Autodesk Softimage software is a high performance 3D character animation and visual effects application. Intuitive, nondestructive workflows and the innovative ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) and Autodesk Face Robot facial animation toolsets extend Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max software pipelines. With new creative tools, enhanced interoperability with Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Premium products, and support for the latest technology trends, Autodesk Softimage enables you to meet the evolving challenges in 3D game development and post production.


Autodesk Softimage software is a high performance 3D character animation and visual effects application. Intuitive, nondestructive workflows and the innovative ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) and Autodesk Face Robot facial animation toolsets extend Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max software pipelines. With new creative tools, enhanced interoperability with Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Premium products, and support for the latest technology trends, Autodesk Softimage enables you to meet the evolving challenges in 3D game development and post production.

Key New Features:
Improved User Experience Wide range of small scale enhancements to day to day workflows: Explorer, Schematic View, Scene Layer Manager, Render Tree, Bone Primitive, Reference Models and the Weight Editor.
ICE Modeling Nondestructive geometry creation, based on rules, conditions and parameters that facilitate topology operation creation, particle meshing, custom primitives and geometry fracturing while preserving UV attributes.
Lagoa Multiphysics This simulation framework helps artists create realistic simulations of the dynamic behavior of liquids, cloth, foam, plastic and soft body collisions, as well as incompressible fluids, inelastic, elastic and plastic deformations.
Syflex on ICE More flexible node based workflow of ICE enables artists to use Syflex cloth to create and edit highly realistic cloth effects.
ICE FX Builder New module menu toolbar automatically connects compounds and nodes, enabling simple modification and extension of effects using the standard editing workflow.
Enhanced Interoperability Single step interoperability with the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 products (Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Mudbox), an extended software development kit (SDK), added support for Maya nCache format and Autodesk FBX asset exchange format.

Year: 2011
Version: 2012 (Build: 10.0.422.0)
Developer: Autodesk Inc
Platform: Microsoft Windows XP & Vista & Windows 7
Compatible with Windows 7: complete
Language: English, Japanese
Certified Hardware

For the latest list of certified hardware, including graphics cards, refer to the Softimage certification chart.

Notes:
Microsoft Windows
-)--- To run Softimage, you can be a Restricted user (Users), Standard user (Power Users), or Administrator.
-)--- To install and license Softimage, you must be an Administrator.
-)--- Autodesk does not support 32-bit applications running on 64-bit machines.
-)--- A license for Softimage will activate both the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version of Softimage. The setups for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions can be run from the Softimage DVD or accessed via download.

Linux operating system
-)--- Softimage 2012 is also capable of running on other configurations, such as boutique distributions of Linux. However, enumerating systems that are not tested and cannot be supported or that fall below the requirements for a productive user experience is beyond the scope of the online qualification charts.

For 32-Bit Autodesk Softimage 2012
-)--- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business (SP2), or Microsoft Windows Xp Professional (SP3) operating system
-)--- Intel Pentium D processor workstation
-)--- Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available from vendor
-)--- DirectX 9.0c application programming interface or higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 application programming interface)
-)--- 1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system's temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.
-)--- TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
-)--- 2 GB of RAM
-)--- 1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended
-)--- Three-button mouse
-)--- A web browser to view HTML documentation
-)--- Microsoft Internet Explorer internet browser 5.5 or higher
-)--- Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
-)--- DVD-ROM drive

For 64-Bit Autodesk Softimage 2012
-)--- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (SP2), or FedoraTM Core 14 operating system
-)--- Intel Pentium D processor
-)--- Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on vendor's site
-)--- DirectX 9.0c and higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 application programming interface)
-)--- 1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system's temporary folder when decompressing files during installation.
-)--- TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers
-)--- 4 GB of RAM
-)--- 1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended
-)--- Three-button mouse
-)--- A web browser to view HTML documentation
-)--- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher
-)--- Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported)
-)--- DVD-ROM drive