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Downloading and installing ICE compounds
In this video, I look into downloading and installing ICE compounds (.xsicompound files): Dragging compounds from Web page to an ICE tree Downloading compounds Using workgroups to store compounds
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Setting workgroups at startup
Here’s a simple, low-tech way to connect to specific workgroups at startup: Instead of xsibatch -w or xsi -w, you could modify setenv.bat to create another .xsipref file in...
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Tip: Quickly explore any user, workgroup, or factory location
From the Plug-in Tree, you can quickly open up Windows Explorer (or a Command Prompt) on the location of a workgroup, plugin, or addon. Just right-click a folder in the Plug-in Tree and click Explore...
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Using environment variables in .wkg files
I couldn’t find this in the docs anywhere, but I did find it mentioned in some old emails. You can use environment variables in the .wkg file, like this: $SITOA_WKG_PATH $MOOTZOID_WKG_PATH or this:...
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Loading order of workgroup plugins and addons
I recently had reason to investigate the order in which things are loaded from workgroups, and here’s what I found: Workgroup plugins are loaded first. Softimage goes through all the workgroups, in the...
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