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Softimage User Guide Index

• 2D and 3D chains
• 2D motion blur
• 2D paint
  • background color, choosing
  • brush
    • choosing
    • cursor
  • brush offset
  • brush properties, setting
  • brush strokes, painting
  • channel mask
  • clearing images
  • cloning
  • color shape properties, editing
  • color shapes
    • adding drop shadows
    • blurring edges
  • colors, choosing
  • ellipse tool
  • elliptical marquee
  • flood fill tool
    • setting properties
  • foreground color, choosing
  • freehand accuracy
  • freehand tool
  • lasso accuracy
  • lasso tool
  • line tool, using
  • magic wand, setting properties
  • mark out shapes tool
  • marquee, hiding
  • mask, channel
  • merging
  • operators
    • editing
    • previewing
  • paint brush tool, using
  • paint mask
  • paint menu
  • paint selection mask
  • raster
  • rectangle tool
  • rectangular marquee tool
  • shape properties, setting
  • shapes
    • animating
    • deleting
    • editing
    • editing points of
    • muting
    • selecting
    • transforming
  • stencil
    • about stencil tools (2D paint)
    • clearing
    • inverting
    • modifying
  • stencil shapes
    • drawing
    • editing
  • stroke shape, editing properties
  • tool properties, setting
  • views
  • workflow
  • See also raster paint, vector paint
• 2D textures
  • about
  • blending with material
  • images, picture formats for
  • tiling
• 2D Tracking
  • about
  • destabilize
  • errors, managing
  • match move
  • motion paths, creating
  • output rectangle
  • rendering options
  • search area
    • repositioning
  • stabilize
  • template
    • repositioning
  • template offset
  • track point
    • offsetting
  • trackers
    • about
    • activating
    • positioning
• 2-point constraints
• 3D motion blur
• 3D textures
  • about
  • tiling
• 3D views
  • Camera view
  • centering selected elements
  • customizing grids in
  • display types See display types
  • framing objects in
  • geometry views
  • memo cams
  • navigating in
  • navigation tools See navigation tools
  • object visibility in
  • panning
  • Realtime Shaders display mode
  • rendering display to file
  • resetting views in
  • Spotlight view
  • tracking in
  • user
  • XYZ buttons
  • zooming
• 3-point constraints
• Absolute shape reference mode, about
• acceleration
  • computing for an object
  • quickstretch
• acceleration limits on rigid bodies
• access keys
• Acclaim (ASF and AMC) files
• action clip effects
  • about
  • adding animation to action clips
  • creating
  • creating effect variables
  • custom parameters in effect variables
  • cycles in (cid)
  • deleting
  • expression
  • math operators and functions in expression
  • nested
  • offset effect
  • timewarps
  • variables in expressions
• action clips
  • about
  • activating items in
  • adding animation to (clip effects)
  • adding markers
  • adding to tracks
  • additive mixing
  • aligning sequences
  • averaged mixing
  • baking into new sources
  • bouncing
  • bridge transition
  • clip effect expression
  • clip effects
  • compound clips
  • copying
  • creating
  • creating new clips from selected objects
  • cycling
  • display information
  • editing data
  • equalizing (frequencies)
  • extrapolation
  • filling the gaps between
  • finding cycles of animation
  • freezing into sources
  • ghosting for overlapped clips
  • holding frames
  • infinite time value
  • linking together with relations
  • locking
  • matching
  • merging static poses into sources
  • merging to create source
  • mixing weights
  • mixing with fcurves on object
  • modifying values
  • moving
  • muting
  • namespace
  • offset effect
  • Offset Map
  • offsetting values
  • pose offset
  • removing
  • renaming
  • scaling
  • selecting
  • selecting clips that drive elements
  • selecting driving objects
  • selecting objects driven by
  • sources and
  • splitting
  • splitting clips based on objects
  • thumbnail images on
  • timewarps
  • timewarps for cycled and bounced clips
  • transitions between
  • trimming (cropping)
  • value-mapping templates for modifying values
  • weighting
• action sources
  • activating and deactivating items in
  • adding keys to
  • applying animation from
  • baking from action clips
  • caching ICE simulations into
  • changing paths in scene TOC
  • clips and
  • copying between models
  • copying compound between models
  • creating
  • creating library of
  • deleting
  • duplicating
  • exporting
  • expressions
  • external sources in files
  • freezing from action clips
  • importing
  • importing SOFTIMAGE|3D files
  • loading presets
  • making into skills for Behavior
  • merging clips to create
  • modifying animation data
  • modifying constraints in
  • modifying expressions in
  • modifying function curves in
  • modifying in/out points
  • muting animation in
  • namespace
  • original animation in
  • pasting
  • plotting animation to
  • removing item from
  • renaming
  • restoring animation
  • returning fcurves to object
  • saving in .xsi or .eani files
  • saving presets
  • sharing between models
  • sharing between objects
  • skeleton poses
  • static poses (current values)
  • storing
  • viewing
  • viewing in fcurve editor
• actions
  • about
  • animation icon state
  • corresponding time in animation editor
  • creating
  • elements in explorer
  • for particle events
  • namespace
  • selecting objects animated with
  • sources and clips
  • storing animation in
  • storing function curves and expressions in sources
  • using with models
  • with other animation
  • workflow overview
  • See also action clips, action sources, animation mixer
• active cameras
• active viewport, preview render with
• actors
  • Behavior
  • generating a Behavior actor
  • importing a Biovision actor
  • importing in dotXSI files
  • saving in dotXSI files
  • setting joint limits
  • terrain (floor)
• actual shape collision geometry for rigid bodies
• Add (Bound) (mixer shader)
• Add Compensate (Blend) (mixer shader)
• Add Forces compound
• add manipulation mode, rotating objects
• Add (mixer shader)
• additive
  • animation mixing
  • mixing for shapes
• additivity See color burn
• add-ons
  • cross-platform
• adjacent components, selecting
  • polygon meshes
  • surfaces
• age, modifying ICE particle values by
• age limit, ICE particles
• age percentage, modifying ICE particle values by
• AI files, importing
• AIFC files (Audio Interchange Format Compressed) files
• AIFF files (Audio Interchange File Format) files
• air friction See drag
• albedo map
  • transferring
  • Ultimapper, activating in
• aliasing
  • controlling (antialiasing)
  • filtering
  • jitter
  • motion blur and
  • sampling
• Align on Velocity compound
• Align Particle to Position compound
• Align Particles to Surface compound
• aligning
  • action clips in sequence
  • geometric components
  • objects
• alpha channels
  • bump maps and
  • creating a displacement map with
  • displaying in FX Viewer
  • displaying in render region
  • premultiplying with RGB
  • splitting from RGB channels
• Alt key on Linux
• ambience
  • and toon shading
  • scene ambiance
• ambient channel
• ambient illumination
  • about
  • blending with 2D textures
• ambient occlusion
  • about
  • ambient occlusion shader, connecting
  • bright color
  • caching
  • color at vertices property, storing in
  • dark color
  • enabling
  • environment sampling
  • global options, setting
  • output mode
  • rays
  • render pass
  • samples
  • sampling distance
  • shader options, setting
  • spread
• ambient occlusion map
  • and caching results
  • generating with RenderMap
  • generating with Ultimapper
  • transferring with Ultimapper
• AMC (Acclaim Motion Capture) files
• anchor (zero) keys in animation layer
• angles, cone of light
• angular motion
• ANI (animation) files, importing as action sources
• Animate toolbar
• animated randomize See shape jitter deformation
• animated texture See sequence texture
• animating, pivot pose
• animation
  • and actions
  • baking into one source
  • capturing in viewport (flipbook)
  • capturing information with devices
  • character
  • commands for
  • copying and pasting
  • creating curves from
  • cycles of function curves
  • duplication objects from
  • editing function curves in fcurve editor
  • editing in dopesheet
  • frequencies
  • high-level
  • information in scene (info scene)
  • layers of
  • levels of in Softimage
  • local and global transforms
  • locking
  • low-level
  • modifying original in action sources
  • muting
  • offsetting
  • on paths
  • order of operations
  • overview
  • playback range in timeline
  • playing
  • plotting
  • previewing in flipbook
  • removing
  • restoring from action sources
  • reversing
  • sample for characters
  • scaling
  • sequence, viewing with si3d_flipbook standalone
  • setting preferences
  • shape
  • sharing between scenes
  • storing in actions
  • timing
  • topology operators
  • transformations
  • visual cues
  • See also expressions
• animation (action) tracks in animation mixer
• animation construction region
• animation cues
• animation curves See function curves
• animation editor
  • displaying
  • displaying action sources
  • displaying other editors
  • dopesheet in
  • explorer in
  • expressions in
  • fcurve editor in
  • function curves in
  • playback cursor
  • scripted operators in
  • setting preferences for explorer
  • timeline
• animation evaluation cycles
• animation icon
  • about
  • actions
  • expressions
  • in property editor
• animation layers
  • about
  • animation mixer and
  • base layer
  • collapsing layers into base layer
  • copying fcurves
  • creating
  • deleting
  • duplicating
  • editing layer fcurves
  • editing layer keys
  • ghosting animation in
  • keying rotations in
  • muting
  • removing animation from
  • renaming
  • retiming animation in
  • setting keys in
  • setting zero (anchor) keys in
  • soloing
  • weighting layer clip in mixer
  • workflow
• Animation menu in Animation panel
• animation mixer
  • about
  • action clips in
  • adding shape clips to tracks
  • adding tracks
  • additive or normalized weight mixing
  • animation layer clips in
  • audio clips in
  • bridge transition
  • cache clips
  • Cardinal transition
  • clips
  • compound clips
  • copying clips
  • copying information between scenes
  • corresponding time in animation editor
  • crossfading between clips
  • custom folders
  • displaying
  • exporting
  • extrapolating
  • file cache tracks
  • file input operators in
  • for character animation
  • frame range
  • framing clips in
  • ghosting overlapping clips
  • image clips in
  • importing
  • loading plotted cache files
  • locking clips
  • markers on clips
  • matching range to timeline
  • mixing clips
  • mixing constraints in
  • models and
  • muting and soloing tracks
  • muting clips
  • opening for model
  • panning in
  • playing clips
  • preferences
  • reconnecting after importing
  • removing clips from tracks
  • removing tracks
  • renaming tracks
  • rippling clips
  • rotation mixing, Euler and Quaternion
  • scaling clips
  • selecting tracks
  • selection tools
  • shape animation in
  • shape clips in
  • splitting clips
  • standard transition
  • timewarps
  • timewarps for cycled and bounced clips
  • tracks (animation, shape, and audio)
  • transitions between clips
  • trimming clips
  • updating
  • view options
  • zooming
• Animation panel
• animation pivot
• animation trails
• anisotropic shading model
• annotating objects
• antialiasing
  • and motion blur
  • and toon ink lines
  • diagnostic rendering mode
  • for hair
  • tips & tricks
  • See also aliasing
• APIs (application programming interfaces)
• application data paths
  • installation (factory)
  • user
  • workgroup
• applying
  • animation from action source
  • shape keys
• approximation
  • geometry
  • object surface
  • See also surface approximation
• arc rotation
• archives
• area lights
  • 3D manipulators
  • about
  • manipulators
  • soft shadows with
  • switching on and off
  • toggling off
  • transforming
• arguments (in scripting)
  • omitting
  • passing in batch scripts
  • specifying while creating custom commands
  • using the -args switch for batch scripting
• articulated chains
  • converting (SOFTIMAGE 3D)
  • See chains
• ASF (Acclaim Skeleton) files
• aspect ratio, setting
• assemblies
• assembling surface meshes
• Assembly language
• asset description language
• associate light
• atmosphere See ambience
• attenuating hair length
• attenuation See falloff
• attraction force
  • ICE particles to a null
  • ICE particles to a point in space
  • ICE particles to an object
  • ICE particles to each other
• attractors
  • force for simulation (magnet)
  • goals for particles
• Attribute Color shader, using particle color in render tree
• attribute shaders (ICE)
• attributes
  • displaying attribute values
  • displaying object attributes
  • getting and setting ICE particle
  • transferring and merging
• audio
  • capturing with animation
  • deleting sources and clips
  • displaying waveform on clip
  • enabling in preferences
  • exporting with flipbook images
  • frame rate
  • in animation mixer
  • looping
  • muting
  • output monitor
  • quick loop mode for playback
  • sampling rate
  • scrubbing
  • supported file formats
  • synchronizing with animation while scrubbing
  • tracks in animation mixer
  • trimming in and out frames
  • viewing waveforms in fcurve editor
• audio clips
  • adding markers
  • creating
  • linking together with relations
  • locking
  • marking
  • moving
  • muting
  • namespace
  • offsetting start frame
  • playing
  • removing
  • renaming
  • selecting
  • synchronizing with animation
  • See also animation mixer
• audio sources, namespace
• auto button (autokeying)
• autokeying
  • as default mode
  • setting keyframes automatically
• automatic discontinuity
• Automatic Envelope Assignment property
• auxiliary data
  • about
  • defining
  • loading
• AVI (Audio Video Interleave) files
• AVI files, creating from rendered sequences
• avoidance, between particles
• avoiding obstacles, ICE particles
• axes
  • specifying for manipulation
  • XYZ
• backdrops See rotoscopy
• backed-up scenes, restoring
• background images, matching See rotoscopy
• background plates See rotoscopy
• backgrounds
  • environment mapping
  • rotoscopy
• backplates See rotoscopy
• baking
  • action clips into sources
  • rigid body simulations
• baking animation, see plotting
• ball and socket constraint for rigid bodies
• barycentric coordinates for hair
• base layer (animation layers)
• base pose <Italic>See neutral poses
• base shape, modifying in shape manager
• batch rendering
  • about
  • command-line options
  • options
• batch scripts
  • about
  • preparing scripts
  • running
  • setting environment
  • specifying arguments
  • specifying procedures
• beauty pass
• Behavior Export tool
  • about
  • actors
  • collision spheres
  • floors (terrain actors)
  • generating an actor
  • home (default) pose for character
  • importing a Biovision actor
  • importing an actor in a dotXSI file
  • initializing the character
  • loopable skills
  • making skills from actions
  • opening toolbar
  • overview of workflow
  • render setup
  • RTKNode property
  • saving the actor in a dotXSI file
  • setting joint limits
  • setting up character hierarchy
  • tagging COG node
  • tagging foot node
  • visibility of node in Behavior viewer
• behavior states, ICE particles
• belly control in character rigs
• bend deformation
• bend resistance for cloth
• Bend Strands compound
• bending, ICE particle strands
• beveling
  • polygon mesh components
  • text
  • when converting curves
• billboard (2D) shader for particles
• billboards, ICE particles
• bind poses See reference poses
• binormals
  • about
  • applying binormal property
  • exporting (collada)
  • exporting (dotXSI)
• Biovision (BVH) files
  • importing
  • importing actor for Behavior
  • retargeting to rig
• biped tags, matching actions clips
• bipeds
  • control set
  • creating dog leg rig from guide
  • creating rig from guide
  • foot roll
  • hierarchy setups
  • predefined rigs
  • proportional guide for dog leg rigs
  • proportional guide for rigs
  • roll division
  • shadow rigs
• birail
• bitmaps, on tray switcher buttons
• blend shape deformers See shape animation
• blending
  • between forward and inverse kinematics on a chain
  • clips weights in animation mixer
  • constraints with each other or animation
  • curves
  • effector and bone orientation
  • linking effector orientation with chain's FK/IK blend
  • material and 2D textures
  • polygon meshes
  • surfaces
  • texture layers
• blending materials and textures, imported from SOFTIMAGE|3D
• blending modes, texture layers
• Blinn shading model
• blob shader (3D) for particles
• blobs, ICE particles
• blocking out a rough animation
• blur
  • static for particles
  • See also motion blur
• body
  • designing with predefined model
  • pre-built models
• bones
  • about
  • adding to chain
  • aligning root with first bone's orientation
  • blending with effector's orientation
  • changing axis alignment
  • changing size
  • creating spines
  • inheriting the scaling
  • keying rotation for all
  • resetting angle (preferred rotation)
  • resetting preferred rotation
  • resizing
  • rolling in an IK chain
  • rotating in order
  • shadows
  • system See skeletons
  • See also skeletons, chains
• boning
• Boolean
  • operations on polygon meshes
  • operators in expressions
  • parameters in dopesheet
• Bounce Off Surface compound
• bouncing
  • clips in animation mixer
  • file input operators
  • ICE particles
  • using the cycle ID in action clip values
• boundaries
  • about
  • polygon meshes
  • selecting
  • snapping
• boundary flags
  • curves
  • surfaces
• bounding box display type
• bounding boxes, moving center to
• bounding plane constraint
• bounding shapes for rigid body collisions
• bounding volume constraint
• bounding volumes in envelopes
  • about
  • associating
  • combining
  • creating
  • dissociating
  • exclusive
  • inclusive
  • limit
  • types
• bounding-box manipulators
• bracketing parameters
• branch deformations
• branch selection
• branches
  • in hierarchies
  • selecting in hierarchies
• break tangent (fcurves)
• breaking chains
• bridge transition in animation mixer
• bridging
  • edges
  • polygons
• Brownian noise for particles
• browsers
  • accessing a network
  • accessing files in
  • opening
  • path controls
  • setting favorites in
  • viewing files in
  • viewing folders in
• brush properties
  • symmetry
• brushing, points
• brushing hair See styling hair
• brushing hair
• BSP, using older acceleration method for mental ray
• BSP tree, for hair
• BSP2 acceleration method
• bulge deformation
• bump maps
  • 2D textures and
  • about
  • adding maps
  • alpha channel
  • applying without a surface image
  • bump factor
  • bump map generator
  • bump scale
  • computing using separate projection
  • creating
  • scaled objects and
  • troubleshooting
  • using normal maps
• buttons, in tray switchers
• BVH (Biovision) files
  • importing Biovision actor for Behavior
  • retargeting to rig
• BVRN (Behavior render setup) files
• Bézier knots
  • adding to curves
  • drawing curves
  • removing
• C0 continuity
• C2 continuity
• C3D mocap data files, retargeting to rig
• Cache on File node
• caching
  • cache clips in the mixer
  • creating cycles to cache
  • default paths for cache files
  • file cache tracks in the mixer
  • file formats
  • hair files for playback
  • ICE simulations
  • ICE simulations with ICE attributes
  • loading plotted cache files into the animation mixer
  • plotting animation or simulation into files
  • PTP files for particle playback
  • rigid body simulations
  • simulation of spring operator
• cage deformations
• Camera view
• cameras
  • about
  • active camera
  • and object render archives
  • animating
  • aspect ratio of
  • camera object
  • centering selected elements
  • combination mode
  • creating
  • default
  • depth of field
  • direction
  • distance to
  • dollying with
  • driving with
  • field of view
  • flying with
  • focal length
  • framing elements with
  • interest
  • interest animation
  • keyframing position
  • lens offsets
  • lens shaders, about
  • lens shaders stack
  • motion blur
  • multiple
  • navigation tool
  • optimizing
  • orbiting speed
  • orbiting with
  • orthographic
  • panning speed
  • perspective
  • pivoting with
  • positioning
  • projection
    • applying
  • projection methods
  • projection plane settings
  • redoing moves
  • render pass
  • render pass camera
  • resetting
  • resetting position
  • rig
  • roll, animating
  • rolling with
  • root
  • selecting
  • selection filter
  • setting display options for
  • shifting the optical center of
  • shutter speed
  • switching
  • synchronizing
  • telephoto
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • types of
  • undoing moves
  • viewpoints
  • views
  • walking with
  • wide angle
  • zoom speed
  • zooming with
• capturing
  • animation in viewport
  • animation information with devices
• Cardinal transition
  • between clips in animation mixer
  • for shape clips
• Cartesian coordinates, transformations using
• cartoon effects, toon shaders
• caster
  • reflection
  • refraction
  • transparency
• casters
  • caustics
  • final gathering
  • global illumination
  • shadow
• Catmull-Clark subdivision
• caustic
  • casters, grouping
  • receivers, grouping
• caustics
  • about
  • adjusting
  • caster
  • defining an emitter
  • diagnostic rendering mode
  • displaying
  • filtering
  • intensity
  • multiplier
  • number of photons
  • optimizing
  • photon depth
  • photon reflection
  • receiver
  • refraction
  • render region
  • rendering
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • tuning
  • visibility
  • workflow
• CAV See color at vertices
• Cell Scalar shader (ICE)
• center of mass, rigid bodies
• centering selected elements in views
• centers
  • about
  • animating transformations
  • moving to bounding box center
  • moving to vertices
  • rotations and
  • scaling and
  • transforming
• centripetal parameterization
• Cg language
• chains
  • 2D or 3D
  • about
  • adding bones to
  • animating on path
  • animating with forward kinematics (bone rotation)
  • animating with inverse kinematics (translating effector)
  • blending forward and inverse kinematics (FK/IK blending)
  • bone axis alignment
  • bones
  • breaking
  • changing shape of elements
  • changing size of elements
  • controlling orientation
  • creating
  • creating from curves
  • critical zone at root
  • display of
  • displaying joint circles
  • displaying only chain elements
  • drawing in symmetry
  • drawing SOFTIMAGE|3D style
  • duplicating in symmetry (mirroring)
  • effectors
  • elements in explorer
  • forcing IK behavior
  • in hierarchy (skeleton)
  • joints
  • keying rotation for all bones
  • Kinematic Chain property editor
  • orientation of effector
  • parts of
  • preferred angles of joints
  • preferred angles when drawing
  • preferred axis of rotation
  • preventing flipping
  • pseudo-roots (pinning joints)
  • resizing bones
  • resizing by moving joints
  • resolution plane
  • rolling a bone for IK chains (in X)
  • root
  • rotation limits for joints
  • shadows for elements
  • solving IK behavior
  • stiffness in joints
  • storing kinematics in actions
  • storing poses in actions
  • subchains
  • up-vector constraints (up direction)
  • See also bones, effectors, joints, skeletons
• chamfering See beveling
• channel box, See keying panel
• channels
  • width for rendering
  • see also render channels
• character animation
  • animating with kinematics
  • biped dog leg rig
  • biped rig
  • blocking out rough
  • creating custom parameter sets
  • custom toolbars
  • models in
  • motion capture
  • naming elements
  • overview of process
  • predefined body
  • predefined skeletons and envelopes
  • quadruped rigs
  • rigs for controlling movement
  • rotoscopy
  • sample animation
  • skeletons
  • synoptic views
  • transform setups
  • using animation mixer
  • using layers and groups
• character designer
• Character Development Kit for SDK
• character key selecting
• character key sets
  • adding parameters to
  • creating
  • creating subcharacter key sets
  • deleting
  • in character rigs
  • overview
  • removing parameters from
  • renaming
  • selecting objects from
  • setting keys with
  • setting the current one
  • storing in actions
• character mapping, see retargeting animation, tagging
• character sets, see character key sets
• checkerboard for texturing
• Child Transform Compensation
• children
• ChldComp
• CHM (how to use this guide)
• chord-length parameterization
• cid (cycle ID) token for action clips
• Cineon, lookup table for FX Tree
• classic scaling
• cleaning
  • curves
  • surfaces
  • vertices while dissolving
• cleaning up, polygon meshes
• clip effects
  • applying
  • see action clip effects
• clip relations
• clipping, intensity, motion blur and
• clipping planes
  • cameras and
  • optimizing
  • setting
• clips
  • image See image clips
  • namespaces
  • See also action clips, audio clips, compound clips, image clips, shape clips
• clone painting (2D paint)
• cloned parameters See proxy parameters
• cloning
  • spawning ICE particles
• closing
  • curves
  • primitives
  • surfaces
• cloth simulation
  • about
  • choosing geometry
  • clusters for local effects
  • collisions with obstacles
  • creating
  • elements in explorer
  • envelopes and
  • motion blur
  • muting
  • nailing or pinning areas
  • natural forces
