To prevent stair-stepping in CrazyBump displacement maps, just enable the setting "Save Displacement at 16-bit precision," on CrazyBump's preferences page. It now occurs to me that this feature should probably be more accessible, rather than buried on the prefs page. If y'all still notice stair-stepping with the 16-bit…
XSI was more of a program i had to learn because that's what came with Pandemic. However, in my experience with 3ds Max, Maya and XSI, XSI has proven to be the fastest modeling program. Every single function is mapped to the keyboard. Every Cut, bevel, and extrude operation is just a keystroke away and after thought rather…