XSI Video Tutorials

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Welcome

This page is reserved for a collection of XSI oriented video tutorials.

Flashjackson tutorials

This is a set of 4 video tutorials that cover how to use XSI and Photoshop to create and skin a model for use in Source. They are available for free download from this site: http://www.redemptionmod.com/

The following categories are followed in this video set:

• how to build a model of a framed metal sign
• how to create a good UV map that is proportionally correct
• how to paint a skin with normal and spec mapping, (This shows how to do it with Photoshop CS2, but any paint program can be used)
• how to export and compile the model for use in Hammer and HL2.

If you want a detailed, step by step video guide, this is the tutorial set for you.

==Iwannamap tutorials (more specifically Erykgecko tutorials)

The site http://www.iwannamap.com/tutmodels.php has a series of tutorials including

• Simple prop modeling
• UVMapping and exporting
• Making Bamboo Leaves
• World Model Rigging
• XSI Ragdoll
• Animating View Models
• View Model Animating and Attachment Points in XSI

Just to name a few, Erykgecko's tutorials are easy to follow, and really provide a step-by-step process to follow.

TODO:more tutorials need to be placed, face rigging in perticular.