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Disabling Customer Error Reporting (CER)
In general, we’d prefer you didn’t disable the CER reports. But if you’re in the middle of debugging a plugin that constantly crashes, for example, you might want to temporarily disable the CERs. To...
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Crosswalk, Common Files, and the PATH environment variable
Anytime you have problems with Crosswalk not showing up in Softimage or Crosswalk missing or dotXSI liberaries missing, it’s probably because the Common Files location is missing from your PATH...
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Checking the environment of a running program
Sometimes when you’re troubleshooting, it’s a good idea to check the environment in which Softimage is running. You can check specific environment variables in the script editor like this: import os...
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Undocumented environment variables #2
set XSI_EDITORS_WHITE_BG=1 This undocumented env var was mentioned on the XSI mailing list back in 2008 (ice tree background), but I found out about it another, more brute force, way. * undocumented...
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