I'm just coming to the end of a sizable project created in XSI, one of my first - I still feel new to the software so I'm hoping someone more experienced than myself will be able to shed some light on the following mystery:
XSI keeps creating Groups called PropertyFixUp1, ..2, ..3, etc, in large number. These groups contain further nested groups with the same name, as do they, etc, etc.
I've deleted them and continued to work whenever I've found them, without the Scene being affected, but I'd really like to know where they come from, in case there is a problem. I haven't found XSI as stable as I would have hoped during this project - I've arrived in the morning more than once to find overnight renders have crashed out (aaahhhhh) and so I was wondering if maybe somehow I'd managed to corrupt some aspect of the scene or something
I'm using XSI 2.0.3, though a few elements in the scene were imported from a Soft3D dbase.
The Property Fixup is the result of a disfunction in the scene, or a corruption. They are created when you load the scene, because XSI is trying to load incorrect data. To compensate, it creates prop fixups (I don't know the exact mechanism).
In many cases doesn't matter if you delete the prop fixup, however they will reappear sooner or later because the problem has not been fixed. In other cases, deleting the prop fixup will crash your scene on the spot (it happend to me). In these cases, if you want to get rid of the prop fixups, you have to investigate the scene and find the problem. In my case, I found that the prop fixup was containing a shape animation track that was missing from the cluster on my envelope. I had to reloead the shape on the cluster to get rid of the prop fixup.
I suspect that the SI3D import had some issues. The best thing would be to investigate this aspect of the scene.
Anyway this topic has been discussed several times on the XSI mailing list, I recommend that you search through the archive to get more details.