  • optimizing performance
  • playing
  • precision of (iterations per frame)
  • removing
  • resistance to deformation (shear, bend, stretch)
  • restarting
  • sample scenes
  • saving
  • speed of
  • spring nets
  • stiffness
  • stitching pieces
  • Syflex
• clouds
  • creating particle
  • explosion
  • fluid
  • static particles
• clumping hair
• cluster animation
• cluster center deformation
• cluster shape combiner
  • in object's construction region
• clusters
  • about
  • adding components
  • and shape animation
  • animating
  • centers
  • changing display order
  • constraining objects to center
  • constraining objects to particles
  • constraining to objects
  • creating
  • deforming
  • deforming particles
  • display colors
  • displaying
  • local materials and textures
  • local reference frames
  • locking
  • moving
  • namespaces
  • on cloth
  • on hair
  • order of operators and
  • overlapping
    • changing display order of
    • setting default behavior
  • overlapping materials and textures
  • overlapping materials on
  • polygon, hiding
  • reassigning to envelope deformers locally
  • reference frames
  • removing
  • removing components
  • rendermapping
  • reordering
  • selecting
  • shape animation on
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • transferring and merging
  • transforming
  • user data
  • visibility property on polygons
  • weighting in shapes
• CMYK in color editor
• coagulate force, ICE particles
• COG mode
  • for components
  • rotations
  • scaling
  • snapping
  • translations
• COG node in Behavior actor
• COLLADA files
  • exporting
  • importing
  • importing as referenced models
• collapsing
  • animation layers into base layer
  • hierarchies
  • operators in the stack
  • polygon mesh components
• collision spheres for Behavior actor
• collisions
  • acceleration and velocity limits
  • accuracy for rigid bodies
  • activating
  • actual shape
  • animated deformations on objects
  • between particles
  • bounding shapes
  • convex hull
  • elasticity and friction
  • ICE particles
  • layers for
  • muting
  • particle events
  • rigid body
• CollisionScale attribute, ICE rigid bodies
• CollisionShape attribute, ICE rigid bodies
• CollisionSize attribute, ICE rigid bodies
• color, ICE particles
• color at vertices
  • about
  • and painting objects
  • displacement and
  • ICE trees and
  • local materials on clusters
  • property
    • creating
    • renaming
  • rendering
  • transferring and merging
  • transparency and
• Color attribute
• color burn for particles
• color clipping in image processing
• color correction
  • color correct (fx operator)
  • color correction (shader)
  • global display preference
  • image clips (reference)
• color gradients, shader for ICE particles
• color management
• color sampler shader
• colors
  • ambient for particle shaders
  • CMYK
  • custom color
  • defining with sliders
  • editors
  • envelopes
  • gradient shader for particles
  • hair
  • ICE trees and
  • models (RGB, HLS, HSV)
  • particle shader
  • particles
  • picker
  • scene
  • specular for particle shaders
• colors at vertices, on polygon clusters
• combing hair
• command box
• command line, running scripts
• command line panel
• command logs
• command-line options
  • starting Softimage
  • starting Softimage on Windows
• commands
  • about
  • adding to toolbars
  • choosing
  • custom
  • for animation
  • help
  • levels
  • logging
  • menu
  • MergeScene
  • redoing
  • repeating
  • running automatically
  • typing
  • undoing
  • where they are logged
• comments
  • adding to custom parameter sets
  • for expressions
  • ICE trees and
  • in VBScript
  • See also annotating objects
• comparing picture files
  • diffpic standalone
  • imf_diff standalone
• compensation, offsets between constrained objects
• Component > Attach/Detach Volume Deform
• Component > Mark Hard Edge/Vertex
• Component > Move Point
• Component > Proportional
• Component > Proportional Setup
• Component > Relative Mode
• Component > Set Edge/Vertex Crease Value
• Component > View Plane Pivot Transform Tool
• Component > View Plane Proportional Transform Tool
• components
  • about
  • adding to clusters
  • animating
  • creating clusters
  • curves
  • deforming
  • deselecting
  • display options
  • displaying
  • local reference frames
  • navigating
  • polygon meshes
  • removing from clusters
  • selecting
  • selecting loops
  • selecting polygon mesh
  • selecting ranges
  • selection filters
  • sliding
  • surfaces
  • transforming
  • transforming independently
  • tweaking
  • types
  • user data
• composite standalone
• compositing
  • layout
  • passes
  • picture files (composite standalone)
  • preferences
  • tools
  • See also FX Tree, FX Viewer, FX Operator Selector, FX Operators
• compound, rigid bodies
• compound clips
  • about
  • adding markers
  • clip effects
  • copying
  • copying between models
  • creating
  • extrapolation
  • ghosting
  • holding frames
  • infinite time value
  • linking together with relations
  • mixing shapes
  • mixing weights
  • moving
  • opening and closing
  • removing
  • removing clips from (undoing)
  • renaming
  • scaling
  • selecting
  • shapes in
  • timewarps
  • transitions between
  • trimming (cropping)
  • weighting
• compounds, shaders in render tree
• conditional, expressions
• cone angle in light
• connection icon
  • applying shaders with
  • texturing with
• connection point for generators
• connection-mapping templates
  • for sharing actions
  • resolving unconnectable parameters
• connections, scripted operators
  • defined
  • using
• Constant display type
• constant interpolation for function curves
• Constant shading model
• constants, in expressions
• Constrain > Child Transform Compensation
• Constrain > Select Constraining Objs
• Constrain Strand Length compound
• constraints
  • about
  • activating and deactivating (muting)
  • aligning with normals of curves
  • aligning with normals of objects
  • blending multiple
  • blending with animation
  • blending with chain's IK/FK blend
  • bounding-plane
  • bounding-volume
  • cluster center
  • cluster to object
  • combining with expressions
  • combining with scripted operators
  • compensation (offsetting)
  • controlling between rig and shadow rig
  • coupling behavior
  • curve (path) with chains
  • curve (U value)
  • direction
  • distance
  • elements in explorer
  • evaluation cycles
  • global space
  • in character rigs
  • linking parameters
  • mixing in animation mixer
  • modifying action sources
  • modifying in action clips
  • motors for rigid body constraints
  • multiple
  • multiple (n) points
  • muting in dopesheet
  • object to cluster center
  • objects to particle clusters
  • offsets between objects
  • order of
  • orientation (rotation)
  • parent
  • pinning an object in place
  • plotting transformation parameters
  • pose (scaling, orientation, and position)
  • position
  • preferred axis for chains
  • referenced models and
  • removing
  • rigid body
  • scaling
  • schematic view
  • selecting objects animated with
  • selecting the constrained object
  • selecting the constraining object
  • spreadsheet query
  • storing in actions
  • surface normals
  • symmetry
  • tangency
  • three-point
  • to curve (path)
  • two-point
  • undoing
  • up-vector
  • up-vector for chains
  • viewing information
• construction history See modeling relations, operator stack
• construction modes
  • about
  • post-simulation
  • secondary shape modeling
  • setting
  • shape modeling
  • simulation
  • viewing
• construction regions
  • Post Simulation (ICE)
  • Simulation (ICE)
• context menus
  • about
  • explorer
• continuity
  • across subsurface junctions
  • NURBS
• continuous rotation
  • fcurves
  • plotting
• contour stretch UVs texture projection
• contours
  • detecting for toon rendering
  • offsetting polygons
• Control Displacement Instance Animation compound
• Control Instance Animation compound
• control objects
  • about
  • lattices
  • volume deformers
  • waves
• control points See points
• control rigs for character animation See rigs
• control splines
  • for facial animation rigs
  • in rigs for approximating body volume
• control vertices See points
• conversion nodes, inserting in the render tree
• conversion shaders
  • about
  • editing
  • inserting from a property editor
• converting
  • any file format (imgconv standalone)
  • curves to polygon meshes
  • expressions to function curves
  • image files to memory-map textures
  • object translation to a path
  • quaternion and Euler rotations
  • raw and standard function curves
  • referenced models
  • surfaces to polygon meshes
• convex hull collision geometry for rigid bodies
• Cook-Torrance shading model
• coordinates
  • Cartesian
  • global and local
• coplanar
• copying
  • animation
  • clips in the animation mixer
  • custom parameter sets
  • expressions
  • external files to projects
  • link animation
  • objects between scenes with models
  • polygon mesh components
  • render options
  • shape animation
  • shape animation between scenes
• Coriolis force in fluid
• coupling behavior for constraints
• creases on subdivision surfaces
  • about
  • creating
  • painting
• Create > Text
• Create Strands compound
• critical zone at chain root
• cropping, clips in the animation mixer
• crossfading, between clips in animation mixer
• cross-platform, add-ons
• Crosswalk for Max
• Crosswalk for Maya
• Crosswalk for Softimage
• Crosswalk setup
• cubic projection
  • about
  • applying
  • preset, saving and loading
• curvature continuity
• Curve > Add-Point Tool by Bezier-Knot Points
• Curve > Add-Point Tool by CVs
• Curve > Add-Point Tool by Knot Points
• Curve > Align Bezier Handles
• Curve > Align Bezier Handles Back to Forward
• Curve > Align Bezier Handles Forward to Back
• Curve > Blend
• Curve > Clean
• Curve > Delete Point Tool
• Curve > Draw Cubic by Bezier-Knot Points
• Curve > Draw Cubic by CVs
• Curve > Draw Cubic by Knot Points
• Curve > Draw Linear
• Curve > Extract from Edges
• Curve > Extract from Subcurves
• Curve > Extract from Surface
• Curve > Extract Segment
• Curve > Fillet Intersection
• Curve > Fit on Curve
• Curve > Insert Bezier-Knot
• Curve > Insert Knot
• Curve > Intersect Surfaces
• Curve > Inverse
• Curve > Make Bezier-Knots Corners
• Curve > Make Knot Segments Linear
• Curve > Make Knots Bezier
• Curve > Make Knots Non-Bezier
• Curve > Merge
• Curve > Open/Close
• Curve > Raise Degree
• Curve > Remove Knots
• Curve > Reparameterize
• Curve > Set Knots Multiplicity
• Curve > Shift U
• Curve > Stitch
• Curve > Tweak Curve
• curve boundaries
  • about
  • selecting
• curve editor See fcurve editor
• curve net
• curves
  • about
  • adding knots
  • adding points
  • blending
  • boundary flags
  • building polygon meshes
  • building surfaces
  • cleaning
  • closing
  • components
  • constraining objects to
  • constraining objects to (path)
  • continuity
  • converting to polygon meshes
  • creating chains from
  • creating from animation
  • cubic
  • deforming by
  • deforming components and clusters
  • degree
  • deleting points
  • drawing
  • emitting hair from
  • exploding text to
  • exploding to mesh hierarchy
  • extending surfaces to
  • extracting from edges
  • extracting from subcurves
  • extracting from surfaces
  • extracting segments
  • filleting
  • fitting
  • freehand
  • from text
  • geometry approximation
  • hulls
  • ICE particles flowing along
  • importing EPS and AI files
  • intersecting surfaces
  • inverting
  • knots
  • length
  • linear
  • merging
  • multiknots
  • on terrain actor for Behavior
  • opening
  • points
  • projecting onto surfaces
  • raising degree
  • removing knots
  • reparameterizing
  • segments
  • shifting U
  • sketching
  • stitching
  • subcurves
  • subdivisions
  • transforming components and clusters
  • weight maps on
  • See also function curves
• custom, preferences
• custom attributes in ICE
• custom color
• custom commands
  • about
  • adding to toolbars
  • creating
  • importing and exporting
  • modifying
  • names
  • parsing
  • running
  • sharing
  • specifying arguments
  • undoing
  • See also commands, scripts
• custom display host
• custom displays, viewports, displaying in
• custom filters, for smoothing geometry
• custom menus
• custom operators, self-installing' operators, custom self-installing
• custom parameter sets
  • about
  • copying
  • DirectX realtime shaders and
  • in shape manager
  • namespaces
  • OpenGL realtime shaders and
  • script-based
  • simple
• custom parameters
  • about
  • adding notes
  • and expressions
  • connecting with animation
  • creating
  • creating sets
  • deleting
  • displaying in 3D views
  • editing
  • effect variables in clip effects
  • for particles
  • in explorer
  • namespaces
  • proxy
  • storing in actions
  • using as global scripting variables
• custom property
• custom property editors with proxy parameters
• Custom Property Set Wizard
• custom shaders, using with distributed rendering
• custom slider panels, for shape weights
• custom variables, scripted operators
  • defined
  • using
• customizing, viewport grid
• cutting, polygons
• cutting clips in animation mixer
• cutting hair
  • cut map
  • cut operator
• cutting links in hierarchies
• CVs See points
• cycle ID (cid token) for action clips
• CycleChecking command
• cycles
  • checking for animation
  • clips in animation mixer
  • creating for function curves
  • in action clips
  • in clip effects
  • using the cycle ID in action clip values
• cycling
  • file input operators
  • through floating views
• cylindrical texture projection
• dampening, effect of dynamics on hair
• Darker (mixer shader)
• dds file format
• deactivating See muting
• death events See particle events
• deceleration
• default image (no_icon)
• default pass See beauty pass
• default reference planes
• deform motion
  • about
  • defining step marks
  • setting biped tags
• deformation motion blur (local)
• deformations
  • about
  • bend
  • branch mode
  • bulge
  • by cage
  • by curve
  • by lattice
  • by motion
  • by spine
  • by surface
  • by volume
  • cloth
  • cluster center
  • clusters
  • clusters of particles
  • components
  • fold
  • footsteps
  • for shape poses
  • ICE trees and
  • muting
  • muting in dopesheet
  • on hair
  • on hair with Stretchy mode
  • on particle systems
  • operators
  • push
  • quickstretch
  • randomize
  • relax
  • shape jitter
  • shear
  • shrinkwrap
  • smooth
  • soft body
  • soft body and envelopes
  • spine
  • taper
  • textures and
  • tree mode
  • twist
  • vortex
• deformers
  • adding to envelopes
  • envelopes
  • removing from envelopes
• degree
  • of curves
  • of surfaces
• degree 0 continuity
• degree 2 continuity
• deinterlacing, image clips
• Delaunay tesselation method
• Delete Particles Upon Age Limit compound
• DeleteAll command
  • arguments
  • can't undo
• deleting
  • animation
  • custom parameters
  • key points on function curves
  • points on curves
  • polygon mesh components
  • proxy parameters
  • scene layers
  • scenes
  • shape keys
  • See also removing
• deltas, with referenced models
• density
  • fluid particles (mean distance)
  • gradient shader for ICE particles
  • of hair
  • shape of rendered ICE particles
• dependency cycles between animated objects
• depth
  • displaying in render region
  • pass
• depth fading
  • about
  • creating with volume shader
  • creating with volumic property
• depth map
  • generating with rendermap
  • Ultimapper, activating in
• depth of field
• depth-mapped shadows See shadow maps
• desaturation in image processing
• deselecting
  • in explorer
• destabilizing images See 2D Tracking
• detaching
  • polygons, see extracting polygons, disconnecting polygons
  • See also disconnecting
• details, level of, see LODs
• device drivers
  • activating for use
  • adding to list
  • capturing animation information
  • function curves created by capturing
  • managing
  • removing from list
  • setting up channels
• Device Manager
• diagnostic rendering
• dicing, polygons
• Difference (mixer shader)
• difference of polygon meshes
• diffpic standalone
• diffuse channel
• diffuse illumination
  • about
  • blending with 2D textures
• dihedral angle
• direction, of ICE particle emission
• direction constraints
• directional lights See infinite lights
• DirectX realtime shaders
  • 2D textures
  • about
  • Assembly language
  • coordinate manipulation of textures
  • cubic textures
  • custom parameter sets and
  • displaying in 3D views
  • drawing effects
  • effects (.fx files)
  • fixed function shading
  • fragment shaders (setting up with dx program - hlsl)
  • lighting per-pixel example (programmable)
  • Microsoft High Level Shading Language (HLSL)
  • multi-texturing
  • pixel shaders (about)
  • pixel shaders (setting up with dx program - hlsl)
  • pixel shaders (setting up with dxpixel shader - assembly)
  • programmable
  • reflection map example (fixed function)
  • SAS binding semantics (effects shaders)
  • softimage semantics (dx program - hlsl)
  • texture setup
  • texture targets
  • vertex shader input semantics (effects shaders)
  • vertex shader registers (assembly language)
  • vertex shaders (about)
  • vertex shaders (setting up with dx program - hlsl)
  • vertex shaders (setting up with dxvertex shader - assembly)
• Disable from Here command
• disconnected polygons, fixing
• disconnecting, polygon mesh components
• discontinuity
  • automatic
  • displacement and
  • on selected edges
• displacement
  • creating
  • creating with alpha
  • creating with fractals
  • discontinuity and
  • geometry approximation
  • maximum setting
  • motion-based displacement quality
  • optimize rendering
  • painting
  • render tree and
• displacement shaders
• Display > Hide and Deselect
• Display > Hide Unselected Objects/Polygons
• Display > Hide/Unhide Selection
• Display > Unhide All Polygons
• display, properties
• display attributes, ICE particles
• display modes, rendering to file
• display options
  • components
  • objects
  • setting for all cameras
• display preferences
• display property, setting for scene layers
• display types
  • bounding box
  • constant
  • depth cue
  • fast manipulation
  • hidden-line removal
  • particles using
  • per object
  • realtime shaders
  • shaded
  • textured
  • textured decal
  • wireframe
• DisplayInfo parameters
• displaying
  • any image formats
  • attribute values
  • clusters
  • components
  • hidden polygons
  • information in schematic views
  • instances
  • object attributes
  • properties
  • property editors
  • weight maps
• dissolving polygon mesh components
  • and cleaning vertices
• distance constraints
• distance-based envelope assignment
• distances, filtering ICE particle emission by
• distant light See infinite lights
• distributed rendering
  • about
  • environment variables for
  • linktab file
  • memory mapped textures, using with
  • ray3xsi.bat
  • rayhosts file
  • rayserver (ray3xsi5_0server)
  • Satellite vs. Standalone
  • setting up
  • types of
  • using custom shaders with
• dithering in image processing
• dog leg biped
  • proportional guide
  • rig
• dollying cameras
• dominant field, using
• Doo-Sabin subdivision
• dopesheet
  • about
  • aligning tracks with parameters in explorer
  • changing colors of elements in
  • collapsing and expanding tracks
  • copying animation between models and hierarchies
  • copying animation between objects
  • cutting and copying keys
  • cutting empty regions (no keys)
  • deactivating (muting) animation
  • deleting keys
  • displaying phoneme shape keys
  • drawing regions
  • framing
  • hiding tracks
  • in timeline
  • keyframe colors
  • keyframes in
  • moving empty regions (no keys)
  • moving keys
  • moving regions of keys
  • panning
  • pasting keys
  • regions of keys
  • rippling
  • scaling empty regions (no keys)
  • scaling regions of keys
  • selecting keys in
  • selecting tracks
  • setting preferences
  • summary tracks
  • tracks
  • zooming
• dotXSI files
  • exporting
  • exporting action sources as
  • exporting for Crosswalk
  • Face Robot rig import
  • importing
  • importing action sources
  • importing as referenced models
  • importing Behavior actor in
  • importing for Crosswalk
  • saving action sources in
  • saving Behavior actor in
• drag force, ICE particles
• drag (force for simulation)
• drawing
  • chains
  • curves
  • edges
  • polygons and polygon meshes
• dripping, ICE particles
• driven keys See linked parameters
• driving, with camera
• DSC files, importing
• DSKeymap files
• dummy objects See implicit objects
• duplicating
  • chains in symmetry
  • groups of objects
  • in symmetry
  • objects
  • objects along a path
  • objects from animation
  • objects with texture supports
  • polygons along a curve
  • polygons along an axis
  • shape keys
  • shape-animated objects
  • with transformations
  • without options
  • See also cloning, copying, instances
• dynamic behavior
  • and styling on hair
  • locking and unlocking points on hair
  • muting operator for hair
  • on hair
  • on objects See rigid body
  • on objects See soft body
  • reaction of hair to
• dynamic friction
• dynamic property assignment
• dynamics, selecting objects with
• dynamics engine for rigid bodies (physX or ODE)
• EANI files (native Softimage binary)
  • exporting action sources as
  • importing action sources
  • saving action sources in
• ear controls in character rigs
• eddy (force for simulation)
• edge flags See boundary flags
• edge loops, selecting
• edges
  • about
  • adding
  • animating
  • beveling
  • boundaries
  • bridging
  • collapsing
  • copying on polygon meshes
  • defined
  • deforming
  • deleting
  • disconnecting
  • discontinuous
  • dissolving
  • double
  • extracting curves
  • extruding along a curve
  • extruding along an axis
  • filtering
  • hard
  • moving in relative mode
  • normals on selected
  • offsetting polygon contours
  • rounding
  • selecting
  • selecting adjacent
  • selecting loops
  • selecting ranges
  • sliding
  • splitting
  • subdividing
  • surrounding when selecting
  • transforming
  • welding
• Edit > Custom Properties
• Edit > Delete All
• Edit > Duplicate/Instantiate > Duplicate Multiple
• Edit > Duplicate/Instantiate > Duplicate Single
• Edit > Duplicate/Instantiate Options
• Edit > Info Selection
• Edit > Operator > Add Input
• Edit > Operator > Freeze Modeling
• Edit > Operator > Freeze Selected
• effectors
  • about
  • animating (inverse kinematics)
  • blending orientation with bone
  • changing orientation
  • forcing position
  • inheriting orientation from bone
  • linking orientation with chain's FK/IK blending
  • shadows
  • solvers on
• effects
  • CgFX
  • creating in FX Tree
  • DirectX
  • outputting in FX Tree
  • rendering FX Tree
  • See also FX operators, Effects operators
• elastic See gravity
• elasticity
  • for particles and obstacles
  • ICE rigid body
  • of hair segments
  • rigid body collisions
• electric force See attractors
• elements, basic scene
• elliptical filtering
• elliptical marquee (2D paint)
• embossing when converting curves
• EMDL files
  • exporting
  • version information (printver standalone)
• Emit Blast compound
• Emit from Curve compound
• Emit from Position compound
• Emit from Surface compound
• Emit from Volume compound
• Emit Splash from Surface Collision compound
• Emit Trail at Surface Intersection compound
• emitter objects
  • emission properties for particles
  • for hair
  • for particles
  • multiple for particles
  • muting for particles
• emitting
  • hair from objects
  • particles for event
• Enable from Here command
• end angles for primitives
• end effectors of chains See effectors
• end frame in timeline
• endomorph See shape animation
• entering values outside range
• Envelope > Assign to No Deformer
• Envelope > Create Bounding Volume
• Envelope > Create Symmetry Mapping Template
• Envelope > Mirror Weights
• Envelope > Reassign Locally
• Envelope > Remove Deformers
• Envelope > Remove Envelope
• Envelope > Reset Actor
• Envelope > Select Deformer from Envelope
• Envelope > Set Envelope
• Envelope > Set Reference Poses
• envelopes
  • about
  • adding deformers
  • and proportional volume deformers
  • and shape animation
  • assigning points to different deformers
  • assigning to deformers
  • bounding volumes
  • combining with cloth
  • combining with soft body
  • control splines for facial animation rigs
  • deformers
  • display colors
  • distance-based assignment
  • editing weights numerically
  • freezing transformations
  • freezing weights
  • geometry types
  • holding weights
  • limiting number of deformers per point
  • locking weights
  • mirroring weights
  • modifying properties
  • modifying weights
  • muting
  • normal-based assignment
  • normalizing weights
  • on subdivision surfaces
  • painting weights
  • predefined body
  • predefined human
  • presets
  • reference poses
  • referenced models and
  • removing
  • removing deformers
  • removing deformers locally
  • resetting reference poses
  • returning to reference pose
  • smoothing weights
  • subdivision surfaces
  • surface meshes
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • symmetry
  • transferring and merging
  • transforming
  • weight operator stack
  • weights
  • x-ray shading
• environment maps
  • about
  • creating on an object
  • lighting scenes with
  • rendering
• environment script file
• environment shaders
  • about
  • and portal lights
  • creating a background with
  • for volume effects
  • using
• environment variables
  • for configuring Softimage
  • for distributed rendering
  • for linktab
• environment_shaders_EnvironmentBlur
