Re: Mark's good bye
Long live soft ...breaks my heart. Le 07/03/2014 08:09, Cristobal Infante a écrit : he works at Lagoa: http://home.lagoa.com/team/ On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gideon Klindt gideon.kli...@gmail.com mailto:gideon.kli...@gmail.com wrote: Well, he swung by PDX on the last AD tour along with their other reps. Needless to say, he was the best presenter, not just because he actually was entertaining, but because he actually did an honest demo (aka he knows how to use the software). Could not say that about the other two demonstrators for MAX and Maya. I'm sure Mark will land somewhere that can appreciate his talent and humor. Maybe it's time for another road trip in the van to get away from it all. I hate to ask this on a tribute to Mark thread...but what ever happened to Chinney- where did he end up? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Wherever Mark lands, they will be very fortunate. I had the pleasure of working with Mark, prior to his being the XSI demo guy. It was a blast. Great guy. I wish him well. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the blog's gonna go offline any time now.) --- Thanks for all your brilliance!! Posted by Mark Schoennagel, 19 hours ago Hello fellow Softies, Well I'm sure you all read the news yesterday that our beloved Softimage is officially being retired by Autodesk. Since tomorrow will also be my last day on the job, I thought I would write you all a little note thanking you for almost 30 years of brilliant work and dedication to Softimage! From the Pseudopod in the Abyss back in 89' which happened to be the first ever 3D character to grace the silver screen, all the way to the wickedly cool work Animal Logic just finished up for the new Lego Movie, Softimage has truly been a revolutionary tool in our industry. Well I guess for most of us it's not really a tool now is it? It's more like a religion whose brand get tattooed on your sleeve... it's the oil to someone else's watercolor, hell it's the reason many of us get out of bed in the morning!... There is really nothing quite like our industry and our vastly different, but oh-so similar softwares , er- I mean religions now is there?? I guess that's why I have been so proud to be your Softimage evangelist these past 20 years because what I've witnessed has been truly humbling and pretty damn mind-blowing all the same!! Thinking about the past, it's quite funny looking back at just how far we've come... When I first joined Softimage in 1994 Microsoft was our proud new owner, Inverse Kinematics was still rather new, Mental Ray for Soft was wowing us with volumetric lights (well sorta), and the environment variable to exceed 30,000 polygons in a scene was introduced! Reflecting on all that I'm not even sure how to put those years of product and technology development into perspective. Last year I saw Whiskey Tree in San Rafael using Softimage to create single scenes for the film Elysium with over 3,000,000,000,000 polygons!!! (that's Trillion, not billion, not million but T-Trriionnn) Or how about The Mill's PETA advertisement with those amazing apes?!?... you just can't help but be left in awe at how far we have come. So to all of you Softimage artists and TD's out there who pushed, and to those who will continue to push the envelope congrats and THANK YOU! So with that how about instead of turning this post into a bunch of negativity and complaining how about we raise a glass and give praise to the best damn 3D animation software ever created!!! Softimage!! Long Live Soft!!! PS, I mentioned a few projects, if you're curious, here are some great links: The technology pipleline that Whiskey Tree used for their work in Elysian. This is obviously not from the film but gives you an idea! How friggin awesome is that!??! https://vimeo.com/71148018 I hope you the crew at Animal Logic wins an Oscar for this one too like they did for Happy Feet!! -- Gideon D. Klindt gideonklindt.com http://gideonklindt.com
Re: Mark's good bye
Hey Mark, have fun. Like with Stephen Blair, Luc-Eric Rousseau, Halfdan, Chinney and all the others who contributed positively to Softimage´s image and actual functionality, I´m sure you´ll land somewhere where it´s appreciated and fells like making it home. Thanks for the support and funny videos. I imagine it would have also been fun watching you use the inevitable Mayax sucessor in one of your demos, too. Cheers, tim On 07.03.2014 09:08, olivier jeannel wrote: Long live soft ...breaks my heart. Le 07/03/2014 08:09, Cristobal Infante a écrit : he works at Lagoa: http://home.lagoa.com/team/ On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gideon Klindt gideon.kli...@gmail.com mailto:gideon.kli...@gmail.com wrote: Well, he swung by PDX on the last AD tour along with their other reps. Needless to say, he was the best presenter, not just because he actually was entertaining, but because he actually did an honest demo (aka he knows how to use the software). Could not say that about the other two demonstrators for MAX and Maya. I'm sure Mark will land somewhere that can appreciate his talent and humor. Maybe it's time for another road trip in the van to get away from it all. I hate to ask this on a tribute to Mark thread...but what ever happened to Chinney- where did he end up? On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Davidson magic...@bellsouth.net wrote: Wherever Mark lands, they will be very fortunate. I had the pleasure of working with Mark, prior to his being the XSI demo guy. It was a blast. Great guy. I wish him well. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Pasting into the list for posterity (because I'm sure the blog's gonna go offline any time now.) --- Thanks for all your brilliance!! Posted by Mark Schoennagel, 19 hours ago Hello fellow Softies, Well I’m sure you all read the news yesterday that our beloved Softimage is officially being retired by Autodesk. Since tomorrow will also be my last day on the job, I thought I would write you all a little note thanking you for almost 30 years of brilliant work and dedication to Softimage! From the “Pseudopod “in the Abyss back in 89’ which happened to be the first ever 3D character to grace the silver screen, all the way to the wickedly cool work Animal Logic just finished up for the new Lego Movie, Softimage has truly been a revolutionary tool in our industry. Well I guess for most of us it’s not really a tool now is it? It’s more like a religion whose brand get tattooed on your sleeve… it’s the oil to someone else’s watercolor, hell it’s the reason many of us get out of bed in the morning!... There is really nothing quite like our industry and our vastly different, but oh-so similar softwares , er- I mean religions now is there?? I guess that’s why I have been so proud to be your Softimage evangelist these past 20 years because what I’ve witnessed has been truly humbling and pretty damn mind-blowing all the same!! Thinking about the past, it’s quite funny looking back at just how far we’ve come… When I first joined Softimage in 1994 Microsoft was our proud new owner, Inverse Kinematics was still rather new, Mental Ray for Soft was wowing us with volumetric lights (well sorta), and the environment variable to exceed 30,000 polygons in a scene was introduced! Reflecting on all that I’m not even sure how to put those years of product and technology development into perspective. Last year I saw Whiskey Tree in San Rafael using Softimage to create single scenes for the film Elysium with over 3,000,000,000,000 polygons!!! (that’s Trillion, not billion, not million but T-Trriionnn) Or how about The Mill’s PETA advertisement with those amazing apes?!?… you just can’t help but be left in awe at how far we have come. So to all of you Softimage artists and TD’s out there who pushed, and to those who will continue to push the envelope congrats and THANK YOU! So with that how about instead of turning this post into a bunch of negativity and complaining how about we raise a glass and give praise to the best damn 3D animation software ever created!!! Softimage!! Long Live Soft!!! PS, I mentioned a few projects, if you’re curious, here are some great links: The technology pipleline that Whiskey Tree used for their work in Elysian. This is obviously not from the film but gives you an idea! How friggin awesome is that!??! https://vimeo.com/71148018 I hope you the crew at Animal Logic wins an Oscar for this one too like they did for
Re: Camera pass overrides?
Thanks guys - these are good suggestions. The power of this list and Soft is just awesome :/ Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 15:00 skrev Orlando Esponda orlando.espo...@gmail.com: Not sure if it will work, but I barely remember a trick with an implicit object: Add an implicit object, which can actually live in a partition, add a custom parameter set and add as many parameters as you need. Connect those to the lens shader and finally override those instead of the camera directly. Again, I can't remember if that was the right way to do it, but you can try something among those lines. Orlando. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk mailto:x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: Life goes on and I have a quick question regarding camera overrrides. I have tried forwards and backwards now without succes - am I right in assuming I can't create a pass overrride on a camera? Camera does not want to be in a partition and so an override applied to the camera sticks there through all passes. Can someone confirm this, and is there perhaps a different way? My current workaround is to duplicate the camera and change the parameter (Ink Lens Shader) for the duplicate camera , which is not so elegant. Thanks. Morten -- IMPRESSUM: PiXABLE STUDIOS GmbH Co.KG, Sitz: Dresden, Amtsgericht: Dresden, HRA 6857, Komplementärin: Lenhard Barth Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Sitz: Dresden, Amtsgericht: Dresden, HRB 26501, Geschäftsführer: Frank Lenhard, Tino Barth IMPRINT: PiXABLE STUDIOS GmbH Co.KG, Domicile: Dresden, Court of Registery: Dresden, Company Registration Number: HRA 6857, General Partner: Lenhard Barth Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Domicile: Dresden, Court of Registery: Dresden, Company Registration Number: HRB 26501, Chief Executive Officers: Frank Lenhard, Tino Barth -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. =?fc5293b9-2244-485b-9a1f-313b65d3544d--
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G
Re: SI and Houdini
The wheels are moving… if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - ½ On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - ½ -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
No such thing. Your best bet is a mix of cgsociety, most active Maya forum around to date I believe, Maya beta forums (plenty invites from AD staff here and elsewhere have been offered) and scavenging rigs and plugins (most of which are frankly atrocious, but there are plenty gems out there). The area is also active, but it would make a misanthropist of Gandhi. On 7 Mar 2014 18:53, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G
RE: SI and Houdini
You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. -Original Message- From: Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving… if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - ½ On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - ½ -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
+1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: +1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: mootzoid.com down?
