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Gman
07-23-2008, 02:37 PM
Is this correct :

XSI Academic is = XSI Advanced ? With everything...
And if your school purchases XSI Academic 6.5 they will get XSI 7 as a free upgrade?

Cheers

G
StephenBlair
07-23-2008, 02:45 PM
XSI Academic has the same features as XSI Advanced, but you do not get the five batch licenses that come with the commercial version.

If you were to purchase XSI Academic today, then you would be eligible for a free upgrade to XSI 7 when it is released.
Gman
07-23-2008, 02:48 PM
Does that mean it will only use one processor ? We have quads in the school , would all processors be used? Would we have to purchase 1 license per student seat?
Gman
07-23-2008, 02:50 PM
One last Question , what is the cut off date of purchase to recieve XSI 7 as a free upgrade ?

Cheers
StephenBlair
07-23-2008, 02:53 PM
Does that mean it will only use one processor ? We have quads in the school , would all processors be used? Would we have to purchase 1 license per student seat?

XSI will use all CPUs on the computer (for rendering).

You have to purchase one license for each student seat.
You would have to purchase one license of XSI Advanced for each student seat.

The batch licenses allow you to do command-line rendering with xsibatch.
You cannot run XSI with the batch licenses.
StephenBlair
07-23-2008, 02:54 PM
One last Question , what is the cut off date of purchase to recieve XSI 7 as a free upgrade ?

Cheers

XSI 7 will be available before September 30, 2008. All purchases of XSI from July 1st, 2008 will be upgraded to XSI 7 for FREE when it ships.
smshaler
07-30-2008, 02:33 PM
Stephen - you mentioned all cores are used for rendering. Are the computations associated with rigid body dynamics limited to a single core? (I know that is the caes in Lightwave for example).


Thanks in advance or a hint on other more appropriate forums for this question.
StephenBlair
07-30-2008, 02:38 PM
Stephen - you mentioned all cores are used for rendering. Are the computations associated with rigid body dynamics limited to a single core? (I know that is the caes in Lightwave for example).


Thanks in advance or a hint on other more appropriate forums for this question.

RBD is not multithreaded.

Here's what I know about multithreading (http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/XSI_Support_Blog#Is_XSI_multithreaded.3F) in XSI 6.5 and earlier.

In XSI 7, effects made with ICE are multithreaded.
smshaler
07-30-2008, 03:04 PM
From the ICE video on the home page - it implies one can apply objects with RBD to particles via ICE - which implies to me multithreading in V7. Looking at the simulation of manufacturing systems where 10's of thousands of particle interactions are necessary - so such multithreading would be the cat's meow.

Thanks so much for your quick response earlier.