• environments
  • adding elements to
  • creating for rigid bodies
  • ICE simulations
  • merging multiple
  • rigid body simulation
  • setting for the current rigid body
• EPS files, importing
• equalize Bézier handles See slope handles, equal length
• equalizing action clips
• error threshold for IK solver
• Euler rotations
  • converting to and from quaternion
  • mixing in animation mixer
  • versus quaternion
• evaluation cycles for animation
• events
  • managing
  • updating referenced models
• exclusive bounding volumes
• exiting Softimage
• expanding hierarchies
• explicit texture projection
• exploded meshes, fixing
• exploding
  • curves to mesh hierarchy
  • text into curves
• Explore > Custom/Proxy Parameter Sets
• Explore > Groups
• explorer
  • about
  • action elements in
  • animation elements in
  • chain (skeleton) elements
  • cloth elements in
  • constraint elements in
  • context menus
  • custom parameters in
  • expanding and collapsing hierarchies in
  • filtering information in
  • finding elements
  • framing elements in
  • hair elements in
  • in animation editor
  • layout of
  • local or global renderer options in
  • locking
  • navigating in
  • opening
  • particle elements in
  • path elements in
  • pop-up
  • renaming elements in
  • reordering elements
  • selecting
  • shape animation elements in
  • sorting elements
  • texture layers in
  • viewing basic properties
  • viewing hierarchies in
• Explosion operator
• explosion shader
• explosion simulation
  • about
  • changing speed and size
  • creating
  • deleting
  • particle types
  • phases
  • rendering
  • shader
  • shapes of clouds
  • structures
• exporting
  • action sources
  • animation mixer
  • characters to Behavior
  • COLLADA
  • Crosswalk for Softimage options
  • custom commands
  • DirectX
  • dotXSI files
  • dotXSI for Crosswalk
  • dotXSI from Max
  • dotXSI from Maya
  • FBX export options
  • FBX files
  • flipbook
  • function curves
  • IGES files
  • list of supported formats
  • model instances
  • models
  • OBJ files
  • preferences
  • render archives in batch
  • scenes and objects to dotXSI
  • supported scene elements (collada)
  • supported scene elements (dotXSI)
  • supported scene elements (FBX)
  • supported scene elements (Max to Softimage)
  • supported scene elements (Maya to Softimage)
  • supported scene elements (Softimage to Max)
  • supported scene elements (Softimage to Maya)
  • tangents and binormals (collada)
  • tangents and binormals (dotXSI)
  • user data
  • with Point Oven
• EXPR2 (expression) files
• expression editor
  • about
  • in animation editor
  • opening
• expressions
  • about
  • activating and deactivating (muting)
  • adding comments to
  • and custom parameters
  • applying
  • Boolean operators
  • combining with constraints
  • combining with function curves
  • combining with function curves in actions
  • combining with scripted operators
  • conditional
  • constants
  • converting to function curves
  • copying
  • creating
  • editing
  • equal relationships between parameters
  • evaluation cycles
  • examples
  • expression editor
  • files
  • functions
  • ICE trees and
  • importing from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • in action sources
  • in clip effects
  • in global or local transform property editor
  • linked parameters l_fcv()
  • linking parameters
  • loading from file
  • math operators
  • modifying action sources
  • modifying in action clips
  • multi-linked parameters l_interp()
  • multiple on same parameter
  • muting in dopesheet
  • object names
  • on color parameters
  • on components
  • on preferred angles
  • operators
  • oscillation
  • overview of workflow
  • parameter names
  • presets
  • relational
  • removing
  • returned value
  • saving
  • scripted See scripted operators
  • selecting objects animated with
  • spreadsheet query
  • syntax for writing
  • target (affected element)
  • this token
  • this_model token
  • using other text editors
  • validating
  • viewing as graphs
  • viewing information
  • writing
• Extended Component Selection
• extending, surfaces to curves
• external action sources
  • in files (.xsi or .eani)
  • loading in a scene
  • offloading
  • offloading parts of a source
• external files
  • in synoptic scripts
  • locating
• external files manager
  • about
  • copying files to projects
  • displaying files
  • image clips, clearing unused
  • materilals, clearing unused
  • modifying file paths
  • navigating
  • paths, modifying
• extracting
  • curve segments
  • curves from surfaces
  • polygons
  • subcurves
  • See also disconnecting
• extrapolation
  • clips in animation mixer
  • function curves
• extruding
  • curves along axes
  • curves along curves
  • polygon mesh components along a curve
  • polygon mesh components along an axis
  • text
  • when converting curves
  • with two profiles
• fabric See cloth simulation
• Face Maker
  • about
  • shape animation
• face mapping See local textures
• Face Robot, importing shape animation rigs into Softimage
• faces, rendering both sides
• facial animation, controls splines for rigs
• factory application data path
• falloff
  • for multi-linked and orientation parameters
  • for proportional modeling
  • for volume deformation
  • light
  • transparency for particle shapes
• fan (force for simulation)
• fast manipulation
• fast playback
• fast skin shader
• fast subsurface scattering shader
  • about
  • bias
  • bump mapping and
  • displacement mapping and
  • lightmaps for
  • scaling
  • scattering
  • surface illumination
• fast-moving emitters, ICE particles
• favorites
  • adding to favorite list
  • deleting from favorite list
  • selecting
• FBX files
  • batch processing
  • exporting
  • importing
  • skeleton conversions
  • type conversions
• fcurve editor
  • audio waveforms in
  • command bar
  • default selection tool
  • editing fcurves in
  • framing
  • grid and rulers for fcurve graph
  • metacurve region
  • panning
  • setting preferences
  • zooming
• fcurves See function curves
• field of view, setting
• field rendering
  • about
  • compositing field-rendered images (composite standalone)
  • dominant field
  • hair
  • interleaving fields (interleave standalone)
  • particles
• fields
  • image clips and
  • interleaving (interleave standalone)
• File > Keyboard Mapping
• File > Preferences
• file input operator
  • animation mixer, extrapolating in
  • extrapolating
• file types
  • .ai
  • .aifc
  • .aiff and .aif
  • .amc
  • .ani
  • .asf
  • .avi
  • .bvh
  • .bvrn
  • .dae
  • .dds
  • .dsc
  • .DSKeymaps
  • .eani (action sources)
  • .emdl
  • .eps
  • .expr2
  • .fbx
  • .fraw
  • .fraw2
  • .hrc
  • .html
  • .iges
  • .key
  • .lwo
  • .mdd
  • .mi2
  • .mia
  • .mov
  • .obj
  • .pic
  • .preset (cloth)
  • .preset (general)
  • .preset (particle type)
  • .preset (soft body)
  • .psc
  • .ptp (particle, fluid, explosion)
  • .qt
  • .rtf
  • .scn
  • .scntoc
  • .wav
  • .x
  • .xml
  • .xsi
  • .xsi (action sources)
  • .xsikm files
  • .xsimixer
  • .xsipref
  • .xsiprojects
  • .xsitb
• files
  • accessing from browser
  • caching for particle playback (PTP)
  • comparing pictures (diffpic standalone)
  • comparing pictures (imf_diff standalone)
  • converting image (imgconv standalone)
  • deleting projects
  • deleting scene
  • external
    • copying to projects
    • managing
  • external in synoptic scripts
  • file names and templates
  • image output
  • linktab
  • modifying paths to
  • picture file for 2D texture
  • ray3xsi.bat
  • rayhosts
  • raysatxsi.bat
  • recovery journal
  • referenced
  • restoring backed-up versions of
  • scripts
  • searching for
  • synoptic
• fill actions
• filleting
  • curves
  • surfaces
• Filter by Distance to UV Location compound
• Filter by Null compound
• Filter by Object Intersection compound
• Filter by Texture Map compound
• Filter by Volume compound
• Filter by Weight Map compound
• filtering
  • edges
  • elements in explorer
  • elements in Schematic view
  • elliptical
  • points on polygon meshes
  • polygons
• filters
  • antialiasing
  • custom, for smoothing geometry
  • selection
  • snapping
• final gathering
  • about
  • accuracy
  • advantages and disadvantages
  • and global illumination
  • and hair
  • bounces, diffuse
  • diagnostic rendering mode
  • environment map with
  • falloff
  • filtering
  • irradiance from photon map
  • map file, generating
  • maps per object
  • mental ray options (reference)
  • modes
  • number of rays
  • on particles
  • overview
  • presample density
  • radii and points
  • sampling contrast
  • trace depth
  • using to light a scene
  • view dependency
  • visibility options
• finding, elements in explorer
• fine surface approximation
• fitting
  • curves onto curves
  • function curves
  • surfaces to surfaces
• fixed constraint for rigid bodies
• FK See forward kinematics
• FK/IK blending
  • about
  • ghosting FK/IK states
  • linking effector's orientation with
  • motion capture data
  • plotting animation
  • with constraints
• flags, boundary
• flares, lens, creating
• flat-liners, see static fcurves
• flexing (quickstretch)
• flip.exe (standalone flipbook)
• flipbooks
  • capturing audio for
  • capturing images in viewports
  • exporting
  • exporting audio with images
  • launching after capturing
  • loading animation into
  • matching colors in
  • memory guidelines for si3d_flipbook standalone
  • playing
  • playing in native players
  • setting up view options
  • shortcut for desktop
  • standalone
  • standalone (si3d_flipbook)
• flipping
  • chain's orientation
  • function curves
  • See also inverting
• floating views
  • closing
  • cycling through
  • minimizing
  • opening
  • restoring
• flood fill tool
• floors (terrain actors) in Behavior
• Flow Along Curve compound
• Flow Around Surface compound
• flow path
• Fluid operator
• fluid simulation
  • about
  • blob shader
  • Coriolis force
  • creating
  • deleting
  • density of particles
  • fluid properties
  • foam
  • mean distance (density)
  • muting
  • rendering
  • surface tension
  • viscosity
• flying, with camera
• fog
  • about
  • creating with shaders
  • creating with volume shader
  • creating with volumic property
• fold deformation
• font attributes
• fonts, installing on Linux
• foot node in Behavior actor
• foot roll
  • biped and dog leg rigs
  • quadruped rigs
• footsteps deformation
• forces
  • attractor
  • creating
  • disconnecting
  • drag
  • eddy
  • fan
  • gravity
  • ICE tree
  • in schematic view
  • muting
  • toric (torus)
  • turbulence
  • vortex
  • wind
• forcing IK behavior
• format, preferences
• formats See file types
• forward kinematics
  • about
  • animating with
  • blending with inverse kinematics
  • changing order of bone rotation
  • keying rotation for bones
  • posing a chain with inverse kinematics
  • storing in actions
• four-sided
• Fractal Scalar shader (ICE)
• Frame Cycle Control compound
• frame format
  • custom
  • default
  • playback
• frame of reference
  • components
  • objects
• frame rates
  • and rotoscopy
  • audio
  • custom
  • displaying in viewport
  • realtime playback
  • setting default
  • setting playback
• frames
  • capturing in viewport (flipbook)
  • default format
  • default rate
  • displaying number in viewport
  • frame token and padding
  • ICE trees and
  • in action clip values
  • previewing a single frame
  • range in the animation mixer
  • running scripts automatically on frame change
  • start and end in timeline
• framesets, in layouts and relational views
• framing
  • clips in animation mixer
  • elements in 3D views
  • elements in explorer
  • elements in the Schematic view
  • in a rotoscoped view
• FRAW (raw function curve) files
• FRAW2 (raw function curve) files
  • about
  • converting expressions to
  • saving scripted operators as
• freeform selection tool
• freehand curves
• freehand tool (2D paint)
• Freeze M button
• freezing
  • action clips into sources
  • envelope weights
  • hair
  • operator stack
  • particle cloud (muting)
  • transformations
  • transformations on envelopes
  • Unfold texture projection
  • weight maps
• frequencies of animation
• friction
  • for particles and obstacles
  • ICE rigid body
  • rigid body collisions
  • static and dynamic
• frizzy hair
• function curves
  • .fraw2 files
  • about
  • adding key points
  • animation editor
  • animation layers
  • break point in slope
  • breaking and unifying slope
  • combining with expressions
  • combining with expressions in actions
  • combining with scripted operators
  • converting between raw and standard
  • corresponding to action sources
  • created from capturing with devices
  • cutting, copying
    • and pasting
    • and pasting regions
  • cycles
  • default selection tool
  • default slope
  • default slope handle length
  • deleting key points
  • deselecting
  • displaying
  • displaying in graph
  • displaying information about
  • displaying parameters in animation explorer
  • editing action sources
  • exporting
  • exporting scripted operators as
  • extrapolating slope shape
  • files
  • fitting
  • flipping direction in X or Y
  • fraw and fraw2 files
  • from expressions
  • hiding
  • high-density (raw)
  • HLE tool
  • importing
  • increasing key points on
  • inserting key points without changing curve shape
  • interpolation types
  • link curves
  • loading
  • locking on to an element
  • mirroring slope orientation
  • mixing with action clip in mixer
  • moving
  • muting (deactivating)
  • normalizing the view
  • offsetting
  • plotting retargeted animation into
  • preferences for creating when keying
  • presets for non-time curves
  • quaternion rotation controls
  • redoing changes
  • reducing keyframes on
  • reducing noise
  • removing animation
  • removing flat (static) fcurves
  • resampling
  • returning to object from action sources
  • rippling when pasting
  • saving
  • scaling
  • scaling regions
  • scaling with a pivot
  • selecting
  • selecting key points on
  • selecting objects animated with
  • shaping high-density curves (HLE tool)
  • slope handles
  • slope orientation
  • smoothing
  • SOFTIMAGE|3D slope angle display
  • SOFTIMAGE|3D slope handles
  • spreadsheet query
  • storing in actions
  • temporary copies (snapshots)
  • undoing changes
  • See also animation editor, fcurve editor, key points, keyframes, slopes
• functions
  • in action clip values
  • in expressions
• fur See hair
• Fx color selector
• FX Operator Selector
  • displaying
  • inserting operators with
  • using
• FX operators
  • about
  • applying a channel mask to
  • Color Adjust
  • Color Curves
  • Composite
  • connection icons
  • copying and pasting
  • Distort
  • editing properties
  • Filter
  • Grain
  • Image
  • inputs
  • mask options
    • setting
  • mask shapes
  • obey matte
    • enabling
    • inverting
  • Optics
  • output channels, setting
  • output depth, setting
  • output options
    • setting
  • output size, setting
  • outputs
  • paint clip
  • Painterly Effects
  • pasting and copying
  • previewing
  • property pages
  • renaming
  • Retiming
  • Tracking See 2D Tracking
  • Transform
  • Transition
  • vector paint
  • See also Image operators, Composite operators, Transition operators, Image Adjust operators, Matte Extract operators, Filter operators, Effects operators, Painterly Effects operators
• Fx paint brush list
• FX Tree
  • about
  • caching options
  • Cineon images in
  • creating effects
  • creating trees
  • deleting trees
  • framing
  • image clips, getting
  • importing images
  • navigating in
  • navigation control
  • operators
    • connecting
    • copying and pasting
    • editing properties
    • getting
    • pasting and copying
  • outputting effects
  • preferences
  • renaming trees
  • render passes, getting
  • rendering effects
  • rendering effects from the command line
  • setting default image size
  • setting file input properties
• FX Viewer
  • about
  • alpha channel
    • displaying
    • displaying as overlay
  • clearing
  • displaying color channels
  • image compare area
  • merge source, mixing current image with
  • navigating in
  • navigation control
  • pixel probe
  • playing sequences in
  • previewing operators
  • proxy images
  • resetting pan and zoom in
  • scaling images
  • setting properties for
• Fx viewer settings
• gamma correction
  • about
  • applying to a render pass
  • display preference
  • displayed in color chips and sliders
  • displayed in color editor (full)
  • displayed in color editor (mini)
  • displayed in gradient slider
  • image clips
• GAP (generic attribute painting) See painting
• garbage mattes
  • about
  • adding points to shapes
  • animating shapes
  • blurring shapes
  • deleting points from shapes
  • deleting shapes
  • drawing shapes
  • editing Bézier/freehand shapes
  • editing polygon and B-spline shapes
  • editing shapes
  • in the explorer
  • in the FX viewer
  • inverting shapes
  • persisting
  • shapes, editing points on
  • shapes property editor
• Gator
• Generate Strand Trails compound
• generating, Behavior actors from Softimage characters
• generators
  • connection point
• generic attribute painting (GAP) See painting
• geodesics
• geometric normals, on polygon meshes
• geometric objects, about
• geometry
  • defined
  • types of
• geometry approximation
  • about
  • curves and surfaces
  • displacement
  • hair
  • hardware display
  • motion-based displacement
  • polygon meshes
  • properties, type of
  • scene layers
  • subdivision surfaces
• geometry shader objects
  • applying materials
  • applying textures
  • getting
  • transforming
  • See also geometry shaders
• geometry shaders
  • about
  • adding
  • applying
  • modifying parameters
  • removing
  • writing
  • See also geometry shader objects
• geometry types
  • for envelopes
  • of objects
• GetMappingRule()
• GetNumMappingRules(]
• getthumb standalone
• getting image information
• gframe (global frame) token in action clips
• ghosting
  • and pose offsets
  • animated objects
  • color
  • compound clips
  • display types
  • for groups and scene layers
  • for overlapping clips in animation mixer
  • forward and inverse kinematics blend (FK/IK) on chains
  • in animation layers
  • rigid body simulations
  • simulated objects
• gimbal lock
  • changing order of rotations
  • Euler versus quaternion rotations
• gizmo See manipulators
• global coordinates
  • displaying in View manipulation mode
• global frame, in action clip values
• global illumination
  • about
  • adjusting
  • and irradiance particles
  • caster
  • casters, grouping
  • diagnostic rendering mode
  • displaying
  • final gathering with
  • multiplier
  • number of photons
  • on particles
  • optimizing
  • photon depth
  • photon light source
  • receiver
  • receivers, grouping
  • refraction
  • render options
  • render region
  • rendering
  • setting casters
  • setting receiver
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • tuning
  • visibility
  • workflow
• global manipulation mode
  • rotating components
  • rotating objects
  • scaling components
  • translating components
  • translating objects
• global render options
• global time
  • in action clip values
  • in animation mixer
• global transforms
  • animating
  • automatically marking
  • marking parameters for
• global variables
  • in scripted operators
  • in scripting
• glow
  • creating
  • editing
• goals
  • for particles
  • ICE particles
• gradient
  • about
  • alpha
  • animating
  • connecting shaders
  • controls
  • gamma correction
  • shader for particles
  • shader types
• gradients, shader for ICE particles
• graph editor See fcurve editor
• graphs
  • function curve in animation editor
  • viewing expressions as
  • viewing scripted operators as
• gravity, ICE particles
• gravity (force for simulation)
• green box See animation icon
• grid
  • fcurve graph
  • size
  • snapping
• grooming hair See styling hair
• groups
  • adding/removing objects in
  • clones of
  • creating
  • deleting
  • duplicating
  • ICE and
  • locking
  • namespace
  • null as parent, see transform groups
  • of objects
  • PropertyFixup
  • selecting
  • transform (null parent)
• growing the selection
• gtime (global time) token in action clips
• guide hairs
  • about
  • dampening effect of dynamics
  • displaying
  • resistance to dynamics
  • stiffness
  • wiggling with dynamics
  • See also hair, render hairs, styling hair
• guided extrude See birail, extruding
• hair
  • about
  • antialiasing
  • barycentric coordinates in scalar state shader
  • brush tool
  • changing topology of emitter object
  • clusters of
  • collisions with obstacles
  • color
  • copying styles between objects
  • creating
  • deactivating geometry hair for rendering
  • deforming
  • deforming with Stretchy mode
  • deleting
  • density of
  • displaying guide and render hairs
  • dynamics
  • dynamics and styling
  • emitting from curves
  • emitting from NURBS surfaces
  • emitting from polygons
  • emitting from subdivision surfaces
  • geometry approximation for viewing or rendering
  • Hair Geo shader
  • Hair Renderer shader
  • hiding
  • incandescence
  • increasing number of render hairs with strand multiplier
  • instances
  • interpolation group IDs
  • length
  • light and shadows
  • matted or wet (clumping)
  • motion blur
  • natural forces on
  • number of
  • operator stack
  • optimizing rendering
  • overview
  • playing simulation
  • primitive object (Hair)
  • property editor
  • removing
  • render type (geometry)
  • rendering
  • replacing hair with geometry
  • resistance to dynamics
  • scaling the emitter object
  • segmented rendering
  • segments, stretching
  • segments (resolution)
  • selecting components
  • shadow maps
  • shadows
  • texture maps on color parameters
  • thickness
  • translucency
  • transparency
  • white hair
  • See also guide hairs, Hair Geo shader, Hair Renderer shader, render hairs, styling hair
• Hair Geo shader
  • ambient and diffuse colors
  • connecting in render tree
  • final gathering and global illumination
  • gradient controls
  • incandescence
  • specular color and decay
  • translucency
  • transparency
• Hair Renderer shader
  • about
  • BSP tree
  • color variation
  • colors
  • connecting in render tree
  • final gathering
  • geometry rendering
  • lighting for hair length
  • optimizing rendering
  • root and tip colors
  • specular color
  • transparency
• Hair toolbar
• handles See manipulators
• hard body See rigid body
• hard edges
• Hard Light (mixer shader)
• hardware, OGL
• hardware attribute-to-register mapping (glsl program)
• hardware rendering
• HDRI
  • adjusting exposure
  • adjusting gamma
  • and image management
  • compatible file formats
  • creating
  • lighting a scene with
  • render pass
  • using
• heads-up display
• height map, Ultimapper, activating in
• help on using this guide
• helper objects See implicit objects
• hidden polygons
  • displaying
  • hiding
  • selecting
  • unhiding
• Hide/Reveal (Bound) (mixer shader)
• Hide/Reveal (Multiply) (mixer shader)
• hiding
  • object attributes
  • objects
  • objects using clipping planes
  • polygon clusters
  • polygons
• hierarchical (Softimage) scaling
• hierarchies
  • and object render archives
  • animating transformations in
  • assigning materials to
  • chains in (skeletons)
  • clones of
  • collapsing
  • creating
  • cutting links between parents and children
  • expanding and collapsing
  • in explorer view
  • in schematic view
  • navigating in
  • null parents (transform groups)
  • parent constraint
  • reordering objects
  • selecting
  • selecting branches in
  • selecting nodes in
  • selecting objects in
  • selecting trees in
  • setting up for Behavior
  • sorting in the schematic
  • transforming
• high-density function curves
  • editing
• high-level animation
• hinge constraint for rigid bodies
• history See modeling relations, operator stack
• HLE tools (function curves)
• HLS color
• holding, file input operators
• holding envelope weights
• holes, in polygon meshes
• HOME
• home (default) pose for Behavior actor
• hotkeys See keyboard shortcuts
• hotspots in synoptic views
  • about
  • deleting
  • describing
  • drawing
  • linking
  • modifying
  • moving
  • selecting
• HRC files
• HSV color
• HTML files (synoptic)
• HUD
• Hue Offset
• hulls
  • curves
  • polymesh (subdivision surfaces)
  • surfaces
• hydro-dynamics See fluid simulation
• ICE
  • about
  • adding nodes
  • adding ports
  • attributes
  • collapsing and expanding ports
  • connecting nodes
  • construction stack and
  • context
  • copying and pasting nodes
  • creating trees
  • data types
  • deleting nodes
  • deleting unconnected nodes
  • disconnecting ports
  • moving nodes
  • nodes
  • removing ports
  • selecting nodes
  • setting custom attributes
  • structure
• ICE attribute shaders
• ICE attributes
  • caching into files
  • getting and setting particle attributes
  • using in the render tree
• ICE compound reference
• ICE compounds
  • about
  • adding to menus
  • applying
  • categories
  • creating
  • editing
  • exporting
  • exposing references and other parameters
  • names
  • ports
  • tasks
  • thumbnails
  • uploading
  • versioning
• ICE layout
• ICE nodes, preset manager and
• ICE particle shaders
  • Attribute
  • Cell Scalar
  • compounds
  • Fractal Scalar
  • motion blur
  • Particle Density
  • Particle Gradient
  • Particle Volume Cloud
  • render region
  • shadows
  • shape of rendered particle
• ICE particle states
  • state effects (actions)
  • state ID
  • State Machine
  • state triggers
  • timers for events
• ICE particles
  • acceleration and deceleration
  • age (lifespan)
  • age limit
