News Archive

Bring your SWF animations into Softimage|XSI with SWFi! It is a tiny plug-in that converts SWF vector/raster elements to a 3D scene that you can manipulate intuitively and do all sorts of crazy things with it (as shown in the tutorials section).

The real-time media section introduces DSK|Planet, a programmable component for building 3D Earth exploration capabilities, and scientifical planets visualizations.

Architecture in Harmony is a remake of an architecture theories project that attempts to deliver an integrated experience binding the concepts of art of music and architecture in a reinforced structure.

A new series of tutorial videos for our Behavior Rendering Tools that will offer you a GUI that automates a lot of the rendering and output tasks within Softimage|Behavior.

In addition to proposing a concept for the Querks characters, this video introduces a novel technique for rendering hair/fur in short times with high-quality. Technical paper link included in the demo's page...

Video for our mobile games development promo is now available for download and enjoyment, along with technical snoops on the making of 2D and 3D mobile games...

The ending credits of the Construction Theories project. Rest assured this is not another boring educational video for academia...

'Volumetric Clouds with Mega Particles' is a novel real-time rendering technique to cheaply simulate volumetric effects like smoke, explosions, fire, fog...etc.

This presentation about 'Naming Systems and Data Structures' is a definate thing to look at before you start setting up your art pipeline...

Discover a new scripting workflow inside your XSI scene. In this latest presentation, Homam exploits scripts as object-oriented scene entities inside of XSI... It's definately worth a look!

In|Framez makes the move into the academic field with this new presentation about games and multimedia development!

The second episode of the Technical Previews series is ready for you to download. See how interesting architectural visualization can be... Have fun!

Take a look at the first "particle mixer" ever. In this article, you will be able to see how good this mix "tastes". Now, mix particle simulations just as you do with shape animations!

Our first episode of the Technical Previews series is up. See how to build car racing games, the In|Framez way!

Learn everything about particles in Softimage|XSI 5 with this video tutorial series hosted by Homam Bahnassi. Watch 6 hours of real-world particle effect projects... Now Particles In Practice is available from 3dtutorial.com!

For those who missed out the real thing, now the slides for the several presentations we held for various CG and gaming companies around are up and can be viewed online!

Check out the new series of features/tutorials videos that will introduce you to some of the advanced stuff that can be done with DSK|ShaderBass!

Our newest product is now declared. Zentinel is a brand-new video codec with many new features targeted towards the gaming industry.

Increase the realism of your renderings by getting rid of those sharp edges around your 3D objects, using this effective trick.

The 3D|Animation section has been all revisited and refreshed with new projects.

In|Framez celebrates the launch of the In|Structurez technical community. This Arabic community will host discussions about different topics covering games development and the 3D industry.

A life-saving article for people working with particle effects in XSI.

Check out the pictures of Homam's lecture at the Syndicate of Engineers, where he talked about MOAVR, DSK, and XSI. Read it in our new events archive.

In|Framez exposes its new music department for public production. Check out what the fuss is about with sample soundtracks.

Pay a visit to MOAVR, or the Museum of Omayyad Architecture in Virtual Reality.
This real-time architectural demo will leave you asking yourself whether it is virtual or real!

The third installement in the dotXSI Programming series. Learn how to get animated characters out from dotXSI files.

Find yourself a job at In|Framez. Find yourself the position that suits you most by looking at our current job openings and sending us your CV.

Get into some real rigging action with Bill, as he guides you into an adventure of setting up a catapult's rig in a unique and clever way.

Utilize all your senses while viewing Homam Bahnassi's hot showreel. This covers his career at In|Framez since year 2000 and until 2004. Download it now!

Incorporate advanced real-time rendering techniques into your daily production pipeline by learning how to achieve common render passes... in real-time! With Softimage|XSI 4!

Dive in with Rippulu! Learn an easy, fast and nice method to generate good-looking water ripples on water surfaces, all within Softimage|XSI 4!

In|Framez now hosts you a big deal of useful scripts and real-time shaders that are directly accessible to you XSI users from within XSI's browser. Make sure you visit http://netview.inframez.com for an ever refreshing set of information.

A new release-candidate version of DSK|ShaderBass® for Softimage|XSI is now available for public download. Feel the power of DSK|ShaderBass's render nodes and its underlying DirectSkeleton® rendering engine with this 45-day evaluation copy.

Blow life in your eerie real-time scenes. This tutorial shows you how to make use of XSI's OGLShadowMap shader.

Get yourself exposed to XSI's real-time shaders system. Learn how to drive DSK|ShaderBass® render nodes to simulate a mentalRay shader... but in real-time!

The second in the dotXSI Programming tutorial series. Learn how to open real-time shaders in your games, plus a zillion of new techniques.

DSK|ShaderBass® for Softimage|XSI is now available for public download. Feel the power of DSK|ShaderBass's render nodes and its underlying DirectSkeleton® rendering engine with this 45-day evaluation copy.

DirectSkeleton® exhibits the birth of a new pipeline product. DSK|ShaderBass®, a plug-in that integrates into 3D authoring tools to provide a seamless real time shader development environment.

In|Framez announces a new product in the DirectSkeleton pipeline. DSK|RenderSmith®, an advanced programming API for quick and rapid implementation of 3D viewing systems.

Get the latest update of DirectSkeleton® 3.0 features. These are the Final Beta specs for the product, containing more features and better documentation than previous versions.

Live inside XSI's OpenGL Real-time Viewport. This is the first animation designed and meant to be played in real-time! In real quality! This is Pixar!

Microsoft awards our Lead Programmer, Wessam Bahnassi, the title of 'Microsoft’s DirectX Most Valuable Professional (MVP)' for his great community contribution in the field of DirectX development. Congratulations!

In|Framez gets involved in a 3D real-time strategy game project, code named "Quraish". More details will be listed as soon as they’re available.

Harness the power of major 3D packages right into your games. Learn how to get each and every piece of data out of the artists’ heads, using the flexible dotXSI pipeline.

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Get a grip on XSI's integrated FX compositor. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to save yourself 3D work and -still- get better effects with this powerful tool.

An update of Microsoft's reference on Direct3D .x File Format. Full specifications for a completely new set of templates that fit today's 3D game artists' needs.

New tutorial targeted to 3D game artists about some of the techniques used in real-time shaders in XSI2 or later.

The intro of the great classic (Day of The Tentacle) reproduced with today's advanced technologies.

A fine example on how to get each and every piece of info from dotXSI files using the FTK. Compile it with Visual C++ .NET.