Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #87 Orleans' Days at the Cherry House for tender lovers of XSI http://wp.me/powV4-26g On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Stephen Blair wrote: > #Softimage Friday Flashback #86 > Daniel Langlois - Cdn Entrepeneur of the Yr in 94 & the Wizard of AWE > http

Re: finding parameters

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen Blair
See the "Get Parameters" thread, from Dec 2009, on this list. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Eric Thivierge wrote: > Might have to search for params using the classid found in the SDK > Explorer. Might need to use xsi.FindObjects() then. > > > Eric T

Re: Motionbuilder/Softimage default rig for MocapData slap-ons?

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Blair
Maybe this? http://xsisupport.com/2011/02/24/motor-load-motion-malfunction/ On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Tim Leydecker wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I get garbage when I try Rob´s walkthrough with the xsisamples actions and > the armoured man? > Both in 2012sp1 and 2012sap. nuked my prefs but no di

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-07 Thread Stephen Blair
#Softimage Friday Flashback #86 Daniel Langlois - Cdn Entrepeneur of the Yr in 94 & the Wizard of AWE http://wp.me/powV4-25i This week's flashback is much better than last week's, I promise! On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Stephen Blair wrote: > Friday Flashback #85 > Th

Re: Forcing Order of firing of events in soft

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Blair
I did a quick test with some OnBeginCommand events (2013 SP1 only) The events were triggered in the order they were registered. So, the order depended on - order of RegisterEvent calls (alpha order of event names did not matter, I tested that) - location of plugin (User plugins loaded before Workg

Re: Pyton 2.7 and Softimage?

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Francois The bug (some sort of memory leak with named objects like XSIMath being added into the scripting engine) was related to the version of pywin. That's why we--oops--they, settled on 2.5 and 212. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/xsi_list/hnOTjF3JBsU/discussion I've used 2.7, but that w

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-09-06 Thread Stephen Blair
CTRL+Y did work when I tried. But maybe it's like CTRL+C and CTRL+V, which work, except when they don't. I think maybe using the right-click menu will sometimes kickstart the keyboard shortcuts back into working...I'll try to remember and check next time it happens On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:38 PM

Re: Quick scripting question about griddata

2012-09-05 Thread Stephen Blair
*** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Cheers > > ** ** > > > Szabolcs > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Blair > *Sent:* Wednesday, September

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi I want to thank you all for your support and kind words. Last week started with such a low on Monday morning when I got the news, yet ended on Friday with such a boost to my confidence and outlook :-) As I mentioned before, the blog will stay up. And I'll keep posting when I can, at least for

Re: Quick scripting question about griddata

2012-09-04 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Szabolcs I stuck your code into the OnClicked event for a button, and it worked. (my ppg was a self-installing property with a griddata and a button) On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Chris Chia wrote: > Try setting the size RowCount and ColumnCount if you do not have a > complete array. > >

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Stephen Blair
s a ton > of useful information there :-\ > > a sad sad ending of my friday... :-( > > Rob Wuijster > > \/-----\/\/ > > On 31-8-2012 12:54, Stephen Blair wrote: > > Friday Flashback #85 > The end part II > http://wp.me/powV4-24o &

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Rob No, not at all. He is in a completely separate division (Dev) from product support. Product Support reports up into the Sales and Services org. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Rob Chapman wrote: > I wonder if this is the action of Mr. 'Mayalicious' Softimage's new > product manager? I

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Stephen Blair
7% On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Rob Chapman wrote: > ??? Mr Stephen Blair leaving!? voluntarily? or part of the 7% ??? > > > > On 31 August 2012 11:58, Sajjad Amjad wrote: > >> O_o >> >> >> On 31 August 2012 11:54, Stephen Blair wrote: >&

Re: Friday Flashback

2012-08-31 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #85 The end part II http://wp.me/powV4-24o On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Chris Chia wrote: > My memories working with Softimage 3D on a SGI... > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 24 Aug, 2012, at 10:47 PM, "Stephen Blair" <mailto:stephen.bl...@auto

Re: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-30 Thread Stephen Blair
On Linux, you have to use the Python that comes with Softimage. You cannot use the external Python. It is because of pywin32 (Softimage provides it). On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Chris Chia wrote: > I don't understand. You can't get Linux Python to work? > > Chris > > On 30 Aug, 2012, at 11:

Re: Python/pywin constants broken?

