If you head to Autodesk's Area, they have a bunch of tutorials for Softimage. You can find a bunch at http://www.i3dtutorials.com/view/Tutorials too. As for reference models, you should be able to use a mdl decompiler to get the smd, which you can then import.
I need help with a certain part in this tutorial... http://www.i3dtutorials.com/tutorial/21_modeling-a-cd-jewel-case At 2m46 in the video he moves the 7 points down and they flatten out to a certain level, when i do it they all move down in tandem they start to overlap the inner circle... Ive watched it about 20 times and…
It's more likely because they started with Max, got good with it, and as a result had no reason to use other tools. In the end it's not going to matter what you use as long as it does what you want. XSI is pretty simple to use, especially when working with the Source Engine. The tutorials that 'come' with modtool are found…