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Import actions from an SI3d scene as individual clips into XSI

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Question You have a whole bunch of actions in your SOFTIMAGE|3D scene that you want to import into XSI, but when you do this, all the actions are imported as a single action clip. This is because SOFTIMAGE|3D saves the actions into a single .ani file.

Answer

Here are some workarounds:

• In SOFTIMAGE|3D, save each action separately with the Save > Selected Elements > Animation command.
• This may be a bit time consuming, so here's another way:

1. Import the actions into XSI as a single clip.
2. Load the clip into the animation mixer.
3. Split the clip into multiple clips: place the cursor where you want to divide the clip, then right-click and choose Split (or choose Clip > Split in the mixer).

More Information

You can also freeze the split clip to create a new source by choosing Clip > Freeze to New Source or Freeze and Replace.

Applies To: XSI 1.5 on NT,Win2K,Irix

Posted: 6/26/2001

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