Thank you for downloading Autodesk® SOFTIMAGE 2014.
This readme provides the latest information regarding the Softimage installation. It is recommended that you read this entire document before you install Softimage 2014. For reference, you can save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.
Softimage 2014 is a full product installation and can co-exist with an earlier version of Softimage. An earlier version of Softimage is not required to be uninstalled first.
Contents
This
section provides a list of fixed bugs in
Softimage 2014.
| Defect
ID |
Description |
| Animation | |
| SOFT-2430 | Animated boolean freezes for a few seconds when scrubbing the timeline. |
| SOFT-6228 | Importing/applying FCurve data to timeline dramatically slower. |
| SOFT-6472 | MatchTransform does not provide accurate result. |
| SOFT-6705 | Crash when moving audio clip between tracks and adjusting the clip properties in the Animation Mixer. |
| SOFT-6713 | Material animation lost when exporting to .xsi 3.6. |
| SOFT-7140 | Undo of apply action on global kinematic params removes also constraint. |
| SOFT-7690 | Relative Cycled Stepped FCurves are not always evaluating properly. |
| SOFT-7982 | QFE: Moving keys using Timeline affects whole F-Curve keys not on frames (Auto Snap to Frames). |
| SOFT-8110 | QFE: FCurve Editor | Pan/Zoom tool sticks with Maya interaction mode |
| Camera Sequencer |
|
| SOFT-7340 | Object selection update problem after sequence edit actions |
| SOFT-7402 | CamSeq: "Sequence Next Frame" and "Sequence Prev Frame" are "jumpy" |
| SOFT-7897 | Clip info not showing up Camera Sequencer Layout. |
| Data management |
|
| SOFT-1568 | Incorrect handling of long numerical truncation with naming objects. |
| SOFT-1893 | An expression is removed when moving a related custom parameter set. |
| SOFT-2086 | FBX: Similar duplicated image clips in Render Tree. |
| SOFT-4880 | RefModels: IK affected by StoredPosition and StoredFCurve not refreshing on scene reopen. |
| SOFT-4963 | Errors exporting and re-importing a model with lights and ICETrees. |
| SOFT-5164 | FBX: imported bone is corrupted. |
| SOFT-5448 | Undo is wrong when deleting a deactivated op. |
| SOFT-5681 | FBX: from 123D-Catch crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-5978 | Softimage crashes when "factory.xsiprojects" file and current project are deleted. |
| SOFT-6247 | Crash when importing model into a crowd scene with Arnold add-on. |
| SOFT-6268 | FBX: UV fails to work in FBX. |
| SOFT-6285 | FBX: Texture in cluster look different after import. |
| SOFT-6453 | FBX: Fail to load extremely large data. |
| SOFT-6561 | Camera "projplanewidth" and "projplaneheight" parameters not supported even when supported by FBX SDK. |
| SOFT-6588 | [CER]: Reloading a Saved Scene with An Import Model Failure Crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-6602 | Crash with topo ICE Compound. |
| SOFT-6718 | Incorrect connection in shared material after import. |
| SOFT-6740 | Shape animation defect when importing to Softimage in FBX format. |
| SOFT-6747 | [CER]: Softimage crashes on execution of command XSI_Import_POScene. |
| SOFT-6782 | [CER]: Softimage Crashes in scnmgr While Resolving Relative Path. |
| SOFT-6887 | Incorrectly created Groups in RefModel. |
| SOFT-6931 | Failed to search and replace in external file manager. |
| SOFT-7071 | [Linux] Refmodel: Expression in refmodel crash in linux under several scenario. |
| SOFT-7124 | [CER]: Softimage crashes on importing FBX file. |
| SOFT-7333 | 2GB scene size limit (scn, emdl) in Windows |
| SOFT-7454 | Rename issue for the Delta of nested model ref models. |
| SOFT-7755 | Crash when trying to export a model as a Proxy (Mental Ray assembly). |
| SOFT-7850 | QFE: Crash when importing a model with the Schematic view opened. |
| SOFT-7907 | XSI Crashes Opening PPG of Shader with Expression Pointing to Deleted Camera |
