Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as one of the best this year. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca wrote: Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip? Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com Monday, April 15, 2013 10:12 AM In a cookie. Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca Monday, April 15, 2013 9:52 AM When you store a favorites bookmark with the online Autodesk software documentation, where are those bookmarks stored, offline ? I want to change the location of where they are stored ? Christopher postbox-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpg
Re: Softimage promo
Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI Bounce Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what version you are using. All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even notice it opening. That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar. You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon 2)Test to see if it works with network licensing Kind regards Angus From: Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nlmailto:r...@casema.nl Reply-To: r...@casema.nlmailto:r...@casema.nl r...@casema.nlmailto:r...@casema.nl, softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013 4:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage promo Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage. There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the forums. Rob \/-\/\/ On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote: Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing as the batch file. That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever it needs in place before it runs. On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.commailto:luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.commailto:szabol...@crytek.com wrote: To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all other programs offer the option None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu offered by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just to work around that taskbar menu. 1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select Pin this program to taskbar 2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work) 3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select Properties 4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. /span/font/td /tr /table - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comhttp://www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6247 - Release Date: 04/15/13 table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. /span/font/td /tr /table
Wanted: FFT ICE node
I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
Re: Softimage promo
That's great, thanks! DAN On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI Bounce Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what version you are using. All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even notice it opening. That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar. You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon 2)Test to see if it works with network licensing Kind regards Angus From: Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl Reply-To: r...@casema.nl r...@casema.nl, softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013 4:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage promo Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage. There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the forums. Rob \/-\/\/ On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote: Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing as the batch file. That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever it needs in place before it runs. On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com szabol...@crytek.com wrote: To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all other programs offer the option None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu offered by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just to work around that taskbar menu. 1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select Pin this program to taskbar 2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work) 3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select Properties 4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. /span/font/td /tr /table - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6247 - Release Date: 04/15/13 This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. **
Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
christopher's posts seem to have that effect on people.. Rob \/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 10:29, Guillaume Laforge wrote: I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as "one of the best" this year. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca wrote: Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip? Stephen Blair Monday, April 15, 2013 10:12 AM In a cookie. Christopher Monday, April 15, 2013 9:52 AM When you store a favorites bookmark with the online Autodesk software documentation, where are those bookmarks stored, offline ? I want to change the location of where they are stored ? Christopher No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6249 - Release Date: 04/16/13
Re: Unfold
Not exactly the same thing, but I have a compound that match an object to it's UVs. --- Ahmidou Lyazidi Director | TD | CG artist http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos 2013/4/17 andialias i...@andialias.de Hi there, is there a plugin or Ice-tree to unfold an unfoldable geometry physically - like a deformer- Remaining the edge-length ? Thanks Andi -- Andreas Schulz Durbusch 42, 51503 Rösrath, Germany tel: +49 2205 85204 cell: +49 2205 173 26 33 893
Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node
I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node
Awesome! Would be nice to have it before the weekend. Is that possible? When I'm done with the effect I'm doing I will share the compound here. /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
RE: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Hi Bartek,
See our Dev's comment below:
--
Following code should help in his problem:
Primitive prim = ctxt.GetInputValue( 0 );
CString l_name = prim.GetFullName( );
l_name = l_name.GetSubString( 0, l_name.FindString( L.polymsh ) );
X3DObject l_child = Application().GetActiveSceneRoot().FindChild(
l_name, L, CStringArray() );
PolygonMesh meshModeling = l_child.GetActivePrimitive( ).GetGeometry( 0,
siConstructionModeModeling );
PolygonMesh
meshAnimation(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
CVertexRefArray pointsModeling(meshModeling.GetVertices());
CVertexRefArray pointsAnimation(meshAnimation.GetVertices());
MATH::CVector3Array vectorsModeling = pointsModeling.GetPositionArray();
MATH::CVector3Array vectorsAnimation =
pointsAnimation.GetPositionArray();
for (int p=0;pvectorsModeling.GetCount();p++){
MATH::CVector3 delta =
MATH::CVector3().Sub(vectorsAnimation[p],vectorsModeling[p]);
Application().LogMessage(CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX()));
}
Main point here is when we get primitive like ctxt.GetInputValue then it exists
in Direct Access Mode and second parameter 'siConstructionModeModeling' is
ignored in this mode and returned polymesh is last regardless of parameter
provided. Therefore delta in this case will be always 0. In order to avoid this
constraint we need access primitive from scene. At this example by name.
--
Regards,
Chris
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bartek Opatowiecki
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 6:25 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Is this simple code is going to give me a delta vector between
base model and deformed one while called from within a customOperator ?