  • aligning along velocity vector
  • aligning to a position (billboarding)
  • aligning to surface normals
  • attraction to a null
  • attraction to a point in space
  • attraction to an object
  • attraction to neighboring particles
  • avoidance behavior
  • blasts
  • blobs
  • bouncing off obstacles
  • caching
  • caching simulation and ICE attributes into files
  • caching simulation to action sources
  • changing emitter
  • cloning (spawning)
  • coagulate force
  • color
  • color attributes
  • color gradients
  • color shift
  • deleting particles at age limit
  • direction of emission
  • display attributes
  • drag force
  • dripping off objects
  • Emit compounds
  • emit direction away from object
  • emitting at object intersections
  • emitting particles
  • emitting splashes upon collision
  • example walkthrough of process
  • fast moving emitters
  • filtering particle emissions
  • filtering particles by distance to UV
  • filtering particles by null
  • filtering particles by object intersection
  • filtering particles by texture map
  • filtering particles by volume
  • filtering particles by weight map
  • flowing along curve
  • flowing around objects
  • forces
  • getting and setting attributes
  • gravity
  • hiding
  • ID number
  • inheriting emitter velocity
  • instanced geometry
  • leaf-falling motion
  • limiting the emission frame range
  • mass
  • modifying values by age or age percentage
  • modifying values when inside nulls or objects
  • moving to goals
  • orbiting around object
  • orientation
  • overview
  • particle display in the viewport
  • playing the simulation
  • plotting simulation into cache files
  • randomizing color values
  • randomizing values
  • rate (amount)
  • rendering sprites
  • rigid body dynamics
  • rolling
  • selecting only point clouds in a viewport
  • setting timers for events
  • size
  • size shift
  • sliding on objects
  • spawning (trails)
  • speed
  • spinning
  • spread of emission direction
  • spreading emission within a frame
  • states, see ICE particle states
  • sticking to objects
  • turbulence on speed
  • turbulizing color values
  • turbulizing values
  • unsticking from object
  • using color in the render tree
  • vector (direction) of emission
  • wind force
• ICE rigid bodies
  • about
  • collision geometry for obstacles
  • collision geometry for particles
  • collision size for particles
  • CollisionShape attribute
  • CollisionSize and CollisionScale attributes
  • elasticity
  • friction (static and dynamic)
  • making particles into
  • multiple point clouds
  • muting collisions
  • obstacles
  • setting elasticity and friction attributes for individual particles
  • Simulate Rigid Bodies node
• ICE simulations
  • applying forces
  • caching
  • caching simulation and ICE attributes into files
  • caching to action source
  • displaying simulation information in viewport
  • initial state
  • muting the simulation
  • offsetting the frame range
  • playback modes
  • playing the simulation
  • plotting into cache files
  • Simulated ICE Tree node
  • Simulation and Post Simulation construction regions
  • simulation environment
  • time controls
• ICE tree view
  • about
  • arranging nodes
  • displaying
  • navigating
• ICE trees
  • about getting and setting data
  • arrays
  • CAV properties
  • colors
  • comments
  • controlling execution
  • custom operators and
  • debugging
  • deformations
  • expressions and
  • filtering data
  • frames
  • geometry queries
  • getting data
  • getting data at locations
  • getting data at the previous frame
  • getting data from groups
  • IDs and indices
  • Math nodes
  • setting data
  • switching contexts
  • texture maps
  • time
  • transformations in
  • validating data
  • vertex colors
  • weight maps
• ICECache file format
• ICETree node, simulated
• icons
  • animation with actions
  • connection for shaders
  • in schematic views
• ID numbers for particles
  • displaying
• IGES files
  • exporting
  • exporting implicit objects
  • importing
• IK See inverse kinematics
• IK assembly See skeletons
• IK/FK blending See FK/IK blending
• illumination
  • ambient
  • anisotropic
  • blending areas with 2D textures
  • Blinn
  • constant
  • Cook-Torrance
  • diffuse
  • disabling
  • Lambert
  • model See shading models
  • Phong
  • shading models
  • specular
  • Strauss
  • surface
• illumination map
• image based lighting
  • render pass, creating
• image clips
  • animated
  • applying clip effects
  • creating
  • creating from file
  • creating from source
  • deinterlacing
  • deleting unused
  • editing
  • field type
  • filtering
  • gamma correction
  • in animation mixer
  • inserting in FX Tree
  • loading
  • local models and
  • management modes
    • changing
  • managing memory
  • merged scenes and
  • models and
  • namespace
  • referenced models and
  • renaming
  • texture editor, displaying in
  • TIFF files, using as clips
  • using
• image formats, types
• image information, getting
• image management
  • default mode
  • managing memory
  • modes
• image maps
  • about
  • hotspots
  • images
• Image operators
  • File Input
  • File Output
• image planes
• image process for rendering
• image proxies
  • about
  • activating
  • generating automatically
  • generating manually
  • locating
• image saved from region
• image sources
  • about
  • changing paths in scene TOC
  • deleting unused
  • namespace
• images
  • default
  • do not display when rendering
  • High Dynamic Range See HDRI
  • importing in FX Tree
  • namespace
  • picture formats
  • sequences
• imf_copy standalone
• imf_diff standalone
• imf_disp standalone
• imf_info standalone
• imgconv standalone
• imginfo
• imgshow standalone
• immediate mode
  • about
  • script commands and
• implicit
  • objects
  • texture projection
• Import > EPS File
• importing
  • Acclaim (ASF and AMC) files
  • action sources
  • animation mixer
  • Behavior actors in dotXSI files
  • Biovision (BVH) files
  • bitmaps for tray switcher buttons
  • COLLADA
  • command history
  • Crosswalk for Softimage options
  • custom commands
  • DirectX
  • dotXSI files
  • dotXSI for Crosswalk
  • dotXSI in Max
  • dotXSI in Maya
  • Face Robot rigs
  • FBX files
  • FBX import options
  • function curves
  • IGES files
  • list of supported formats
  • local models
  • logging messages to file
  • models
  • models from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • motion capture data files
  • OBJ files
  • polymatricks operator and custom transforms
  • preferences
  • referenced models
  • scenes from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • scenes with expressions
  • shaders from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • SI3D loader options
  • supported scene elements (collada)
  • supported scene elements (dotXSI)
  • supported scene elements (FBX)
  • supported scene elements (Max to Softimage)
  • supported scene elements (Maya to Softimage)
  • supported scene elements (Softimage to Max)
  • supported scene elements (Softimage to Maya)
  • user data
  • with Point Oven
• importons
  • about
  • irradiance particles and
  • optimizing photon maps
  • options
• in_keymodifier variable in synoptic scripts
• in_mousebutton variable in synoptic scripts
• in_obj variable in synoptic scripts
• In_UpdateContext
• in-betweening
• incandescence, hair
• INCLUDE
• inclusive bounding volumes
• incremental snapping
• index, particles
• indirect illumination
  • ambient occlusion
  • caustics
  • final gathering
  • global illumination
  • irradiance particles
• infinite lights
• infinite time value for clips in animation mixer
• Info Scene
  • animation
  • statistics
• Info Selection
• Inherit Emitter Velocity compound
• inheritance, lock information
• Init_Color attribute
• initial state
  • ICE simulations
    • resetting
  • particles
  • rigid body
• initializing a character for Behavior
• inputs, to shaders in render tree
• insetting
  • polygons
  • See also offsetting
• installation application data path
• installing, fonts on Linux
• Instance Only shape key mode
• Instance Shape node
• InstanceGroup
• instances
  • creating
  • creating from animation
  • displaying
  • exporting
  • hair
  • ICE particles
  • instantiating
  • modifying
  • motion blur on
  • objects attached to particles
  • selecting
  • showing relations
  • visibility options for
• instantiating models
• intensity clipping, motion blur and
• interaction models
  • changing
  • selection
• interactive playback mode
  • ICE simulations
  • rigid body
• interleaving
  • fields
  • standalone
• interparticle collisions
• interpolation
  • between guide hairs
  • default for function curves
  • types for function curves
• intersecting objects, filtering ICE particle emissions by
• intersection of polygon meshes
• invalid polygon meshes
• invalid projects
• inverse kinematics
  • about
  • animating effector
  • animating with
  • blending with forward kinematics
  • forcing IK behavior
  • preferred angle of chain
  • resolution plane for chain
  • rolling a bone in X
  • SOFTIMAGE|3D behavior for solving joint rotations
  • solver angles for joint rotations
  • solvers
  • solving joint rotations from preferred angles
  • storing in actions
  • translating effector
  • using with path
• inverting
  • curves
  • polygon meshes
  • polygons
  • surfaces
• irradiance channel
• irradiance particles
  • about
  • accuracy
  • and importons
  • environment map
  • interpolation points
  • map file
  • number of rays
  • overview
• island heal
• IsnerSpine
• isolines
  • about
  • selecting
• isoparams See knot curves
• isoparms See knot curves
• isopoints
  • about
  • on curves
  • selecting
• iwarp, variable for action clips
• jitter, shape deformation
• joint limits, on Behavior actor
• joints
  • about
  • changing preferred angle
  • displaying circles around
  • methods for solving rotations
  • pinning with pseudo-roots
  • preferred angle
  • resizing by moving
  • rotation limits
  • shadows
  • stiffness in (arthritis)
  • See also bones, chains, inverse kinematics
• journal file for recovery
• JScript
  • about
  • with scripted operators
• junctions of surface meshes
• key points
  • adding
  • cutting, copying, and pasting
  • deleting
  • deselecting
  • inserting
  • locking
  • moving
  • moving regions of
  • offsetting
  • scaling
  • selecting by region
  • selecting (tagging)
  • snapping
• KEY (structure key) files, importing as action sources
• keyable parameters
  • plotting
  • storing in actions
• keyable parameters editor
• keyboard shortcuts
  • about
  • access keys
  • activating tools with
  • creating
  • creating for custom commands
  • for navigating hierarchies
  • for selection
  • shortcut keys
  • sticky-key mode
  • supra-key mode
• keyframe icon, in a property editor
• keyframes
  • about
  • adding to action sources
  • combining with scripted operators
  • creating animation with
  • current values at different frames
  • editing animation layers
  • in dopesheet
  • in-betweening
  • key points on function curves
  • keys in timeline
  • moving between for parameters
  • on function curves (key points)
  • overview of setting
  • path animation from
  • preferences for fcurve creation
  • preferences for keying
  • removing
  • removing in a property editor
  • removing transformations
  • save key preference
  • setting automatically
  • setting for transformations
  • setting from a property editor
  • setting in animation layers
  • setting in keying panel
  • setting multiple at a time
  • setting on only modified parameters
  • setting quaternion rotations
  • setting with character key sets
• keying panel
  • changing parameter values
  • keyable parameters in
  • muting animation in
  • overview of setting keys in
  • setting keys
• keys
  • access
  • setting See keyframes
  • shortcut
  • temporary mode
  • See also keyboard shortcuts
• keys in timeline
  • about
  • copying and pasting
  • cutting
  • cutting and copying regions
  • deleting keys
  • empty regions (no keys)
  • merging or replacing when pasting keys
  • moving keys
  • preferences for
  • scaling regions of
  • selecting keys
• keywords, user
  • finding elements by
• Kinematic Chain property editor
• kinematics
  • blending between forward and inverse
  • forward
  • forward and inverse for chains
  • inverse
  • node in explorer
  • properties of objects
• kinetic friction
• kinky hair
• knifing
  • polygons
  • See also dicing
• knot curves
  • about
  • adding
  • removing
  • selecting
• knots
  • about
  • adding to curves
  • Bézier
  • multiplicity
  • on curves
  • removing from curves
  • selecting
  • surfaces
• KP/L panel
• l_fcv() expression for linked parameters
• l_interp() expression for multi-linked parameters
• l_interpOri expression for orientation linked parameters
• Lambert shading model
• Laminar flow for drag force
• LANG
• language preference
  • command-line option
  • setting
• lasso selection tool
• lasso tool (2D paint)
• lattices
  • about
  • applying
  • creating
  • scaling
  • setting scope
• layer clip in animation mixer
  • weighting
• layering See blending
• layers
  • emitting particles in
  • locking
  • namespaces
  • reordering
  • rigid body collisions
  • see scene layers, animation layers, texture layers
• layouts
  • window size and position
  • about
  • compositing
    • 2D paint and
  • creating and editing
  • default
  • defining panes and framesets
  • ICE
  • removing
  • setting pane content
• LC_NUMERIC
• LDA (length/distance/angle) surface approximation
• Leaf Falling Motion compound
• leaf-falling motion for ICE particles
• Legacy addons
• length, of curves
• lens distortion, toon inklines
• lens flares, about
• lens shaders
  • about
  • camera shader stack
  • pass shader stack
  • toon ink lens
• lens shift settings
• levels of detail
  • See also referenced models
  • see LODs
• licensing, command-line options
• lifetime of particles
• light rig
  • components, locating
  • controlling lighting
  • from an image
  • generating
  • source image requirements
• light shaders
• Lighter (mixer shader)
• lightmap shaders
• lightmaps
  • about
  • fast subsurface scattering
• lights
  • about
  • adding
  • and object render archives
  • area lights
  • artefacts
  • associating with objects
  • caustics
  • color
  • color editor and
  • cone angle and spread
  • creating
  • default
  • defining as photon source
  • diffuse
  • disassociating from objects
  • effects
  • exclusive
  • exponent
  • falloff
  • global illumination
  • glow effects
  • inclusive
  • infinite
  • intensity
  • light box
  • manipulating
  • manipulators
  • neon
  • non-directional
  • optimizing
  • photon
  • point
  • properties
  • raytraced shadows
  • rendering
  • rendering
  • rig See light rig
  • selective
  • shader
  • shadows
  • spotlights
  • tips, optimizing & troubleshooting
  • types of
  • volumic
• limit bounding volumes for envelopes
• Limit by Time Range compound
• Limit Num Particles compound
• line tests for animation
• line tool (2D paint)
• linear
  • interpolation for function curves
  • shape transitions
  • values in text boxes
• linear acceleration (quickstretch)
• linear motion
• linear subdivision
• linear velocity (quickstretch)
• lines See hulls
• linked lights See selective lights
• linked parameters
  • about
  • copying
  • deforming shapes with
  • editing the falloff for multi-linked and orientation parameters
  • editing the link function curve
  • l_fcv() expression
  • l_interp() expression
  • l_interpOri expression
  • linking a parameter to an object's orientation
  • multiple parameters driving one
  • one-to-one
  • parameter connection editor
  • removing
  • setting relative values
  • viewing information
  • with color parameters
• linking
  • clips together in animation mixer
  • driving a parameter with an object's orientation
  • multiple parameters driving one parameter
  • one parameter driving another
  • parameters
• links
  • displaying in schematic view
  • in schematic views
• linktab file
  • about
  • distributed rendering
  • mapping between Unix and Windows
  • SI_LINKTAB_LOCATION
  • structure and syntax
  • translating path references
• Linux
  • Alt key
  • installing fonts
  • scripting limitations
  • starting Softimage on
• lip synching, displaying phoneme keys in dopesheet
• live playback mode
  • ICE simulations
  • rigid body
• loading
  • expressions
  • function curves
  • presets
• local coordinates
  • displaying in View manipulation mode
• local frame, in action clips
• local manipulation mode
  • rotating components
  • rotating objects
  • scaling components
  • scaling objects
  • translating components
  • translating objects
• local materials
  • about
  • colors at vertices
  • overlapping clusters
  • polygon meshes
  • sharing
  • subsurfaces
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • viewing data
• local models
  • converting from referenced models
  • converting to referenced models
  • image clips and
• Local Relative shape reference mode
• local render options
• local subdivision
• local textures
  • about
  • overlapping clusters
  • polygon meshes
  • sharing
  • subsurfaces
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • viewing data
• local time
  • in action clip values
  • in animation mixer
• local transforms
  • animating
  • automatically marking specific axes
  • marking parameters for
• location
• locators See nulls
• locking
  • clips in animation mixer
  • elements in animation explorer
  • envelope weights
  • key points
  • marked parameters
  • points on hair
  • property editors
  • scene elements
  • scene layers
  • scenes
  • schematic view
  • slope handles on function curves
  • texture layers
  • XSI explorer
• locks
  • 3D objects
  • animation
  • clusters
  • getting information about
  • groups
  • inheritance
  • layers
  • level of
  • local models
  • owner of
  • parameters
  • passes
  • proxy parameters
  • unlocking parameters
  • unlocking scene elements
  • user vs. system locks
  • using scripts
• locomotion skills in Behavior
• LOD (levels of detail)
  • See also referenced models
• LODs, polygon reduction
• lofting
• LOGNAME
• lollipop texture projection
• Loop subdivision
• loopable skills in Behavior
• looping
  • animation playback
  • audio playback
  • quick loop
• loops of components, selecting
• macros See custom commands
• magic wand (2D paint)
  • about
  • setting properties
• magnet See proportional modeling
• magnet force See attractors
• main command panel
  • See also specific panels
• main menu bar
• Make Preview See flipbooks
• manipulation, fast
• manipulation modes
  • rotation
  • scaling
  • snapping and
  • translations
• manipulators
  • area light
  • bounding-box
  • light
  • rotate
  • scale
  • spotlight
  • SRT
  • translate
• mappable parameters
• mapping
  • connection templates for sharing actions
  • displacement
  • reflection
  • reflectivity
  • transparency
  • value templates for action clips
• maps
  • parameter
  • symmetry
  • weight
• mark out shapes tool (2D paint)
• marked parameters
  • automatically for global transforms
  • automatically for specific local transform axes
  • clearing (unmarking)
  • list
  • locking
  • marking sets (remembering marked parameters)
  • moving between keys
  • plotting
  • setting
  • setting keys on
  • storing in actions
• markers
  • audio files
  • copying
  • Create Marker tool
  • creating
  • descriptive values and types
  • displaying
  • levels of
  • moving
  • naming
  • on clips in animation mixer
  • over a range of frames (Create Marker tool)
  • scaling
  • selecting
• marking parameters
  • for animation
  • for transformations
• marking sets
  • adding to or removing from
  • creating
  • deleting
  • selecting objects with
  • setting keys with
• mask options
• mass
  • ICE particles
  • of particles
  • rigid bodies
• master, distributed rendering
• MAT panel
  • about
• match move
  • applying
  • perspective transform
  • rendering options
• matching , transformations
• matching, action clips
• MatchUVW
  • target types
• material libraries
  • about
  • creating
  • current, setting
  • default
  • deleting
  • exporting
  • external
  • importing
  • importing by reference
  • internal
  • referenced
    • updating
  • renaming
  • storing
  • updating referenced libraries
  • viewing in material manager
• material manager
  • about
  • assigning materials to objects
  • checkmarks (material used by)
  • creating material libraries
  • creating new materials
  • deleting material libraries
  • deleting materials
  • deleting unused materials
  • duplicating materials
  • importing and exporting material libraries
  • managing material libraries
  • referenced material libraries
  • setting preferences
• material menu, applying realtime shaders with
• material node
  • about
  • hardware display
  • inputs
  • realtime input
• material panel, about
• material phenomena
• material tag map, transferring
• material tags map, Ultimapper, activating in
• materials
  • about
  • and cluster overlap
  • applying to objects
  • assign material command
  • assigning
  • assigning in branch (to a hierarchy)
  • assigning to polygon clusters
  • assigning to selected polygons
  • blending from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • blending with 2D textures
  • copying from one object to another
  • creating
  • creating and assigning to objects
  • default See scene material
  • deleting
  • deleting unused
  • duplicating
  • editing properties
  • editing shared properties
  • explorer, viewing in
  • finding which are used by objects
  • finding which ones use image clips
  • library Seematerial libraries
  • local
    • changing cluster display order
    • managing overlap
  • making local to branches
  • material node
  • overlapping polygon clusters
  • picking from scene elements
  • polygons meshes
  • preset manager and
  • referenced models and
  • removing from objects
  • renaming
  • scene material See scene material
  • selecting objects that use
  • shaderballs in material manager
  • surface shaders and
  • texture layer editor, accessing from
  • transferring and merging
  • unassigning
  • used by
  • using preset manager
  • viewing in the explorer
• math operators
  • in action clips values
  • in expressions
  • in text boxes
• mathematical expressions See expressions
• mat-mentalimages_shaders_FastSubsurfaceScatteringLambertGammaShader
• matted hair
• mattes
  • obey matte
  • render pass
• maximizing, viewports
• Maya interaction model
  • keying method preference
  • zooming in animation mixer
  • zooming in dopesheet
• MCP (main command panel)
• mean distance, fluid particle density
• Medial Axis tesselation method
• memo cams
• memory requirements for rendering
• memory sets See marking sets
• memory-mapped textures
  • about
  • creating automatically
  • creating manually
  • distributed rendering and
  • using, tips for
• mental images file formats, getting information about
• mental ray, distributed rendering
• menus
  • adding items to
  • context
  • drop-down
  • pop-up
  • tearing off
• merge painting (2D paint)
  • frame offset, setting
• MergeScene
• merging
  • action clips into sources
  • animation layers into base layer
  • clusters and properties
  • curves
  • fields
  • hair interpolation
  • multiple simulation environments
  • polygon mesh components when extruding
  • polygon meshes
  • scenes as models
  • surfaces
• mesh splitting factor, about
• meshes
  • splitting during rendering
  • assembling surface
  • polygon
  • surface
• messages
  • real-time logging
  • render verbose
• metacurve region in fcurve editor
• metashaders
• mi archives
  • about
  • creating from render region
  • exporting objects
  • exporting scenes
  • mental ray options for generation of (reference)
  • subdivision geometry shaders
• MI files, creating for Behavior
• mi2 format
  • exporting
  • rendering
• MI_FORCE_OLD_BSP
• MI_OUTPUT_HELPER_DISABLED
• MI_RAY3_SERVICE
• MI_RAY_HOSTSFILE
• MI_ROOT
• MIA files
  • about
  • generating
  • loading as stand-ins
• Microsoft High Level Shading Language (HLSL)
• MIDI board (PC1600) device driver
• MIDI keyboard device driver
• migrating preferences
• minimizing, floating views
• Minimum Polygon Count tesselation method
• MipMapping See pyramid mapping
• mirroring
  • envelope weights
  • See also symmetry
  • slope orientation on function curves
• Mix mode (mixer shader)
• mixed viewing mode
• Mixed Weight shape key mode
• mixer See animation mixer
• mixing
  • audio with animation
  • texture layers
  • weights for clips in animation mixer
• mixing modes, texture layers
• mocap, See motion capture data
• Model toolbar
• modeling construction region
• modeling relations
  • about
  • and shrinkwrap
• models
  • about
  • and object render archives
  • and shape animation
  • animation
  • animation mixer and
  • converting local to referenced
  • converting referenced to local
  • copying action sources between
  • copying animation between using the dopesheet
  • copying compound sources between
  • copying mixer information between scenes
  • copying objects between scenes
  • creating
  • creating from predefined human
  • exporting
  • extracting thumnails from
  • for character animation
  • image clips and
  • importing
  • importing and exporting animation mixers
  • importing local
  • importing (SOFTIMAGE 3D)
  • instantiating
  • local
  • locking
  • mapping element names
  • merging scenes as
  • namespace
  • namespaces of
  • opening mixer for
  • organizing objects into structures
  • particle simulations in
  • pre-built bodies
  • pre-built heads
  • referenced
  • re-importing
  • selecting
  • shading
  • sharing actions between
  • sharing animation between scenes
