Raw binary user data on objects is available to plug-in developers through the object model as the UserDataBlob object. You can attach a user data blob to any object that supports the SceneItem.AddProperty method.
The UserDataBlob is similar to the UserDataMap, but supports storing object level binary data rather than per-component binary data. For example, if some user data is meant to apply to every point in a vertex cluster then it should be stored in a UserDataBlob, whereas, if the user data is meant to apply only to a single vertex, it should be stored at the correct index in a UserDataMap.
C++ Example: Applying a UserDataBlob to the scene root
// C++ example (using the C++ API) giving an overview of applying user data // to a scene object (the scene root) using namespace XSI; Application app ; Model root = app.GetActiveSceneRoot(); UserDataBlob myBlob ; root.AddProperty( L"UserDataBlob", false, L"udb", myBlob ) ; // This is the structure that we would like to save inside Softimage struct ExampleData { double x ; int y ; int z ; } ; // Save the structure ExampleData data ; data.x = 90.1 ; data.y = 12 ; data.z = 14 ; myBlob.PutValue( (unsigned char*)&data, sizeof( ExampleData ) ) ; // Retrieve the structure again unsigned char * pBuffer = NULL ; unsigned int cntBuffer = 0 ; myBlob.GetValue( pBuffer, cntBuffer ) ; // We can conveniently read the contents of the user data // by casting back to the structure ExampleData * pData = (ExampleData*)pBuffer ; // Update our structure based on what is already on the userdatablob data.x = 3.15 + pData->x ; data.y = 12 + pData->y ; data.z = 0 ; // Save our updated values myBlob.PutValue( (unsigned char*)&data, sizeof( ExampleData ) ) ;