Bringing CG to life, one rig at a time…
If you do rigging in Softimage you probably know when trying to Mirror Weights it only pays attention to the last created Symmetry Mapping Template for that model. There’s no interface to append to or join mapping templates. It gets annoying having to recreate them and verify that Soft guessed all the correct symmetrical equivalents, so…
Ever noticed that Ambient Occlusion doesn’t happen in the real world in lit areas? It’s more of a darkness thing… so why apply it everywhere?
With this Rendertree compound you have AO in darkness and that’s it. Simple! 
Sometimes you need to know the length of a curve for some setups; for a while I sometimes used an addon called jsCurveLength.
However, the way it’s designed relies on the existance of the addon to evaluate. Without it, your rig is broken. I’ve made a version which is self-contained, so when you export your rig you don’t need to tell people to install any addon.
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A lot of people are unaware of the possibilities of the ExtrudeOp operator. See below…
Fiddling with the ExtrudeOp options
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This commercial is 100% CG (minus the live-action meerkats) and was made in Softimage XSI 7.
I was responsible for creating the ICE compound to position phone instances on a curve and simulate the domino effect.
This tutorial was written a long time ago, but my logs show that some people still browse it.
Here it is if you’re looking for it: (clicky clicky)