| SOFT-7916 | XSI Crashes when Importing FBX file from Terragen. |
| SOFT-7936 | Merging of same refmodel scene will rename the model incorrectly. |
| SOFT-8042 | QFE: RefModel's base animation layer not active on specific scenario. |
| SOFT-8043 | QFE: RefModel moved out from Group when merged |
| SOFT-8044 | QFE: RefModel delta doesn't keep changes applied on InstanceGroup |
| SOFT-8077 | QFE: FBX Option - Import nulls as models |
| SOFT-8107 | [CER]: Crash on importing certain OBJ files |
| SOFT-8166 | [CER]: Crash on loading RefModel with modifed camera and lights |
| General | |
| SOFT-2878 | Linux: CMDREG error during Setup. |
| SOFT-5527 | Residual folders when Softimage is uninstalled from Windows OS. |
| SOFT-6140 | Deviceparser crashes on execute. |
| SOFT-6188 | Usability issues when using multiple instances of Softimage on Linux. |
| SOFT-6734 | Launching Softimage with -uiscript displays "Autodesk Customer Involvement Program" dialog. |
| SOFT-6884 | [CER]: Crash when restoring default preference value |
| SOFT-7095 | Normals are not affected by an envelope deformation on ICE. |
| SOFT-7298 | [CER]: XSI Crash on playing back scenes with missing properties. |
| SOFT-7276 | Installation fails on CentOS |
| SOFT-7753 | Crash when deleting many objects |
| ICE | |
| SOFT-1836 | Remove Initial State destroys the Strands. |
| SOFT-1879 | Speed up evaluation after connecting nodes with script. |
| SOFT-2179 | Point Reference Frame ICE attribute "jumps" under rotational deformation. |
| SOFT-2397 | Connection breaks in ICE Tree with Cameras and Memos Cam. |
| SOFT-2527 | Exposed ports re-ordered when using ppg groups. |
| SOFT-4903 | Special characters accepted inside ICEtree, are not compatible in the scene. |
| SOFT-5048 | Rigid Bodies simulation result changes with every playback. |
| SOFT-5252 | Exporting a model with GetData ICE node pointing to Playcontrol.In crashes on new scene with creating primitive. |
| SOFT-5266 | XSI crashes when "Sorting Array with Keys". |
| SOFT-5545 | ICE Trees do not evaluate consistently across contexts such as Fcurves and expressions. |
| SOFT-5689 | ICE Tree: Collapsed compounds uncollapse on load. |
| SOFT-6006 | Crash when all the points in a large pointcloud are selected, followed by adjusting Subdivisions. |
| SOFT-6032 | Crash when pointcloud is renamed or the original geometry where the Cache-On File node is deleted. |
| SOFT-6115 | Linux: Softimage consistently hangs or crashes during playback of a large ICE simulation. |
| SOFT-6151 | Displayport value does not appear when accessing kine.global attributes. |
| SOFT-6604 | ICE Topo: Unable to merge hard edges. |
| SOFT-6679 | Particles penetrate into each other in Bullet Rigid Bodies. |
| SOFT-6681 | Instantiated Ref Model with ICE Tree crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-6689 | Create Copies from Polygon Mesh with Point Cloud does not return correct result. |
| SOFT-7348 | Operators become accessible when the node has a reference of itself |
| SOFT-7393 | Memory error or crash when changing group members used by ICE topology. |
| SOFT-7559 | Deleting port on compound results in crash. |
| SOFT-7672 | Mixer interpolation of ICE caches is broken. |
| SOFT-7686 | Crash when using ICE Modeling with Custom Display Host view opened. |
| SOFT-7687 | Broken conversion from quaternions to Euler rotations in custom ICE nodes. |
| SOFT-7693 | Hard crash using AddICEAttribute on populated ICE tree. |
| SOFT-7728 | Crash with locations. |
| SOFT-7785 | Cache on File ICE node PPG overloaded. |
| SOFT-7856 | QFE: UV Heal issue when having an ICE tree driving the UV. |
| SOFT-7857 | QFE: Updating the name of a referenced object is not updated when using the "Reference to String" node. |
| SOFT-8202 | Crowd disappearing in Linux |
| SOFT-8161 | ICE Syflex: Group ID not unique on XSI startup |