  • target render for Behavior
  • transferring properties with overrides
  • transferring shape animation
  • using with actions
  • version saved with (exported only)
• modes
  • bounding-box display
  • constant display
  • final gathering
  • hidden line-removal display
  • rotation
  • scaling
  • shaded display
  • texture decal
  • textured decal display
  • translation
• modifier stack See operator stack
• Modify Particle Color compound
• Modify Particle Size compound
• Modulate by Null compound
• Modulate by Volume compound
• Modulate Value by Age compound
• Modulate Value by Age Percentage compound
• Modulate Velocity Over Time compound
• modulating, shapes with weight maps
• moment of inertia, rigid bodies
• morphing See shape animation
• morphing images and sequences
• motion blur
  • about
  • and antialiasing
  • and displacement
  • and instances
  • and intensity clipping
  • and motion sampling
  • and object render archives
  • and shadow maps
  • center on frame
  • defining
  • deformation motion steps
  • end on frame
  • for hair
  • for ICE particles
  • for particles
  • for shape deformation
  • mip_motion_blur shader
  • mip_motion_vector shader
  • optimizing
  • property for cameras
  • property for deformations
  • property for groups
  • property for objects
  • rasterizer
  • rasterizer sampling settings
  • raytracing
  • rendering per pass
  • rotational
  • scanline
  • shutter speed
  • shutter speed (mental ray)
  • shutter speed (scene)
  • start on frame
  • transform motion steps
  • troubleshooting
• motion capture, changing bone axis alignment
• motion capture data
  • about
  • Acclaim files
  • adding offsets to
  • applying normalized motion files to rig
  • Biovision files
  • blending with inverse kinematics
  • cleaning up function curves
  • deform motion of bipeds on tracks
  • editing function curves from
  • editing high-density function curves
  • importing files
  • plotting retargeted animation into fcurves
  • retargeting BVH (Biovision) files to rig
  • retargeting C3D files to rig
  • retargeting mocap data file to rig
  • saving in normalized motion files
  • tagging rig elements for retargeting animation
• motion guides See paths
• motion mixer See animation mixer
• motion path action See paths
• motion render channel
• motion trails
• .motor (normalized motion) files
• motors for rigid body constraints
• mouse
  • device driver for
  • three-button
• mouse wheel, zooming
• MOV (Apple QuickTime) files
• MOV files, creating from rendered sequences
• move component tool, in texture editor
• Move Point tool, polygon meshes
• Move Towards Goal compound
• movie files, creating from rendered sequences
• moving
  • joints to resize bones
  • See also translating
• Multi Goal Sequencer compound
• multiknots
  • creating on surfaces
  • curves
  • in surface meshes
  • removing on surfaces
  • surfaces
• multiple-linked parameters
• multiple-point constraints
• multiplicity of knots
  • about
• multi-resolution texture mapping See pyramid mapping
• multi-thread rendering
• muting
  • animation
  • animation in dopesheet
  • animation in keying panel
  • animation layer
  • audio
  • clips in animation mixer
  • cloth simulation
  • constraints
  • deformations
  • dynamics operator for hair
  • envelopes
  • expressions
  • fluid simulation
  • forces
  • function curves
  • ICE particle emissions
  • ICE simulations
  • obstacles
  • particle cloud
  • particle emitters
  • particle events
  • parts of action clip
  • parts of action sources
  • rigid body collisions
  • rigid body constraints
  • rigid body simulations
  • soft body
  • texture layers
  • tracks in animation mixer
  • transitions between clips in animation mixer
• MWHOME
• MWIGNORE_DESKTOPINI
• MWREGISTRY
• MWWM
• MYMEDIAPATH
• MYPROJECTPATH
• nailing cloth areas
• name collisions, scripted operators
• names
  • about
  • finding elements by
  • of elements in layouts and relational views
  • of layouts and relational views
  • of toolbars
  • selecting by
  • valid characters
• namespaces
  • and actions
  • in models
• natural forces See forces
• natural forces
  • on cloth
  • on hair
  • on particle types
  • on rigid-body objects
• navigation tools
  • dolly
  • drive
  • fly
  • nav/dolly
  • orbit
  • pan and zoom
  • pivot
  • rectangular zoom
  • roll
  • track
  • walk
  • zoom, rectangular
  • zoom on cursor
• Neighboring Particles force compound
• net, curve
• net view
  • about
  • configuring
  • proxy server
  • running scripts
  • scripts
• neutral poses
  • skeletons
• NLA See animation mixer
• node selection
• nodes (render tree)
  • collapsing and expanding
  • connecting
  • copying and pasting
  • disconnecting
  • renaming
• noise
  • adding to rendered ICE particles
  • for particles (Brownian and Perlin)
  • reducing on function curves
• non-fixing point
• nonlinear animation See animation mixer
• non-manifold polygon meshes
• non-planar polygons
• non-rendering objects See implicit objects, control objects
• non-uniform parameterization
• normal map
  • generating
  • transferring
  • Ultimapper, activating in
• normal maps, bump mapping with
• normalized
  • animation mixing
  • color values (numeric entry)
  • mixing for shapes
• normalized motion (.motor) files
  • applying to rig
  • saving animation in
• normalizing, envelope weights
• normals
  • about
  • angle-based
  • constraining object to
  • displaying on polygon meshes
  • on polygon meshes
  • on polygons
  • on selected components
  • on surfaces
  • user-defined
• normals-based envelope assignment
• notes, adding to custom parameter sets
• nudging, scene elements
• Null Controller force compound
• null parent object, see transform groups
• nulls
  • about
  • changing shape
  • creating shadows
  • filtering ICE particle emission by
  • modifying ICE particles values when inside shape
• NURBS
  • about
  • See also curves, surfaces
• NURBS boundaries
• obey matte
  • about
  • enabling
  • inverting
• OBJ files
  • exporting
  • importing
• object attributes, displaying
• object manipulation mode
  • rotating components
  • scaling components
  • translating components
• object model
  • about
  • accessing online help
• object pivot
• Object Relative shape reference mode
• object render archives
• object view
  • about
  • preferences, setting
  • view menu options
  • working with
• object visibility
  • reflection options
  • refraction options
  • transparency options
• objects
  • aligning
  • annotating (comments)
  • attaching to particles
  • basic types
  • clones
  • clones of
  • control
  • deleting
  • deselecting
  • display options
  • displaying attributes of
  • duplicating
  • exporting to dotXSI
  • exporting to dotXSI (Crosswalk)
  • exporting to object render archives
  • geometric
  • groups
  • hiding/unhiding
  • in hierarchies
  • modifying multiple
  • namespace
  • naming
  • organizing into structures
  • render visibility
  • reordering
  • selectability
  • selecting
  • shadows only
  • texture support
  • unhiding
  • visibility of in 3D views
  • visibility options
• obstacles
  • accuracy of collision for particles
  • and cloth
  • and hair
  • and particles
  • and soft body
  • disconnecting
  • ICE particles flowing around
  • muting
  • particle events
  • rigid body, ICE
  • setting particle types
• occlusion
  • ambient See ambient occlusion
  • reflective
• ODE rigid body dynamics engine
• offloading
  • external action sources
  • parts of an action source
• offset effect, for action clips
• offset map, for action clips
• Offset operator
• offsets, to mocap data
• offsetting , object's pose in animation mixer
• offsetting
  • animation
  • between constrained objects
  • ICE simulation frame range
  • keying effect in action clips
  • polygon contours
  • values in action clips
• OGL
  • hardware shaded
  • optimization
  • settings
  • texture display
  • triangulation
• OM See object model
• On-Frame-Change Script Command
• onion-skinning See ghosting
• OnSelectionChange Command
• opacity, brush
• Open GL See OGL
• OpenGL realtime shaders
  • 2D textures
  • about
  • bump mapping
  • Cg effects parameters
  • Cg language
  • coordinate manipulation of textures
  • cubic textures
  • custom parameter sets and
  • displaying in 3D views
  • drawing effects
  • effects (.cgfx files)
  • fixed-function shading
  • fragment shaders (setting up with cg program)
  • fragment shaders (setting up with glsl program)
  • HLSL effects parameters
  • multi-texturing
  • OpenGL Shading Language
  • pixel shaders (about)
  • pixel shaders (setting up with cg program)
  • programmable
  • reflection map, creating
  • register locations (glsl program)
  • SAS binding semantics (effects shaders)
  • softimage semantics (cg program)
  • texture setup
  • texture targets
  • vertex attributes (.cgfx files)
  • vertex attributes (.fx files)
  • vertex attributes (glsl program)
  • vertex shader input semantics (effects shaders)
  • vertex shaders (about)
  • vertex shaders (setting up with cg program)
  • vertex shaders (setting up with glsl program)
• OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
• opening
  • curves
  • primitives
  • surfaces
• OpenScene
• operations
  • entering math in text boxes
  • redoing
  • undoing
• operator selector See FX Operator Selector
• operator stack
  • about
  • collapsing operators
  • disabling top
  • enabling top
  • envelope weights
  • freezing
  • hair
  • modifying operators
  • moving operators
  • order
  • reordering texture projections
  • texture projections in
  • topology operators
  • weight maps
• operators
  • about
  • changing order
  • collapsing
  • deleting from stack
  • FX, muting
  • grouped
  • math in expressions
  • scripted See scripted operators
  • types
• optimizing
  • OpenGL display
  • render region
  • render time for hair
  • textures
• Orbit Around Controller compound
• orbiting
  • around selections
  • ICE particles around object
  • speed, adjusting
  • with camera
• orientation
  • aligning root with first bone in chain
  • blending effector's with last bone's
  • chain effector with last bone
  • constraints
  • ICE particles
  • linking to a parameter
  • linking with shape pose
• origin
• orthographic camera
• oscillation, in expressions
• output
  • formats
  • ports and shaderball
  • shaders
• output format, preferences
• output options
• output path templates
• outputs from shaders in render tree
• overlapping points
• overrides
  • about
  • adding
  • adding parameters and properties to
  • creating
  • deleting
  • editing
  • expanding
  • on global renderer options
  • on parameters
  • on properties
  • property with models
  • render tree and
  • shaders with
  • transferring properties between models
• oversampling, particles emitting on subframes
• Paint, 2D See 2D paint
• paint brush tool (2D paint)
• paint selection tool
• paint tools
  • brush properties
  • paint tool (weights)
  • paint vertex color tool
  • push paint
• painting
  • brush properties
  • colors on vertices
  • envelope weights
  • on subdivision surfaces
  • paint modes
  • Push Paint
  • shapes with weight maps
  • symmetrically
  • weights
• panes, in layouts and relational views
• panning
  • in a rotoscoped view
  • in animation mixer
  • in dopesheet
  • in fcurve editor
  • See also tracking
  • speed
• par manipulation mode
  • rotating objects
  • translating objects
• param, variable in action clips
• Parameter > Custom Property Wizard
• Parameter > Edit Custom Parameter Sets
• Parameter > Edit Parameter Definition
• Parameter > New Custom Parameter
• Parameter > New Custom Parameter Set
• Parameter > Remove Custom Parameter
• parameter connection editor
• parameter curves See function curves
• parameter maps
• parameterization
  • about
  • centripetal
  • chord-length
  • curves
  • non-uniform
  • surfaces
  • uniform
• parameters
  • bracketing
  • changing values with virtual sliders
  • custom
  • displaying in 3D views
  • editing in property editors
  • editing in text boxes
  • editing using sliders
  • in expressions
  • linking
  • locking
  • marked
  • overrides
  • proxy (cloned)
  • randomizing
  • randomizing when sampling
  • sampling
  • setting keys for
  • storing in actions
  • tagging
• parametric surface approximation
• parent constraint
  • see pose constraint
• parent-child relationships between objects (hierarchies)
• parenting
  • See also hierarchies
• parsing scripts
• Particle Density shader (ICE)
• particle events
  • about
  • actions
  • collisions
  • deleting
  • emitting a new particle type
  • muting
  • scripted
  • triggers
• Particle Gradient Fcurve shader compound
• Particle Gradient shader (ICE)
• particle player for PTP files
• particle render types (basic shaders)
• particle renderer shader
• Particle Renderer shader compound
• particle shaders
  • about
  • ambient color
  • billboard (2D)
  • blob (fluid)
  • color
  • color burn (additivity)
  • color gradient
  • connecting in render tree
  • connecting to particle types
  • constant color
  • explosion
  • final gathering
  • global illumination
  • particle renderer (meta)
  • property editors
  • render region
  • render types (basic shaders)
  • scalar
  • self-shadows
  • shape
  • specular
  • sphere (3D)
  • sprite
  • static blur (transparency)
  • transparency
  • vector
  • volume shaders
• Particle Shaper shader compound
• Particle Strand Gradient shader compound
• particle types
  • animating parameters
  • colors
  • connecting shaders to
  • creating
  • deleting
  • editing
  • emitting for particle event
  • for explosions
  • for fluid
  • natural forces
  • presets
  • setting for collisions
  • shaders for
  • sprites
• Particle Volume Cloud shader (ICE)
• particles
  • about
  • attaching objects to
  • avoiding each other
  • caching PTP files
  • clusters of
  • colliding with each other
  • colliding with obstacles
  • collision accuracy with obstacles
  • color
  • constraining objects to clusters of
  • creating clouds
  • custom parameters
  • deforming a system
  • deforming clusters of
  • disconnecting emitter from cloud
  • duplicating whole system
  • elasticity and friction with obstacles
  • emission origin and direction
  • emission properties
  • emitting from object
  • emitting in layers
  • emitting on subframes (oversampling)
  • events for
  • field rendering
  • fluid
  • goals
  • hiding
  • ID number
  • index
  • information on
  • initial state
  • instances of objects attached to
  • lifetime
  • mass
  • motion blur
  • multiple clouds
  • multiple emitter objects per cloud
  • muting
  • noise
  • offset simulation
  • opening property editors
  • overriding color with shader
  • particle types
  • playback modes
  • playing back
  • playing PTP files in particle player
  • points
  • rate (amount) of
  • recalculating simulation
  • rendering
  • rotating
  • schematic view
  • scripting
  • scripting event
  • SDK and
  • seeds
  • shader types
  • shadows
  • shape of
  • sharing between scenes
  • shifts with age %
  • simulation length
  • size
  • sketching
  • source time (local and global)
  • speed
  • spread angle of emission
  • state at first frame of simulation
  • static clouds
  • system overview
  • texturing
  • trails
  • user data on
  • variance
  • velocity
  • workflow overview
  • See also fluid simulation, particle events, particle shaders, particle types
• Particles operator
• partition clusters
• partitions
  • about
  • adding elements to
  • applying shaders to
  • background lights
  • background objects
  • copying
  • creating
  • deleting
  • displaying in explorer
  • empty
  • including objects in
  • namespaces
  • properties
  • removing elements from
• passes
  • about
  • active camera
  • ambient
  • ambient and diffuse
  • anatomy of
  • applying shaders to
  • beauty
  • changing current pass in scene TOC
  • creating
  • current pass
  • custom
  • default (beauty)
  • deleting
  • depth
  • diffuse
  • duplicating
  • highlight
  • Image Based Lighting
  • inserting in FX Tree
  • layers and
  • locking
  • matte
  • namespaces
  • partitions
  • presets (factory)
  • presets (saving)
  • reflection
  • refraction
  • reordering
  • selective shadow
  • shader stack and
  • shadow
  • specular
  • types
  • workflow
  • Z-depth
  • see also render channels
• patches
• PATH
• path animation, see paths
• path controls
• paths
  • about
  • animating chains on
  • constraining objects to curve
  • controlling flipping for up vector
  • converting object translation to
  • creating from keys
  • custom files
  • deleting
  • duplicating objects on
  • editing the curve
  • editing the timing
  • elements in explorer
  • locking keys on
  • percentage function curve
  • removing
  • setting objects on
  • storing animation in actions
  • substituting curve
  • tangency
  • trajectories
  • viewing information
  • workgroups
• paths (file)
  • displaying SOFTIMAGE|3D databases in browser
  • in browser
  • mapping between Unix and Windows
  • presets
  • searching
  • templates for building
• PC2 cache file format
• pencil tests
• penumbra, soft shadows
• Perlin noise for particles
• PerlScript, about
• permanent reference planes
• perspective cameras
• phenomena, material
• phonemes, displaying shape keys in dopesheet
• Phong
  • default material
  • shading model
• photon, diagnostic rendering mode
• photon maps
  • about
  • file name and location
  • rebuilding
• photon shaders
• photons
  • anatomy of
  • caustic and global illumination effects
  • controlling effect
  • controlling with irradiance
  • depth
  • maximum depth
  • multiplier
  • number of
  • preparing objects for
  • preparing the scene for
  • rebuilding photon map
  • reflection
  • refraction
  • render region
  • rendering
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • volume
  • with render tree
  • workflow
• physX
  • actual shape for collision geometry
  • convex hulls for collision geometry
  • rigid body dynamics engine
  • static and dynamic friction
• PIC format
• picking
• picture files
  • comparing with diffpic standalone
  • comparing with imf_diff standalone
  • compositing
  • fields
  • merging fields of
  • sequential
  • viewing with si3d_flipbook standalone
• picture ratio
• pin constraint See ball and socket constraint
• pinning, constraining object in place
• pinning cloth areas
• pivot
  • activating/deactivating
  • animating
  • animation pivot
  • compensation
  • displaying
  • for transformations
  • in texture editor
  • object pivot
  • setting
• pivot point
• pivoting, with camera
• pixel probe
• pixel zoom
• planar polygons
• planar texture projection (XY, XZ, YZ)
• plane manipulation mode
  • rotating components
  • rotating objects
  • translating components
  • translating objects
• planes
  • clipping
  • XYZ
• planting See pinning
• playback
  • audio
  • choosing what's updated (update mode)
  • controls
  • cursor in animation editor
  • cursor in timeline
  • default frame rate
  • disabling v-synch on graphics cards
  • frame format
  • frame rate
  • ICE simulation modes
  • in only one viewport
  • looping animation
  • optimizing speed in viewports
  • particle simulation modes
  • realtime
  • realtime in flipbooks
  • recalculating particle simulations
  • rigid body simulation modes
  • running scripts automatically on frame change
  • scrubbing
  • setting range of frames
  • setting start and end frames
  • tracks in the animation mixer
• Playback menu
• playblast See flipbooks
• playing
  • animation
  • clips in animation mixer
  • flipbooks
  • hair simulations
  • particle simulations
• Plot > Curve
• plotting
  • animation into one source
  • animation or simulation into cache files
  • curves
  • IK/FK blend on chains
  • retargeted animation into fcurves
  • rigid body simulations
  • shape animation
  • soft body deformations
• plug-ins, command-line options
• Plugins operators, about
• point clouds, selecting only ICE particles
• Point force compound
• point locator, see surface location
• point objects See nulls
• Point Oven plug-ins
• points
  • about
  • adding to curves
  • animating
  • beveling on polygon meshes
  • brushing
  • cleaning when dissolving components
  • collapsing on polygon meshes
  • copying on polygon meshes
  • deforming
  • deleting from curves
  • deleting on polygon meshes
  • disconnecting
  • dissolving on polygon meshes
  • editing on shapes in garbage mattes
  • extruding along a curve
  • extruding along an axis
  • filtering on polygon meshes
  • final gathering
  • moving
  • moving in relative mode
  • normals on selected
  • on curves
  • on polygon meshes
  • on surfaces
  • overlapping
  • particles
  • proportional modeling
  • rounding
  • selecting
  • selecting adjacent
  • selecting loops
  • selecting on hair objects
  • selecting on polygon meshes
  • selecting ranges
  • selecting U/V rows on surfaces
  • sliding
  • symmetrical manipulation
  • transforming
  • welding on polygon meshes
• points of articulation See joints
• Poly. Mesh > Add Edge Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Add Polygon Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Add Vertex Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Bevel Components
• Poly. Mesh > Birail
• Poly. Mesh > Blend
• Poly. Mesh > Bridge Boundary Points/Edges
• Poly. Mesh > Bridge Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Collapse Component
• Poly. Mesh > Curve Net
• Poly. Mesh > Curves to Mesh
• Poly. Mesh > Delete Component
• Poly. Mesh > Disconnect Components
• Poly. Mesh > Duplicate Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Duplicate Polygons Along Curve
• Poly. Mesh > Extract Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Extrude Along Axis
• Poly. Mesh > Extrude Along Curve
• Poly. Mesh > Extrusion - 2 Profiles
• Poly. Mesh > Extrusion Along Axis
• Poly. Mesh > Extrusion Along Curve
• Poly. Mesh > Filter Edges
• Poly. Mesh > Filter Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Four Sided
• Poly. Mesh > Inset Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Inverse Normals
• Poly. Mesh > Invert Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Knife Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Local Subdivision
• Poly. Mesh > Loft
• Poly. Mesh > Merge
• Poly. Mesh > NURBS to Mesh
• Poly. Mesh > Revolution Around Axis
• Poly. Mesh > Revolution Around Curve
• Poly. Mesh > Slice Polygons
• Poly. Mesh > Split Edge Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Split Polygon Tool
• Poly. Mesh > Subdivide Polygons/Edges
• Poly. Mesh > Subdivision
• Poly. Mesh > Weld Boundary Points/Edges
• Poly. Mesh > Weld Two Points
• Poly. Mesh >Boolean
• polygon meshes
  • about
  • adding components
  • beveling components
  • birail
  • blending
  • Boolean operations
  • boundaries
  • bridging edges
  • bridging polygons
  • building from curves
  • cleaning up
  • components
  • converting from surfaces
  • copying components
  • creating
  • creating from curves
  • creating from text
  • curve net
  • deforming components and clusters
  • dicing
  • disconnecting components
  • drawing
  • duplicating polygons along a curve
  • duplicating polygons along an axis
  • editing components
  • exploding from curves
  • extracting curves from edges
  • extracting polygons
  • extruding (2 profiles)
  • extruding components along a curve
  • extruding components along an axis
  • extruding curves along axis
  • extruding curves along curves
  • faceted
  • filtering components
  • four sided
  • from text
  • geometric approximation
  • growing the selection
  • insetting polygons
  • inverting
  • inverting polygons
  • knifing
  • lofting
  • materials
  • merging
  • non-manifold
  • normals
  • normals
  • offsetting polygon contours
  • points
  • polygons
  • pre-built body models
  • pre-built face models
  • preferences
  • quadrangulating
  • reducing polygons
  • removing components
  • revolving curves around axes
  • revolving curves around curves
  • rounding components
  • selecting adjacent components
  • selecting components
  • slicing
  • smoothing
  • subdivisions when generating
  • symmetrizing
  • textures
  • transforming components and clusters
  • triangulating
  • valid
  • welding edges
  • welding points
  • See also subdivision surfaces
• polygons , cutting
• polygons
  • about
  • adding
  • animating
  • beveling
  • bleeding in the texture editor
  • bridging
  • collapsing
  • color painting
  • copying
  • cycling
  • defined
  • deforming
  • deleting
  • dicing
  • direction of vertices
  • disconnecting
  • displaying hidden
  • dissolving
  • duplicating along a curve
  • duplicating along an axis
  • extracting
  • extruding along a curve
  • extruding along an axis
  • filtering
  • flipping
  • hiding
  • insetting
  • inverting
  • knifing
  • local materials
  • local materials and textures
  • local textures
  • mirroring
  • moving in relative mode
  • normals
  • normals on selected
  • offsetting contours
  • overlapping materials and textures
  • planar versus non-planar
  • quadrangulating
  • reducing
  • rotating
  • rounding
  • selecting
  • selecting adjacent
  • selecting based on number of sides
  • selecting loops
  • selecting ranges
  • slicing
  • sliding
  • splitting
  • subdividing
  • surrounding when selecting
  • symmetrizing
  • transforming
  • visibility property on
• polylines
• polymatricks property editor
• polymesh hulls
• polymeshes See polygon meshes
• polynode bisectors
  • setting preferences for
  • texture editor, displaying in
• popping hair
• pop-up explorer
  • in Schematic view
  • in Select panel
• pose constraints
  • for character rigs
• pose offsets
  • and ghosting overlapping clips
  • on action clips
• pose-based shape deformations
• poses
  • default for skeletons
  • for skeletons
  • home (default) for Behavior actor
