I thought it was for freezing operators automaticity , Xsi would get clunky real fast with a few modeling components. This feature was added to auto freeze as you modeled.
Child compensation was added to get so you could move a parent node with out effecting the children . My recollection On Monday, December 14, 2015, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com> wrote: > "Immediate" mode made it's appearance in XSI v3.0 so the Maya users would > stop complaining about children not moving with the parent. The default > Softimage behavior was for the children to move only when selected in > branch mode. > > > Matt > > > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:51:46 +0100 > From: Arvid Bj?rn <arvidbj...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Friday Flashback #252 > To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" > > There's an "Immed" button in that interface.. I distinctly remember that > feature being added to XSI at some point, like v2 or v3, it wasn't there > from the start, that's for sure. Such an odd thing to be in an early mockup > only to surface years later as an actual feature, isn't it? No Freeze > button either which is also weird if Sumatra was non-linear from the start. > >