PolygonMesh
meshModeling(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeModeling));
PolygonMesh
meshAnimation(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
CVertexRefArray pointsModeling(meshModeling.GetVertices());
CVertexRefArray pointsAnimation(meshAnimation.GetVertices());
CVector3Array vectorsModeling = pointsModeling.GetPositionArray();
CVector3Array vectorsAnimation = pointsAnimation.GetPositionArray();
for (int p=0;pvectorsModeling.GetCount();p++){
CVector3 delta =
CVector3().Sub(vectorsAnimation[0],vectorsModeling[0]);
app.LogMessage(CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX()));
}
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Chris Chia
chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote:
Hi Bartek,
See below for our Dev's comments on your script:
His example code is not clear. In first 2 lines, user works with input at line
2 which is mesh. In line 3, he works with outMesh.
Our dev gives the following example:
Primitive prim = ctxt.GetInputValue( 0 );
PolygonMesh mesh( prim.GetGeometry( 0, siConstructionModeAnimation ) );
CVertexRefArray points = mesh.GetVertices();
MATH::CVector3Array pos = points.GetPositionArray();
const MATH::CVector3* l_pSrc = pos[0];
l_pSrc contains non-zero values.
Hope this explains.
From:
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
On Behalf Of Bartek Opatowiecki
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:36 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Primitive prim = (CRef)ctx.GetInputValue(0,0);
PolygonMesh mesh(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
CVertexRefArray outPoints = outMesh.GetVertices();
CVector3Array pos = outPoints.GetPositionArray();
I'm calling that block of code from inside of a customOperator, ok ?
There is an Envelope Operator below. It has some bones
so the mesh is being deformed by that bones.
PolygonMesh
- Secondary Shape Modeling
- Animation
- MyOperator
- EnvelopeOperator -
-Shape Modeling
- Modeling
How to get result of EnvelopeOperator as an Array of absolute vectors, from
within MyOperator Update callback ?
Actually pos is filled with zeroes.
Hope, you get what I mean :)
Thanks
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Raffaele Fragapane
raffsxsil...@googlemail.commailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.commailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.commailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com
wrote:
If you transform the vectors by the global kine transform of the object they
come from they will be in world space.
Assuming you are reading from another object and getting its point
RE: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Hi Bartek,
And in the example shown in the previous email (see below):
X3DObject l_child = Application().GetActiveSceneRoot().FindChild( l_name, L,
CStringArray() );
PolygonMesh meshModeling = l_child.GetActivePrimitive( ).GetGeometry( 0,
siConstructionModeModeling );
Because we are using GetActiveSceneRoot(), we are able to use the
siConstructionModeModeling flag and it would return geometry from the last
operator of the Modeling stack.
However, if you use:
PolygonMesh meshAnimation(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
It will ignore the siConstructionModeAnimation flag and return the geo from the
operator below itself it's same stack.
And one minor issue we spotted from your code sample, we believe it should be:
Application().LogMessage(CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetY())+:+CString(delta.GetZ()));
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Chris
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:04 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: RE: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Hi Bartek,
See our Dev's comment below:
--
Following code should help in his problem:
Primitive prim = ctxt.GetInputValue( 0 );
CString l_name = prim.GetFullName( );
l_name = l_name.GetSubString( 0, l_name.FindString( L.polymsh ) );
X3DObject l_child = Application().GetActiveSceneRoot().FindChild(
l_name, L, CStringArray() );
PolygonMesh meshModeling = l_child.GetActivePrimitive( ).GetGeometry( 0,
siConstructionModeModeling );
PolygonMesh
meshAnimation(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
CVertexRefArray pointsModeling(meshModeling.GetVertices());
CVertexRefArray pointsAnimation(meshAnimation.GetVertices());
MATH::CVector3Array vectorsModeling = pointsModeling.GetPositionArray();
MATH::CVector3Array vectorsAnimation =
pointsAnimation.GetPositionArray();
for (int p=0;pvectorsModeling.GetCount();p++){
MATH::CVector3 delta =
MATH::CVector3().Sub(vectorsAnimation[p],vectorsModeling[p]);
Application().LogMessage(CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX()));
}
Main point here is when we get primitive like ctxt.GetInputValue then it exists
in Direct Access Mode and second parameter 'siConstructionModeModeling' is
ignored in this mode and returned polymesh is last regardless of parameter
provided. Therefore delta in this case will be always 0. In order to avoid this
constraint we need access primitive from scene. At this example by name.
--
Regards,
Chris
From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bartek Opatowiecki
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 6:25 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: How to make a deformer absolute ?
Is this simple code is going to give me a delta vector between
base model and deformed one while called from within a customOperator ?
PolygonMesh
meshModeling(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeModeling));
PolygonMesh
meshAnimation(prim.GetGeometry(0,siConstructionModeAnimation));
CVertexRefArray pointsModeling(meshModeling.GetVertices());
CVertexRefArray pointsAnimation(meshAnimation.GetVertices());
CVector3Array vectorsModeling = pointsModeling.GetPositionArray();
CVector3Array vectorsAnimation = pointsAnimation.GetPositionArray();
for (int p=0;pvectorsModeling.GetCount();p++){
CVector3 delta =
CVector3().Sub(vectorsAnimation[0],vectorsModeling[0]);
app.LogMessage(CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX())+:+CString(delta.GetX()));
}
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Chris Chia
chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote:
Hi Bartek,
See below for our Dev's comments on your script:
His example code is not clear. In first 2 lines, user works with input at line
2 which is mesh. In line 3, he works with outMesh.
