XSI?

Beer glass scene creation

This course contains a little bit of everything with modeling, UVing, texturing and dynamics in Maya, as well as compositing multilayered EXR's in Photoshop.

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# 1 11-12-2006 , 12:56 PM

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I downloaded the trial, just to give it a spin and see what the hype was about. I was wondering what you guys thought of it. I must admit without looking at the walkthroughs im a bit lost besides making a primitive and switching between the diffrent parts (edges, vertices, faces). What got me to give it a try was how i keep hearing how easy it is to model, and how it has the mental ray "fully" intergrated ie not a plugin. So what do you guys think of it

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# 2 11-12-2006 , 01:45 PM

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what kind of responses do u think youll get on a maya forum. user added image

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# 3 11-12-2006 , 02:13 PM

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i love XSI, definately a great software.. i use it farely often.. it is second only to maya and Silo:attn:

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# 4 15-12-2006 , 08:29 PM

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I started on XSI 4, mainly due to the hype from Half Life 2.

Its not a patch on Maya.

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# 5 15-12-2006 , 09:20 PM

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XSI is a great program. It is used by a lot of major studios and I'm sure there are a few of us Maya users that are using more than one platform (Lightwave, Max).

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# 6 15-12-2006 , 09:30 PM

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i use maya and xsi
and max at work.
i can honestly say xsi is lightyears ahead of maya.

and eons ahead of max.

see for yourself.

https://www.softimage.com/products/xs...px?video_id=23

i know some people [including me] say its not the app , its the artist, but give Da vinci a pencil and ask him to draw the madona, or give him a full set of brushes and oils and see the difference [same artist, better tools user added image

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i started using xsi and only use maya for soem specific uses... barely open it anymore. infact, almost never
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# 7 15-12-2006 , 09:59 PM

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Thanks for the responses guys, I think im going to give it a try. Right now im more focused on learning maya, but im going to try to learn this also. Since i dont want to end up being a one program wonder.

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