Hey guys! Eric had to make certain changes to server and stuff like that. So downtime was due to that! He will show up again, when he sorted out some trouble with the email account. cheers, oli Am 07.03.2014 03:29, schrieb Maurício PC: And it's back on: http://www.mootzoid.com/ Eric is alive ... *ALIVE!!* On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: Return their marketing material to them? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Szabolcs Matefy szabol...@crytek.com mailto:szabol...@crytek.com wrote: It'd be nice to send them a big pile of steaming, stinky bull shit, literally speaking -- gonebadfx.com http://gonebadfx.com - your source for bad fx
Script check if xsi is rendering?
Ive made a backup plugin/event that has been useful, though a bit scary as it also autosave's the current scene before copying it elsewhere (it would be good if there was a 'save scene as' command but I don't know of one?) Anyway the main issue with it is that it interrupts if a render is in progress, preview/frame/render region, so is there anyway to check if a render is in progress? Or if the region is open/preview window open? Cheers Simon Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk*
Re: mootzoid.com down?
Hey guys, my apologies for the 404 Not Found regarding mootzoid.com! It was only my old server being replaced by a new fancy linux server. Everything is working just fine now. In fact there will even be an update of emTools today :) Take care, Eric
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G .
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: wake
Will there be sandwiches and sausage rolls like a real wake? I would like to come by, this week was a bad week for it but next week is probably good. Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 7 March 2014 10:53, Mr Alexei Godek ale...@xtfx.co.uk wrote: I will be there to buy you a drink for old times sake ! -- ale...@xtfx.co.uk http://www.xtfx.co.uk/ On 6 March 2014 17:10, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: SURE THING Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:30, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: so following the piss poor turn out on tuesday (you're excused, it was short notice and a shit day to boot) how about we have a proper drink next week? I'll start the bidding at Thursday in Soho any takers, or will you all be busy learning houdini? a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com www.fluid-pictures.com Fluid Pictures Limited is registered in England and Wales. Company number:5657815 VAT number: 872 6893 71 http://www.xtfx.co.uk/
Re: Script check if xsi is rendering?
There is some render events siOnBeginFrame, siOnBeginSequence and so on http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/index.html?url=si_cmds/cb_Event_OnEvent.html,topicNumber=si_cmds_cb_Event_OnEvent_html,hash=ctxt_siOnBeginSequenceI didn't tried them, but maybe this is what you looking for. 2014-03-07 12:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Ive made a backup plugin/event that has been useful, though a bit scary as it also autosave's the current scene before copying it elsewhere (it would be good if there was a 'save scene as' command but I don't know of one?) Anyway the main issue with it is that it interrupts if a render is in progress, preview/frame/render region, so is there anyway to check if a render is in progress? Or if the region is open/preview window open? Cheers Simon Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk*
Re: Script check if xsi is rendering?