  • static actions
• pose-to-pose animation
  • merging static poses into sources
  • using animation mixer for
• position constraints
• positional continuity on NURBS
• Post Simulation construction region (ICE)
• post-process See image process
• pre-collision scripts See particle events, scripted action
• preferences
  • about
  • animation
  • animation explorer in animation editor
  • animation mixer
  • command log
  • custom
  • display
  • dopesheet
  • exporting
  • fcurve editor
  • for drawing polygons
  • Fx viewer
  • importing
  • interaction models
  • language
  • material manager
  • migrating
  • number of undo levels
  • output format
  • overlapping local materials
  • real-time message logging
  • render tree
  • restoring
  • scene layer manager
  • scripting language
  • setting
  • shape animation
  • timeline keys
  • transformation
• Preferences window
• preferred angles
  • and expressions
  • drawing chains
  • for joints
• preferred axis of rotation for chains
• preferred rotation for bone, resetting
• premultiplication, texture layer color input
• preset files
• preset manager
  • for materials
• presets
  • about
  • adding to toolbars
  • cloth properties
  • creating thumbnails for
  • cubic projection, saving and loading
  • envelopes
  • extracting thumbnails from
  • finding
  • for action sources
  • for expressions
  • for non-time function curves
  • for shape keys
  • loading
  • of properties
  • particle type properties
  • render hairs
  • render tree
  • saving
  • saving and loading
  • scripted operators
  • shader
  • soft body properties
  • texture
• previewing
  • a rendered frame
  • active camera
  • layers
  • render regions
  • saving previewed frame
  • selection
  • simulations with ghosting
• primitive > camera
• primitive > light
• primitives
  • about
  • getting
  • opening and closing
  • start and end angles
  • subdivisions
• printver standalone
• progress window, rendering
• project manager
• projection
  • camera
  • curve onto surface
  • cylindrical texture
  • explicit texture
  • implicit texture
  • planar texture (XY, XZ, YZ)
  • spherical texture
  • texture
  • UV texture
• projection plane
• projections
  • camera
  • contour stretch UVs texture
  • cubic texture
  • lollipop texture
  • spatial texture
  • unfolding
  • unique UVs texture
  • UV texture
• projects
  • about
  • active
  • adding to list
  • automating lists
  • creating
  • default
  • deleting
  • folder structure
  • invalid
  • lists
  • opening
  • saving
• Prop option
• propagation
  • materials in hierarchy
  • of properties in a hierarchy
• properties
  • about
  • annotation
  • applying
  • color
  • display
  • displaying in views
  • editing in property editors
  • for multiple elements
  • object visibility
  • overriding
  • presets
  • propagation of
  • propertyfixup groups
  • reusing
  • selecting
  • transferring and merging
  • types of
  • viewing propagation
  • visibility, object
• Property > Brush Properties
• Property > Geometry Approximation
• property > glow
• property > lens flare
• Property > Map Paint Tools > Brush Properties
• Property > Map Paint Tools >Paint Tool
• property > motion blur
• Property > Paint Properties
• Property > Paint Tool
• Property > Paint Vertex Colors Tool
• Property > Point Oven Morph
• Property > Polygon Cluster Visibility
• Property > Symmetry Map
• Property > Transform Setup
• property > volumic
• Property > Weight Map
• property, custom
• property editors
  • about
  • creating your own
  • displaying
  • docking in viewports
  • editing properties in
  • focusing
  • for multiple elements
  • keyframing parameter values in
  • locking
  • opening from schematic views
  • recycling
  • tab-style
  • texture layers in
• property maps See weight maps
• PropertyFixup groups
• proportional guide for rigs
  • biped
  • dog leg biped
  • quadruped
• proportional modeling
  • brushing hair
• proportional volume
  • about
  • and envelopes
• proxies
  • image See image proxies
• PROXY
• proxy parameters
  • about
  • creating
  • deleting
  • displaying in 3D views
  • editing
• pseudo-roots for pinning subchains
• PTP files
  • about
  • caching particles
  • deleting
  • playing back in particle player
  • storage folder
• puffing hair
• purely implicit projection
• push deformation
• Push Paint tool
• pyramid mapping
  • about
  • image clips and
  • OGL settings
• Python, about
• PYTHONHOME
• PYTHONPATH
• QT (Apple QuickTime) files
• quadrangulating polygons
• quadrupeds
  • control set
  • creating rig from guide
  • foot roll
  • predefined rigs
  • proportional guide for creating rigs
  • roll division
  • synoptic view for rigs
• quaternion rotations
  • about
  • converting to and from Euler
  • editing function curves
  • keying
  • linking a parameter to an object's orientation
  • mixing in animation mixer
  • spine for skeletons
  • spine for skeletons in rig
• queries
  • animation in spreadsheet
  • See also spreadsheet
• quick loop mode for audio
• quickstretch
  • about
  • deformation modes
• radius
  • brush
  • final gathering
• rail See birail, extruding
• ramps, color for particles
• random values in text boxes
• random variation for particles (noise)
• Randomize Around Value compound
• Randomize Color compound
• Randomize Color Using Gradient compound
• randomize deformation
  • See also shape jitter deformation
• Randomize Direction compound
• Randomize Emitter Value compound
• Randomize Rotation by Cone compound
• Randomize Value by Range compound
• Randomize Vector by Cone compound
• randomizing
  • ICE particle values
  • parameter values
  • when sampling parameters
• range of frames for timeline
• ranges of components, selecting
• rapid motion blur see rasterizer
• raster motion render channel
• raster paint
  • about
  • clips, locating in the explorer
  • getting clips
  • managing changes to frames
  • See also 2D paint
• rasterizer
• rate
  • amount of particles emitted
  • ICE particles
• ratio
  • aspect
  • picture
• raw function curves
  • converting to standard
  • editing
• ray3.exe, rendering
• ray3hosts file, distributed rendering
• ray3xsi.bat file, distributed rendering
• raycast selection tool
  • See also rectangle-raycast selection tool
• rayhosts file
  • distributed rendering
  • upgrading from SOFTIMAGE|3D
• rayserver (raysatxsi5_0server, ray3xsi5_0server), distributed rendering
• raytraced shadows
• raytracing
  • antialiasing filters
  • rendering method
• raytracing depth, and toon trace depth
• real-time message logging
• realtime playback
  • about
  • in flipbooks
  • rate percentage
  • with fast playback
• realtime shaders
  • about
  • and mental ray shaders
  • applying from material menu
  • applying in material manager
  • applying in render tree
  • blending
  • blending equation
  • blending modes (dx draw)
  • blending modes (glsl program)
  • blending modes (ogl 1.3 draw)
  • blending modes (ogl draw)
  • blending modes (ogl particle)
  • blending sources and destinations
  • building shader trees with
  • creating
  • deleting
  • detaching
  • DirectX See DirectX realtime shaders
  • displaying in 3D views
  • editing
  • graphics cards and drivers
  • inputs and outputs
  • OpenGL See OpenGL realtime shaders
  • render tree
  • render tree limitations
  • rendering to file
  • transparency problems
• receivers
  • caustics
  • global illumination
  • shadow
• recombing hair
• recovery journal file
• rectangle selection tool
• rectangle-raycast selection tool
• rectangular marquee (2D paint)
• redoing
  • camera moves
  • undone changes
• reducing, polygons
• ref manipulation mode
  • about
  • rotating components
  • rotating objects
  • scaling components
  • translating components
  • translating objects
• reference frames
  • clusters
  • components
  • objects
  • of components
• reference planes
  • about
  • activating
  • creating
  • deleting
  • options
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • symmetry and
  • transforming with
  • types
• reference poses
  • about
  • for skeletons
  • <Italic>See also neutral poses
  • resetting
  • returning to
• referenced files
  • saving
  • searching and replacing
• referenced models
  • about
  • animating
  • changing resolution
  • committing changes
  • constraints and
  • converting from local models
  • converting to local
  • creating
  • deltas
  • envelopes and
  • events
  • image clips and
  • importing
  • materials and
  • modifying
  • modifying in scene TOC
  • multiple resolutions
  • nested
  • offloading
  • rigid boides and
  • updating
  • weight maps and
• references in ICE
  • context of
  • exposing in compounds
• reflection
  • about
  • caster
  • controlling with textures
  • setting values for
  • visibility
  • visibility options, setting
• reflection channel
• reflection maps
  • about
  • environment only reflections
  • raytraced reflections and
• reflective occlusion
• reflectivity maps
• refraction
  • about
  • caster
  • common values of
  • real-life values
  • visibility
  • visibility options, setting
• refraction channel
• regex
• region tool
• regions
  • of function curves
  • on dopesheet tracks
  • render regions
• regular expressions
• relational expressions
• relational views
  • about
  • creating and editing
  • defining panes and framesets
  • defining relationships
  • removing
  • setting pane content
• relations
  • clips in animation mixer
  • in schematic views
  • modeling
• relationships, in relational views
• relative input for math operations
• relative mode
• relative values, for linked parameters
• relaxing, geometric components
• relaxing constraints See removing, constraints
• remote execution of scripts
• removing
  • animation
  • animation from function curves
  • clips from tracks in animation mixer
  • constraints
  • expressions
  • flat (static) function curves
  • keyframes in a property editor
  • knot curves
  • knots from curves
  • link animation
  • polygon mesh components
  • transformation keys
  • up-vector constraints
• renaming
  • clips in animation mixer
  • color at vertices properties
  • objects
  • scenes
  • shape keys
  • texture layers
  • tracks in animation mixer
• Render > Preview
• Render > Refresh
• render archives
• render channels
  • about
  • adding channels for a pass
  • available channels
  • built-in channels
  • custom channels
  • output format options
  • preset channels
  • store in channel shaders
• render engine, choosing
• render hairs
  • about
  • adding
  • cutting (cut map)
  • density map
  • displaying
  • frizz
  • kinks and waves
  • number of
  • percentage displayed
  • percentage rendered
  • presets
  • randomly scaling
  • segments (resolution)
  • splaying
  • thickness
  • See also guide hairs, hair, and styling hair
• render manager
• render map
• render options
  • about
  • changing in scene TOC
  • copying
  • geometry hair toggle
  • large mesh splitting factor
  • output format preferences
  • split factor
  • subdivision geometry shaders
  • tile order
  • tile size
• render pass camera
• render passes See passes
• render progress window
• render regions
  • accuracy slider for
  • auto-refreshing
  • caustics
  • closing
  • comparing
  • copying options
  • creating (drawing)
  • display modes
  • global illumination
  • hiding
  • moving
  • optimizing
  • options
  • preferences
  • previewing ICE particles
  • previewing interactively with
  • previewing particles
  • recalling
  • refreshing
  • resizing
  • rotoscoped images in
  • sampling
  • saving
  • selected objects, rendering
  • Show Alpha
  • Show Depth
  • Show RGB
  • Show Tags
  • storing
  • tracking objects with
• render tree
  • adding nodes
  • applying shaders with
  • assigning texture projections to nodes
  • bird's eye view
  • building trees
  • clearing the workspace
  • collapsing and expanding nodes
  • connecting collapsed nodes
  • connecting hair shaders in
  • connecting nodes
  • connecting particle shaders in
  • copying and pasting nodes
  • deleting nodes
  • deleting unconnected nodes from workspace
  • disconnecting nodes
  • displacement, creating with fractals
  • displacement and
  • displaying thumbnails in
  • framing nodes
  • getting image clips
  • inserting conversion nodes
  • inserting nodes
  • metashaders
  • moving nodes
  • navigating in workspace
  • node colors
  • opening shader property editors
  • optimizing
  • overview
  • panning and zooming
  • preferences
  • presets
  • realtime shaders
  • rearranging nodes in workspace
  • renaming nodes
  • replacing nodes
  • saving as preset
  • selecting nodes
  • shader compounds
  • showing connections only on nodes
  • snapping nodes to grid
  • texture layers
    • adding blank
    • adding ports to
    • base layers
    • connecting shaders to
    • creating from shader presets
    • deleting
    • disconnecting
    • editing properties
    • reorderng
    • working with
  • texture layers in
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • updating
• rendering
  • batch
  • batch options
  • cameras
  • caustics
  • channel width
  • compositing passes
  • diagnostic modes
  • distributed (multiple computers)
  • effects
  • effects from the command line
  • faces of objects
  • fields
  • fields for particles
  • final gathering
  • fluid
  • generating MI files for Behavior
  • global illumination
  • global options
  • hair
  • hardware
  • image format
  • image process
  • interactively from interface
  • interface methods
  • large meshes and scenes
  • large scenes, options for
  • layers
  • memory limit
  • mesh splitting factor
  • messages
  • methods
  • motion blur
  • movie files, creating
  • multiple computers
  • multiple processors
  • multi-resolution textures
  • multi-thread
  • number of hairs
  • OpenGL shadow maps
  • optimizing with passes
  • particles
  • passes, current, selected, or all
  • previewing a frame
  • ray3.exe
  • raytracing
  • resolution
  • scalability options for large scenes
  • scanline
  • scripts
  • segmented for hair
  • selection only
  • setup for Behavior
  • shadows
  • subregion
  • task size
  • tile order
  • tile size
  • toon pass
  • verbosity in messages
  • workflow
• RenderMap
  • about
  • ambient occlusion map, generating
  • ambient occlusion options
  • applying
  • bidirectional tracing
  • clusters, applying to
  • creating for multiple objects
  • depth map, generating
  • format options, setting
  • general options, setting
  • generating
  • generating using unique UVs
  • illumination map, generating
  • image format
  • multiple objects
  • normal map, generating
  • output file options, setting
  • property
    • applying
    • locating in the explorer
  • sampling options, setting
  • satellite rendering and
  • surface attributes, deactivating
  • surface color map
    • color correcting
    • generating
  • surface position map, generating
  • texel coverage map, generating
  • U and V basis maps, generating
  • uses
  • using
  • virtual camera options, setting
  • workflow overview
• RenderVertex
  • about
  • ambient occlusion maps, creating with
  • color correcting (surface color)
  • depth maps, creating with
  • generating
  • illumination maps, creating with
  • normal maps, creating with
  • sampling options, setting
  • surface color maps, creating with
  • using
  • UV basis maps, creating with
  • virtual camera options, setting
• reordering
  • elements in explorer
  • objects in schematic view
• reparameterizing
  • curves
  • surfaces
• repeating commands
• reprojecting, texture projections
• resampling, function curves
• resetting
  • camera position
  • transformations
  • viewports
• resolution plane, for chains
• restarting
  • cloth simulations
  • fluid simulations
• restoring
  • floating views
  • preferences
  • viewports
• retargeting animation
  • adjusting retargeted data
  • applying normalized motion files to rigs
  • BVH (Biovision) files to rig
  • C3D mocap data files to rig
  • deforming biped motion on tracks
  • loading tag templates
  • mocap data in file to rig
  • plotting retargeted animation on rig as fcurves
  • saving animation data in normalized motion files
  • tagging rig elements
• reversing, animation
• reversing animation, timewarps
• revolving
  • curves around axes
  • curves around curves
• RGB
  • color
  • Intensity (mixer shader)
  • show RGB in render region
• rich text files
  • exporting
  • importing
• rigid bodies
  • ICE particles
  • referenced models and
• rigid body
  • accuracy of simulation and collisions
  • active and passive
  • actual shape used for collision geometry
  • applying to objects
  • ball and socket constraint
  • bounding shapes for collision geometry
  • caching the simulation to source
  • center of mass
  • cloning
  • collision accuracy
  • collisions
  • compound shapes
  • constraints between rigid bodies
  • convex hulls for collision geometry
  • creating
  • dynamics engine (physX or ODE)
  • fixed constraint
  • forces on
  • ghosting on
  • hinge constraint
  • initial state
  • moment of inertia
  • motors for constraints
  • muting collisions
  • muting properties for object
  • muting the constraints
  • muting the simulation
  • object mass
  • ODE
  • offsetting spring and slider constraints
  • on animated objects
  • parenting rigid bodies
  • physX
  • playback modes
  • playing simulation
  • plotting the simulation
  • removing from simulation
  • simulation environment
  • slider constraint
  • Softimage units
  • spring constraint
  • time controls
  • tips for working with
  • workflow overview
• rigs
  • action sources in
  • arms and finger controls
  • belly control
  • biped and biped dog leg controls
  • biped hierarchy setups
  • biped proportional guide
  • Character Development Kit for SDK
  • character key sets in
  • constraints in
  • control splines for faces
  • controlling constraints between rig and shadow rig
  • creating biped dog leg rig from guide
  • creating biped from guide
  • creating quadruped from guide
  • default transformation values
  • deleting and duplicating elements in guide
  • dog leg biped proportional guide
  • ear controls
  • for character animation
  • head and neck controls
  • nulls in
  • predefined biped
  • predefined quadruped
  • quadruped controls
  • quadruped proportional guide
  • quaternion rotation spine
  • roll division for bipeds
  • roll division for quadrupeds
  • scaling control objects
  • setting up for Behavior
  • setting volume controls for approximating body envelope
  • shadow
  • shadows of chain elements
  • springs in controls
  • tail controls
  • using pose constraints
  • zeroing out controls
• rimlights, toon shaders
• ripple option
  • for keys in timeline
  • in animation mixer
  • in dopesheet
  • in fcurve editor
• roll division
  • biped rigs
  • quadruped rigs
• Roll Particles compound
• roll-frame normal for path
• rolling
  • bone in an IK chain
  • ICE particles
  • with cameras
• roots
  • aligning with first bone's orientation
  • in hierarchies
  • of chains
  • shadows for chain elements
• rotation, ICE particles
• rotational acceleration (quickstretch)
• rotational velocity (quickstretch)
• rotations
  • add manipulation mode
  • animating
  • centers and
  • changing order of for bones
  • clusters
  • COG mode
  • components
  • constraints, See orientation constraint
  • continuous
    • fcurves
    • plotting
  • editing multiple values numerically
  • global manipulation mode
  • hair
  • interaction speed
  • keying all bones in a chain
  • keying in animation layers
  • limiting joint movement
  • limits
  • limits for chain joints
  • local manipulation mode
  • manipulation modes
  • manipulator
  • numerical
  • object manipulation mode
  • order of
  • par manipulation mode
  • particles
  • pivot
  • plane manipulation mode
  • plotting
  • quaternion
  • ref manipulation mode
  • relative to mouse pointer
  • setting the pivot
  • view manipulation mode
  • with manipulator
  • See also transformations
• rotoscopy
  • about
  • activating
  • for character animation
  • frame rates and
  • in render region
  • picking colors from
  • previewing
  • zooming and panning
• rotospline See garbage mattes
• rounding, polygon mesh components
• rsh (remote shell)
• RTF files
  • exporting
  • importing
• RTKNode property (Behavior)
• sample points
  • "all" selection
  • about
  • cluster selection
  • collapsing
  • edge selection
  • island selection
  • matching in the texture editor
  • moving
  • on polygon objects
  • polygon selection
  • proportional editing
  • reprojecting
  • selecting
  • selecting from viewport
  • selecting in the texture editor
  • selection filters
  • transform using move component tool
  • transform using pivot
  • transform using UV position boxes
  • vertex selection
• sampling
  • filtering
  • parameters
  • using
• sampling rate, audio
• SAS binding semantics (effects shaders)
• SasUiControl variable (.fx files)
• satellite rendering, RenderMap and
• saving
  • presets
  • projects
  • render regions
  • scenes
• scalar shaders, for particles
• Scale Keys See Sequence commands
• scale orientation (shearing), plotting animation
• scaling
  • animation
  • bones
  • bones by moving joints
  • bump mapping and
  • centers and
  • classic
  • clips in animation mixer
  • clusters
  • COG mode
  • components
  • constraints
  • editing multiple values numerically
  • global manipulation mode
  • hair
  • hair emitter object
  • hierarchical
  • interaction speed
  • lattices
  • local manipulation mode
  • manipulation modes
  • manipulator
  • numerical
  • object manipulation mode
  • on an angle
  • orientation
  • pivot
  • random for hair
  • ref manipulation mode
  • relative to mouse pointer
  • setting the pivot
  • shearing
  • uni manipulation mode
  • vol manipulation mode
  • with manipulator
  • See also transformations
• scanline rendering method
• scanlines, interleaving
• scene colors, setting
• scene layer control, customizing
• scene layer manager, about
• scene layers
  • about
  • adding objects to
  • attributes
  • controlling
  • creating
  • current
  • custom properties for
  • default
  • deleting
  • display color
  • display properties
  • empty layers
  • geometry approximation property
  • in the explorer
  • locking
  • moving objects to
  • passes and
  • preferences
  • property editor
  • renaming
  • selecting
  • selecting objects in
  • setting attributes
  • wireframe color
  • working with
• scene material
  • about
  • default (Phong)
• scene TOC
  • about
  • changing current pass
  • changing render options
  • changing source paths
  • modifying referenced models
  • running postload scripts
• scenes
  • ambience, rotoscope view and setting
  • auxiliary data
  • backup preferences
  • basic elements in
  • copying objects between with models
  • creating
  • deleting
  • exporting to dotXSI
  • exporting to dotXSI (Crosswalk)
  • extracting thumbnails from
  • information on scene
  • information on selection
  • large, rendering
  • locking
  • merging as models
  • moving to different project
  • opening
  • renaming
  • restoring from backup
  • saving
  • saving referenced files in
  • transporting properties between
  • version saved with
  • within projects
• schematic, reordering objects
• schematic view
  • animation elements in
  • displaying information
  • displaying properties
  • filtering elements in
  • forces in
  • layout of
  • locking
  • navigating in
  • particles in
  • rearranging objects in
  • resetting user positions
  • selecting elements in
  • showing icons
  • showing instance relations
  • sorting hierarchies
• SCM (surface continuity manager)
• SCN (scene) files
• scntoc files
• Screen (mixer shader)
• script editor
  • creating files
  • opening
  • opening files
  • running scripts
• scripted expressions See scripted operators
• scripted operators
  • about
  • adding connections
  • applying
  • applying presets
  • combining with constraints
  • combining with fcurves and expressions
  • connections
  • creating
  • creating on parameters
  • creating on properties and objects
  • editing
  • editing on parameters
  • editing on properties and objects
  • editing presets
  • editing variable definitions
  • editing variable values
  • editor
  • examples
  • getting connection values
  • getting variable values
  • global variables
  • help on commands
  • helper routines
  • in animation editor
  • limitations
  • main update routine
  • name collisions
  • removing
  • removing connections
  • removing variables
  • restrictions
  • saving as function curves
  • saving presets
  • scripting languages
  • setting variable values
  • tips and tricks
  • updating output connections
  • variables
  • viewing as graph
• scripting, particle events
• scripting commands
• scripting Crosswalk
  • for 3ds Max
  • for FBX
  • for Maya
  • for Softimage
• scripting languages
  • for scripted operators
  • for synoptic views
  • JScript
  • Python
  • setting
  • specifying in batch mode
  • VBScript
• scripts
  • about
  • APIs
  • batch mode
  • command-line options
  • commands
  • declaring variables
  • default language
  • editing
  • external
  • help on commands
  • immediate mode and
  • in net view
  • in synoptic views
  • including
  • languages
  • managing files
  • optimizing
  • parsing
  • real-time message logging
  • remote execution
  • rendering with
  • reserved words
  • running
  • running automatically
  • running automatically after loading scene
  • running parts of
  • sharing
  • terminating
  • using immediate mode
  • with particles
  • See also commands, custom commands
• scrubbing
  • audio playback
  • modes and playback rates
  • playback cursor
  • to enter information in text boxes
• scrubbing audio, synchronizing with animation
• SDK
  • Character Development Kit