2012-08-30 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi iirc, the constants are defined in the gen_py cache: C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py You can force it to regenerate by deleting the gen_py folder. But if you reinstalled, wouldn't that have zapped the cache anyways? Steve On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Nic Groot Bluemink < n

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #84 Japanese brochure for good ol' #SOFTIMAGE 3D http://wp.me/powV4-23R From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: August-17-12 10:21 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: F

RE: Unchecking the 'Use Python Installed With Softimage' option has no effect: XSI still runs its own

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen Blair
w here's my next question: do I really have to install pywin locally on each machine, or can I not install it in our network's site-packages? -Tim On 8/23/2012 6:28 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: Is the preference still turned off after you restart Softimage? What's the environment loo

RE: Unchecking the 'Use Python Installed With Softimage' option has no effect: XSI still runs its own

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Blair
Is the preference still turned off after you restart Softimage? What's the environment look like? (open a Softimage command prompt and run set, or use Process Explorer on XSI.exe) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Tim Crow

RE: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Also http://xsisupport.com/2011/10/26/quick-peek-under-the-covers-send-to-functionality/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: August-22-12 11:34 AM To: r...@casema.nl; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: Softimage 2013 with Mudbox 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Most likely all you will do is enable the menu command, and it still won't work. I've messed around with that stuff before. AFAIK, you need to have the same versions of each product eg 2013 sends to 2013 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

RE: Re:

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
The layout of a dynamic PPG isn't saved. Then the next time you load the scene or model, you'll get the default layout when you inspect the property. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: August-21-12 3:11

RE: OT: Windows 8 - anyone?

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
You need to disable Face Robot. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: August-21-12 12:44 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? Well, for grins and giggles I installed W

RE: undo event??!!

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Blair
How do you select? Select in a viewport, not in explorer. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ciaran Moloney Sent: August-21-12 12:23 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: undo event??!! Also works for me in 20

RE:

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Blair
PPG represents the property page. I think you want PPG.Inspected. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss Sent: August-20-12 3:29 PM To: softimage Subject: ppg logic: ive got an odd problem with ppg logic. im dynami

RE: Small Annoying Things

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Blair
http://xsisupport.com/2011/11/22/adding-a-button-to-save-preference-changes/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: August-20-12 10:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Small Annoying Things

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-08-17 Thread Stephen Blair
2 10:52 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback Oh my Darwin, SO much red! My yeess On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Friday Flashback #82 XSI's first SIGGRAPH http://wp.me/powV4-22f

RE: A good old fashioned scripting question

2012-08-15 Thread Stephen Blair
Here's something in Python names = ["Test", """Coming Soon""", "XSI", """one two THREE""", "SUMATRA"] for n in names: text = Application.CreateMeshText("CurveListToSolidMeshForText", "siPersistentOperation") if n.find( "\n" ): n =

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-08-10 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #82 XSI's first SIGGRAPH http://wp.me/powV4-22f From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: August-03-12 10:44 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback F

RE: ICE modelling - polygon area

2012-08-09 Thread Stephen Blair
I don’t know if this helps, but here’s something similar I was messing around with http://xsisupport.com/2012/08/07/resizing-polygons-with-ice/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: August-09-12 11:12 AM To:

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-08-03 Thread Stephen Blair
On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: July-30-12 4:00 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback I think Olivier can still be seen shuddering when Batchserve is mentioned in his vicinity :) On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>

RE: Crowd FX Help

2012-08-01 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi You don't need to be on support to report a bug. http://wp.me/powV4-1Z3 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Guillaume Laforge Sent: August-01-12 12:10 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Crowd FX Help To

