Where/How did you learn XSI? Help :)

mayro

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Im doing pretty good with 3d studio max, but its lacking something. After viweing the valve videos on modeling in XSI im determind to use XSI. I have yet to find a site with tutorials for a beginer with their software. Everything is so much differnt modeling in XSI i really havent seen where to begin. Help?
 
mayro said:
Im doing pretty good with 3d studio max, but its lacking something. After viweing the valve videos on modeling in XSI im determind to use XSI. I have yet to find a site with tutorials for a beginer with their software. Everything is so much differnt modeling in XSI i really havent seen where to begin. Help?
Ed Harris and XSIbase would be a good start, and cgtalk, highend3d.
 
valve made videos on modeling in XSI?

-merc
 
what is Max lacking. whatever it is, then youll find more things missing if you change to use XSI HL2. if youre competant in Max, i see no reason for changing, seeing as Max has been top choice for many things so far, and to me HL2 is just good promotion for XSI, bu i may be wrong. in which case, im sure Fenric will put me straight ;)
 
Speaking as someone making the transition, XSI has it's good and bad points in comparison to 3DS. Some of the tools are much better (UV mapping for example) and the workflow seems to be a lot better. It's just a question of getting used to it.
 
Got that right, atleast when XSI crashes 9/10 it manages to save a proper backup of the scene. That was one of the reasons I eventually went with it, a recovery feature that worked :)
 
Meh, Max crashes on average about once a fortnight on me, and that's usually when I've done something really stupid. When it crashes, it attempts to save a backup, which (for me at least) always seems to work. Failing that, the autobackup saves every 10 minutes anyway.

I'm finding it hard to let go :)
 
PiMuRho said:
I'm finding it hard to let go :)

/me smashes and burns Pi's Max.. there that should help :D now come, come to the darkside and use XSI, jooooin ussss
 
3dbuzz would be good for videos... if you didnt have to have a damn star thingy to download their videos!

-merc
 
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