  • particles
• search area, in 2D Tracking
• searching, elements in the explorer
• secondary shape modeling construction mode
• secondary shape modeling construction region
• second-order continuity
• seeds, particles
• segmented rendering, for hair
• segments
• segments of hair
• Select > Extended Component Selection
• Select > Grow Selection
• Select > Select Adjacent
• Select > Select Edge Loop
• Select > Select Members/Components
• Select > Select n-Sided Polygons
• Select > Select Single Object in Region
• Select > SI|3D Selection Model
• Select > Softimage|3D Selection Model
• Select panel
• selectability
• selecting
  • about
  • adding to selection
  • adjacent components on polygon meshes
  • animated objects
  • branches
  • branches in hierarchies
  • by name
  • by painting
  • clusters
  • components
  • components of subdivision surfaces
  • constrained objects
  • constraining object
  • curve components
  • defining selectability
  • edge loops
  • extending
  • filtering
  • framesets in layouts and relational views
  • groups
  • hair components
  • hidden polygons
  • hierarchies
  • in explorer
  • in schematic views
  • in spreadsheet
  • in the explorer
  • instances
  • interaction models
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • loops of components
  • models
  • multiple elements
  • multiple objects
  • navigating components
  • navigating hierarchies
  • n-gons
  • nodes
  • nodes in hierarchies
  • objects
  • objects in hierarchies
  • panes in layouts and relational views
  • polygon mesh components
  • properties
  • quads
  • ranges of components
  • refining
  • running scripts automatically
  • shrinking the selection
  • surface components
  • tools
  • trays in layouts and relational views
  • trees
  • trees in hierarchies
  • triangles
  • U/V rows of points on surfaces
  • visual feedback
  • weight maps
  • with filters
• selection, soft See proportional modeling
• selection filters
  • about
  • camera
  • components
  • object
  • properties
• selection interaction models
  • about
  • components
  • objects
• selection modes
  • components
  • object
• selection tools
  • freeform
  • lasso
  • paint
  • raycast
  • rectangle
  • rectangle-raycast
• selective lights
  • adding
  • removing
  • using
• self-installing custom operators
• self-shadows, particles
• semantics
  • SAS binding semantics (effects shaders)
  • softimage semantics
  • vertex shader input semantics (effects shaders)
• separating
  • polygons, see extracting polygons, disconnecting polygons
  • see disconnecting
• Sequence commands, scaling and offsetting animation
• sequence textures
• sequences standalone
• Set Instance Geometry compound
• Set Particle Age Limit compound
• setenv.bat, environment variables
• SetMappingRule()
• setthumb standalone
• shader menu, applying shaders with
• shader stack
• shaderballs
  • about
  • in material manager
  • in the render tree
  • render output ports
• shaders
  • about
  • ambient occlusion
  • applying
  • blending
  • color sampler
  • connecting hair in render tree
  • connecting particles in render tree
  • conversion
  • deleting
  • detaching
  • displacement
  • editing
  • environment
  • fast subsurface scattering
  • geometry
  • gradient
  • importing from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • inputs and outputs
  • lens
  • light
  • lightmap
    • color sampler
  • material phenomena
  • metashaders
  • multiple shaders together in compounds
  • output
  • particle
  • partitions
  • passes
  • photon
  • preset manager and
  • presets
  • realtime
    • rendering to file
  • removing
  • rendering
  • shadow
  • soft material
  • stack
    • lens
  • stack editor
  • surface
  • surface and texture together
  • texture
  • texture layer editor, accessing from
  • tools
  • toon
  • types of
  • volume
• shading models
  • about
  • anisotropic
  • Blinn
  • constant
  • Cook-Torrance
  • Lambert
  • Phong
  • properties of
  • Strauss
• shading normals, on polygon meshes
• shadow maps
  • about
  • accuracy (step size) for volumic
  • for hair
  • OpenGL shadow maps
  • rendering
  • volumic shadow maps
• shadow passes
• shadow rigs
  • about
  • controlling constraints between it and rig
• shadow shaders
• shadows
  • area lights
  • casting
  • creating
  • display for chain elements and nulls
  • for hair
  • ICE particles
  • nulls
  • optimizing
  • particle self-shadows
  • particles
  • penumbra, soft shadows
  • raytraced
  • rebuilding shadow maps
  • receiving
  • rendering methods
  • rendering shadow maps
  • shadow maps, creating
  • shadow objects
  • soft shadows with area lights
  • troubleshooting
  • types of
  • umbra
    • soft shadows
• shape animation
  • about
  • additive weighting
  • and envelopes
  • and models
  • and shrinkwrap
  • animating shapes in shape manager
  • applying shape keys
  • averaged and additive weighting
  • averaged (normalized) weighting
  • cluster shape combiner
  • clusters and geometry
  • construction modes for
  • copying shapes between objects, models, and scenes
  • creating shapes in shape manager
  • custom slider panel
  • deformations and shapes
  • deforming with poses
  • duplicating shape-animated objects
  • elements in explorer
  • mixing clips
  • mixing weights
  • modulating with weight maps
  • plotting shapes
  • predefined heads with Face Maker
  • preferences for
  • reference modes (for deformations)
  • reference shape
  • replacing shape keys
  • saving shape keys
  • secondary shape modeling construction mode
  • selecting objects animated with shapes
  • selecting shape keys
  • shape manager
  • shape modeling construction modes
  • shape-key modes
  • storing shape keys
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • transferring and merging
  • transferring between scenes
  • transferring with presets
  • transitions
  • weighting between clusters
  • with topology operators
  • See also shape clips, shape keys, animation mixer
• shape clips
  • about
  • adding markers
  • adding to tracks
  • additive weighting
  • bouncing
  • compound clips
  • copying
  • copying between models
  • creating
  • custom sliders for setting weights
  • cycling
  • deleting
  • display information
  • extrapolation
  • holding frames
  • infinite time value
  • linking together with relations
  • locking
  • mixing weights
  • modes for creating
  • moving
  • muting
  • namespace
  • normalized weighting
  • removing
  • renaming
  • scaling
  • selecting
  • splitting
  • thumbnail images on
  • timewarps
  • transitions between
  • trimming (cropping)
  • weighting
• shape jitter deformation
• shape keys
  • applying selected shape keys
  • applying to object
  • copying between objects and models
  • deleting
  • displaying phonemes in dopesheet
  • duplicating
  • modifying selected key shapes
  • modulating with weight maps
  • presets for sharing between models and scenes
  • reference shape
  • relational link with selected shapes
  • renaming
  • replacing
  • saving
  • selecting key shapes
  • storing
  • storing for clusters
  • storing shape sources
• shape manager
  • about
  • animating shapes in
  • base shape
  • blending shape weights
  • clusters
  • creating shapes in
  • custom parameter sets
  • editing shape weight fcurves
  • groups of shapes
  • modifying shapes in
  • renaming shapes
  • viewing shapes in
• shape modeling construction mode
• shape modeling construction region
• shape shader for particles
  • falloff (transparency)
• shape sources, namespace
• shape tracks in animation mixer
• shape weight fcurves
• ShapeInstanceTime attribute
• shapes
  • namespace
  • of particles
  • sprites for particles
• shared image clips
• shared materials, on clusters
• shared render options
• shattering hair interpolation
• shear deformation
• shear resistance for cloth
• shearing, scaling
  • classic scaling
  • plotting animation
  • scaling orientation
• shelves
  • about
  • creating and editing
  • defining tabs
  • driven tabs
  • folder tabs
  • removing
  • tab display options
• shifting
  • curves
  • surfaces
• shortcut keys See keyboard shortcuts
• shrinking the selection
• shrinkwrap
  • about
  • along axis
  • follow vertex normals
  • projection types
  • toward center
  • toward inner object
• shutter speed, scene motion blur
• SI_BROWSER_DONT_CHECK_CHILDREN_FOLDERS
• SI_DBDIR
• SI_HAIR_CHUNK_SIZE
• SI_HELP_PROGRAM_ENV
• SI_HOME
• SI_IMAGE_PATH
• SI_LINKTAB_LOCATION
• SI_LOCATION
• SI_TXT_EDITOR_ENV
• SI_USERHOME
• SICOREPATH
• Simulate Particles node
• Simulate Rigid Bodies node
• Simulated ICE Tree node
• simulation, spring-driven controls in character rigs
• simulation accuracy for rigid bodies
• Simulation construction region (ICE)
• simulation environment, rigid body
• simulation environments, ICE simulations
• simulation time control, ICE simulations
• simulations
  • forces for
  • playing particles
  • queries in spreadsheet
  • restarting fluid
• sine waves, ICE particle strands
• size
  • chain elements in skeletons
  • ICE particles
  • of particles
• SI|3D interaction model
• SI|3D selection model
  • for components
  • for objects
• skeletons
  • about
  • animating with kinematics
  • changing shape of elements in
  • changing size of elements in
  • creating spines
  • in actions (poses)
  • predefined human
  • putting in models
  • reference poses
  • reference poses stored in an action
  • rigs
  • sample animation for
  • setting up
  • shadows
  • storing default poses
  • See also chains and envelopes
• sketching
  • curves
  • particles along a stroke
• skills
  • animation for Behavior
  • loopable locomotion skills
• skin See envelopes
• skin shader
• skinning
• skirting ratio for extruding polygon mesh components
• slave, distributed rendering
• slicing
  • polygons
  • See also dicing
• Slide on Surface compound
• slide projector
• slider constraint
  • for rigid bodies
  • offsetting attachment point
• sliders
  • creating with custom parameters
  • in property editors
  • polymorphic
  • virtual
• sliding
  • components
  • ICE particles on objects
• slope handles
  • angle and length
  • equal length
  • fixed length (SOFTIMAGE|3D style)
  • locking
  • on function curves
  • selecting
  • snapping
• slopes, of function curves
• smooth operator
• smoothing
  • envelope weights
  • function curves
  • geometric components
• snapping
  • about
  • activating
  • boundaries
  • COG mode
  • filters
  • grid size
  • hair
  • in the texture editor
  • incremental
  • key points on function curves
  • manipulation modes and
  • options
  • slope handles on function curves
  • targets
  • tools that use
• snapshots of function curves for editing
• snipping surfaces
• soft body
  • choosing geometry
  • collisions with obstacles
  • combining with envelopes
  • creating deformation
  • muting
  • on animated objects
  • on clusters
  • optimizing performance
  • plotting deformation
  • presets
  • removing
  • sampling to control resolution
  • stabilizing the deformation
  • stiffness
  • with envelopes and other deformations
• Soft Light (mixer shader)
• soft material shader
• Softimage
  • exiting
  • interface
  • starting
  • start-up options
• Softimage default selection model
• Softimage interaction model
• Softimage scaling
• Softimage units
• SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • drawing chains in style of
  • importing animation as action sources
  • importing models from
  • importing scenes from
  • preferred X rotation as roll for bones
  • slope angle display for function curves
  • slope handle style for function curves
  • solving joint rotations behavior
• soloing
  • animation layer
  • texture layers
  • tracks in animation mixer
• solvers for inverse kinematics
  • error threshold
• sorting
  • elements in explorer
  • spreadsheet queries
• sound See audio
• sources
  • cached rigid body simulations
  • image
  • namespaces
• spatial texture projection
  • about
  • computing in world space
• Spawn on Collision compound
• Spawn on Trigger compound
• Spawn Particle Trails compound
• spawning
  • adding attributes for spawned particles
  • ICE particle trails
  • ICE particles into different point clouds
• SPDLDISABLECACHE
• specular channel
• specular illumination
  • about
  • blending with 2D textures
  • in toon shading
• speed, ICE particles
• speed of particle emission
• sphere shader (3D) for particles
• spherical constraint See ball and socket constraint
• spherical texture projection
• Spin Particles compounds
• spine deformations
  • about
  • modifying weights
• spines
  • creating for skeleton
  • crunching
  • depth for curve
  • quaternion rotation
  • quaternion rotation in rig
  • rolling
  • scaling
• spinning, ICE particles
• splashing, ICE particles
• spline, interpolation for function curves
• splitting
  • clips in animation mixer
  • edges
  • hair interpolation
  • polygons
• splitting factor
• SPM server, mental ray licenses
• SPM_HOST
• Spotlight view
• spotlights
  • 3D manipulators
  • cone angle and spread
  • setting
  • view from
• spread, cone of light
• spread angle, particle emission
• Spread from Controller compound
• spreadsheet
  • about
  • animation queries in
  • annotation query
  • local materials and textures
  • navigating in
  • opening
  • selecting elements in
  • simulation queries
  • sorting
  • updating display
• spring constraint
  • for rigid bodies
  • offsetting attachment point
• spring nets for cloth
• spring operator
• SpringOp
• springs
  • accuracy of simulation
  • blending simulation with animation
  • caching simulation
  • damping
  • editing curves for dynamic properties
  • finding the spring operator controls
  • in rig controls
  • initial state
  • mass
  • muting the simulation
  • rest state
  • speed of movements
  • stiffness
  • type of spring
• sprites
  • for defining particle shape
  • rendering for ICE particles
  • shader for particles
• stabilizing images See 2D Tracking
• stack
  • operator
  • shader
• standalone flipbook (flip.exe)
• standalones
  • composite
  • diffpic
  • flipbook (si3d_flipbook)
  • getthumb
  • imf_copy
  • imf_diff
  • imf_disp
  • imf_info
  • imgconv
  • imginfo
  • imgshow
  • interleave
  • printver
  • sequence
  • setthumb
• standard transition in animation mixer
• stand-ins
• start angles for primitives
• start frame in timeline
• starting Softimage
  • command-line options
  • on Linux
  • on Windows
• State compounds
• state ID, ICE particles
• State Machine compound
• states, ICE particles
• static actions (poses)
• static blur, for particles
• static fcurves, removing animation from
• static friction
• static kinestate properties, pose offset
• static particle clouds
  • deformations on
• stepped keys (constant fcurve interpolation)
• Stick to Surface compound
• sticking
  • ICE particles to objects
  • texture projections
• sticky key mode
• stiffness
  • in chain joints
  • of hair with dynamics
• stitching
  • cloth pieces
  • curves
  • surfaces
• storing
  • actions
  • animation in actions
  • files in projects
  • shapes in sources (keys)
• STORMPATH
• strand multiplier for increasing hair
• Strand Sin Wave Movement
• strands of hair, selecting
• Strauss shading model
• streaking in texture projection
• stretch resistance for cloth
• stretching
  • hair segments for deformations and styling
  • quickstretch
• Stretchy mode for hair
• structure keys, importing actions
• styling hair
  • about
  • brushing
  • clumping
  • combing
  • copying styles between objects
  • deformations
  • freezing
  • locking points
  • merging interpolation
  • operator stack
  • puffing
  • recombing
  • resetting
  • rotating
  • scaling
  • setting length
  • shattering interpolation
  • splitting interpolation
  • spreading
  • straightening
  • Stretchy mode
  • styling operators
  • translating points
  • unlocking points
  • with dynamics
• subchains
  • creating
  • pinning joints with pseudo-roots
  • removing
• subcharacter key sets
• subcurves
  • about
  • extracting
  • selecting
• subdees See subdivision surfaces
• subdividing
  • edges
  • polygons
• subdivision geometry shaders
• subdivision surfaces
  • about
  • algorithms
  • Catmull-Clark
  • combining methods
  • creases
  • Doo-Sabin
  • emitting hair from
  • for envelopes
  • generating objects
  • geometry approximation
  • hidden polygons
  • hulls
  • levels of subdivision
  • linear
  • local subdivision
  • Loop
  • painting weights
  • pre-built face models
  • selecting components on
  • simplified wireframe
  • viewing
• subdivisions
  • curves
  • local
  • on surface for rendering
  • primitives
  • when extruding polygon mesh components
• subprojections
  • applying
  • contour stretch
    • selection guidelines
  • creating
  • support objects for
  • transforming in texture editor
  • transforming in viewports
• subregion, rendering
• subsurface scattering, fast
• subsurfaces
  • about
  • selecting
• subtracting polygon meshes
• SUMATRAPATH
• support objects, texture
• supra keys
• Surf Mesh > Assemble
• Surf Mesh > Continuity Manager
• Surf Mesh > Snap Boundary
• Surf. Mesh > Birail
• Surf. Mesh > Curve Net
• Surf. Mesh > Extrusion - 2 Profiles
• Surf. Mesh > Extrusion Along Axis
• Surf. Mesh > Extrusion Along Curve
• Surf. Mesh > Four Sided
• Surf. Mesh > Loft
• Surf. Mesh > Revolution Around Axis
• Surf. Mesh > Revolution Around Curve
• surface approximation
  • adjusting an object's
  • fine
  • LDA (length/distance/angle)
  • parametric
  • setting
  • subdivisions
  • view dependency
• surface attributes, transferring
• surface color map
  • transferring
• surface continuity manager
• surface curves
  • about
  • creating
  • extracting
  • selecting
  • using
• Surface force compound
• surface location
• surface meshes
  • about
  • applying SCM
  • assembling
  • creating
  • for envelopes
  • holes
  • junctions
  • local materials and textures
  • multiknots
  • non-fixing points
  • snapping boundaries
• surface position map, generating
• surface shaders
  • about
  • applying
  • attaching to hierarchies
  • deleting
  • detaching
  • editing
  • editing properties
  • materials and
  • optimizing
  • propagating
  • properties of
  • property editors
  • reflectivity, defining
  • refraction, defining
  • replacing
  • simple
  • transparency, defining
  • uses for
  • workflow
• surface tension, fluids
• surfaces
  • about
  • adding knot curves
  • birail
  • blending
  • boundaries
  • building
  • building from curves
  • cleaning
  • closing
  • components
  • constraining objects to
  • continuity
  • converting to polygon meshes
  • creating multiknots
  • cubic
  • curve net
  • deforming by
  • deforming components and clusters
  • degree
  • display optimization
  • extending curves to
  • extending to curves
  • extruding (2 profiles)
  • extruding curves along axis
  • extruding curves along curves
  • filleting
  • fitting
  • four sided
  • geometry approximation
  • hulls
  • inverting
  • isolines
  • knots
  • linear
  • lofting
  • merging
  • multiknot curves
  • multiknots
  • normals
  • opening
  • points
  • removing knot curves
  • removing multiknots
  • reparameterizing
  • revolving curves around axes
  • revolving curves around curves
  • selecting U/V rows of points
  • shifting UV
  • snipping
  • stitching
  • subdivisions
  • subdivisions when generating
  • surface curves
  • swapping UV
  • transforming components and clusters
  • trim curves
• swapping UV
• sweep See birail, extruding
• swimming, texture projections
• switchers see tray switchers
• Syflex Cloth in Softimage
• Sym button
• symmetrical manipulation
• symmetry
  • about
  • brush properties
  • constraint
  • drawing chains in
  • drawing curves
  • duplicating chains in
  • duplication
  • manipulating points
  • mirroring envelope weights
  • polygons
  • reference planes and
  • weight maps
• symmetry mapping templates
• symmetry maps
  • applying
  • for weight maps
  • on envelopes
• synchronizing
  • audio and animation
  • audio with animation while scrubbing
• synoptic properties
  • about
  • applying
• synoptic view editor
  • about
  • displaying
  • options
• synoptic views
  • about
  • applying
  • creating
  • describing hotspots
  • displaying
  • editing
  • for biped rig
  • for character animation
  • for quadruped rigs
  • images
  • linking to other views
  • linking to scripts
  • navigating
  • opening files
  • samples
  • saving files
  • scripting languages
  • using
• syntax conventions, VBScript
• system locks
• SYSTEMDRIVE
• tab-style property editors
• tag channels, displaying in render region
• tagging See selecting
• tagging
  • character parts for retargeting animation
  • parameters
• tails
  • controls in character rigs
  • tail controls for spring
• tangency, on curves
• tangent handles See slope handles, function curves
• tangents
  • about
  • applying tangent property
  • editing tangent maps
  • exporting (collada)
  • exporting (dotXSI)
  • normal and tangent maps (Ultimapper)
  • transferring (Ultimapper)
• taper deformation
• target render models for Behavior
• task size, rendering
• TCP/IP service protocol, using same port number for distributed rendering
• tearing UV samples in the texture editor
• tear-off menus
• Telnet
• template, in 2D Tracking
• templates
  • connection-mapping for sharing actions
  • output path templates
  • value-mapping for actions
• terminators See subchains
• terrain actor (floor) in Behavior
• tessellating, converting curves
• tessellation See surface approximation
• texel coverage map, generating
• text
  • about
  • beveling
  • converting to curves
  • creating
  • exploding into curves
  • extruding
  • font attributes
  • line attributes
  • textprop property
• text boxes
  • entering property values in
  • math operations in
  • moving among
• texture coordinates, about
• texture editor
  • "all" selection filter
  • applying subprojections
  • auto-show preference
  • auto-sync preference
  • bleeding polygons
  • checkerboard display
  • choosing a projection
  • cluster selection filter
  • collapsing
  • contour stretch type subprojections
  • copy paste on NURBS
  • copy paste on polygons
  • copying and pasting sample points between projections
  • copying sample points
  • creating subprojections
  • cycling polygons
  • dimming image clips
  • displaying image clips
  • displaying UV coordinate sets
  • edge selection filter
  • editing multiple UV sets
  • flipping polygons
  • healing separated points
  • hiding selections
  • highlighting connectivity
  • highlighting overlapping UV coordinates
  • highlighting texture coverage
  • highlighting UV island boundaries
  • image clips, dimming
  • interactive updating
  • inverting selections
  • island heal
  • island selection filter
  • lock mode
  • matching sample points
  • mirroring polygons
  • move component tool
  • moving sample points
  • pasting sample points
  • pivot, using
  • polygon cluster selection options
  • polygon selection filter
  • polynode bisectors, displaying
  • preferences, setting
  • projection selection filters
  • relaxing polygons
  • rotating polygons
  • selecting points
  • snap gravity
  • snap targets
  • snapping
    • enabling
  • stamping UV meshes
  • subprojections, contour stretch
  • syncing 3D view selections
  • tearing
  • texture projections and
  • toolbars, hiding and showing
  • transforming subprojections
  • using
  • using proportional
  • UV position boxes
  • vertex selection filter
• texture layer editor
  • about
  • base layers
    • adding
    • connecting ports to
    • disconnecting
    • editing properties
  • base layers in
  • clearing
  • collapsing and expanding layers and inputs
  • collapsing layers
  • collapsing ports
  • dsplay order for layers
  • hiding layers
  • hiding ports
  • layer/port cells, selecting
  • layers, selecting
  • list view
  • opening
  • ports, selecting
  • preferences
  • resizing layers and ports
  • shaders, accessing
  • stack view
  • texture layers
    • adding
    • adding ports to
    • removing ports from
    • reordering
    • working with
  • texture layers in
  • texture projections, assigning to layers
  • tooltip information
  • updating
  • viewing shaders in
  • See Also texture layers
• texture layers
  • about
  • adding in the texture layer editor
  • adding to shaders
  • base layers, render tree
  • blank, adding in the render tree
  • blending
  • blending modes
  • color input
    • ignoring alpha
    • inverting alpha
    • options
    • premultiplying
    • setting
    • using alpha as
  • explorer, finding in
  • in render tree
  • layer/port
    • inverting color
    • muting
    • scaling layer weight
    • using alpha as color
  • layer/port properties, setting
  • locking
  • mask input
    • color input alpha, creating from
    • from color input intensity
    • from color input threshold
    • inverting
    • setting
  • MAT panel
  • mix weight
  • mixing
  • mixing modes
  • muting
  • other tools for working with
  • properties
    • accessing from the render tree
    • setting
  • property editors, in
  • renaming
  • render tree
    • adding ports in
    • connecting in
    • creating from shader presets
    • deleting in
    • disconnecting
    • editing properties from
    • in the
    • in the
    • reordering
  • reordering in the texture layer editor
  • soloing
  • texture layer editor
  • texture layer editor See texture layer editor
  • weight
  • workflow
• texture maps
  • colors for particles
  • creating and connecting
  • filtering ICE particle emissions with
  • ICE trees and
  • on hair colors
• texture projection
  • about
  • applying
  • applying to group
  • attaching objects to
  • camera
    • applying
  • connecting objects to
  • contour stretch UVs
    • applying
    • polygon selection guidelines
    • stretching methods.