RE: inspect multiple objects as one by script

2012-07-31 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi I did a simple test in 2012 SAP and 2013 Sp1... I've got a bunch of cubes (cube, cube1, ..., cube5). They all have a custom property named "MyProperty" If I run this in Softimage 2012 SAP, I get a [multi] : [multi] PPG Application.InspectObj( "*.MyProperty" ) If I edit the parameters, the

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #80 BatchServe 1.5 the Experience http://wp.me/powV4-1YW From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: July-20-12 11:43 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback

RE: setting references in set data compound, python

2012-07-27 Thread Stephen Blair
I was looking into this back in January. In Jscript, here's what I came up with...I remember that sometimes it failed, that's why I had the try catch... In the end it seemed easier to just use SetValue, sorry. try { var oSetData = AddICECompoundNode("Set Data", oIceTree); var o

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-07-20 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #79 1999 Sumatra Multibot http://wp.me/powV4-1Aa From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: July-13-12 7:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Friday

RE: ICE self-referential array building, without a loop?

2012-07-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Those are powers of 10, so plug an Build Index Array into an Exponent node and ... -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: July-19-12 1:18 PM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: ICE self-

RE: What’s a CER?

2012-07-17 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Alan That's correct, there are no CERs on Linux -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: July-17-12 8:40 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: What’s a CER? Are the

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-07-13 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #78 XSI 3.0 pop art http://wp.me/powV4-SB From: Stephen Blair Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 11:12 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Friday Flashback #77 Jeopardy time…what’s the question for this answer

RE: "Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies" evaluates even when condition is False?!

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Blair
How about muting the Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies based on the condition you were feeding into the If? And yes, I got the same thing with an If node. I event tried plugging in a second, muted Simulate Bullet Rigid Bodies node into the False port From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [m

RE: Profile Curve for Apply Extrude Polygon Along Axis?

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Blair
roc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: 10 July 2012 14:50 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Profile Curve for Apply Extrude Polygon Along Axis? There's a warning when you import this compound into 2012: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/Compounds/Random

RE: Profile Curve for Apply Extrude Polygon Along Axis?

2012-07-10 Thread Stephen Blair
There's a warning when you import this compound into 2012: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/Compounds/Random%20Extrusion.xsicompound // WARNING : 3000-EDIT-AddICECompoundNode - Could not find node : BuildArrayFromSetNode If you put back the missing Build Array from Set node, then it app

RE: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Stephen Blair
ly-06-12 3:25 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer Thanks! Although I'm not particularly thrilled that 2005 is the version to use with XSI 2012... On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@au

RE: Logging to the history window from a custom renderer

2012-07-06 Thread Stephen Blair
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/files/cpp_setup_CompilingPlugins.htm From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: July-06-12 3:19 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-07-06 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #77 Jeopardy time...what's the question for this answer? "Softimage Plug-in Description Language" http://wp.me/powV4-1Xi From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: June-29

Softimage 2013 SDK Guide in CHM format

2012-07-06 Thread Stephen Blair
http://wp.me/powV4-1X5 Stephen Blair Softimage Support Specialist Premium Support Services Autodesk, Inc. Montreal, Quebec, Canada Blog: http://xsisupport.com <>

RE: SPDL syntax

2012-07-05 Thread Stephen Blair
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12898205/legacy.chm -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: July-05-12 9:44 AM To: Andy Nicholas; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: SPDL syntax

RE: SPDL syntax

2012-07-05 Thread Stephen Blair
Yeah, it was under Deprecated Features, if you have the 2011 SDK CHM -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nicholas Sent: July-05-12 9:38 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: SPDL synt

RE: WHATTA HELL???????

2012-07-05 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Szabolcs Want to send me the scene? I'll try to open it, although most of what I will do has already been suggested. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Szabolcs Matefy Sent: July-05-12 8:03 AM To: softimage@listproc.au

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-06-29 Thread Stephen Blair
: Friday Flashback I always wondered what the heck that jelly-like graphic was about. The more you know! :) On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Friday Flashback #75 Email blast for an "Experience Softimage XSI 5.1 and Face Robot 1.

