New Features. New Packages. New Price.

Today, demand for compelling 3D character performances and rich, immersive 3D worlds has never been greater. SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 renews Softimage's legendary commitment to 3D artists and studios by giving you everything you need to keep pushing the boundaries of art and technology—all at a simply unbeatable value.

Over 30 Feature Enhancements

Enhancements highlights to SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5 Essentials and Advanced include the following:

• TransformUV Property for multi-UV editing
• New interactive “Tight” layout for Unique UVs/PolyPack
• Shaderball support for Hardware Renderers
• Snapping tools work with Instances
• New Drag and Drop event
• New OnObjectAdded event
• New OnObjectRemoved event
• HDR image generation in RenderMap
• Satellite Support for RenderMap
• HDR color range for vertex colors
• API to convert vertex colors from shorts to floats and vice-versa
• And more...

For more information, download the XSI 6.5 Bug Fixes and Known Issues lists.

New Renderers

With XSI 6, Softimage opened up the XSI rendering API, and we've seen an enthusiastic response from our growing community of 3rd-party developers.

XSI has long been known for its unmatched rendering workflow and deep integration of the award-winning mental ray renderer. And while mental ray, remains the core XSI renderer, our rendering technology partners are taking advantage of our open rendering API to develop and integrate their respective render engines into XSI with similar depth and control.

For more information, ask your favorite rendering technology provider about their plans for SOFTIMAGE|XSI integration.

• Windows XP Professional SP2
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Note: It is recommended that you install the 32-bit version of XSI v.6.x on a supported 32-bit operating system and the 64-bit version of XSI v.6.x on a supported 64-bit operating system. Softimage does not officially support 32-bit applications running on 64-bit machines.

Although it is not a supported configuration, it is possible to run 32-bit versions of SOFTIMAGE|XSI Foundation or the XSI Foundation trial, provided that you have the following components installed:

• .Net Framework 2.0 for x64
• vcredist_x64.exe

An Advanced or Essentials license will unlock both the 32-bit version as well as the 64-bit version of XSI v.6.x. You can run the setups for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions from the SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.6.x Software DVD or download the appropriate setup from the download section.

• Workstation with AMD K8 or higher processor of 1GigHz or more.
  or
• Workstation with Intel Pentium IV or higher processor of 1GigHz or more.

OpenGL accelerated graphics card. 128 MB RAM or more recommended. Clickhere for an updated list of supported cards and recommended drivers.

Required for Essentials, Advanced, and standalone render nodes.  Student and Foundation models do not require a dongle.

• A USB hardware key attached to the USB port of each computer designated as a license server.
  or
• A serial hardware key attached to the serial port of each computer designated as a license server. In the case of the Sentinel serial dongle, you may also require a 25 pin-male to 9 pin-female converter (supplied with the dongle).

• To run XSI, you can be a Restricted user (Users), Standard user (Power Users), or an Administrator.
• To install and license XSI, you must be an Administrator.

Software Protection Manager (SPM™) installed on a computer that is accessible from your workstation.

710 MB for a typical installation, 740 MB for Windows x64. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for your system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.

TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers.

1 GB of RAM required minimum. 

1280 x 1024 screen resolution recommended.

Three-button mouse.

• A web browser to view any HTML documentation.
• Internet Explorer version 5.5 or later to use the Net View tool.

• An Internet connection to activate the software with a license.
• A DVD drive if installing the software or browsing the media from the Softimage
  Software DVD.
• WinZip tool to extract any downloaded setup files.
• A backup device, such as a DAT, 1/4" tape drive, removable hard disk, or DVD/CD-R/CD-RW drive.
  

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