SOFTIMAGE|XSI
RENDERING & LIGHTING SCRIPTS
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"Highlight"
JScript for SOFTIMAGE|XSI - Written by Guy Rabiller: Allows the user
to place a ‘highlight specular impact’ on a surface. A tutorial on how to use this script is located here: "Highlight" JScript Tutorial Update! There are now VBS versions.Click here for English or French tutorials on how to use those. Drag and drop theses links from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 to install: HIGHLIGHT (JSCRIPT) HIGHLIGHT_CP(JSCRIPT) HIGHLIGHT (VBSCRIPT) |
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Subregion
Viewer Script - Written by Jean-Louis
Billard -. This script will create a null and an implicit square as
a child of the null. The square will resize according to the subregion
render slider settings so you can adjust the render region visually like
in 3.9 (also see notes in the file) Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 to install: SUBREGION |
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Camera Switcher
Script - Created by Andy
Hayes - Bournemouth
University - This script was made primarily for use with animatics,
when multiple cameras can be combined into one camera enabling an easier
and simpler render. Simply set the desired cameras up in the scene and
run the script. The script then lists all available cameras, where upon
the user can input the desired starting frames for any camera. There is
no need to enter ending frames as each camera will continue to be in use
until the script comes across another camera starting frame. The same
camera can be used more than once, by seperating each starting frame with
a comma. For example to use camera1 from frames 1 to 25, followed by camera2
from frames 26 to 46 and finally back to camera1 for frames 47 to 100,
simply enter "1,47" next to camera1 and "26" next to camera2. The script
is also not order specific, so for example the first camera in the list
does not have to be the first camera used. The script will generate a
new camera and bake the camera selections on to the one camera called
"Render_Me" and it is this camera that the user should render from. The
baked camera also takes into account animated cameras and various fields
of view. Please send commments/suggestions to ahayes@bournemouth.ac.uk Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 to install: CAMERA SWITCHER SCRIPT |
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SOFTIMAGE|XSI LightsRing
Script - by Guy Rabiller -
Click here for a tutorial
on how to use this script. (This tutorial is also avaliable in French)
When you want to animate many lights in a coherent way, this can quickly
becomes a tedious work. With the help of scripting, this could be a lot
easier. Here we want to create a ring of lights, then animate the intensity
of each light in circular patterns, and be able to play with some other
parameters like the 'hardness' of the intensity transition during rotation.
This script has two sides, one for creating such setup, the other will
help us to animate it with the help of customs parameters created specificaly
for this kind of animation. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 to install: LIGHTSRING |
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RenderSets
- Jonathan Katoe - Generates
a .bat file for rendering mi2 files for the current project. This version
allows you to chose passes. All generated batch files are stored under
a folder in your scripts directory (./scripts/Rendersets/). Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 2.0 and above to install: RENDERSETS Are you using XSI 1.5? Then you'll have to use this file: RENDERSETS |
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Image to
Spheres - Michael Isner - Website
- Creates a grid of 3D spheres colored like each is an image pixel. Kind
of like those 70's images made of circles. 1) Select the image source (In the explorer under Project > Sources > Images.) 2) Run the script. 3) Define the object resolution. Setting 10 * 10 will create 100 spheres. You could hack into this pretty easily to get it to work generically with any kind of object Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: IMAGE_TO_SPHERES |
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Layers2passes
- Gerardo Alvarez - Website
- The "Create passes from layers" menu command is too simple.
Running this script will create new render passes for those layers that
have the render visibility flag turned on. The new passes names will be
the same as the name of the corresponding layer, and the objects inside
will have the render visibility flag set acordingly. This script needs
more work. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: LAYERS2PASSES |
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LM_RenderSelectedPasses
- Ludovick Michaud - Janimation
- Tired of writing script for scenes that have 10 passes and you just
want to render 3 specific ones. Well this script is for you. When you
are ready to render and you do not wish to render all passes, but rather
only selected one. Run the script and I'll let you choose toward all your
passes in the current scene and pressing ok will start the render on those
babies. Should work in 1.5, haven't tested it in a while. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: LM_RENDERSELECTEDPASSES |
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.CAMERA SHIFT XSI:"Camera.subfrustum"MR"offset"
- Javier Pahlen - Usage:
Select camera and Run CameraShift.vbs. If you need to modify parameters
just Run script again then Export to mi2 file. Then run the RenderSch.bat
on your Project directory. Limitations: 1. unfortunately xsi2.0.1 has
a bug, it does not write the offset to mental ray, so i wrote a sub to
write a batch to translate the values; in any case, this may be just fine
as this script writes your batches for you! 2. this won't work in Unix
systems. Unix users will have to modify the offset manually (multiply
subrust * image size) Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: CAMERA SHIFT XSI |
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Point
Light Interactive Fall Off by Bernard
Lebel: You shall use this script only when you want a point light
to have falloff values. Have you ever wanted to have visual feedback over
the falloff of a point light? This script is meant to give you this feedback
the easy way. The script will create two spheres. Those spheres, constrained
to a point light (already present), will determine the falloffs of the
light. The inner yellow sphere controls the falloff's start, and the outer
red sphere controls the falloff's end. The falloff values of the light
are driven by simple equivalency expressions. How to use it: Create or select a point light. Be sure that this light is named Point (the default naming). Run the script Scale the spheres in Local and Uniform mode. The expression on the falloff specifies that each scaling value is added then subdivided by 3. If you scale in only one axis, you will end up having a unaccurate falloff. Notes: The script overrides any value you have for the light's Exponent. The script sets it to 1, to make sure that the spheres define accurately the falloff. Also, scaling the light has no effect on the light's falloff nor the spheres' scaling. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: Point Light Interactive Fall Off |
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Batch-Render Filemaker by Paul
Dawson: I have written a script, while studying for a Masters Degree
in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University, England. When run in
XSI it creates two batch files. The first file renders the frames, while
the second file is automatically run from the first and checks the processor
to see if XSIBatch has stopped before the render batch has finished. If
XSI has hung then the last frame rendered is logged as it will probably
be corrupt. These logged frames are erased and re-rendered. This means that overnight/unattended rendering can be achieved without worry! All frames will be rendered. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: XSI Batch-Render Filemaker |
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Lightgen
data script by Robert Ryan -
Website: This script
will import text files created by Lightgen.
I have included the option to use colors based on intensity values. The
script will also create a custom parameter set located under your rig
that will allow you to control sky and ground intensity values globally.
Export a textfile from Lightgen and run the script from XSI. A file dialog will open, choose the textfile and set the options. features so far: You can scale the whole rig by branch-selecting the master model and scale. Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: LightGenScriptMirror: Drag and drop this link from a netview browser within XSI 1.5 and above to install: LightGenScript |
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JAnyImgToMap - By
Javier - Website
- Converts all your standard image files to memory mapped files including
image sequences--increasing render speed. Saves all new .map files to
..ProjectFolder/Pictures/map_x86 keeping existing files intact. Creates
a log file in the same folder. 'Works only for Windows based XSI |
Have you got a helpful script that you
think might be useful to others? Want to get it posted here? Just mail it
to me (EdHarriss@EdHarriss.com),
and I'll put it up!