RE: XSI Import troubles

2012-06-28 Thread Stephen Blair
The Softimage FBX plugin is a separate codebase that ships with Crosswalk. Softimage 2013 SP1 includes the [current verson of the] Crosswalk DLLs. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Kubicek

RE: Multi inspectOBJ via script

2012-06-22 Thread Stephen Blair
// Jscript SelectObj("*.polymsh.ICETree.RandomValueNode", null, null); InspectObj(); // or InspectObj("*.polymsh.ICETree.RandomValueNode"); Opens a PPG in multi edit mode, for me. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sam

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-06-22 Thread Stephen Blair
sk.com] On Behalf Of Michal Doniec Sent: June-18-12 5:20 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Friday Flashback I've learned how to model faces from one nurbs surface from this one. On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: > Friday Flashback #74 > Secrets of S

RE: workgroup access collisions - xsibatch displays graphical MessageBox waiting for user input...

2012-06-22 Thread Stephen Blair
, xsibatch should not display a message requiring use interaction. Stephen Blair Softimage Support Specialist Premium Support Services Autodesk, Inc. Montreal, Quebec, Canada Blog: http://xsisupport.com From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autode

RE: Issue using Select Case with Clone Point

2012-06-20 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Select Case is documented as supporting execution ports "This node [Select Case] also works with execution ports: in that case the port executed is selected based on the value of the condition." For example, Select Case works with Set Data nodes. -Original Message- From: softimage

RE: Issue using Select Case with Clone Point

2012-06-20 Thread Stephen Blair
Yes, I confirm that. If you have two cases in a row with Clone Point, Select Case executes just the first case. If you stick something else in between, like a Set Data, then you get both Clone Points executed...so I tried to trick ICE by multiplying the condition value by 2, but that didn't wor

RE: SI2013SP1

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen Blair
http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL19744363 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Dana Smith Sent: June-19-12 3:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: SI2013SP1 Sorry, where is 2013 SP1? Dana L. Smith Techni

RE: SI2013SP1

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen Blair
Yes, he did. It's in progress, but didn't make it into SP1. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron Sent: June-19-12 2:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI2013SP1 ok i see, the ui needs to prote

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #74 Secrets of Softimage 3D from 1997 http://wp.me/powV4-1V1 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: June-08-12 12:21 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback

RE: price increases?

2012-06-12 Thread Stephen Blair
3:15 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: price increases? but with north america vs europe vs japan equivalency, we'll see 10 % in europe and 20% in japan. (sorry, couldn't resist) -Original Message- From: Stephen Blair Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3

RE: price increases?

2012-06-11 Thread Stephen Blair
Sent: June-11-12 7:43 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: price increases? What are the new prices for new licenses? -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Monday,

RE: price increases?

2012-06-11 Thread Stephen Blair
Subscription prices do not change. Price changes apply to new licenses. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of David Gallagher Sent: June-11-12 7:04 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-06-08 Thread Stephen Blair
understand the logo for behavior. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 8:15 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Friday Flashback Friday Flashback #72 MOVE

RE: Profile Curve for Apply Extrude Polygon Along Axis?

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Blair
to control the inset at each subdivision? On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com><mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com<mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>>> wrote: You can randomly extrude polygons http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/ice

RE: Profile Curve for Apply Extrude Polygon Along Axis?

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Blair
You can randomly extrude polygons http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/ice-modeling-extruding-a-random-polygon/ but you can't have different extrusion lengths, they'll all be the same (that's a logged issue) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.

RE: Wayback Archives

2012-06-06 Thread Stephen Blair
The Beckman archives used to have all the Softimage mailing list archives back to 1994 http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/archives/technical_reports/98-005/softimage_resources.htm From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Xavier La

RE: Softimage 2013 SDK Guide

2012-06-05 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Did you try installing the local help? http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/softimage-2013-sdk-doc.zip I tried it in Firefox and the search works a lot better, if you ask me. The offline version doesn't have that fancy Search tab, but it seems to do a better job...for example, try searching

RE: disconnected shaders on ref models - still happening in 2013

2012-06-05 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi I haven't heard about any disconnected shader problems in quite awhile. If either of you are having these problems and have a data set for reproducing it, then please log it for investigation, because I don't see anything logged about disconnected shaders right now. AFAIK, XSI_FORCE_SHADER_R

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-06-01 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #72 MOVE ...Creativity without limits... ...the first scalable, fully programmable crowd simulation and behavioral animation system... http://wp.me/powV4-1T2 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Steven Caron

Mailing list

2012-05-31 Thread Stephen Blair
* gmail.com * hotmail.com * videotron.ca My gmail.com account is the only account that did have [lots of] problems, but as of this morning it seems to be working. Thanks Stephen Blair M&E Technical Lead, Product Support Global Services Autodesk, Inc. Montreal, Q

Re: Test

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen Blair
My turn to test. From: Ajit Menon Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 2:49 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Test Testing a test... ? please don't blow my computer :) On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Thomas Helzle wrote: Always happy to help ;-) On 29 May 2012 12:46, Sza

RE: Open and extract files in an xsiaddon

2012-05-30 Thread Stephen Blair
-Original Message- From: owner-...@softimage.com [mailto:owner-...@softimage.com] On Behalf Of Halfdan Ingvarsson Posted At: March-16-08 9:33 AM Posted To: xsi Conversation: Anatomy of an .xsiaddon file? / Are attachments base64-encoded? Subject: RE: Anatomy of an .xsiaddon file? / Are

RE: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi That Google group is not administered by anyone at Autodesk. Thanks -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman Sent: May-29-12 9:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Uh o

RE: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm

2012-05-29 Thread Stephen Blair
That account is currently enabled, so it is ok. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: May-29-12 9:42 AM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: Uh oh, GoogleGroups archive admin, you need to confirm https://groups.go

RE: mail...

2012-05-28 Thread Stephen Blair
Replying to that bounce email with the same "confirm" Subject line will re-enable your subscription. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Wuijster Sent: May-28-12 4:35 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: m

RE: This list is not working on my gmail account...

2012-05-23 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Marc I checked your account and all the settings are normal. The account was not disabled because of an excessive number bounces (or for any other reason). All the posts are coming through in my work e-mail account (Outlook Exchange), and almost all the posts are in this alternative archive:

RE: This list is not working on my gmail account...

2012-05-23 Thread Stephen Blair
You are not banned from the list. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Marc Brinkley Sent: May-23-12 1:02 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: This list is not working on my gmail account... Definitely missing

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Stephen Blair
oftimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Christoph Muetze Sent: May-22-12 12:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please! Hi Stephen, thanks for the help! On 05/22/2012 04:17 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: > The libcustomdisplayhost.s

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Stephen Blair
your testing on the supported platform. I mean, if you guys are about to merge every damn aspect of softimage with the autodesk doctrine, then I would like to see some stuff done on the linux side of things. What do you think? Cheers Vladimir On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Stephen

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Stephen Blair
The libcustomdisplayhost.so error will not prevent Softimage from running. I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013. Here's a recipe for setting up Softimage on CentOS: http://groups.google.com/group/xsi_list/msg/6d2d0f483a400e4e Here's a Fedora recipe posted by another use

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

2012-05-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi I’m not sure I understand, but I’ll assume you have separate serial numbers for Soft, Maya, and Mudbox. You can activate all the individual network licenses and download the .lic files, you don’t have to update the server until you are ready. Even then you can add just Softimage if that’s wh

RE: scripting render region

2012-05-18 Thread Stephen Blair
#python Application.Dictionary.GetObject('Views.ViewA.RenderRegion').Parameters('UsePassOptions').Value = True -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Jahnel Sent: May-18-12 1:05 PM To: XSI-LI

RE: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-18 Thread Stephen Blair
Put a per-point attribute on each emitter object (eg self._groupID) In the emit ice tree, use emit location to get the groupID and delete the points if they are not from the object you want to be emitting at that point in time From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-b

RE: XSI on linux

2012-05-17 Thread Stephen Blair
http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/ http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autod

RE: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-12 Thread Stephen Blair
Hi Here's one way to get the info from printver http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/checking-the-version-used-to-create-a-scene/ Stephen Blair M&E Technical Lead, Product Support Global Services Autodesk, Inc. Montreal, Quebec, Canada Blog: http://xsisupport.word

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-05-11 Thread Stephen Blair
Flashback Partnering with Dell and Intel... Interesting. Thanks for sharing, Stephen! Regards, Chris Sent from my iPhone On 4 May, 2012, at 11:47 PM, "Stephen Blair" wrote: > Friday Flashback #68 > Face Robot notepad -- "thanks to everyone who has been part of the journey"

RE: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-10 Thread Stephen Blair
Sorry about that. The last time this came up, using printver.exe was the best suggestion. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: May-10-12 12:47 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Get Scene File Ve

RE: Get Scene File Version

2012-05-10 Thread Stephen Blair
Application.Version() From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: May-10-12 12:37 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Get Scene File Version Hi, how can I get a Scene File version with scripting? I know tha

RE: ICE context problems

2012-05-10 Thread Stephen Blair
Or use the “Get Weightmap Value” compound. (NOT the “Get Weight Map Value” compound ;-) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: May-10-12 9:15 AM To: Morten Bartholdy; softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject

RE: ICE context problems

2012-05-10 Thread Stephen Blair
Plug the location into the Source of a Get Data, then Explore and find the weights From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: May-10-12 9:10 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: ICE context pro

RE: Deadline 5.1 & SI 2013 - lmgrd problems

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen Blair
n...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: May-08-12 4:01 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: RE: Deadline 5.1 & SI 2013 - lmgrd problems What version of Flexlm does De

RE: Deadline 5.1 & SI 2013 - lmgrd problems

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen Blair
Also, can't you install both license managers? Won't they both go into their own install locations? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: May-08-12 4:01 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com S

RE: Deadline 5.1 & SI 2013 - lmgrd problems

2012-05-08 Thread Stephen Blair
What version of Flexlm does Deadline require? You were running them both before, can't you rollback to that version? I'm serving Softimage licenses from 11.9 (current version is 11.10). How do things break? The services don't run? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softima

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-05-04 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #68 Face Robot notepad -- "thanks to everyone who has been part of the journey" http://wp.me/powV4-1Pz -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: April-2

RE: CgChannel coverage

2012-05-04 Thread Stephen Blair
http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/05/autodesk-reshuffles-softimage-development-team/ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: May-04-12 7:14 AM To: Subject: Re: CgChannel coverage Hi Matt, Thanks for bringing that o

RE: oops wrong subject - Expression Problem!

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Blair
p = Application.Dictionary.GetObject( 'null1.kine.local.pos.posx' ) Application.LogMessage( p.Source.Parameters("Definition").Value ) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Dawson Sent: May-02-12 10:23 AM To: softimage@li

RE: Scripting: Closest Point On a Point Cloud?

2012-05-01 Thread Stephen Blair
But doesn't a PointCloudGeometry support GetClosestLocations? Can you use that (I didn't try it yet) ? From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe Sent: May-01-12 2:49 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re:

RE: Beginners Guide to Python

2012-05-01 Thread Stephen Blair
print works with Python shipped with Softimage, because we re-compiled something Python stuff with VC 2010. It doesn't work with the Python installed on your system. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Turman Sent: May-

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-04-27 Thread Stephen Blair
-cover manual was actually my 'Inside Softimage 3D' book. Maggie got softimage to license it from me, because it was cheaper than printing all the original manuals ATR On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:40:10 +0000, Stephen Blair wrote: > Friday Flashback #67 > 2002 customer quote: "

RE: Friday Flashback

2012-04-27 Thread Stephen Blair
ric Rousseau wrote: Please take this down, the people in it have not given you permission to publish this on the internet On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Stephen Blair mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote: Friday Flashback #66 #Softimage XSI team pictures from 2000 and 2008 http://wp.

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