Hi folks-
Just wondering if anyone's heeard anything definite about the release of XSI 1.1??? When I attended a Sumatra seminar in the fall they said 1.1 would be out around July 2000, and included significant improvements in modelling... Anyone heard the latest?
-David Walden
Image Tools
dwalden@imagetools.it
geez , why didn't they just wait a month to realease the thing all together rather than this peice meal stuff. I guess just so that they make the corprate deadline for a release before the next business year which ended june 1.
I had heard that its more like August for 1.1 ;/
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Softimage updates their software with new features every quarter, and has for years. The good news for XSI is that, with a more modern architecture, the updates can be of even greater scope. Although most service packs have always added significant features, even recently when XSI was under development concurrent with Soft 3.7-3.9
ya , but it hasn't really shipped yet and there're an improvment next month ? come on, thats not the answer. I think Avid just HAD to have it ship for before the end of the business year and you'll catch up on what you couldn't toss in the box with 1.1
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Well, I agree with Matic. It should be very interesting to see the product grow (similar to the way Maya has grown since the release of v.1.0).
-David Walden
Image Tools
david@imagetools.it
It has shipped. It's sitting on my desk now.
Cool, then they didn't wait too long. Sounds good.
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It's already arrived? I'm in Italy and am STILL waiting for the arrival of XSI 1.0/Soft 3.9.... Anyway, I haven't seen anything on the Soft site about the release of 1.1...
1.1 has shipped? hell, tell us more about the modeling tools 8)
c'mon, you can't tease us like that
hehe.
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thx.
"...yes, i'm good looking AND smart!"
Hi everybody,
So XSI 1.1 is really out ? That's awesome.
Matic, please share some more info with the others - is the NURBS modelling fully implemented (trims), etc.
I took the XSI 540 class at Mesmer in SF.
They only had SGI O2s and we learned that SGIs can not run XSI 1.0
Now I came home and put XSI on my NT box and guess
what, it runs twice as good on NT, which is to
say it does not run. On NT when it crashes, 50%
of the time it saves your work. Often it freezes and must
be hard booted.
This is not a working version of what will one day be an
amazing tool.
All the discussion boards at Soft have been strangely unavailable since June 6.
I bought a service contract when they guarenteed Sumatra.
If AVID thinks this software fills that contract they
have got some lawyers to argue with.
This is a new low in high end software.
-A very unsatisfied customer.
hi there - very sorry you are so disappointed and annoyed.
First off, what softimage boards/forums are you referring to ? I've been reading and posting to these during the week, so not sure why they are down for you. There is no strange conspiracy here - honestly ! So let's try and get to the bottom of what's causing hassles. BTW - there is a new list you can subscribe to at majordomo@softimage.com when you go "subscribe xsi"
Secondly - did you manage to contact someone at support here in Montreal about your crashing and performance issues on NT ? If you are the same person that contacted me offline, then something is very strange, as you have a way higher performance machine than the one on which I develop and use XSI, and I do not see the problems you mention. I've never had to reboot my workstation, for example, because of XSI! I assure you we didn't try and rush anything out of the door (I'm sure many people can attest to that comment 
, leaving some features to the next version in order to try and concentrate on stability and performance. There are still problems, yes, I agree, but we have been through extensive QA and beta testing and release cycles for a long period of time to try and eradicate problem areas. So, I'm really interersted in getting to the bottom of what is happening on your machine, so we can help you out.
Anyway - let's try and talk to resolve your issues and see where we can go from here.
all best,
-Gordon.
Project Leader, Animation - SOFTIMAGE
Gordon,
Thank you for your quick response. The forums I was referring to are the discussion groups on the SI website
for SI3D. No threads after June 5 work for me.
I have a DELL Precision 420 dual 733mhz, 512 RambusRam,
Wildcat 4110 graphics, Windows 2000. Crashes lots and only in XSI. Not 3.8 or 3.9.
After aprox 50% of the time when I render when it stops it
crashes and saves.
Quick render often freezes everything.
Can't paint weights on a very good viewpoint nurbs model without crashing, sometimes just opening the paint control
crashes, particle crashes, etc(lots of etc)...
This is what I need to make me happy:
Since I was guaranteed Sumatra on my old service contract, I would like to be assured I will get a working version of XSI and will not be asked to pay support again until I do.
I hope this sounds as reasonable to you as it does to me.
Hoping to make it work.
Jay Saul CSE, President
The Art of Engineering, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
jaysaul@azstarnet.com
520 529 8307
you said you had problems with NT well your not useing NT your useing 2000 im ot positive on this and im sure the guy on here who is from avid can tell me if im right or wrong but i thought XSI was for NT 4.0 and didnt have a build for 2000 yet
that could be why its crashing and stuff its not really meant for the os your running
shrug ofcourse i dont know for sure and im just makeing a guess as to your problem cause that was the first thing that stuck out to me was the windows 2000 thing
Thank you for your quick response. The forums I was
referring to are the discussion groups on the SI website
for SI3D. No threads after June 5 work for me
There are no forums on the Softimage site. Softimage has mailing lists which are archived there every few days. Subscribe to the xsi mailing list if you want to talk with other users.
I find it incredible you would believe that softimage would mute posting boards to hide software problems! That's crazy!
You probably have a multithread bug in the Wildcat driver, because it works fine here on similar machines, but we have 3d labs cards, and SGI Visual PCs.
Most Windows 2000 drivers are very unstable at this time; we had to use a work-around for the GVX1 driver; bugs that are not in NT 4.0 drivers.
Get on the mailing list and ask of other users' experience - but be warned that most use NT 4.0.
Yes, XSI works under Windows 2000.
How and PLEASE.
NO XSI 1.1 is not released. It dues at the end of this year. To be demoed at siggraph
Matic was just talking 'smack' about getting 1.1 in the mail ...darn, I'll be a Sig so I'll have to play with it if it will be there. Did I understand correctly a few threads back that XSI is a windows only piece of software ?
THPPTTT>/!
Is what I have to say to that.
I hope I miss read.
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Did I understand correctly a few threads back that XSI
is a windows only piece of software ?
THPPTTT>/!Is what I have to say to that.
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You ran out of stuff to say month ago.
For windows only?! Would it kill you check the web site!!??!
Don't you know ANYTHING about XSI and Softimage? Why do you even post here?
I didn't think that was right, should have toned down my respounce a little ( over dramatic:). Sorry i got you so pissed.
I was looking it up on the website( yes, I know XSI is available for Unix , but is it yet) , but a post earlier said that only the windows edition was shipping or at least eluded to that. I didn't think that would make any sense but you know , a lot of stuff that Softimage has done has made no sense. I thought about it after I posed and I did check the site . BUT softimage has been never posted the WHOLe truth on their site so its a lot of propaganda mixed with half-truths. Just wanted be sure that wasn't the case.
Oh , since you're so informed about Softimage : When will they be releasing 30 day demos of the software ? I've seen demos but until I realy do a quick project in it I can't say what I think about it. Thats why i post here in the XSI forums , becouse I don't know much about it( familar with Softimage up to 3.8) and I don't trust AVID to tell the truth.
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Oh , since you're so informed about Softimage : When will they be releasing 30 day demos of the software ?
No. Demos and evaluations can sometime be available through your reseller (FlexLM temporary licence). This is 12K $ software, so if there is a good chance you'll buy it, a reseller takes care of you personnally. The market is small and doesn't work like the cheaper consumer products.
If you have the money available, you won't be shy to get in touch with a reseller or softimage. If you're a student, the idea is that you get to learn about the software from your school.