As for choice of 2015 vs. 2014. It depends on your needs. If stability is important or you work with real time content heavily, you’ll want 2014 SP2. 2015 has more features, but also more bugs including regressions from 2014 in the area of authoring content for games and similar workflow. The known limitations list provided with the release is not comprehensive.
I have the XSI v1.0 installer right here at my desk. It’s 29 Mb, not 460 Mb. That’s for software alone, not content databases or documentation. For comparison, Softimage|3D v3.9.2 was released with XSI v1.0, and it’s installer was only 86 Mb inclusive of all features. I wouldn’t call XSI bare metal code as anything with a Microsoft COM/OLE core is anything but bare to the metal. I would say it was rather bare on features, however ;-) (e.g. no polygon modeling). Here’s a breakdown of installer sizes through the years. I don’t have every release, but I have enough to illustrate the trend. Assume 32 bit unless stated otherwise: XSI 1.0: 29 Mb XSI 1.53: 31 Mb XSI 2.01: 83 Mb XSI 2.03: 82 Mb XSI 3.01: 103 Mb XSI 3.5: 118 Mb XSI 3.5.1.1: 118 Mb XSI 4.0: 183 Mb XSI 4.2: 185 Mb XSI 5.0: 349 Mb XSI 5.11: 372 Mb XSI 6.01: 397 Mb XSI 6.5: 406 Mb XSI 7.0: 479 Mb XSI 7.01: 477 Mb XSI 7.5: 551 Mb Softimage 2011 SP1: 1.08 Gb Softimage 2013 SP1: 1.44 Gb Softimage 2014 SP2: 1.42 Gb (64 bit) Softimage 2015: 808 Mb (64 bit) Softimage 2015 SP1: 809 Mb (64 bit) Softimage 2015 SP2: 809 Mb (64 bit) Notice some service packs were smaller than the main release. Matt Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 00:07:22 +0100 From: “Sven Constable” sixsi_l...@imagefront.de<mailto:sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> Subject: RE: Last Install of XSI ( I think) Should I use 2014 sp2 or 2015 To: "'Official Softimage Users Mailing List. 20 gigs of texture data? As a sidenode the XSI 1.0 installer had about 460MB, so it roughly doubled in size over the years. Yes, very compact compared to 3ds max for example. It was never crammed with third party stuff, loads of textures and stuff. Just some bare metal, very fine code. ;)
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