Yup, what Greg said. It was to model without creating a modeling stack because at the time, it was slowing down a bit. ;)
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz Sent: December-14-15 6:30 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #252 I thought it was for freezing operators automaticity , Xsi would get clunky real fast with a few modeling components. This feature was added to auto freeze as you modeled. Child compensation was added to get so you could move a parent node with out effecting the children . My recollection On Monday, December 14, 2015, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com<mailto:speye...@hotmail.com>> wrote: "Immediate" mode made it's appearance in XSI v3.0 so the Maya users would stop complaining about children not moving with the parent. The default Softimage behavior was for the children to move only when selected in branch mode. Matt Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:51:46 +0100 From: Arvid Bj?rn <arvidbj...@gmail.com<mailto:arvidbj...@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #252 To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com>" There's an "Immed" button in that interface.. I distinctly remember that feature being added to XSI at some point, like v2 or v3, it wasn't there from the start, that's for sure. Such an odd thing to be in an early mockup only to surface years later as an actual feature, isn't it? No Freeze button either which is also weird if Sumatra was non-linear from the start.