- #SOFTIMAGE XSI MOD TOOL DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
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#SOFTIMAGE XSI MOD TOOL DOWNLOAD MOD#
If you do have a very high polygon model and you are having problems with doing this manually go to the Mod Tool’s Polygon Reduction tool that is a built in feature and it will help you with this automatically. Those faces will never be visible, but are still be processed during rendering, If you have two intersecting spheres will have faces ‘inside’ one another. When using multiple meshes for you models, make sure to ‘delete’ all the NON VISIBLE faces. Shading tricks can also make the model appear as smooth as a much higher polygon model. Fine details may be ‘drawn’ on the texture rather than actually modeled. All of your models should be done with the lowest possible number of polygons you can get away with without losing visual quality. Essentially: a collection of points in space and a connection pattern between these points that defines the outer ‘skin’ of your model. The models used in XNA are composed of polygon meshes. Remember: The polygons we are referring to here are triangles. That doesn’t mean your detailing has to be limited it just means you have to plan for this when modeling. A high polygon count model is a bad thing for an XNA game. If you have art folks on your staff it is important to let them know up front of just what those limitations are. If not you will end up having to convert your models which may mean you still run into models that don’t appear properly in your game unless you follow the necessary steps. To avoid this it’s best to follow the directions below before you start modeling. We want to avoid this as you will find yourself with models and animations that incorrectly render when output to an XNA project.
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NOTE: Because you are actually working with almost a full copy of Autodesk’s SoftImage XSI in the free mod tool you will notice that you can do more complex models with higher polygon counts and things that go beyond the limits of XNA’s content pipeline for rendering models and animation.
The Importance of Low Polygon Count Models You will use this menu to connect up to your XNA Game Studio 4 project, to the content we create in the Mod Tool
If you were successful at installing the updates and XNA Game Studio Integration you will now have a new menu item.
#SOFTIMAGE XSI MOD TOOL DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
You should download and install this, it will prompt you for updates and if you want to install them automatically, you should say yes, including the XNA Game Studio integration Update.Īfter installing these updates you will notice a new menu item. Today we are going to look at another free tool called Autodesk’s SoftImage ModTool which is a free download. In our last XNA tutorial we set up a simple “Hello World” Application that took us through creating an XNA game studio project for the new XNA Game Studio 4.0.
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