| ICE CrowdFX | |
| SOFT-5546 | Extreme slowdown when adding new actor sources. |
| SOFT-6626 | Overwrite does not work when ICE Op has the same name as the Object. |
| SOFT-8301 | Crowd FX: Emitters need to support direction |
| SOFT-8408 | Crowd FX: Idle actions sliding even though actor velocity = 0 and there is no sliding in the original action |
| SOFT-8414 | Crowd FX: Texture jumbled up on crowd actors |
| Modeling | |
| SOFT-1079 | UV Unfold won't work on specific mesh - error - Current edge is not on a frontier. |
| SOFT-2384 | Boolean engine error. |
| SOFT-2415 | Object disappears by moving an object past another in the negative x-axis. |
| SOFT-2714 | Enveloping a mesh to bones that were created with Draw Bone produce unexpected results. |
| SOFT-6026 | [CER]: Performing Boolean Op on a high density polyMesh crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-6143 | Sliders with a range lack precision (split edge op). |
| SOFT-6645 | Applying polygon reduction crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-7752 | Points added in a Custom Topology Operator are not selectable. |
| SOFT-7912 | [CER]: Crash when scrubbing a scene with animated boolean |
| SOFT-8091 | QFE: Symmetry option is deactivated if your object has a transform property |
| Rendering | |
| SOFT-1036 | OGL HQV Environments: Environment ball wireframe showing with 'wireframe on shaded' viewport mode. |
| SOFT-1094 | OGL HQV Shadows: Pointlight shadows incorrectly displayed. |
| SOFT-1261 | Viewport Freezes with ICE UVs. |
| SOFT-1383 | OGL HQV Textures: Spatial support for Image Textures differs from render. |
| SOFT-1394 | Missing Render Tree connections after loading Shader Presets. |
| SOFT-1892 | GenMatColor Map display is all black. |
| SOFT-1970 | CopyPaste Partition to different pass doesn't retain Partition Name. |
| SOFT-2261 | Specific HLSL shader not loaded into scene properly. |
| SOFT-2559 | Crash when exceeding maximum sample value of 8 for Depth of field. |
| SOFT-2587 | Z up and X up are swapped in Incident shader. |
| SOFT-4545 | HQV Shadow Map does not work correctly with transparent material. |
| SOFT-4772 | HQV: Mirror Ball (mip) Environment shader preview support. |
| SOFT-5478 | Long refresh of viewports upon framing all. |
| SOFT-5490 | HQV/RTS: .scr file texture load method is not working with RTS and HQV views. |
| SOFT-5510 | Errors are logged for shaders unsupported by HQV. |
| SOFT-5531 | HQV Warning when switching from Wireframe on Shaded in Textured to High Quality. |
| SOFT-5602 | Soft Shadows are too bright when backface culling is enabled. |
| SOFT-5648 | HQV: Fast Manipulation mode is not fast. |
| SOFT-5668 | HQV: Enabling area light for spotlights affect shadows even though its not supported. |
| SOFT-5769 | OGL HQV: Ambient option for lights not working properly. |
| SOFT-5940 | Support Cg shader blending, culling, alpha and texture wrapping parameters. |
| SOFT-5942 | Broken Shader PPG Logic. |
| SOFT-5944 | Crash when inspecting shaders. |
| SOFT-6029 | Long material name not kept after export. |
| SOFT-6033 | Rendering *.st file output with field rendering causes XSI 2013 to crash. |
| SOFT-6132 | Unhiding hidden polygons yield incorrect render results. |
| SOFT-6149 | Shaders Backcomp: Scenes with old FX Shaders do not show up in DX9 Viewport. |
| SOFT-6163 | Crash at exiting when Render preview window is not active. |
| SOFT-6314 | Texture Editor Preferences: Set default value for snapping to off. |
| SOFT-6417 | Inconsistent results when rendering Pass with ICE attributes. |
| SOFT-6431 | Black viewport for first frame when loading the HQV Garage Scene. |
| SOFT-6442 | Crash with Render Pass without MAIN channel. |
| SOFT-6527 | OpenGL shaders not displayed properly with mixed view mode activated. |
| SOFT-6613 | [CER]: Crash when a group is set as an Area Light source. |
