Clean-up the Scene

Freeze the model.

 

Freeze the mesh’s transform values. This is done so that the mesh does not end up being offset from all the meshpoints in-game. To do this, under the “Transform” Panel, go Transform > Freeze All Transforms. This should change all the Scaling values to 1 and all the Rotation and Translation values to 0, if they weren’t already at those values.

 

Cleaning up unused materials

1. Press 8 to open up the Explorer.
2. Press M to switch to Materials view.
3. Select and delete (using the Delete key) any materials that you do not need. A “<Not used>” indicator refers to unwanted materials but if you are not sure,select the material and Press 7 to call up the Render Tree to help you decide whether it should be deleted or not, and whether you need to switch materials around (to apply a different material to the mesh, just drag that material from Explorer, onto the mesh in the viewport).

Note: When you are done, there shouldn’t be any unused materials, as these are going to be exported into the *.mesh file, needlessly bloating its file size.

Cleaning-up unused textures and texture clips

1. Press 3 to switch to the Render Tool Bar
2. under the “Get” section, go Clip > Delete Unused Image Sources and Clips.
3. In the Explorer, Press O to switch to Sources view. Expand the Sources > Images folder and delete any unwanted texture references.
4. Expand the Clips >Images folder and delete any unused image clips. Image clips are just texture instances.

Note: Any “noIcon_pic” clips/images are integrated into XSI and cannot actually be deleted.

 

Cleaning-up the Scene_Root

Go to the Scene_Root in Explorer and delete any extraneous objects from your scene. Nothing under the Scene_Root except:

• the camera (XSI requires that you have at least one camera object)
• the model’s mesh
• the rootpoint null
• and all the meshpoints nulls under the rootpoint