Our dev gives the following example:
Primitive prim = ctxt.GetInputValue( 0 );
PolygonMesh mesh( prim.GetGeometry( 0, siConstructionModeAnimation ) );
CVertexRefArray points = mesh.GetVertices();
MATH::CVector3Array pos = points.GetPositionArray();
const MATH::CVector3* l_pSrc = pos[0];
l_pSrc contains non-zero values.
Hope this explains.
From:
softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com
[mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com]
On Behalf Of Bartek Opatowiecki
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:36 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Subject: Re: How to make a
Re: unresponsive under win7
ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time now, on different machines. well get back at you s. Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating! s. winmail.dat
Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node
I wrote it to do 2D iFFT's. Never made it into a fully generic ice node. Given time i could write one. If you need the 2d ifft node then i can send that before the weekend On 17 Apr 2013 11:32, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Would be nice to have it before the weekend. Is that possible? When I'm done with the effect I'm doing I will share the compound here. /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node
That sounds great! With iFFT do you mean inverse FFT? I think i need just the FFT but maybe you can do both? /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I wrote it to do 2D iFFT's. Never made it into a fully generic ice node. Given time i could write one. If you need the 2d ifft node then i can send that before the weekend On 17 Apr 2013 11:32, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Would be nice to have it before the weekend. Is that possible? When I'm done with the effect I'm doing I will share the compound here. /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
Re: Softimage promo
how does that fix the context menu the user is trying to use?
if you wanted something to put on the task bar directly, afaik you can
already drag a standard windows shortcut to XSI.bat like ralf wrote
On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Angus Davidson wrote:
Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI
Bounce
Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what
version you are using.
All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the
batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even
notice it opening.
That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar.
You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb
TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon
2)Test to see if it works with network licensing
Kind regards
Angus
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Subject: Re: Softimage promo
Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage.
There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the
forums.
Rob
\/-\/\/
On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote:
Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing
as the batch file.
That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever
it needs in place before it runs.
On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com
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wrote:
To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the
exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all
other programs offer the option
None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu
offered by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but
Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we
set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to
come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just
to work around that taskbar menu.
1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select Pin this program
to taskbar
2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work)
3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select
Properties
4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat
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Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
Within Chrome I look for all the cookies relevant to 'autodesk' within each cookie I don't see anything related to the bookmarks besides some scripts tags and divs. I installed a cookie extension for chrome, same info the cookie extension showed me as I found my own. Either I don't know how to read Morse 'cookie' code or I'm looking in the wrote spot. Christopher Rob Wuijster Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:05 AM christopher's posts seem to have that effect on people.. Rob\/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 10:29, Guillaume Laforge wrote: Guillaume Laforge Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:29 AM I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as "one of the best" this year. Christopher Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip?
Re: unresponsive under win7
Do you have any invalid source in your scene? Martin On 2013/04/17, at 19:35, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time now, on different machines. well get back at you s. Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating! s. winmail.dat
Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
woosh! there it is again Christopher, straight over your head. the rest.. please don't encourage him ! [image: Inline images 1] On 17 April 2013 15:28, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca wrote: Within Chrome I look for all the cookies relevant to 'autodesk' within each cookie I don't see anything related to the bookmarks besides some scripts tags and divs. I installed a cookie extension for chrome, same info the cookie extension showed me as I found my own. Either I don't know how to read Morse 'cookie' code or I'm looking in the wrote spot. Christopher Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:05 AM christopher's posts seem to have that effect on people.. Rob \/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 10:29, Guillaume Laforge wrote: Guillaume Laforge guillaume.laforge...@gmail.com Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:29 AM I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as one of the best this year. Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.com Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip? postbox-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpgcompose-unknown-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpg
Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
did you look in the right cookie.jar? Rob \/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 15:28, Christopher wrote: Within Chrome I look for all the cookies relevant to 'autodesk' within each cookie I don't see anything related to the bookmarks besides some scripts tags and divs. I installed a cookie extension for chrome, same info the cookie extension showed me as I found my own. Either I don't know how to read Morse 'cookie' code or I'm looking in the wrote spot. Christopher Rob Wuijster Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:05 AM christopher's posts seem to have that effect on people.. Rob \/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 10:29, Guillaume Laforge wrote: Guillaume Laforge Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:29 AM I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as "one of the best" this year. Christopher Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip? No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6249 - Release Date: 04/16/13
autodesk install housekeeping
Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: Autodesk Documentation Favorites ?
Actually the faves go into Local Storage. I was mislead by this line in the js: var cookieWorker = new CookieWorker(top.document, "autodesk_online_help_favorites", 24000); On 17/04/2013 9:28 AM, Christopher wrote: Within Chrome I look for all the cookies relevant to 'autodesk' within each cookie I don't see anything related to the bookmarks besides some scripts tags and divs. I installed a cookie extension for chrome, same info the cookie extension showed me as I found my own. Either I don't know how to read Morse 'cookie' code or I'm looking in the wrote spot. Christopher Rob Wuijster Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:05 AM christopher's posts seem to have that effect on people.. Rob \/-\/\/ On 17-4-2013 10:29, Guillaume Laforge wrote: Guillaume Laforge Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:29 AM I think with some very little efforts, this thread got its chance to be nominated as "one of the best" this year. Christopher Monday, April 15, 2013 10:52 PM Blair, do you know what cookie I should be looking at the source code for ? I have (5) looked into the source code for the ones I found could be the most relevant, although the information that I was expecting to find, I didn't find. ::Christopher Stephen Blair Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50 PM In whatever flavour is your favorite. They're magic cookies, eh. On 15/04/2013 5:31 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Alan Fregtman Monday, April 15, 2013 5:31 PM What flavour? ;) Chocolate chip?
Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: Softimage promo
By context menu, I mean the Pin this program to the taskbar item in the context menu of the Taskbar when Softimage is running. The problem is that this option pins xsi.exe because that's what running. If you make a launcher that starts xsi.bat and then quits, then it doesn't solve that problem because the running process is still xsi.exe. It just adds a launcher that launches another launcher (cmd.exe which launched the .bat file) It solves the other problem, which is that it gives you something to drag on your taskbar, since .bat file won't work. But you can take the shortcut for Softimage 2013 that is on your desktop, modify Target to add cmd.exe in front of C\Program files...xsi.bat and now you can drag and drop it onto the taskbar On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: how does that fix the context menu the user is trying to use? if you wanted something to put on the task bar directly, afaik you can already drag a standard windows shortcut to XSI.bat like ralf wrote On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Angus Davidson wrote: Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI Bounce Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what version you are using. All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even notice it opening. That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar. You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon 2)Test to see if it works with network licensing Kind regards Angus From: Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl Reply-To: r...@casema.nl r...@casema.nl, softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013 4:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage promo Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage. There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the forums. Rob \/-\/\/ On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote: Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing as the batch file. That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever it needs in place before it runs. On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all other programs offer the option None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu offered by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just to work around that taskbar menu. 1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select Pin this program to taskbar 2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work) 3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select Properties 4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. /span/font/td /tr /table - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6247 - Release Date: 04/15/13 This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised
Re: unresponsive under win7
i understand, but is this something i have to live with, or is there some kind of workaround? like setting the win7 not responding threshold higher … dont get me wrong, i understand that softimage has to process all that crap i told it to do (siming, caching ..) but that not responding, not able to stop or the worst case not displaying/ caching when playing forward is not acceptable. i use softimage as fx tool these days and mostly just waiting for the gui to come back is exhausting. btw. updating the quadro driver helped a bit, the window switching is gone. Am 17.04.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: it's not necessarily unusual to get the unresponsive message if you're doing heavier sims and/ or try to cache It might also worsen if the file I/O is expensive, for example if you're writing to the network of a compress/encrypted drive. The UI is not running in a separate thread in XSI, so when it runs a sim it's taking breaks every once in a while to process messages (especially for the Cancel button on the progress bar), but those pauses can be too far in-between if each frame is heavy. Windows's window manager is putting up that message for any application that stops processing windows messages for more than a couple of seconds. It doesn't mean the application is hung and needs to be killed. It just means it's hasn't redrawn its window and processed mouse messages for a while. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time now, on different machines. well get back at you s. Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating!
RE: autodesk install housekeeping
I used the download system on the subscription site, and it left data behind for 2014. I don't know if that is iirc or not. Thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Blair Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:58 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: autodesk install housekeeping Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: unresponsive under win7
The problem should be fixed is in Sofitmage : having the progress dialog in a separate thread, plus poll for the cancel button more often, so that you can click cancel (although ICE may not be able to cancel in the middle of a frame) For the other problems, the unresponsive message windows gives is a symptom, it isn't the cause of the problem. Is the problem that windows is graying out Softimage's window? If so, the only work-around for not is to ... browse the web/check mail on something another machine. But if you want to try changing the unresponsive time out value, you can try this (reboot after change) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978614.aspx On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: i understand, but is this something i have to live with, or is there some kind of workaround? like setting the win7 not responding threshold higher … dont get me wrong, i understand that softimage has to process all that crap i told it to do (siming, caching ..) but that not responding, not able to stop or the worst case not displaying/ caching when playing forward is not acceptable. i use softimage as fx tool these days and mostly just waiting for the gui to come back is exhausting. btw. updating the quadro driver helped a bit, the window switching is gone. Am 17.04.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: it's not necessarily unusual to get the unresponsive message if you're doing heavier sims and/ or try to cache It might also worsen if the file I/O is expensive, for example if you're writing to the network of a compress/encrypted drive. The UI is not running in a separate thread in XSI, so when it runs a sim it's taking breaks every once in a while to process messages (especially for the Cancel button on the progress bar), but those pauses can be too far in-between if each frame is heavy. Windows's window manager is putting up that message for any application that stops processing windows messages for more than a couple of seconds. It doesn't mean the application is hung and needs to be killed. It just means it's hasn't redrawn its window and processed mouse messages for a while. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Sebastian Kowalski l...@sekow.com wrote: ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time now, on different machines. well get back at you s. Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com: Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating!
RE: Softimage promo
Hi I get what you are saying. However you are missing the point. This is just simply for the folks who want to be able to right click on an exe file and add it to the start menu (note not the task menu) Its meant as nothing more then as a option to remove an annoyance (and doing the workarounds is a additional process). You personally might not find it annoying, but there are those of us who do. Those who do can relieve that using a variety of methods. To me this is very simple and elegant method. If I had the time I would expand it to be customizable in the same way that the batch file is to do away with that step completely but right now this is fine for me, possibly others as well. From: Luc-Eric Rousseau [luceri...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 April 2013 04:00 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage promo By context menu, I mean the Pin this program to the taskbar item in the context menu of the Taskbar when Softimage is running. The problem is that this option pins xsi.exe because that's what running. If you make a launcher that starts xsi.bat and then quits, then it doesn't solve that problem because the running process is still xsi.exe. It just adds a launcher that launches another launcher (cmd.exe which launched the .bat file) It solves the other problem, which is that it gives you something to drag on your taskbar, since .bat file won't work. But you can take the shortcut for Softimage 2013 that is on your desktop, modify Target to add cmd.exe in front of C\Program files...xsi.bat and now you can drag and drop it onto the taskbar On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.commailto:luceri...@gmail.com wrote: how does that fix the context menu the user is trying to use? if you wanted something to put on the task bar directly, afaik you can already drag a standard windows shortcut to XSI.bat like ralf wrote On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Angus Davidson wrote: Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI Bounce Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what version you are using. All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even notice it opening. That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar. You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon 2)Test to see if it works with network licensing Kind regards Angus From: Rob Wuijster r...@casema.nl Reply-To: r...@casema.nl r...@casema.nl, softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013 4:08 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage promo Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage. There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the forums. Rob \/-\/\/ On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote: Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing as the batch file. That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever it needs in place before it runs. On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com wrote: To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all other programs offer the option None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu offered by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just to work around that taskbar menu. 1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select Pin this program to taskbar 2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work) 3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select Properties 4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which
RE: autodesk install housekeeping
Hi Stephen It definitely left the download folder on my machine (this was both for the Softimage standalone and the full suite) This was using the DL manager (which works really well, even on my crappy connection) Kind regards Angus From: Stephen Blair [stephenrbl...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 April 2013 03:58 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: autodesk install housekeeping Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style=width:100%; tr td align=left style=text-align:justify;font face=arial,sans-serif size=1 color=#99span style=font-size:11px;This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. /span/font/td /tr /table
Re: New baEssential Shader version
Awesome Holger. Autodesk should have shelled out some money for these a long time ago! On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Schoenberger x...@digidragon.de wrote: Hi I have released an update of my shaders. There have been some broken shader parts in the last version. You can download the update here: http://www.binaryalchemy.de/**index_dev.htmhttp://www.binaryalchemy.de/index_dev.htm regards, Holger
Re: Wanted: FFT ICE node
please share :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.comwrote: That sounds great! With iFFT do you mean inverse FFT? I think i need just the FFT but maybe you can do both? /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I wrote it to do 2D iFFT's. Never made it into a fully generic ice node. Given time i could write one. If you need the 2d ifft node then i can send that before the weekend On 17 Apr 2013 11:32, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: Awesome! Would be nice to have it before the weekend. Is that possible? When I'm done with the effect I'm doing I will share the compound here. /Jens On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Amaan Akram xsil...@warpedspace.orgwrote: I have one... somewhere... how soon do you need it? On 17 Apr 2013 10:52, Jens Lindgren jens.lindgren@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if someone out there has a raw FFT ICE node? I know there was one supplied with the very early versions of aaOcean but I don't have any of those old versions laying around. There also seems to be some different sound plugins for Softimage that has FFT built in but I haven't found a raw FFT node. I'm looking for a node that can do both 1D and 2D FFT. It has happend more than once that I find the need for this and I hope in the future there could be some FFT toolkit nodes supplied with Softimage. Crossing my fingers, hoping there is one out there :) -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/ -- Jens Lindgren -- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/
Looking for some hair tools- willing to pay if some one to develop if it does not exist
I am in desperate need of for some additional tools for assisting in styling old school xsi hair. What I need is a tool or tools that will look at neighboring hair strands and average out the hair length and direction of the hairs. Ideally this tool would let you control how far and how many neighboring it would look at to smooth the hair styles out. Big picture idea is you could style hair very roughly then smooth it out with this tool set. *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com http://www.janimation.com
Re: Looking for some hair tools- willing to pay if some one to develop if it does not exist
Greg, I might be able to help - I'll ping you off-list. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee ] On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: I am in desperate need of for some additional tools for assisting in styling old school xsi hair. What I need is a tool or tools that will look at neighboring hair strands and average out the hair length and direction of the hairs. Ideally this tool would let you control how far and how many neighboring it would look at to smooth the hair styles out. Big picture idea is you could style hair very roughly then smooth it out with this tool set. -- *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com
Re: Looking for some hair tools- willing to pay if some one to develop if it does not exist
Greg - have replied to you off list too! S. On 2013/04/17 6:32 PM, Greg Punchatz wrote: I am in desperate need of for some additional tools for assisting in styling old school xsi hair. What I need is a tool or tools that will look at neighboring hair strands and average out the hair length and direction of the hairs. Ideally this tool would let you control how far and how many neighboring it would look at to smooth the hair styles out. Big picture idea is you could style hair very roughly then smooth it out with this tool set. *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com http://www.janimation.com
Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Instead of delete you can just move it to some install folder for later use if needed so no need to create that folder again just start installer straight from that folder :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zawrote: Hi Stephen It definitely left the download folder on my machine (this was both for the Softimage standalone and the full suite) This was using the DL manager (which works really well, even on my crappy connection) Kind regards Angus -- *From:* Stephen Blair [stephenrbl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 17 April 2013 03:58 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: autodesk install housekeeping Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. **
RE: autodesk install housekeeping
Respectfully, I understand I can do that. That's not the concern. There are no instructions and no warning or notification that this is intentionally left behind, that I am aware of. As a result its taking up huge disk resources. This is especially problematic on SSD drives since they tend to be much smaller than the average HD drives at 1TB. With multiple downloaded installs disk space starts disappearing at a rapid rate and there is no apparent cause. In whatever case, it's poor etiquette. How much trouble would it be to delete it at the end of the install process or at a minimum warn the user in the last dialog of the install that it is there and that it can be deleted at will without harming the proper install. If it needs to remain or is advantageous to remain so be it, but some instructions and explanation as to why would be useful. To be fair, Autodesk isn't the only offender here. The Adobe downloads are left behind as well. So while one developer might think it's a harmless practice to leave 10GB of useless data on someone's hard drive, cumulatively it is a real problem. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Mirko Jankovic Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:06 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: autodesk install housekeeping Instead of delete you can just move it to some install folder for later use if needed so no need to create that folder again just start installer straight from that folder :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.zamailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Hi Stephen It definitely left the download folder on my machine (this was both for the Softimage standalone and the full suite) This was using the DL manager (which works really well, even on my crappy connection) Kind regards Angus From: Stephen Blair [stephenrbl...@gmail.commailto:stephenrbl...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 April 2013 03:58 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: autodesk install housekeeping Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary.
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RE: unresponsive under win7
Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:02 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: unresponsive under win7 Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating! s.
Re: sorry - test
test succeeded! :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: testing - just joined the list with this email! S. -- Max
Re: HQV Reliability
From my experience it seems to be pretty reliable on most cases, although slow in 2013. One thing that seems to make it really slow on my old nVidia card is Bump mapping. On an iMac ATI bump mapping will just make it crash. 2013/4/17 Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca I want to know how many people can get HQV to work and how many cannot ? A simple sphere will work without any crashes, if I load an object and turn on HQV, Softimage will crash, each and every time. With software, little things can break other things, I changed the shader profile from nVidia OpenGL 3.x to Nvidia OpenGL 4.x seen in this image hoping that would solve the HQV crashes which did not solve anything. ::Christopher -- Gustavo E Boehs http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/blog image.jpg
Re: HQV Reliability
The object I tried, doesn't have bump mapping. It works for you I see, sigh ::Christopher Gustavo Eggert Boehs Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:52 PM From my experience it seems to be pretty reliable on most cases, although slow in 2013. One thing that seems to make it really slow on my old nVidia card is Bump mapping. On an iMac ATI bump mapping will just make it crash. -- Gustavo E Boehshttp://www.gustavoeb.com.br/blog Christopher Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:48 PM I want to know how many people can get HQV to work and how many cannot ? A simple sphere will work without any crashes, if I load an object and turn on HQV, Softimage will crash, each and every time. With software, little things can break other things, I changed the shader profile from nVidia OpenGL 3.x to Nvidia OpenGL 4.x seen in this image hoping that would solve the HQV crashes which did not solve anything. ::Christopher
Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Oops. I didn't mean to send that, because I don't explain why the installer leaves it there. On 17/04/2013 1:55 PM, Stephen Blair wrote: Well, if you watch 61 seconds of my video about installing 2014, or any of my other install videos, you would know that the installer extracts itself to C:\Autodesk and leaves the files there. On 17/04/2013 1:34 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Respectfully, I understand I can do that. That's not the concern. There are no instructions and no warning or notification that this is intentionally left behind, that I am aware of. As a result its taking up huge disk resources. This is especially problematic on SSD drives since they tend to be much smaller than the average HD drives at 1TB. With multiple downloaded installs disk space starts disappearing at a rapid rate and there is no apparent cause. In whatever case, it's poor etiquette. How much trouble would it be to delete it at the end of the install process or at a minimum warn the user in the last dialog of the install that it is there and that it can be deleted at will without harming the proper install. If it needs to remain or is advantageous to remain so be it, but some instructions and explanation as to why would be useful. To be fair, Autodesk isn't the only offender here. The Adobe downloads are left behind as well. So while one developer might think it's a harmless practice to leave 10GB of useless data on someone's hard drive, cumulatively it is a real problem. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. *From:*softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Mirko Jankovic *Sent:* Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:06 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: autodesk install housekeeping Instead of delete you can just move it to some install folder for later use if needed so no need to create that folder again just start installer straight from that folder :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za mailto:angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Hi Stephen It definitely left the download folder on my machine (this was both for the Softimage standalone and the full suite) This was using the DL manager (which works really well, even on my crappy connection) Kind regards Angus *From:*Stephen Blair [stephenrbl...@gmail.com mailto:stephenrbl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 17 April 2013 03:58 PM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com *Subject:* Re: autodesk install housekeeping Totally safe. In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes) On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary.
Re: unresponsive under win7
the preferences file do not get corrupted, ever. It's just an ascii file of values. The problem is people forgot what they have changed and installed and that's a quick way to rule everything out. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt
Re: HQV Reliability
Just today, i was doing something extremely trivial, i made a preview eye for a character with a gradiant node and phong on a sphere, for some reason only the HQV can display this seemingly simple shader and everything started to chug, geometry manipulation started to catch, slowdown, i was baffled, as my neighbour seemed to be able to achieve this in maya's view port without resorting to any such HQV settings... is this normal ? On 17 April 2013 19:53, Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca wrote: The object I tried, doesn't have bump mapping. It works for you I see, sigh ::Christopher Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.com Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:52 PM From my experience it seems to be pretty reliable on most cases, although slow in 2013. One thing that seems to make it really slow on my old nVidia card is Bump mapping. On an iMac ATI bump mapping will just make it crash. -- Gustavo E Boehs http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/blog Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.ca Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:48 PM I want to know how many people can get HQV to work and how many cannot ? A simple sphere will work without any crashes, if I load an object and turn on HQV, Softimage will crash, each and every time. With software, little things can break other things, I changed the shader profile from nVidia OpenGL 3.x to Nvidia OpenGL 4.x seen in this image hoping that would solve the HQV crashes which did not solve anything. ::Christopher compose-unknown-contact.jpgpostbox-contact.jpgimage.jpg
RE: unresponsive under win7
Admittedly this is not a phenomenon specific to Soft. In the early days of Maya the first course of action, recommended by support when we had bizarre issues, was to delete or rename the prefs directory. It often helped and having done this enough times and having manually edited the userPrefs script file several times I came to the conclusion that it was not a clear explanation to say that the userPrefs file was corrupt or the actual fault. I think it's possible to suggest that settings saved in the file, that might otherwise be fine by themselves, when combined with other saved settings might have contributed to cause and effect. The point being that the problem potentially wasn't the contents of the prefs file itself or the file being corrupted somehow, but how or in what order some values were being saved and then reloaded that revealed obscure or bizarre issues in the software. This is all hypothetically speaking, of course. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lind Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:41 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: unresponsive under win7 Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Chris Chia Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:02 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: unresponsive under win7 Hi Sebastian, Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine specs? Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference folder? Regards, Chris -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Kowalski Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: unresponsive under win7 it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? its so frustrating! s.
RE: unresponsive under win7
I don't buy that. I've had to clear out my preferences folder 4 times just in the past 6 weeks for various issues in 2013 SP1. I set very few preferences, and once they're set I don't touch them anymore. Yet weeks later performing this or that Softimage suddenly gets very flakey. Clearing out the preference folder seems to be the only workaround. This issue has been getting worse with each release. Most noticeably starting with 2010. We rarely had to do this in 7.5. There is something wrong with how tools are reading/writing that file. I have noticed it's organized as category.preference = value, but the preference and '=' are separated by a tab instead of space. Is it possible there is code assuming it should be a space? Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: unresponsive under win7 the preferences file do not get corrupted, ever. It's just an ascii file of values. The problem is people forgot what they have changed and installed and that's a quick way to rule everything out. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt
Re: unresponsive under win7
Parsing a few strings separated by an equal sign once at the top of the application isn't going to cause the app to get flaky. In 12 mil lines of code, that's not where the complexity is. Anyway, that file is ASCII, you can diff it, delete part of it until you find the offending issue, etc. There shouldn't be a cargo cult around this file. Now deleting the whole user folder.. that does clears a few more complicated things, including perhaps some plug-ins, perhaps image proxies and a spdl cache. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: I don't buy that. I've had to clear out my preferences folder 4 times just in the past 6 weeks for various issues in 2013 SP1. I set very few preferences, and once they're set I don't touch them anymore. Yet weeks later performing this or that Softimage suddenly gets very flakey. Clearing out the preference folder seems to be the only workaround. This issue has been getting worse with each release. Most noticeably starting with 2010. We rarely had to do this in 7.5. There is something wrong with how tools are reading/writing that file. I have noticed it's organized as category.preference = value, but the preference and '=' are separated by a tab instead of space. Is it possible there is code assuming it should be a space? Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: unresponsive under win7 the preferences file do not get corrupted, ever. It's just an ascii file of values. The problem is people forgot what they have changed and installed and that's a quick way to rule everything out. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt
RE: unresponsive under win7
OK, that at least narrows some things down. All our plugins are in external workgroups. SPDL cachenot sure what would tap into this. We do have some SPDL based shaders, but nothing else. Not sure about image proxies. We don't use FXTree. What I'm getting at is our environments are pretty consistent, but for some reason performing a given task in Softimage seems to throw a monkey wrench into everything. The problem is figuring out the cause as we cannot find a consistent trigger which we can reproduce. It has a very random feel to it. If there is something else we can try other than flushing the entire folder, that would be preferred as it's a real pain to have to reset preferences and everything else for a user each time this occurs. Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:51 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: unresponsive under win7 Parsing a few strings separated by an equal sign once at the top of the application isn't going to cause the app to get flaky. In 12 mil lines of code, that's not where the complexity is. Anyway, that file is ASCII, you can diff it, delete part of it until you find the offending issue, etc. There shouldn't be a cargo cult around this file. Now deleting the whole user folder.. that does clears a few more complicated things, including perhaps some plug-ins, perhaps image proxies and a spdl cache. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: I don't buy that. I've had to clear out my preferences folder 4 times just in the past 6 weeks for various issues in 2013 SP1. I set very few preferences, and once they're set I don't touch them anymore. Yet weeks later performing this or that Softimage suddenly gets very flakey. Clearing out the preference folder seems to be the only workaround. This issue has been getting worse with each release. Most noticeably starting with 2010. We rarely had to do this in 7.5. There is something wrong with how tools are reading/writing that file. I have noticed it's organized as category.preference = value, but the preference and '=' are separated by a tab instead of space. Is it possible there is code assuming it should be a space? Matt -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: unresponsive under win7 the preferences file do not get corrupted, ever. It's just an ascii file of values. The problem is people forgot what they have changed and installed and that's a quick way to rule everything out. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com wrote: Something really needs to be done about that clearing XSI preference folder workaround. We should never have to do that, yet it's the first suggestion for just about everything when something goes wrong. If defaults.xsipref is that fragile, then perhaps it should be redesigned to be less corruptible. Matt
Re: sorry - test
roger roger On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Maxime Philippon mphilippon.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: test succeeded! :) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: testing - just joined the list with this email! S. -- Max -- --- Simon Ben Anderson blog: http://vinyldevelopment.wordpress.com/
Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Yes it is safe to delete the folder Ivan Sent from my iPhone, please excuse for typos. On 17 Apr, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
Re: HQV Reliability
HQV comes with caching mechanism in 2014. On 18 Apr, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.commailto:gustav...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience it seems to be pretty reliable on most cases, although slow in 2013. One thing that seems to make it really slow on my old nVidia card is Bump mapping. On an iMac ATI bump mapping will just make it crash. 2013/4/17 Christopher christop...@thecreativesheep.camailto:christop...@thecreativesheep.ca I want to know how many people can get HQV to work and how many cannot ? A simple sphere will work without any crashes, if I load an object and turn on HQV, Softimage will crash, each and every time. With software, little things can break other things, I changed the shader profile from nVidia OpenGL 3.x to Nvidia OpenGL 4.x seen in this image hoping that would solve the HQV crashes which did not solve anything. image.jpg ::Christopher -- Gustavo E Boehs http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/blog attachment: winmail.dat
RE: ICE Tree on reference model, what gives?
Hi Vincent, Thanks for the info. I have forwarded this issue to the team for further investigation. Regards, Chris From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Vincent Fortin Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:38 PM To: softimage Subject: ICE Tree on reference model, what gives? Hi List, long time no see :-) I read this in the Softimage 2013 SP1 fix listhttp://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/Autodesk_Softimage_2013_SP1.pdf: SOFT- Saving a scene with an ICE tree on a referenced model and loading it back up and you lose the ICE Tree completely. However, when doing the following I lose the ICE Tree completely: 1) Get Primitive Character Biped 2) Right-Click Convert to Reference 3) Create an ICE Tree on the character mesh 4) Save and reopen the scene 5) ICE Tree has disappeared! Looks like it may be related to the enveloppe since everything works if the character is frozen or if I test against a simple sphere. Someone confirmed to me that the same happens in 2014. Any ideas? Vincent attachment: winmail.dat
