Cloth Simulation with SyFlex by Mauro Frau
This article goes through some techniques to create realistic cloth simulation, covering the most important features and potentialities of Syflex. I’ll be referring to XSI 5.0 but I’ll also try to be ...

Lightmap based Ambient Occlusion - Faking FG with sampled Lightmap and AO shader by Vladimir Jankijevic
This tutorial shows a method for generating FinalGather like ambience using the XSIAmbientOcclusion and the Lightmap Color_Sampler shader in XSI. The basic idea behind this, is to create faster and non-flickering ...

Metallic Shader for XSI by Akari naim (funky)
The first thing to do is to create a simple scene to make our test. We create a plane (50*50) and a torus sitting on it. Plane: we assign a dafault Lambert material. Torus: we assign a temporary Phong ...

Toon Shader in XSI by David Drbal
XSI is great tool. It has great animation tools for Toon animation, and also great shaders. It’s easy to get a Toon look just in minutes. Even though it’s that easy you do need to keep in mind a few rules. ...

Wireframe Display for SubD’s by Mobi
This is a quick tutorial to display a subdivided surface (SubD) with its low-res control in wireframe over the top. This tutorial will apply to any SubD surface providing you create it by selecting ...

Fluid Particle tutorial by Kashif Riley
Hi, and welcome to a tutorial for Softimage XSI 4.2. Bear in mind that this is not a modeling tutorial, nor a lesson in using XSI Cloth. It is more of a look at how to use the fluid dynamic particles ...

Cloth by Duncan Burch (Dunky)
SoftImage|XSI has gotten a bit of a bad reputation that it’s cloth simulation isn’t very good. But this tutorial will show you that you can actually achieve realistic results. We will cover various ...

Rigging for Moosah & Chub by Adam Scott
I knew rigging my Moosah and Chub model would be quite the project, but once I understood some of Softimage XSI’s rigging features it went pretty smooth. For this model I created a whole series of soft ...

Basic Weight Painting by Mobi
This tutorial will take you through the basics of weighting, in particular basic weight painting. First get the default male character from XSi, selectall of the body bar the left arm and delete these ...