Get>Primitive>Polygon Mesh>Mesh Presets…>Save New Preset… - will save the selected polygon mesh as a jscript. You will prompted for a name. Giving an exisiting name will overwrite the existing file.
• Get>Primitive>Polygon Mesh>Mesh Presets…>Manage Presets… - will open a explorer (windows) or xterm (linux) pointing at the preset location.

You have a mirrored structure for curve presets.

There are four commands available for use:

• LoadMeshPreset( object_name, jscript_preset_file )
• SaveMeshPreset( object, object_name, output_path )
• LoadCurvePreset( object_name, jscript_preset_file )
• SaveCurvePreset( object, object_name, output_path )

Notes:
This plug-in is not an exporter. It was designed with people who do a lot of rigging in mind, who want quick and simple access to primitive curves and meshes for use in scene and rig creation.
Keep meshes light (i.e less than 10K polygons) - this is a scripted solution (for now).
Curves presets also support subcurves.

Installation Instructions:
Drag’n'drop the addon file into a viewport or Use the File>Addon>Install tool
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There are some built-in meshes and curves to get you started…

To help you make curve presets, here is a little JScript that you can run on selected curves to create a single curve list object.

var crvlist = SICreateCurve( "crvlist", 3, 1) ;

for( i=0 ; i<Selection.count ; i++ )
{
    if( Selection(i).type != "crvlist" )
    {
        Logmessage( Selection(i).fullname + " is not a curve", siError ) ;
        DeleteObj( crvlist ) ;
        break ;
    }
    else
    {
        var curveobj = Selection(i) ;

        for( j=0 ; j<curveobj.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.Curves.count ; j++ )
        {
            var vbArgs = new VBArray(curveobj.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.Curves(j).Get2( 0 )) ;
            var args = vbArgs.toArray();

            crvlist.ActivePrimitive.Geometry.AddCurve( args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]  ) ;
        }
    }
}

SelectObj( crvlist ) ;

Download (Requires XSI v5.1)

Description:
This is a simple addon to make it easier to setup display settings on 3D views for certain workflows.

This addon will create presets for different display types inside the addon’s install directory. The presets are stored as XSI presets, and a dynamic menu is used to save and load the presets onto the active viewport’s camera.

Usage:
Under the Display mode menu of a viewport you will find a new entry called “Display Presets”. Expanding this menu item will show all of the installed display presets (there are some by default) and two extra entries to save and manage the presets.

To save a new preset, setup the viewport’s display options to suit and then click on “Save New Preset…”. This will open a simple option box where you can give a name to your preset. If the name matches an existing preset, it will be overridden automatically.

Clicking on “Manage Presets…” will open a terminal on Linux or a Explorer on Windows, pointed at the preset directory. Here you can rename or delete the presets. Updates are shown immediately in the interface.

Installation Instructions:
Drag’n'drop the addon file into a viewport or Use the File>Addon>Install tool.
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Here are some of the built-in display presets: