date:20120522

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 what you want. You can add the 
others later.

I don’t know how activating separate Maya, Mudbox, and Softimage licenses could 
end up in a conflict, unless you have Suite licenses perhaps? Or multiple 
serials for each product?

For network licenses, you have to stop the license server, yes.

Also, you can run Softimage 2013 in trial mode for 30 days.

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy
Sent: May-22-12 6:55 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness


So I got around to installing Soft 2013 only to find that Autodesk in their 
wisdom designed the licensing activation procedure so that I should activate 
our Maya and Mudbox 2013 licenses simultaneously to avoid conflicts, and on top 
of that the licensing for older versions may break and need reactivation, so 
effectively I have to wait until such a time where nobody will be waiting for 
licenses and we are not rendering, to do this.



And I just want to install Soft 2013 and take a look at the goodies.



Thank you Autodesk for making my day that much worse - grrr



Morten




<>

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

2012-05-22 Thread Morten Bartholdy

Thanks for clarifying Stephen, but yes my problem is we have network
licenses and so I will have to wait for Maya and Mudbox users and Maya
rendering before I can get Soft running on the new license. I just wish
they would be entirely separate so it was simpler to upgrade one or the
other at any given time.

Morten



Den 22. maj 2012 kl. 13:44 skrev 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 what you want. You can add
the others later.
>
> I don’t know how activating separate Maya, Mudbox, and Softimage licenses
could end up in a conflict, unless you have Suite licenses perhaps? Or
multiple serials for each product?
>
> For network licenses, you have to stop the license server, yes.
>
> Also, you can run Softimage 2013 in trial mode for 30 days.
>
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten
Bartholdy
> Sent: May-22-12 6:55 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness
>
>
> So I got around to installing Soft 2013 only to find that Autodesk in
their wisdom designed the licensing activation procedure so that I should
activate our Maya and Mudbox 2013 licenses simultaneously to avoid
conflicts, and on top of that the licensing for older versions may break
and need reactivation, so effectively I have to wait until such a time
where nobody will be waiting for licenses and we are not rendering, to do
this.
>
>
>
> And I just want to install Soft 2013 and take a look at the goodies.
>
>
>
> Thank you Autodesk for making my day that much worse - grrr
>
>
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>

RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness

2012-05-22 Thread Sandy Sutherland

You know that you can stop the license server even when there are licenses in 
use - when you start it again, they just get picked up again, it is easy to 
install another license without shutting everyone down.

S.

_
Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za
_





From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Morten Bartholdy 
[x...@colorshopvfx.dk]
Sent: 22 May 2012 14:07
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness


Thanks for clarifying Stephen, but yes my problem is we have network licenses 
and so I will have to wait for Maya and Mudbox users and Maya rendering before 
I can get Soft running on the new license. I just wish they would be entirely 
separate so it was simpler to upgrade one or the other at any given time.



Morten



Den 22. maj 2012 kl. 13:44 skrev 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 what you want. You can add the 
> others later.
>
> I don’t know how activating separate Maya, Mudbox, and Softimage licenses 
> could end up in a conflict, unless you have Suite licenses perhaps? Or 
> multiple serials for each product?
>
> For network licenses, you have to stop the license server, yes.
>
> Also, you can run Softimage 2013 in trial mode for 30 days.
>
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy
> Sent: May-22-12 6:55 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: RANT warning: AD licensing ingeniousness
>
>
> So I got around to installing Soft 2013 only to find that Autodesk in their 
> wisdom designed the licensing activation procedure so that I should activate 
> our Maya and Mudbox 2013 licenses simultaneously to avoid conflicts, and on 
> top of that the licensing for older versions may break and need reactivation, 
> so effectively I have to wait until such a time where nobody will be waiting 
> for licenses and we are not rendering, to do this.
>
>
>
> And I just want to install Soft 2013 and take a look at the goodies.
>
>
>
> Thank you Autodesk for making my day that much worse - grrr
>
>
>
> Morten
>
>
>
>

Missing renderer options

2012-05-22 Thread Szabolcs Matefy

Anyone met with the following issue?

 

>From time to time, render options (blue gradient squares with R)
disappears from the pass lists in explorer, and opening up renderer
options throw an error...

 

 

I need some ideas where to look, what to look, etc.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Szabolcs

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Re: Missing renderer options

2012-05-22 Thread takita

Usually then I will merge the scene back to a new one and try to rebuild the passes.That is definitely not a good sign... and I'm not sure what the cause is.-T-Original Message-
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To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" 
Subject: Missing renderer options

Anyone met with the following issue? From time to time, render options (blue gradient squares with R) disappears from the pass lists in explorer, and opening up renderer options throw an error…  I need some ideas where to look, what to look, etc.Cheers Szabolcs
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Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my Softimage Network license to the Maya
Entertainment Creation Suite Premium - mainly for finally being able to
switch over to Linux (i had used mudbox2009 before, which was windows-only).

First let me say: Maya2013 and Mudbox2013 install and work _fine_. On
every (rpm based-)System i tried them on.

(though i wish i didn't have to google up on how to install these
programs (for real). because the documentation provided by autodesk is
really "limited". things like "use tcsh to install" and "you will need
redhat-lsb" are spread all over their site (IF they are there at all and
not buried in some user-forums somewhere else...)

My problem is Softimage2013, the one tool i truly need and can't get to
work under linux. I tried Fedora14, Centos, even unsupported Distros
like Debian. I tried it with different machines, several different
Geforces & Quadros, different Kernelversions and Nvidia drivers
(recommended and unrecommended ones). i have no idea what is wrong.

Here is what happens:

When i install softimage (using tcsh or csh) it installs supposedly
correctly but spits out a "setup did not complete sucessfully" in the end.
A look at the logfile reveals that cmdreg failed to complete the
XSICOMDLLs list (see
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/softimage2013_fedora_install-log.txt).
So i tried to manually run it with cmdreg -f
"Application/bin/XSICOMDLLs.lst after sourcing .xsi_2013, here is the
result: http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/cmdreg_xsicommdlls-lst.txt <- it
complains it can't load the custom display host (the error warning looks
more like a windows error, though - so i'm not sure how much this
actually reveals..).
Next i ldd'ed the customdisplayhost.so manually to see what happens.
this is the log:
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/ldd-libcustomdisplayhost-so.txt <- everything
looks fine as far as i can tell..
Starting Softimage shows the splashscreen, the gui is drawn partially
and then the program hangs forever.
Here is the strace (1.3mb, might take a while to load):
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/strace_soft2013_fed14_hangs_forever_after_splashscreen_appears.txt

The last line is a "futex(0x2cd65b0, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL"

This happened with every Softimage version i tried to install and start
so far (2011-2013) on every machine i have (several desktops and two
laptops)

The system i used to do this latest testrun and generated the above
mentioned Logfiles: i7quad, 6gigs ram, Kernel Linux
2.6.35.14-106.fc14_x86_64, Gnome 2.32.0, Geforce GT 330M - nividia
driver 280.13

Any help on how to further investigate or solve this problem is highly
appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

cheers!
Chris

--
---
Christoph Mütze
http://www.glarestudios.de

Re: Python Resources

2012-05-22 Thread Tim Crowson


I see some interesting topics there! Thanks for posting this, Eric!
-Tim Crowson



On 5/21/2012 6:06 PM, Eric Thivierge wrote:
Hey I just stumbled upon a new python site that upon brief review 
looks really good. I thought it might be helpful to start a thread 
with Python resources (has this been done already?):


http://pythoncentral.org/

Others:
http://docs.python.org/ Official docs
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Python specific 
questions / answers


Please add more!


Eric Thivierge
http://www.ethivierge.com


--

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

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 user:




Stefan Andersson wrote an install-guide for FC13 (see below) that can 
be used for FC14 (newer versions of Flash and NVidia available probably). Most 
important is the Nouveau and SeLinux section. I guess you don't need the 
update-stuff if you just want a quick test. 

Also important for FC14: 

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/
 

and: 

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/
 

  

  

-- 

Here it goes: 

  

after installation as root: 

  

yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck 
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
 

  

yum -y update 

  

REBOOT 

  

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" 

yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel 
python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc filezilla 
gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps 
python-sqlite2 

  

#Flash 

cp /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins 

#wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/libflashplayer.so 

  

#Dropbox 

cd /etc/yum.repos.d 

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/dropbox.repo 

  

yum -y install nautilus-dropbox 

  

#NVIDIA 

cd /root 

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run 

  

#DISABLE NOUVEAU (opensource nvidia crap) 
#GRUB.CONF Edits nano /etc/grub.conf last in the kernel line: nouveau.modeset=0 

  

#MODPROBECONF edits 

nano /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf 

blacklist nouveau 

  

#SELINUX 

nano /etc/selinux/config 

disabled 

  

#REBOOT 

install Nvidia 




-Original Message-
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Christoph Muetze
Sent: May-22-12 9:52 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my Softimage Network license to the Maya 
Entertainment Creation Suite Premium - mainly for finally being able to 
switch over to Linux (i had used mudbox2009 before, which was windows-only).

First let me say: Maya2013 and Mudbox2013 install and work _fine_. On 
every (rpm based-)System i tried them on.

(though i wish i didn't have to google up on how to install these 
programs (for real). because the documentation provided by autodesk is 
really "limited". things like "use tcsh to install" and "you will need 
redhat-lsb" are spread all over their site (IF they are there at all and 
not buried in some user-forums somewhere else...)

My problem is Softimage2013, the one tool i truly need and can't get to 
work under linux. I tried Fedora14, Centos, even unsupported Distros 
like Debian. I tried it with different machines, several different 
Geforces & Quadros, different Kernelversions and Nvidia drivers 
(recommended and unrecommended ones). i have no idea what is wrong.

Here is what happens:

When i install softimage (using tcsh or csh) it installs supposedly 
correctly but spits out a "setup did not complete sucessfully" in the end.
A look at the logfile reveals that cmdreg failed to complete the 
XSICOMDLLs list (see 
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/softimage2013_fedora_install-log.txt).
So i tried to manually run it with cmdreg -f 
"Application/bin/XSICOMDLLs.lst after sourcing .xsi_2013, here is the 
result: http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/cmdreg_xsicommdlls-lst.txt <- it 
complains it can't load the custom display host (the error warning looks 
more like a windows error, though - so i'm not sure how much this 
actually reveals..).
Next i ldd'ed the customdisplayhost.so manually to see what happens. 
this is the log: 
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/ldd-libcustomdisplayhost-so.txt <- everything 
looks fine as far as i can tell..
Starting Softimage shows the splashscreen, the gui is drawn partially 
and then the program hangs forever.
Here is the strace (1.3mb, might take a while to load): 
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/strace_soft2013_fed14_hangs_forever_after_splashscreen_appears.txt
The last line is a "futex(0x2cd65b0, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL"

This happened with every Softimage version i tried to install and start 
so far (2011-2013) on every machine i have (several desktops and two 
laptops)

The system i used to do this latest testrun and generated the above 
mentioned Logfiles: i7quad, 6gigs ram, Kernel Linux 
2.6.35.14-106.fc14_x86_64, Gnome 2.32.0, Geforce GT 330M - nividia 
driver 280.13

Any help on how to further investigate or solve this problem is highly 
appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

cheers!
Chris

-

Re: sipath, why are you so useless :/

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman

Saw here:
http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/python-importing-modules-into-plugins/
...that I'm supposed to import from within my custom command? Not in the
beginning of my file like I was doing.

Are we really supposed to import (our module freshly added to the PATH) on
every command we use it in? That sounds silly.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

> Why is it that __sipath__ isn't set most of the time?
>
> Docs say:
>
>
> import siutils
> # Add this plug-in path to python path
> siutils.add_to_syspath(__sipath__)
>
> but it errors! :(
>
> #   File "

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

2012-05-22 Thread Guillaume Laforge

... so I'm testing...

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic

thanks steven,

I had the same problem here and this is really something that makes me
puke. If you state that the only supported distro of linux is Fedora14 and
when you first run your setup it returns with an error, then something is
really wrong with 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 Blair
wrote:

> 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 user:
>
>
>
>
> Stefan Andersson wrote an install-guide for FC13 (see below) that can
> be used for FC14 (newer versions of Flash and NVidia available probably).
> Most
> important is the Nouveau and SeLinux section. I guess you don't need the
> update-stuff if you just want a quick test.
>
> Also important for FC14:
>
>
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/
>
> and:
>
>
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Here it goes:
>
>
>
> after installation as root:
>
>
>
> yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>
>
>
> yum -y update
>
>
>
> REBOOT
>
>
>
> yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
>
> yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
> python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc
> filezilla
> gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps
> python-sqlite2
>
>
>
> #Flash
>
> cp /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
>
> #wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/libflashplayer.so
>
>
>
> #Dropbox
>
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>
> wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/dropbox.repo
>
>
>
> yum -y install nautilus-dropbox
>
>
>
> #NVIDIA
>
> cd /root
>
> wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run
>
>
>
> #DISABLE NOUVEAU (opensource nvidia crap)
> #GRUB.CONF Edits nano /etc/grub.conf last in the kernel line:
> nouveau.modeset=0
>
>
>
> #MODPROBECONF edits
>
> nano /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf
>
> blacklist nouveau
>
>
>
> #SELINUX
>
> nano /etc/selinux/config
>
> disabled
>
>
>
> #REBOOT
>
> install Nvidia
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Christoph Muetze
> Sent: May-22-12 9:52 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently upgraded my Softimage Network license to the Maya
> Entertainment Creation Suite Premium - mainly for finally being able to
> switch over to Linux (i had used mudbox2009 before, which was
> windows-only).
>
> First let me say: Maya2013 and Mudbox2013 install and work _fine_. On
> every (rpm based-)System i tried them on.
>
> (though i wish i didn't have to google up on how to install these
> programs (for real). because the documentation provided by autodesk is
> really "limited". things like "use tcsh to install" and "you will need
> redhat-lsb" are spread all over their site (IF they are there at all and
> not buried in some user-forums somewhere else...)
>
> My problem is Softimage2013, the one tool i truly need and can't get to
> work under linux. I tried Fedora14, Centos, even unsupported Distros
> like Debian. I tried it with different machines, several different
> Geforces & Quadros, different Kernelversions and Nvidia drivers
> (recommended and unrecommended ones). i have no idea what is wrong.
>
> Here is what happens:
>
> When i install softimage (using tcsh or csh) it installs supposedly
> correctly but spits out a "setup did not complete sucessfully" in the end.
> A look at the logfile reveals that cmdreg failed to complete the
> XSICOMDLLs list (see
> http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/softimage2013_fedora_install-log.txt).
> So i tried to manually run it with cmdreg -f
> "Application/bin/XSICOMDLLs.lst after sourcing .xsi_2013, here is the
> result: http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/cmdreg_xsicommdlls-lst.txt <- it
> complains it can't load the custom display host (the error warning looks
> more like a windows error, though - so i'm not sure how much this
> actually reveals..).
> Next i ldd'ed the customdisplayhost.so manually to see what happens.
> this is the log:
> http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/ldd-libcustomdisplayhost-so.txt <- everything
> looks fine as far as i can tell..
> Starting Softimage shows the splashscreen, the gui is drawn partially
> and then t

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Vladimir

This issue was found by QA and logged, but it couldn't be fixed for 2013.

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Vladimir 
Jankijevic
Sent: May-22-12 10:43 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

thanks steven,

I had the same problem here and this is really something that makes me puke. If 
you state that the only supported distro of linux is Fedora14 and when you 
first run your setup it returns with an error, then something is really wrong 
with 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 Blair 
mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote:
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 user:

Stefan Andersson wrote an install-guide for FC13 (see below) that can
be used for FC14 (newer versions of Flash and NVidia available probably). Most
important is the Nouveau and SeLinux section. I guess you don't need the
update-stuff if you just want a quick test.

Also important for FC14:

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/

and:

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/

--

Here it goes:

after installation as root:

yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck 
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

yum -y update

REBOOT

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc filezilla
gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps 
python-sqlite2

#Flash

cp /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

#wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/libflashplayer.so

#Dropbox

cd /etc/yum.repos.d

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/dropbox.repo

yum -y install nautilus-dropbox

#NVIDIA

cd /root

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/XXX/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run

#DISABLE NOUVEAU (opensource nvidia crap)
#GRUB.CONF Edits nano /etc/grub.conf last in the kernel line: nouveau.modeset=0

#MODPROBECONF edits

nano /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf

blacklist nouveau

#SELINUX

nano /etc/selinux/config

disabled

#REBOOT

install Nvidia

-Original Message-
From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
 On Behalf Of Christoph Muetze
Sent: May-22-12 9:52 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my Softimage Network license to the Maya
Entertainment Creation Suite Premium - mainly for finally being able to
switch over to Linux (i had used mudbox2009 before, which was windows-only).

First let me say: Maya2013 and Mudbox2013 install and work _fine_. On
every (rpm based-)System i tried them on.

(though i wish i didn't have to google up on how to install these
programs (for real). because the documentation provided by autodesk is
really "limited". things like "use tcsh to install" and "you will need
redhat-lsb" are spread all over their site (IF they are there at all and
not buried in some user-forums somewhere else...)

My problem is Softimage2013, the one tool i truly need and can't get to
work under linux. I tried Fedora14, Centos, even unsupported Distros
like Debian. I tried it with different machines, several different
Geforces & Quadros, different Kernelversions and Nvidia drivers
(recommended and unrecommended ones). i have no idea what is wrong.

Here is what happens:

When i install softimage (using tcsh or csh) it installs supposedly
correctly but spits out a "setup did not complete sucessfully" in the end.
A look at the logfile reveals that cmdreg failed to complete the
XSICOMDLLs list (see
http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/softimage2013_fedora_install-log.txt).
So i tried to manually run it with cmdreg -f
"Application/bin/XSICOMDLLs.lst after sourcing .xsi_2013, here is the
result: http://www.pixelz.de/stuff/cmdreg_xsicommdlls-lst.txt <- it
complains it can't load the custom display host (the error warning looks
more like a windows error, though - so i'm not sure how much this
actually reveals..).
Next i ldd'ed the customdispla

Not getting emails from the list

2012-05-22 Thread Gareth Bell

I gather a few other people are suffering from this..

 

I haven't heard a peep since friday

 

gareth bell | xsi artist

 

t: +44 (0)20 7565 1000

e: gareth.b...@primefocusworld.com

a: 37, dean street, london, w1d 4pt, uk.

 

www.primefocusworld.com

Re: Not getting emails from the list

2012-05-22 Thread Mirko Jankovic

getting test mails like this but nothing else.

Re: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-22 Thread Andy Moorer

Isn't the array idea essentially similar to using multiple emit nodes? Only 
culled down to the heart of the whole thing, multiple generate from sample set?

The per-point attribute/delete scheme has the same 2 problems most 
post-generation filtering has. A lot of processing spent creating/deleting 
points, and the rate of emission value becomes a step further removed from what 
actually gets emitted.

Of the three solutions presented, it seems to me that Vladimir's suggestion 
deserves a closer look. Does using the filtering inherent in generate sample 
set result in a significant speed savings compared to deletion "on emission"? 
Is the rate of emission in this case adjusted, in other words can you use the 
rate parameter to specify "n" particles as a result?

Sent from my iPad

On May 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Chris Marshall  wrote:

> Thanks,
> All interesting solutions. I'm using a variation on Peters Array idea.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 May 2012 15:53, Vladimir Jankijevic  wrote:
> put a per-object boolean (eg self.emit) attribute on each emitter object,
> make a group of all of them,
> connect that group to a generate sample set node,
> set the filter attribute in that node to your chosen boolean attribute,
> now you can switch on which object to emit by setting the attribute to true 
> or false on each respective object.
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stephen Blair  
> wrote:
> 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-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Peter Agg
> Sent: May-18-12 10:40 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: Switching geometry emitter
> 
> HACKY WORKAROUND WARNING!!!
> 
> If you Generate a Sample Set, get the PointPosition from the locations and 
> then create an array out of it you can plug that data into an Add Point node 
> without context issues.
> 
> Dirty, isn't it? :)
> 
> 
> 
> On 18 May 2012 15:24, Chris Marshall 
> mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Well that seems to work if after the emit node, but that means you need three 
> emit nodes and I'd hoped to have just one. I was thinking of plugging the 
> three pieces of geometry into a conditional type thing which I could use to 
> switch between them, before the emit node.
> 
> On 18 May 2012 15:16, Sandy Sutherland 
> mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za>>
>  wrote:
> Can you not use 'if' nodes and use an integer or something to drive the 
> selection?
> 
> S.
> 
> _
> Sandy Sutherland
> Technical Supervisor
> sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za
> _
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: 
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
>  
> [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
>  on behalf of Chris Marshall 
> [chrismarshal...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 18 May 2012 16:10
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: ICE: Switching geometry emitter
> Hi,
> I have three objects I want to emit particles from, but not all at the same 
> time, with one pointcloud. Is there a way to use emit from geometry, and 
> switch between the three pieces of geometry? I guess I could use three emit 
> from geometry compounds and just change the emission individually, but I 
> thought maybe there'd be a way of using a Group Geometry plugged into 1 emit 
> compound or similar and toggle which is the emitter geometry at any one time?
> I thought generate sample set might work but I'm getting context errors.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> ---
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> Technical Direction
> 
> Elefant Studios AG
> Lessingstrasse 15
> CH-8002 Zürich
> 
> +41 44 500 48 20
> 
> www.elefantstudios.ch
> ---
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris Marshall
> Mint Motion Limited
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> 07730 533 115
> www.mintmotion.co.uk
> 
>

Procedural textures on particles

2012-05-22 Thread Andy Moorer

Hey folks, I'm playing around with a simple particle system to which I've 
applied a material with a procedural texture (simple noise.)

The result is a bunch of particles textured identically, the space sampled 
being local to each particle. In this case I would rather have each particle 
"swim" through the spatial noise, their global position used, rather than 
local. Is there a way to go about this?

Re: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-22 Thread Christian Keller

yep, that´s the way i´m doing it. you can use a scalar instead of the 
bool and control the individual
emissionrate of each object. quite simple and performance wise not bad 
at all !

Am 22.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Andy Moorer:
Isn't the array idea essentially similar to using multiple emit nodes? 
Only culled down to the heart of the whole thing, multiple generate 
from sample set?

The per-point attribute/delete scheme has the same 2 problems most 
post-generation filtering has. A lot of processing spent 
creating/deleting points, and the rate of emission value becomes a 
step further removed from what actually gets emitted.

Of the three solutions presented, it seems to me that Vladimir's 
suggestion deserves a closer look. Does using the filtering inherent 
in generate sample set result in a significant speed savings compared 
to deletion "on emission"? Is the rate of emission in this case 
adjusted, in other words can you use the rate parameter to specify "n" 
particles as a result?

Sent from my iPad

On May 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Chris Marshall 
mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks,
All interesting solutions. I'm using a variation on Peters Array idea.

Cheers

On 18 May 2012 15:53, Vladimir Jankijevic > wrote:

put a per-object boolean (eg self.emit) attribute on each emitter
object,
make a group of all of them,
connect that group to a generate sample set node,
set the filter attribute in that node to your chosen boolean
attribute,
now you can switch on which object to emit by setting the
attribute to true or false on each respective object.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stephen Blair
mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>>
wrote:

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-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
] On Behalf
Of Peter Agg
Sent: May-18-12 10:40 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: Switching geometry emitter

HACKY WORKAROUND WARNING!!!

If you Generate a Sample Set, get the PointPosition from the
locations and then create an array out of it you can plug
that data into an Add Point node without context issues.

Dirty, isn't it? :)

On 18 May 2012 15:24, Chris Marshall
mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
Well that seems to work if after the emit node, but that
means you need three emit nodes and I'd hoped to have just
one. I was thinking of plugging the three pieces of geometry
into a conditional type thing which I could use to switch
between them, before the emit node.

On 18 May 2012 15:16, Sandy Sutherland
mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za>>> wrote:
Can you not use 'if' nodes and use an integer or something to
drive the selection?

S.

_
Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za

>
_

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

>
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

>] on behalf
of Chris Marshall [chrismarshal...@gmail.com
>]
Sent: 18 May 2012 16:10
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

>
Subject: ICE: Switching geometry emitter
Hi,
I have three objects I want to emit particles from, but not
all at the same time, with one pointcloud. Is there a way to
use emit from geometry, and switch between the three pieces

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hi Stephen,

thanks for the help!

On 05/22/2012 04:17 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:

The libcustomdisplayhost.so error will not prevent Softimage from running.
I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013.

too bad.. it was the only error i could find...

Also important for FC14:

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/

this was one of the very first things i tried..

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/

tried and checked this, too of course..

yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

already did this before..

yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"

yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc filezilla
gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps
python-sqlite2

filezilla, gimp, openssh-server? seriously? why? o_O anyway. i installed
everything and sadly my problem remains.

#Flash

#Dropbox

uhm.. flash and dropbox !? why on earth does softimage need that? i
temporarily installed flash with no luck on getting softimage to run
afterwards. i resisted to install dropbox for now, do i really need that
in order to get softimage up and running?

as for the rest of the install-advice: i had already disabled nouveau
and se-linux, of course -> as i said in my inital posting, mudbox and
maya run fine, i guess they wouldn't if my nvidia-driver would collide
with the opensource-nouveau-stuff and neither maya nor mudbox install
with se-linux turned on, so...

;(

cheers!
chris

Re: Procedural textures on particles

2012-05-22 Thread patrick nethercoat

Which shader are you using for the noise? Things like the fractal_scalar
act that way by default. The other fractal (for eg) doesn't have any way
AFAIK of controlling the texture coordinates for particles.
I'll have a look...

On 22 May 2012 16:53, Andy Moorer  wrote:

> Hey folks, I'm playing around with a simple particle system to which I've
> applied a material with a procedural texture (simple noise.)
>
> The result is a bunch of particles textured identically, the space sampled
> being local to each particle. In this case I would rather have each
> particle "swim" through the spatial noise, their global position used,
> rather than local. Is there a way to go about this?
>

Re: Procedural textures on particles

2012-05-22 Thread Christian Keller

use the per cloud input in the particle density node  and uncheck unique 
per particle in the text coord tab


Am 22.05.2012 17:53, schrieb Andy Moorer:

Hey folks, I'm playing around with a simple particle system to which I've 
applied a material with a procedural texture (simple noise.)

The result is a bunch of particles textured identically, the space sampled being local to 
each particle. In this case I would rather have each particle "swim" through 
the spatial noise, their global position used, rather than local. Is there a way to go 
about this?



--
christian keller
visual effects|direction

m +49 179 69 36 248
f +49 40 386 835 33
chris3...@me.com

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

2012-05-22 Thread Simon Reeves

hello
repeating other people maybe, but I've seen a few messages saying theres a
lack of mail, but I see *those *at least (and I'm using gmail, kind of,
through google apps)


On 22 May 2012 15:40, Guillaume Laforge wrote:

> ... so I'm testing...

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the graphic 
card display driver.

If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does Softimage 
start up?
http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS14691242

Can xsibatch run ? Try running a script with xsibatch
Eg

echo LogMessage\(\"Hello\"\) > /var/tmp/test.js
xsibatch -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js

The dropbox and flash stuff was just stuff that customer wanted, so he added it 
to his recipe.

-Original Message-
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-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.so error will not prevent Softimage from running.
> I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013.

too bad.. it was the only error i could find...

> Also important for FC14:
>
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/

this was one of the very first things i tried..

> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/

tried and checked this, too of course..

>
>
> yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck 
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

already did this before..
> yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
>
> yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
> python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc filezilla
> gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps 
> python-sqlite2

filezilla, gimp, openssh-server? seriously? why? o_O anyway. i installed 
everything and sadly my problem remains.

> #Flash
>
> #Dropbox

uhm.. flash and dropbox !? why on earth does softimage need that? i 
temporarily installed flash with no luck on getting softimage to run 
afterwards. i resisted to install dropbox for now, do i really need that 
in order to get softimage up and running?

as for the rest of the install-advice: i had already disabled nouveau 
and se-linux, of course -> as i said in my inital posting, mudbox and 
maya run fine, i guess they wouldn't if my nvidia-driver would collide 
with the opensource-nouveau-stuff and neither maya nor mudbox install 
with se-linux turned on, so...

;(

cheers!
chris

<>

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

2012-05-22 Thread Anthony barritault

ca marche ;)

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Guillaume Laforge <
guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ... so I'm testing...

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

2012-05-22 Thread olivier jeannel


We don't accept Maya people ;)

Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :
... so I'm testing...

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Vladimir Jankijevic

I've had the problem on Fedora14 that softimage would start up after a
reboot but will hang if I open it a second time in the same session. After
rebooting again, it started up again. But then, this was in a virtual
machine with no NVIDIA drivers.

Do you guys have a running setup of a virtual fedora14 with nvidia drivers?
if so, HOW???

vladimir

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Stephen Blair
wrote:

>
> Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the
> graphic card display driver.
>
> If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does
> Softimage start up?
> http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS14691242
>
>
>
>
>
> Can xsibatch run ? Try running a script with xsibatch
> Eg
>
> echo LogMessage\(\"Hello\"\) > /var/tmp/test.js
> xsibatch -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The dropbox and flash stuff was just stuff that customer wanted, so he
> added it to his recipe.
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-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.so error will not prevent Softimage from
> running.
> > I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013.
>
> too bad.. it was the only error i could find...
>
> > Also important for FC14:
> >
> >
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/
>
> this was one of the very first things i tried..
>
> >
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/
>
> tried and checked this, too of course..
>
> >
> >
> > yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> >
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
>
> already did this before..
> > yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
> >
> > yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
> > python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc
> filezilla
> > gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps
> python-sqlite2
>
> filezilla, gimp, openssh-server? seriously? why? o_O anyway. i installed
> everything and sadly my problem remains.
>
> > #Flash
> >
> > #Dropbox
>
> uhm.. flash and dropbox !? why on earth does softimage need that? i
> temporarily installed flash with no luck on getting softimage to run
> afterwards. i resisted to install dropbox for now, do i really need that
> in order to get softimage up and running?
>
> as for the rest of the install-advice: i had already disabled nouveau
> and se-linux, of course -> as i said in my inital posting, mudbox and
> maya run fine, i guess they wouldn't if my nvidia-driver would collide
> with the opensource-nouveau-stuff and neither maya nor mudbox install
> with se-linux turned on, so...
>
> ;(
>
> cheers!
> chris
>
>
>
>


-- 
---
Vladimir Jankijevic
Technical Direction

Elefant Studios AG
Lessingstrasse 15
CH-8002 Zürich

+41 44 500 48 20

www.elefantstudios.ch
---

RE: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Sandy Sutherland

I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we crank out 
render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check tomorrow if we can 
remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver etc... - BTW one thing I 
HAVE noticed is that you should update BIOS, we had lots of problems before 
with nodes untill we did that!

I will see tomorrow if I can dig out which Nvidia driver I used!  Evening time 
here now and I am at home.

S.

_
Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za
_

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Vladimir Jankijevic 
[vladi...@elefantstudios.ch]
Sent: 22 May 2012 18:50
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

I've had the problem on Fedora14 that softimage would start up after a reboot 
but will hang if I open it a second time in the same session. After rebooting 
again, it started up again. But then, this was in a virtual machine with no 
NVIDIA drivers.

Do you guys have a running setup of a virtual fedora14 with nvidia drivers? if 
so, HOW???

vladimir

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Stephen Blair 
mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote:

Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the graphic 
card display driver.

If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does Softimage 
start up?
http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS14691242

Can xsibatch run ? Try running a script with xsibatch
Eg

echo LogMessage\(\"Hello\"\) > /var/tmp/test.js
xsibatch -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js

The dropbox and flash stuff was just stuff that customer wanted, so he added it 
to his recipe.

-Original Message-
From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com

[mailto:softimage-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.so error will not prevent Softimage from running.
> I get the same error here, and I can run Softimage 2013.

too bad.. it was the only error i could find...

> Also important for FC14:
>
> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/the-case-of-the-slow-2011-startup-on-fedora-14/

this was one of the very first things i tried..

> http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/rpcss-servicemain-failed-with-1702-06a6-the-binding-handle-is-invalid/

tried and checked this, too of course..

>
>
> yum -y localinstall --nogpgcheck 
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

already did this before..
> yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
>
> yum -y install nfs-utils ypbind wget PyQt4 PyQt4-devel
> python-pyside libXpm control-center-extra wine.i686 libquicktime vlc filezilla
> gimp gimp-libs ufraw-gimp openssh-server MySQL-python xorg-x11-apps 
> python-sqlite2

filezilla, gimp, openssh-server? seriously? why? o_O anyway. i installed
everything and sadly my problem remains.

> #Flash
>
> #Dropbox

uhm.. flash and dropbox !? why on earth does softimage need that? i
temporarily installed flash with no luck on getting softimage to run
afterwards. i resisted to install dropbox for now, do i really need that
in order to get softimage up and running?

as for the rest of the install-advice: i had already disabled nouveau
and se-linux, of course -> as i said in my inital posting, mudbox and
maya run fine, i guess they wouldn't if my nvidia-driver would collide
with the opensource-nouveau-stuff and neither maya nor mudbox install
with se-linux turned on, so...

;(

cheers!
chris

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Technical Direction

Elefant Studios AG
Lessingstrasse 15
CH-8002 Zürich

+41 44 500 48 20

www.elefantstudios.ch
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Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!


Hi Stephen,

thanks a lot for helping me out on this!

On 05/22/2012 06:18 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:

Hanging while drawing the viewports often indicates a problem with the graphic 
card display driver.

If you modify the default layout to hide the OpenGL viewports, does Softimage 
start up?
http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TS14691242


tried that, still the same freeze on startup.. :(


Can xsibatch run ? Try running a script with xsibatch
Eg

echo LogMessage\(\"Hello\"\)>  /var/tmp/test.js
xsibatch -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js



output of xsibatch -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js:

===
 Autodesk Softimage 11.0.525.0
===

CONF disk info : reading config file "/home/giz/initrc"
License information: using [Processing]
COMMAND: -processing -script /var/tmp/test.js
' INFO : Hello
Warning: return value of the executed script is not an integer
' INFO : TransformUVsPlugin has been unloaded.
' INFO : FBX-XSI import/export Plug-in has been unloaded.
' INFO : Unfold3D Plugin has been unloaded.
' INFO : polymatricksPlugin has been unloaded.
' INFO : Characters has been unloaded.


i guess thats a yes...



The dropbox and flash stuff was just stuff that customer wanted, so he added it 
to his recipe.


ah ok..

cheers!
chris

Convert strands to curves

2012-05-22 Thread john clausing

Is there a way to convert strands to curves? i have a good result on behavior 
with the strands, but am having a heck of a time getting geometry to work with 
the strands.
If i could link curves to strands, i could easily deform the geometry on the 
curves.

any ideas?
thanks all,

john

Test

My work email is not receiving email any more so I set up a gmail instead
since I suspect that MS is now blocking that email like last time.

Is this thing on?

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

2012-05-22 Thread Guillaume Laforge

Shut up Oliver, no one noticed it yet !

More seriously, I can see all the emails from my AD account but not from my 
gmail one. Strange...


From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of olivier jeannel 
[olivier.jean...@noos.fr]
Sent: May 22, 2012 9:44 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...

We don't accept Maya people ;)

Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :
... so I'm testing...
<>

RE: Test

2012-05-22 Thread Williams, Wayne

I see ya.

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Marc Brinkley
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:53 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Test

My work email is not receiving email any more so I set up a gmail instead since 
I suspect that MS is now blocking that email like last time.

Is this thing on?

Re: Test

Cheers!

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Williams, Wayne <
wayne.willi...@xaviant.com> wrote:

>  I see ya. 
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Marc Brinkley
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:53 PM
> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> *Subject:* Test
>
> ** **
>
> My work email is not receiving email any more so I set up a gmail instead
> since I suspect that MS is now blocking that email like last time.
>
> ** **
>
> Is this thing on?
>

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

I have the reverse problem. Work email does not receive emails from the
list but my new Gmail set up does.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Guillaume Laforge <
guillaume.lafo...@autodesk.com> wrote:

> Shut up Oliver, no one noticed it yet !
>
> More seriously, I can see all the emails from my AD account but not from
> my gmail one. Strange...
>
> 
> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [
> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of olivier jeannel [
> olivier.jean...@noos.fr]
> Sent: May 22, 2012 9:44 AM
> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: Re: This list is not working on my gmail account...
>
> We don't accept Maya people ;)
>
> Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :
> ... so I'm testing...
>

Re: Procedural textures on particles

2012-05-22 Thread peter_b


if you want to swim through a spatial noise:

vector state (set to 'intersection point') --> uv edit (uncheck the swap 
checkboxes) --> coordinate input on any of the texture generators, eg 
fractal.




-Original Message- 
From: Christian Keller

Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:17 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Procedural textures on particles

use the per cloud input in the particle density node  and uncheck unique
per particle in the text coord tab

Am 22.05.2012 17:53, schrieb Andy Moorer:
Hey folks, I'm playing around with a simple particle system to which I've 
applied a material with a procedural texture (simple noise.)


The result is a bunch of particles textured identically, the space sampled 
being local to each particle. In this case I would rather have each 
particle "swim" through the spatial noise, their global position used, 
rather than local. Is there a way to go about this?



--
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visual effects|direction

m +49 179 69 36 248
f +49 40 386 835 33
chris3...@me.com

Re: Convert strands to curves

2012-05-22 Thread David Barosin

Fabricio Chamon made this nice plugin
http://iceduous.blogspot.com/2010/07/ice-strands-to-curves.html


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM, john clausing wrote:

> Is there a way to convert strands to curves? i have a good result on
> behavior with the strands, but am having a heck of a time getting geometry
> to work with the strands.
> If i could link curves to strands, i could easily deform the geometry on
> the curves.
>
> any ideas?
> thanks all,
>
> john
>

RE: Switching geometry emitter

2012-05-22 Thread Grahame Fuller

Here’s another way. Save all the emission parameters as custom attributes. Read 
them back and use them to drive an Emit compound. Make a compound out of the 
Emit and Get Data nodes, and expose the Geometry (Emitter) input. Plug the 
output from the compound into a Select Case, and make another compound of those 
two. Expose the Geometry input again, and set its properties to “Multi – 
Connect New Ports through New Node (copy values)”. Now you can just plug as 
many emitters in as you like, and use the Condition of the Select Case to 
switch between them.

gray

From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Christian Keller
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:01 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Switching geometry emitter

yep, that´s the way i´m doing it. you can use a scalar instead of the bool and 
control the individual
emissionrate of each object. quite simple and performance wise not bad at all !

Am 22.05.2012 17:37, schrieb Andy Moorer:
Isn't the array idea essentially similar to using multiple emit nodes? Only 
culled down to the heart of the whole thing, multiple generate from sample set?

The per-point attribute/delete scheme has the same 2 problems most 
post-generation filtering has. A lot of processing spent creating/deleting 
points, and the rate of emission value becomes a step further removed from what 
actually gets emitted.

Of the three solutions presented, it seems to me that Vladimir's suggestion 
deserves a closer look. Does using the filtering inherent in generate sample 
set result in a significant speed savings compared to deletion "on emission"? 
Is the rate of emission in this case adjusted, in other words can you use the 
rate parameter to specify "n" particles as a result?

Sent from my iPad

On May 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Chris Marshall 
mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks,
All interesting solutions. I'm using a variation on Peters Array idea.

Cheers


On 18 May 2012 15:53, Vladimir Jankijevic 
mailto:vladi...@elefantstudios.ch>> wrote:
put a per-object boolean (eg self.emit) attribute on each emitter object,
make a group of all of them,
connect that group to a generate sample set node,
set the filter attribute in that node to your chosen boolean attribute,
now you can switch on which object to emit by setting the attribute to true or 
false on each respective object.


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stephen Blair 
mailto:stephen.bl...@autodesk.com>> wrote:
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-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
 On Behalf Of Peter Agg
Sent: May-18-12 10:40 AM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: Switching geometry emitter

HACKY WORKAROUND WARNING!!!

If you Generate a Sample Set, get the PointPosition from the locations and then 
create an array out of it you can plug that data into an Add Point node without 
context issues.

Dirty, isn't it? :)


On 18 May 2012 15:24, Chris Marshall 
mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com>>>
 wrote:
Well that seems to work if after the emit node, but that means you need three 
emit nodes and I'd hoped to have just one. I was thinking of plugging the three 
pieces of geometry into a conditional type thing which I could use to switch 
between them, before the emit node.
On 18 May 2012 15:16, Sandy Sutherland 
mailto:sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za>>>
 wrote:
Can you not use 'if' nodes and use an integer or something to drive the 
selection?

S.

_
Sandy Sutherland
Technical Supervisor
sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za>
_




From: 
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>
 
[softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>]
 on behalf of Chris Marshall 
[chrismarshal...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 18 May 2012 16:10
To: 
softimage@listproc.autodesk.com

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!


On 05/22/2012 07:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote:

I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we crank out 
render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check tomorrow if we can 
remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver etc... - BTW one thing I 
HAVE noticed is that you should update BIOS, we had lots of problems before 
with nodes untill we did that!

I will see tomorrow if I can dig out which Nvidia driver I used!  Evening time 
here now and I am at home.


thanks a lot - greatly appreciated!

cheers!
chris

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas Volkmann

There also is another issue with /etc/hosts, apart from the wrong first
line mentioned before.
I can't recall it exactly, but if it isn't setup correctly you get errors
in SI, and not being able to connect to DisplayHost (or whatever) sounds
exactly like that. Actually that one was driving me nuts for weeks, though
my error was a segmentationFault at that time. The error was that my actual
hostname didn't show up in that file...once fixed evereything worked fine.
I would post my correct configured /etc/hosts, but unfortunately I'm
sitting in front of a Windows-box right now and it seems that it is going
to be a loong evening :/
Anyway, my guess is this file. Maybe someone else can post a file for
reference. And yes, a centralized how-to with dependency-list for the
official-supported platform would be great. Not that I need it anymore, as
I probably experienced every Linux-bug since XSI6... däNg

good luck!
Thomas

Christoph Muetze  hat am 22. Mai 2012 um 21:04
geschrieben:

> On 05/22/2012 07:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote:
> > I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we
crank out render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check
tomorrow if we can remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver
etc... - BTW one thing I HAVE noticed is that you should update BIOS, we
had lots of problems before with nodes untill we did that!
> >
> > I will see tomorrow if I can dig out which Nvidia driver I used!
Evening time here now and I am at home.
>
> thanks a lot - greatly appreciated!
>
> cheers!
> chris
>

Re: Softimage and Fedora14 - help please!


Hi Thomas,

thanks for pointing this out!

i'm painfully aware of the segmentation fault when you don't have the 
hostname in /etc/hosts. in my case:


127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4) <- segfault
127.0.0.1 localhost wireframe localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4 <- soft starts, but freezes after splashscreen


also you need to have /etc/hostname (which doesn't exist by default in 
fedora) containing the hostname, but i've forgotten why exactly, some 
other error.


i agree that autodesk really should provide a _detailed_ step by step 
installation for a program that breaks so easily and is so fragile to 
set up like softimage. it feels like an extremely buggy 
alphaversion...like.. not tested at all. considering that you have to 
collect all the installation information from various places from the 
net (inkl. many non-audodesk sites) makes it even worse. and the fact 
that the installation medium is an ntfs-formatted usb-stick that _can't_ 
be openened on the very system that is recommended (fedora14) really is 
just the tip of the iceberg.


i wonder why i paid money for this?

:(

cheers!
chris

On 05/22/2012 09:52 PM, Thomas Volkmann wrote:

There also is another issue with /etc/hosts, apart from the wrong first
line mentioned before.
I can't recall it exactly, but if it isn't setup correctly you get errors
in SI, and not being able to connect to DisplayHost (or whatever) sounds
exactly like that. Actually that one was driving me nuts for weeks, though
my error was a segmentationFault at that time. The error was that my actual
hostname didn't show up in that file...once fixed evereything worked fine.
I would post my correct configured /etc/hosts, but unfortunately I'm
sitting in front of a Windows-box right now and it seems that it is going
to be a loong evening :/
Anyway, my guess is this file. Maybe someone else can post a file for
reference. And yes, a centralized how-to with dependency-list for the
official-supported platform would be great. Not that I need it anymore, as
I probably experienced every Linux-bug since XSI6... däNg

good luck!
Thomas


Christoph Muetze  hat am 22. Mai 2012 um 21:04
geschrieben:


On 05/22/2012 07:12 PM, Sandy Sutherland wrote:

I built one workstation with Nvidia driver a while ago - otherwise we

crank out render nodes all on FC14 - and all work 100% - I will check
tomorrow if we can remember how we did the one WS, which Nvidia driver
etc... - BTW one thing I HAVE noticed is that you should update BIOS, we
had lots of problems before with nodes untill we did that!

I will see tomorrow if I can dig out which Nvidia driver I used!

Evening time here now and I am at home.

thanks a lot - greatly appreciated!

cheers!
chris

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

2012-05-22 Thread Jack Kao

Yeah I see you, but I also have been noticing a lack of emails delivered
from the list as of late. When compared with the mail list archive, there
have indeed been a few topics that never came through... Wonder what is
going on?

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, olivier jeannel wrote:

>  We don't accept Maya people ;)
>
> Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :
>
> ... so I'm testing...
>
>
>

Re: pointvelocity to drive motion vectors on geometry - does it work?

2012-05-22 Thread peter_b

Just thought I’d get back on this subject – as it’s only a partial solution.

with usermotions you can influence the motion vectors allright, (using 
mip_motion_vectors) but it also adds actual blur – which renders the motion 
vectors useless.
I’ve tried with and without motion blur in scene and pass options, and tried 
adding a motion blur property to disable blur (which is actually necessary for 
taking away the incorrect motion vectors – because the usermotion vectors get 
added – they dont replace the default vectors)

so overall – I can’t find a way to influence user motion vectors without 
causing blur to be drawn.
I hope I’m simply overlooking something?




From: pete...@skynet.be 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:24 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Re: pointvelocity to drive motion vectors on geometry - does it work?

thanks – will have a look – this sounds just like what I need!




From: Alan Fregtman 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:25 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Re: pointvelocity to drive motion vectors on geometry - does it work?

Yeah; for a UserMotion example, go to your XSI_SAMPLES project under: 

/Scenes/ICE/RotatingGearWithICEUserMotions.scn



On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Ciaran Moloney  
wrote:

  Hi,

  PointVelocity applies to particles only. If you're using MR, then there's an 
ICE attribute usermotion that you can use to define custom vectors for motion 
blur. 





  On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM,  wrote:

Hi, 

I’m using the mip_motion_vectors output shader.

My non-simulated particle cloud (sticking to a surface) shows up black 
which makes sense I guess.
No worries, I’m looking up the PointVelocity at the surface and saving this 
on the particles – and magically the motion vectors are fixed and blend 
perfectly with the surface.

Now I have some geometry with incorrect motion vectors (I think) – and I 
was hoping to accomplish the same thing:
calculating motion vectors (difference between previous and current frames’ 
pointposition ?) and saving it as a PointVelocity attribute.

However – it doesnt seem to be working – no matter what I try, the 
PointVelocity attribute doesnt seem to affect motion vectors – as it did for 
the particles. Has anyone done this? Does it / should it work?

thanks for any pointers.

Executing system commands in Linux from XSI but outside of XSI's environment?

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman

Hey guys,

I'm stuck trying to run a compiled executable utility from a plugin in XSI
in Linux (CentOS though, not Fedora) and I'm getting this:
/path/to/softimage/linux/Softimage_2012.SAP/Application/bin/libstdc++.so.6:
version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /path/to/myprogram)

Anyone know any reliable tricks to have the system run the stupid thing?
The system can run the program, but XSI's Python environment in Linux
cannot.

I hoped XSIUtils.LaunchProcess() would do some magic, but no... it gives up
silently. :(

Any tips appreciated.
Cheers,

   -- Alan

Re: Ping!

2012-05-22 Thread Jens Lindgren

I'm here.
I have seen a lot of these messages lately so something is probably wrong
but I think everything is working for me at least.

/Jens

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

> I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think
> something is messed up.
>
>

-- 
Jens Lindgren
--
Lead Technical Director
Magoo 3D Studios

Re: Ping!

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Turman

Blargh :)
On May 22, 2012 4:48 PM, "Alan Fregtman"  wrote:
>
> I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think
something is messed up.
>

Re: Ping!

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Fregtman

I'm told by a friend one or more people replied to me on this ping... but I
haven't seen a thing yet.

*cue twilight zone theme*


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

> I'm not getting any messages since May 18th. Anybody out there?? I think
> something is messed up.
>
>

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

2012-05-22 Thread Jens Lindgren

I think I get all the mails here on my gmail if it helps to know.

/Jens

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Jack Kao  wrote:

> Yeah I see you, but I also have been noticing a lack of emails delivered
> from the list as of late. When compared with the mail list archive, there
> have indeed been a few topics that never came through... Wonder what is
> going on?
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, olivier jeannel 
> wrote:
>
>>  We don't accept Maya people ;)
>>
>> Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :
>>
>> ... so I'm testing...
>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Jens Lindgren
--
Lead Technical Director
Magoo 3D Studios

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

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Turman

I have gmail as well.and I am receiving them just fine...weird.
On May 22, 2012 5:04 PM, "Jens Lindgren" 
wrote:
>
> I think I get all the mails here on my gmail if it helps to know.
>
> /Jens
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Jack Kao  wrote:
>>
>> Yeah I see you, but I also have been noticing a lack of emails delivered
from the list as of late. When compared with the mail list archive, there
have indeed been a few topics that never came through... Wonder what is
going on?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:44 AM, olivier jeannel 
wrote:
>>>
>>> We don't accept Maya people ;)
>>>
>>> Le 22/05/2012 16:40, Guillaume Laforge a écrit :

 ... so I'm testing...
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Jens Lindgren
> --
> Lead Technical Director
> Magoo 3D Studios
>

AFX Cameras to XSI

I know this has come up a few times sorry for more noise.

 

Anyone have a way to get AfterFX CS6 cameras out to Softimage? We needed to
track some footage in the new CS6 version of AFX and it would be great to
get that info into Softimage.

 

TIA!

AFX Cameras to XSI