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Hi there 🙂

This Guide will cover Basic to Advanced Scripting, Programming, Plugin Development, Class Creation and much more. Including lots of handy titbits and explanations, like how to successfully use the Xsi help files. The goal being to equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to create awesome scripts, plugins and even external tools that speed up your workflow and make you a super programming genius!!! Which all results in your life being made a whole lot easier and giving you more time to spend on the artistic side of things, or you could even move over completely and work as a super programming genius. Either way this blog puts the power in your hands 😉

Hope you enjoy!
(And feel free to let me know what you think)

The Lessons are split up into sections:

  1. Recruit – Introduction to Scripting
  2. Trooper – The simple programming side of scripting
  3. Hardened – Basic Programming and Plugins
  4. Veteran – Classes, Modules, Threads and PyQt for Xsi.

And the Sections are made up of the following lessons:

Recruit:

  1. Easily turn echoed commands into buttons.
  2. Applying a command to multiple objects.

Trooper:

  1. Finding Parameters (Introduction to the “Object Model”).
  2. Finding How to Access Parameters Visually.
  3. Finding parameters and their values with code.
  4. Successfully using the help files.

Hardened:

  1. Creating a Plugin.
  2. Adding a Plugin to a Menu.
  3. Plugins that take Input and give Output
  4. On Event Plugins
  5. What is PyQt and how does it make my plugins AWESOME?!
  6. Installing PyQt for Softimage
  7. Creating a Simple PyQt Plugin

Veteran:

  1. Modules
  2. Multi-Model Importer

 

You can also download these lessons in PDF Book form here.