| SOFT-6741 | XSI Crashes When Playing With The Refresh And Lock Button in Render Preview. |
| SOFT-6878 | Save As scene breaks shader animation clip evaluation. |
| SOFT-6879 | Softimage takes very long time loading a sample scene with CgFX shader. |
| SOFT-6890 | Crash with misss_physical shader and Irradiance Particles Enabled. |
| SOFT-7128 | DeleteUnusedImageSources command deletes a used image. |
| SOFT-7290 | XSI crashes within simple interaction on disc primitive. |
| SOFT-7476 | Mental Ray sky Gamma issue. |
| SOFT-7655 | Please support more .dds file format compression types. |
| SOFT-7723 | Resizing a render region while render fragments are being processed causes Softimage to crash. |
| SOFT-7778 | Render region updates in some scenarios even if it is set in manual refresh mode. |
| Texturing | |
| SOFT-1454 | Disable keyable divot for texture type parameters. |
| SOFT-2104 | Unfold Encountered an Error, quits/dumps out of Softimage. |
| SOFT-6314 | Texture Editor Preferences: Set default value for snapping to off |
| SOFT-6494 | [CER]: Unfold Crash when enabling texture display on viewport. |
| SOFT-6691 | Crash when texture editor opens an EmptyPolygonMesh with a Texture Projection. |
| SOFT-6791 | Topo Operator not applied on cluster property when affected by an ICE Tree. |
| SOFT-7365 | Softimage cannot display TIFF with multiple alpha. |
| SOFT-8126 | [CER]: Crash on texture stamping |
| SDK | |
| SOFT-1273 | Workgroup: ProjectSelector Example is Broken. |
| SOFT-1601 | Linux: Cannot load "sqlite3" Python module. |
| SOFT-1658 | NurbsCurve.GetUFromNormalizedU is not returning the correct value. |
| SOFT-1789 | Calling "DisableFaceRobot" in a startup event destabilizes Softimage. |
| SOFT-1932 | Linux: missing _md5module.so and _shamodule.so modules in Python. |
| SOFT-2200 | Crash when calling Geometry.Triangles. |
| SOFT-2321 | C++ PPGItem siControlListBox unable to remove last entry to show an empty list box. |
| SOFT-4656 | CPP HW Shader Plugins can't use a different DLL for implementation. |
| SOFT-5216 | Linux: Error Message when opening Softimage command prompt. |
| SOFT-5717 | Environment.GetPatriarchRigidBodyObjects() and GetPatriarchRigidBodyObjectsCount() crashes Softimage. |
| SOFT-5774 | siControlListBox selection status not cleared when parameter value is out of range or undefined. |
| SOFT-5858 | [CER]: Random crash when opening ICETree or RenderTree on certain scenes. |
| SOFT-5968 | PPGLayout.SetViewPosition on Dual Monitor setup doesn't work. |
| SOFT-5993 | Crash when executing Primitive.GetGeometry3() with no argument. |
| SOFT-6161 | Using an Out-Of-Bond value for Layout.SetViewPosition freezes Softimage. |
| SOFT-6178 | Generated vs2010 .vcxproj contains unwanted characters. |
| SOFT-6232 | ICEAttribute.GetDataArrayChunk offset does not work with user defined ICEAttributes. |
| SOFT-6249 | Crash on closing PPG dialog with GridWidget. |
| SOFT-6286 | SDK: Layer.Parent returns "Softimage" instead of layer's parent (or parent layer). |
| SOFT-6356 | xsiDictParser.pl shipped in bin directory is broken. |
| SOFT-6359 | PassContainer.Passes returns properties but not the passes. |
| SOFT-6478 | [CER]: When you drag-and-drop an emdl file, Softimage crashes if you abort an OnBeginFileImport event. |
| SOFT-6704 | [CER]: XSI Crashes When Unloading A Workgroup With A Custom Renderer & RTCompound With RenderTree Open. |
| SOFT-6709 | Tkinter not working on Softimage 64bit because it is a 32bit dll. |
| SOFT-6737 | The Parent parameter of the CreateGroup command is broken. |
| SOFT-6951 | Groups were incorrectly created under the same model of the selected objects. |
| SOFT-7123 | [CER]: Crash when invoking the Group.Envelopes if the group is nested under other group. |
| SOFT-7496 | Grid Data SDK update affects BeginEdit.EndEdit. |
| SOFT-7499 | Crash when calling GridData.RowCount property. |
