Terms and Conventions
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immediate effect - a plugin which runs exactly once, when it is invoked. 

persistent effect - a plugin which become part of a scene and runs each frame or whenever the object(s) it is operating upon change.

$SI_LOCATION - This is the toplevel directory where Softimage got installed. We use   $SI_LOCATION because this how this location is referenced on SGI machines. $SI_LOCATION points to a directory that will have a name like Soft3d_3.7 or Soft3D_3.7sp1. $SI_LOCATION is used interchangeably with %SI_LOCATION%. It is not platfrom specific.

%SI_LOCATION% - This is the toplevel directory where Softimage got installed. We use   %SI_LOCATION% because this how this location is referenced on NT machines. %SI_LOCATION% points to a directory that will have a name like d:\Soft3d_3.7 or c:\Soft3D_3.7sp1. %SI_LOCATION% is used interchangeably with $SI_LOCATION. It is not platfrom specific.

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