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SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 Essentials – equips artists with everything they need to create compelling 3D characters and content for games, film and television.
XSI Essentials now includes features previously available only in XSI Advanced:
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XSI Hair and Fur
XSI Hair offers a range of specialized tools for creating long, luxurious, and truly realistic hair and fur with dynamic effects. You get precise, natural hair styling with complete control over the animation.
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Syflex Cloth Simulation
Syflex is an incredibly fast and stable simulation engine that lets you create a broad range of cloth and flesh effects directly within the XSI interface. It's a $2200 (USMSRP) value, and it comes standard in XSI Essentials.
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SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 XSI Advanced includes everything technical directors and studio IT managers need to set up and run a creative animation facility.
Like a studio in a box, XSI Advanced includes everything in
XSI Essentials plus:
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36 Nodes of mental ray Rendering Power
XSI Advanced now comes with 5 licenses of XSI Batch rendering (a $7475 USMSRP value). It's a massive boost for your render farm, giving you 12-cpus of mental ray rendering, and an additional 24-nodes of Satellite rendering.
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Today, demand for compelling 3D character performances and rich, immersive 3D worlds has never been greater. SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 renews Softimage's legendary commitment to 3D artists and studios by giving you everything you need to keep pushing the boundaries of art and technology—all at a simply unbeatable value.
Over 30 Feature Enhancements
XSI 6.5 boasts over 30 enhancements, developed for key customers such as Lionhead Studios, Valve, EA, Animal Logic, Nerdcorps, Pandemic, and NCSoft.
Enhancements highlights to SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 Essentials and Advanced include the following:
- TransformUV Property for multi-UV editing
- New interactive “Tight” layout for Unique UVs/PolyPack
- Shaderball support for Hardware Renderers
- Snapping tools work with Instances
- New Drag and Drop event
- New OnObjectAdded event
- New OnObjectRemoved event
- HDR image generation in RenderMap
- Satellite Support for RenderMap
- HDR color range for vertex colors
- API to convert vertex colors from shorts to floats and vice-versa
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For more information, download the XSI 6.5 Bug Fixes and Known Issues lists. |
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New Renderers
XSI has long been known for its unmatched rendering workflow and deep integration of the award-winning mental ray renderer. With XSI 6, Softimage opened up the XSI rendering API, and we've seen an enthusiastic response from our growing community of 3rd-party developers.
While mental ray, remains the core XSI renderer, our rendering technology partners are taking advantage of our open rendering API to develop and integrate their respective render engines into XSI with similar depth and control.
Softimage customers can now enjoy XSI integrations of the following renderers:
And more integrations are on the way. For more information, ask your favorite rendering technology provider about their plans for SOFTIMAGE|XSI integration.
 Download the XSI 6.5 Brochure
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