| SOFT-7512 | NurbsCurveList.Get2() returns wrong point coords when weights are other than 1.0. |
| SOFT-7637 | Shader not accessible from the material library if its name is the same as its material name. |
| SOFT-7653 | SDK C++: Renderer.LockSceneData method sometimes returns a CStatus value of -1631059961. |
| SOFT-7748 | Boolean parameter default value setting has no effect in SDK Wizard. |
| SOFT-7987 | QFE: ProjectItem.RemoveICEAttribute doesn't work as expected |
| SOFT-8036 | QFE: Please add view attributes support for the Fx Tree. |
| SOFT-8037 | QFE: Getting Camera.FOV parameter value at specific frame returns wrong value when Focal Length parameter is animated |
| SOFT-8076 | QFE: InspectObj SDK command doesn't recycle the PPG when called in a for-loop statement |
| SOFT-8115 | Softimage logs excessive INFO messages about "data not set" on ICEAttributes |
| Simulation | |
| SOFT-5699 | The child objects in a Compound Rigid Bodies do not collide with other objects in the simulation. |
| FaceRobot | |
| SOFT-2591 | Jaw sliding and eye tracking deformation results are not symmetrical. |
| SOFT-7180 | XSI Crashes when exporting mdds while the files are in repository (Read only). |
| UI | |
| SOFT-896 | Width/Height fields are disabled when customizing a toolbar button. |
| SOFT-4914 | ICE Tree UI grid snapping issue |
| SOFT-5325 | Selection cursor not showing pick session mode in the schematic view. |
| SOFT-5810 | Selected Object is not displayed correctly under the correct Pass in the Explorer. |
| SOFT-6429 | Custom layout with more than 2 Tray switchers crash. |
| SOFT-6842 | Rotation tool popping around screen space when polygons are multi-selected for rotate. |
| SOFT-6854 | Set Parameter Color Dialog is Sent To Back After Clicking on Help Button. |
| SOFT-6950 | Help button for User Tools menu should be removed as there is no actual help provided. |
| SOFT-7145 | Ungroup won't work unless users know whether objects have been branched added. |
| SOFT-7611 | StaticKineState properties not visible when Parameter Sort is set to Layout. |
| SOFT-7662 | Plugin Manager: Custom folders containing plug-ins nested under children directories are not populating the UI properly. |
| SOFT-7670 | FCurve display in ICE Compound PPG has overcomplicated interface |
| SOFT-7852 | Display glitch for Animation Editor File > Save(.fraw2) dialog |
| SOFT-7858 | LightProfileWidget is visible on inactive tab. |
| SOFT-7958 | FCurve Parameter on CustomProperty not drawing initial view properly |
| SOFT-7993 | QFE: Parameter divot still animated after deleting animation clips. |
| SOFT-8038 | QFE: Schematic View: Rearrange All affects node positions randomly when you have many views |
| Camera Sequencer | |
| SOFT-8542 | CamSeq: FOV is not plotted correctly when Projection Plane is not enabled |
| SOFT-8559 | CamSeq: Plot All crashes XSI with Animated Material In Scene |
| FBX | |
| SOFT-7107 | [Linux] Material is incorrect for CrowdFX |
| ICE CrowdFX |
|
| SOFT-8423 |
Export Crowd as FBX does
not transfer UV's to FBX file |
| Licensing | |
| SOFT-8085 | W8: Unable to write application > bin > License.env folder via User Tools |
| SOFT-8524 | Softimage License.env may not be recognized correctly in cmd line |
| SOFT-8620 | Suites
| SendTo | Softimage unable to launch, it does not set the license
properly when receiving files from other DCC (Standalone License) Workaround for SOFT-8620: Edit setenv.bat from the bin folder in your installation path (for example: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2014\Application\bin) > SILicMethod=Standalone |
| SDK | |
| SOFT-7604 | [LINUX]: GridData SDK C++ example hangs XSI when siColumnFile cells are double-clicked on |
| SOFT-8167 | CamSeq | SDK: PlotSequencerCamera Redo Results in Missing Animation |
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