SOFTIMAGE|XSI Foundation Feature Videos

Crosswalk—Bi-Directional Interoperability

Reliable interoperability is the most important part of a mixed-tool pipeline—and that’s exactly why Softimage developed Crosswalk.
*Available in all versions of XSI.

Quick Shade

Powered by a generalized shaderball engine Quick Shade technology provides step-by-step material previews wherever you need them. A new material manager offers a dedicated view to work with scene materials, and enhanced preview rendering tools make it easier than ever to bring your scenes to life.
*Available in all versions of XSI.

Animation Layers

Animation layers give you an interactive and non-destructive way to add keyframes on top of existing animation, making it easy to work with motion capture data without wading through highly dense FCurves.
*Available in all versions of XSI.

Render Channels

Part of the revamped XSI rendering core, render channels allow you to output multiple data streams—including illumination components, normals, motion vectors, and more—in each render pass. New shaders make it easy to extract any part of a render tree and output it via custom render channels.
*Available in all versions of XSI.

Gigapolygon Core

The XSI Gigapolygon allows you to load, mode, and render massive scenes and objects. It's the number one reason why leading entertainment companies are switching their next generation projects to XSI.

Bezier Curves

XSI offers easy curve creation, manipulation and geometry generation.

Shape Manager

The shape manager is a dedicated UI for shape creation, editing, and animation. It is extremely fast and allows easy editing of original shapes.

Tweak Tool

The tweak tool provides a wonderful workflow for all-in-one freeform component manipulation. Intuitive, proportional, fast and friendly—just use the “M” key.

Parameter Connection Editor

The parameter connection editor is a powerful tool for creating links between objects and parameters, making it easy to create and edit linked parameters.

Emboss Geometry

Emboss geometry using images for a quick alternative to displacements.

Migration Tools for Maya Users

Get up and running in a matter of minutes, not hours, with easy-to-use migration tools.

Shrinkwrap

Perfectly match very different object or component topologies using a live link to the closest surface.

XSI Rendering

XSI's uses mental ray as its native renderer, which means you can easily produce stunning images using XSI rendering tools like the Ambient Occlusion and fast Sub Surface Scattering shaders.

Texture Swimming

Maintain your original projection when editing geometry without suffering any texture distortion.

Ultimapper

Create cinematic-quality normal maps and effects maps from high-resolution models in just a few clicks.

Timeline Dopesheet

Cut, copy, paste, merge, scale, ripple and replace keys directly on the timeline, for fast and easy animation creation.

Import Options for ZBrush

XSI has dedicated options to handle the most complex ZBrush geometries.

Keying Panel

The keying panel offers a single location where you can define, expose or key multiple parameters at once. Setting keyframes has never been easier.