  • cubic
    • applying
  • cylindrical
  • displaying
  • explained
  • fitting to components
  • freezing
  • freezing transformations
  • implicit
  • lollipop
  • modifying
  • muting
  • name
  • planar (XY, XZ, YZ)
  • purely implicit
  • referencing with tspace_id
  • renaming
  • reordering in operator stack
  • reproject
  • seams
  • spatial
  • spherical
  • stick
  • swim
  • texture operator
    • repositioning
  • types of
  • unfolding
  • unique UVs
    • applying
    • rendermapping with
  • UV
  • wrapping
• texture projections
  • assigning to layers
  • assigning to nodes in render tree
  • operator stack, dragging and dropping in
• texture shaders
  • removing
• texture support
  • adding projections to
  • applying to branch
  • applying to multiple objects
  • creating on-the-fly
  • defining
  • displaying
  • duplicated objects and
  • multiple, applying to objects
  • parenting
  • pre-applying
  • simultaneous projections for
  • swapping UV
• texture support objects
  • about
  • connecting
  • constraining to bounding box
  • copying
  • displaying
  • removing
  • texture projection
• texture UV coordinates, editing multiple sets
• textured decal display type
• textures
  • 2D
  • 2D and images
  • 3D
  • about
  • adding
  • animating
  • applying
  • applying on multiple objects
  • applying to polygons
  • applying with connection icon
  • applying with drag and drop
  • applying with render tree
  • applying with texture button
  • baking
  • blending
  • blending from SOFTIMAGE|3D
  • bump map step
  • clamping
  • coordinates, manipulating
  • deformations and
  • editing on an object
  • editing projection
  • hardware display
  • image clips
  • images
  • local
  • local textures
  • management
  • memory-mapped
  • MipMapping (pyramid)
  • missing
  • mixing
  • OpenGL texture settings
  • operator stack
  • optimizing
  • overlapping polygon clusters
  • polygon meshes
  • polygons
  • presets
  • projections
    • fitting to components
    • freezing transformations
  • rendering
  • RenderMap
  • RenderVertex
  • repeating
  • saving presets
  • sequence
  • shaders
  • support vs.projection
  • tiling
  • tips & troubleshooting
  • using TIFF files as
  • wrapping
• this
  • token in expressions
  • variable in action clip values
• this_model, token in expressions
• three-point constraints
• threshold, sampling for aliasing
• thumbnail images
  • creating for scene, preset, and external model files
  • extracting from scene, preset, and external model files
• thumbnail viewer
  • selecting objects from
  • using
• thumbnails
  • about
  • assigning to scene elements
  • creating from render regions
  • displaying in the render tree
  • finding
  • folder in the project structure
  • image proxies and
  • managing size of
  • on clips in animation mixer
  • relational view
  • setting for scene elements
  • thumbnail viewer
• time
  • global and local in action clips
  • global and local in animation mixer
  • ICE trees and
  • in scene
  • infinite value for clips in animation mixer
  • particle simulations
  • rigid body simulations
  • See also timeline
• Time Control property editor
• time range
• time-display format, animation editor
• timeline
  • about
  • in animation editor
  • keying current values at different frames
  • keys in
  • looping playback
  • mini dopesheet view
  • playback cursor
  • range of frames
  • setting preferences for keys in
  • start and end frames
  • time format
  • viewing audio waveform in
• timers, ICE particle
• timewarps
  • applying to source
  • for cycled and bounced clips
  • in animation mixer
  • in clip effects
  • removing
• tips of hair, selecting
• tokens
• tool shaders
• toolbars
  • about
  • adding commands to
  • adding custom commands
  • adding presets to
  • Animate
  • changing the display
  • creating
  • creating and editing
  • custom
  • modifying
  • removing
  • removing a button
• tools
  • activating with shortcut keys
  • tracking active tools
• toon shaders
  • background color
  • bas surface color
  • bulge distortion
  • fisheye distortion
  • highlights
  • ink lines
    • applying globally
    • applying locally (per object)
    • applying to specific objects
    • blending
    • compositing (transfer) modes
    • controlling global color
    • controlling global spread
    • controlling local color
    • controlling local spread
    • detecting
    • facet detection
    • sampling
    • simulating pressure
    • tapering
    • tapering transmitted and reflected
    • texturing global
    • texturing local
    • unblending
    • varying spread
  • lens
  • lens distortion
  • library of
  • material
  • paint
    • ambience
    • highlights
    • rimlights
  • painting, base color
  • reflection depth
  • reflections, creating
  • refraction depth
  • render pass
  • rendering pass
  • rimlights
  • surface color
  • Toon Host
  • Toon Mixer
  • Toon Paint
  • Toon Paint Ambient
  • Toon Paint and Host
  • Toon Paint Highlight
  • Toon Paint Rimlight
  • Toon Paint Rounded
  • trace depth
    • tapering
  • trace depth and raytracing depth
  • transparency, creating
  • utility shaders
• topology
• topology operators
  • and the operator stack
  • with shape animation
• toric force (for simulation)
• torus, force for simulation
• track point, in 2D Tracking
• tracking
  • 3D views, tracking in
  • objects with render region
• tracks
  • in animation mixer
  • in dopesheet
• trails
  • showing particle velocity
  • spawned ICE particles
• trails for animated objects
• trajectories, animation on (path)
• transferring, clusters and properties
• Transform > Align Objects
• Transform > Freeze commands
• Transform > Ignore Transformation Setups
• Transform > Kinematics
• Transform > Match commands
• Transform > Move Center to Vertices
• Transform > Remove Neutral Pose
• Transform > Reset commands
• Transform > Set Neutral commands
• Transform > Transform Components Independently in Local Mode
• transform groups for parenting
• Transform Operators, tracking See Also 2D Tracking
• Transform panel
  • editing multiple parameters
• transform setup
  • character animation
  • ignoring
• transformations
  • and object render archives
  • animating
  • animating centers
  • animating hierarchies
  • area light
  • axes
  • bounding-box manipulator
  • branch mode
  • Cartesian coordinates
  • center
  • clusters
  • COG mode
  • components
  • edges
  • editing multiple parameters numerically
  • envelopes
  • freezing
  • global
  • hidden objects
  • hierarchies and
  • ICE trees and
  • interaction speed
  • keyframing
  • kinematics property editor
  • local
  • manipulation modes
  • manipulators
  • marking parameters for
  • matching
  • neutral poses
  • nudging
  • numerical
  • offsetting in animation mixer
  • pivot
  • plotting
  • points
  • polygons
  • preferences
  • preferred tool
  • relative to mouse pointer
  • removing keys
  • resetting
  • rotation
  • scaling
  • setting the pivot
  • setup
  • spotlight
  • storing in actions
  • symmetrizing polygons
  • translation
  • trees
  • using reference planes
  • visual cues
  • waves
  • when extruding polygon mesh components
  • while duplicating objects
• transient reference planes
• Transition shape key mode
• transitions
  • between clips in animation mixer
  • bridge for action clips
  • Cardinal
  • muting
  • removing
  • setting automatically
  • shape clip modes
  • standard
• translations
  • animating
  • animating chain's effector (inverse kinematics)
  • clusters
  • COG mode
  • components
  • creating path animation from
  • editing multiple values numerically
  • global manipulation mode
  • hair
  • interaction speed
  • limits
  • local manipulation mode
  • manipulation modes
  • manipulator
  • nudging
  • numerical
  • object manipulation mode
  • par manipulation mode
  • plane manipulation mode
  • plotting (position)
  • ref manipulation mode
  • relative to mouse pointer
  • setting the pivot
  • snapping multiple objects
  • view manipulation mode
  • with manipulator
  • See also transformations
• translucency, hair
• transparency
  • about
  • caster
  • controlling with textures
  • falloff for particle shape
  • hair
  • of particles
  • setting values for
  • static blur for particles
  • visibility
  • visibility options, setting
• transparency map
• transparency maps
  • creating
  • painting
  • using alpha
• tray switchers
• tree deformations
• tree selection
• trees
  • about
  • selecting in hierarchies
• triangulating polygon meshes
• triangulation, OpenGL
• triggers, for ICE particle states
• triggers for particle events
• trim curves
  • about
  • creating
  • deleting
  • extracting
  • selecting
• trimming
  • audio in and out frames
  • clips in the animation mixer
  • surfaces with curves
• tri-wings
• tspace_id
• tumbling
• turbulence
  • flow for drag force
  • ICE particle strands
  • modifying ICE particle values
  • on ICE particles speed
• turbulence force
• Turbulize Around Value compound
• Turbulize Color Using Gradient compound
• Turbulize Emitter Value compound
• Turbulize Particle Velocity compound
• Turbulize Strands compound
• Turbulize Value by Range compound
• turbulizing
  • ICE particle strands
  • ICE particle values
• tweak component tool
• twist deformation
• Twist Strands compound
• twisting, ICE particle strands
• two-point constraints
• type, finding elements by
• UIWidget variable (.cgfx files)
• Ultimapper
  • about
  • ambient occlusion options
  • editing tangents
  • maps
  • previewing results
  • using
• umbra, soft shadows
• undoing, camera moves
• undoing changes, number of levels
• unfolding texture projections
• unhiding
  • objects
  • polygons
• uni manipulation mode
  • scaling components
  • scaling objects
• uniform parameterization
• union of polygon meshes
• unique UVs texture projection
• units, Softimage
• unlocking, points on hair
• Unstick from Surface compound
• unwelding, see disconnecting
• up vectors
  • constraints for chains
  • constraints for objects
  • controlling flipping with path animation
  • removing constraints
• UpdateContext
• user application data path
• user data
  • about
  • creating a data maps
  • creating a template
  • exporting
  • importing
  • on particles
  • setting map values
• user keywords
  • finding elements by
• user locks
• user tools, editing configuration files
• user-defined normals
• USERNAME
• UV
  • meshes, stamping
  • swapping
  • texture projection
• UV basis maps, generating
• UV coordinates
  • about
  • texture editor, displaying in
• UV position boxes, in texture editor
• UV texture coordinates
  • generating automatically
  • transferring and merging
• vacuum See eddy
• valid polygon meshes
• value-map expressions in action clips (clip effect expression)
• value-mapping templates, for action clips
• variables
  • declaring in scripts
  • global
  • scripted operators
• variance, particles
• VBScript
  • about
  • comments
  • syntax conventions
  • with scripted operators
• vector, aligning ICE particles along
• vector paint
  • about
  • brush strokes in
  • flood fill
  • line tool in
  • magic wand
  • mask shapes operator
  • operator
  • operators, locating in the explorer
  • paint mask and
  • stroke shape, editing properties
  • See also 2D paint
• vector shaders, for particles
• velocity
  • computing for an object
  • of particles
  • quickstretch
  • see also speed
• velocity limits on rigid bodies
• verbosity, in render messages
• versioning, scenes saved with
• vertex bleeding
• vertex colors
  • See color at vertices
• vertex shader input semantics (effects shaders)
• vertical sync
  • about
  • displaying
  • setting
• vertices, See also points
• View manipulation mode
  • displaying local or global coordinates
  • rotating components
  • rotating objects
  • translating components
  • translating objects
• view plane pivot transform tool
• viewing
  • animation sequences (si3d_flipbook standalone)
  • constraint information
  • critical zone for chain root
  • display-only gamma correction
  • expression information
  • filtering chain elements
  • flipbooks
  • joint circles
  • joint stiffness
  • options in animation mixer
  • path information
  • rotation limits
  • rotoscoped images
  • sequences with scripts (sequences standalone)
  • shadows for chains
  • x-ray view of chains with envelopes
• viewpoint buttons
• viewpoints
  • about
  • synchronizing with cameras
• viewports
  • capturing animation (flipbook) in
  • changing views in
  • disabling v-synch on graphics cards for faster playback
  • displaying frame number in
  • displaying frame rate in
  • displaying properties
  • layout of
  • letter identifiers of
  • maximizing
  • muting and soloing
  • optimizing playback for animation
  • playback in only one
  • property editor docked in
  • Realtime Shaders display mode
  • resetting
  • resizing
  • restoring
  • transforming subprojections in
• views
  • browser
  • camera
  • displaying custom information
  • docked
  • explorer
  • floating
  • geometry
  • net view
  • render tree
  • schematic
  • spotlight
  • spreadsheet
  • storing (memo cams)
  • synoptic
  • viewports
  • XSI explorer
• virtual sliders for changing parameter values
• viscosity, of fluid
• visibility
  • about
  • instances, options for
  • node in Behavior viewer
  • options, toggling for objects
  • parameters, grouping
  • property for objects
  • reflection options
  • refraction options
  • transparency options
• visibility options
  • final gathering
  • reflection, setting
  • refraction, setting
  • shadow casters and receivers
  • transparency, setting
• visibility property, on polygon clusters
• vol manipulation mode
  • scaling components
  • scaling objects
• volume
  • adding to object
  • adding to scene
• volume controls, approximating envelope for rig creation
• volume deformations
• volume shaders
  • about
  • effects
  • fog effect
  • particles
• volume shading, ICE particles
• volumic lights, creating
• vortex deformation
• vortex (force for simulation)
• v-sync
  • about
  • displaying
  • setting
• v-synch, disabling on graphics cards for faster playback
• walk cycles
  • cid clip effect
  • cid (cycle ID) value in action clip
  • preventing backsliding with plateau fcurve slopes
• walking, with camera
• warp, variable for action clips
• warping, images and sequences
• warps
  • time in clip effects
  • time in clips
• WAV (Windows waveform) files
• waves
  • about
  • amplitude
  • applying operator
  • circular
  • control objects
  • displacement direction
  • falloff
  • periodicity
  • planar
  • profiles
  • speed
  • spherical
  • spread
  • transforming
• wavy hair
• weight, token in action clip values
• weight editor
• weight maps
  • about
  • changing color
  • creases in subdivision surfaces
  • creating
  • cutting render hairs
  • defined
  • deforming with
  • displaying
  • envelopes
  • filtering ICE particle emissions with
  • freezing
  • ICE trees and
  • on curves
  • on shapes
  • on subdivision surfaces
  • on terrain actor for Behavior
  • operator stack
  • painting
  • referenced models and
  • selecting
  • spine deformation
  • symmetry
  • transferring and merging
  • using
• weight paint panel
• weighting, animation layer clip in mixer
• weights
  • custom slider panel for shape clips
  • envelopes
  • mirroring
  • mixing actions in animation mixer
  • mixing shapes in animation mixer
  • operator stack
  • preset in animation mixer
  • See also envelopes, mix weights, spine deformation, transitions, weight maps
• welding
  • edges
  • points on polygon meshes
• wet hair
• white hair
• wiggling, of hair with dynamics
• wind force, ICE particles
• wind (force for simulation)
• Window > Close All
• Window > Minimize All
• Window > Restore All
• window managers
• windows
  • setting default size and position
  • starting Softimage on
• wireframe
  • display type
  • rendering
  • simplified subdivision
• wireframe color, setting for scene layers
• workgroup application data path
• workgroups
  • about
  • creating
  • cross-platform
  • path priority
  • setting
  • using
• workspace, Softimage
• wrapping, textures
• x-ray shading, on envelopes
• XSI explorer
  • about
  • locking
  • opening
  • updating
• XSI_BINDIR
• XSI_CPU
• XSI_CPU_OPT
• XSI_CURVER_HOME
• XSI_CURVER_VERSION
• XSI_CUSTOM_BUFFERED_IO
• XSI_DSPRESETS
• XSI_EMULATE_OPENGL
• XSI_EXT
• XSI_GTK_INIT_ON_STARTUP
• XSI_HOME
• XSI_LOG_LOAD_TIME
• XSI_LOG_LOAD_TIME_FILE
• .xsi_n.n (Linux environment script), editing environment variables
• XSI_NO_VSYNC
• XSI_NOSIGNAL_CATCHING
• XSI_NOSTD_REDIRECT
• XSI_OPERATOR_EVALUATION_TRACKING
• XSI_PLAYER
• XSI_PLUGINS
• XSI_PRELOAD_DLLS_LIST
• XSI_USERHOME
• XSI_USERROOT
• XSIA (asset description language)
• xsibatch
• xsikm files
• XSIMIXER (animation mixer) files
• xsipref files
• xsiprojects files
• XSISDK_ROOT
• xsitb files
• XY
  • planes
  • texture projection method
• XYZ
  • axes
  • coordinates
• XZ
  • planes
  • texture projection method
• yielding (quickstretch)
• YZ
  • planes
  • texture projection method
• Z-depth, pass
• Z-depth information for shadow maps
• zero (anchor) keys in animation layers
• zeroing out joints (neutral poses)
• zero-order continuity
• zooming
  • cameras, zooming with
  • in a rotoscoped view
  • in animation mixer
  • in dopesheet
  • in fcurve editor
  • mouse wheel
  • on cursor
  • rectangular
  • speed, adjusting