Ah I didn't think of events (funny as Im making an event) - looks useful thanks. Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk* On 7 March 2014 11:12, Alexander Akbarov wat...@gmail.com wrote: There is some render events siOnBeginFrame, siOnBeginSequence and so on http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2012/en_us/sdkguide/index.html?url=si_cmds/cb_Event_OnEvent.html,topicNumber=si_cmds_cb_Event_OnEvent_html,hash=ctxt_siOnBeginSequenceI didn't tried them, but maybe this is what you looking for. 2014-03-07 12:50 GMT+02:00 Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com: Ive made a backup plugin/event that has been useful, though a bit scary as it also autosave's the current scene before copying it elsewhere (it would be good if there was a 'save scene as' command but I don't know of one?) Anyway the main issue with it is that it interrupts if a render is in progress, preview/frame/render region, so is there anyway to check if a render is in progress? Or if the region is open/preview window open? Cheers Simon Simon Reeves London, UK *si...@simonreeves.com si...@simonreeves.com* *www.simonreeves.com http://www.simonreeves.com* *www.analogstudio.co.uk http://www.analogstudio.co.uk*
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Hey Ger there is actually a thread called salvage the list, it has been a discussion about creating a new common ground where everyone regardless of what they have to use DCC wise can come to share/ask for knowledge. the point is for people not to split up. On 7 March 2014 11:00, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
there is an old maya mailing list, it's the google group called maya_he3d it's called that way because it's a migration of the highend3d.com maya mailing list. it's been very low volume. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
That's a cool trick Cesar. Thanks to Brent, Softimage already has that Maya tool built-in; you'll have to map it in your keymap, it's called Time Slider Tool In the Maya keymap, it's already mapped to the K key On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cesar: Ha, really nice! Never thought of doing it that way, here I was looking at trying to grab mouse position! :P Thanks again for coming to the rescue! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/6/2014 8:42 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
I'm also interested in the webinar. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.comjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','g...@inlifesize.com'); wrote: +1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','g...@inlifesize.com'); | www.inlifesize.com -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
Hi Luc-Eric: Oops, never actually bothered to find out what that command actually does... Thanks for responding! It works great! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/7/2014 3:26 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: That's a cool trick Cesar. Thanks to Brent, Softimage already has that Maya tool built-in; you'll have to map it in your keymap, it's called Time Slider Tool In the Maya keymap, it's already mapped to the K key On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cesar: Ha, really nice! Never thought of doing it that way, here I was looking at trying to grab mouse position! :P Thanks again for coming to the rescue! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/6/2014 8:42 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
Friday Flashback #162
A short [low quality] clip from a Sumatra (codename) product demo at SIGGRAPH 2000 http://wp.me/powV4-301
Re: Friday Flashback #162
Man ... Mark is an entertainer!! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: A short [low quality] clip from a Sumatra (codename) product demo at SIGGRAPH 2000 http://wp.me/powV4-301 -- gonebadfx.com - your source for bad fx
STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]
Hey, I'm trying to render out something on deadline and couple computers are giving me this info. My and 1 more are working fine no problem at all, couple others are throwing this error and stopping rendering over deadline. Also to note that when scene is open locally on them it works fine. Any idea what could be wrong?? 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Executing command: RenderPasses(Passes.Set_01,int(210),int(214)) 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering pass 'Set_01'... 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering frame 210 (0.0% done) 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000-REND-RenderPasses - Unspecified failure 0: STDOUT: RenderPasses Passes.Set_01, 210, 214, , siRenderVerbosityDefault 0: STDOUT: Command failed, returned -2147467259 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39] 0: STDOUT: ERROR - Script failed. 0: STDOUT: FATAL - Script Aborted.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Hi Sandy Here at wits we have reached out to the places that have traditionally used softimage to see what they were thinking of switching to. Its interesting to hear Blackginger is also using Houdini as well as I was under the impression it was mostly a Maya place. Do you know any other places that are using Houdini and even Modo in their Pipelines here in SA Kind regards Angus On 2014/03/07, 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G 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: A list like this one but for Maya
Anything in the shadow of the mountain is pretty much close to the moon ;) On 2014/03/07, 12:57 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . 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: A list like this one but for Maya
Hi Gerbrand I always found this place pretty useful when needing a bit of advice in maya, it is soup focused of course but there is some good people on there willing to help in different areas. http://soup-dev.websitetoolbox.com/ On 7 March 2014 12:33, Angus Davidson angus.david...@wits.ac.za wrote: Anything in the shadow of the mountain is pretty much close to the moon ;) On 2014/03/07, 12:57 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . 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: A list like this one but for Maya
Hi Angus, Blackginger do not really use Maya at all - they used to use it for Ncloth, but are now using Marvelous Designer. They use Softimage for everything up to end of animation, where they use Houdini for VFX and rendering in Mantra - they have been that way for about 4 -5 years now. We are using Maya up to animation, then we are doing the same with Houdini - VFX and rendering using Mantra. I do not know anyone else doing this, and as for Modo - not sure - they was an ad for someone looking for Modo people, but I do not know who they are. S. On 2014/03/07 2:31 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: Hi Sandy Here at wits we have reached out to the places that have traditionally used softimage to see what they were thinking of switching to. Its interesting to hear Blackginger is also using Houdini as well as I was under the impression it was mostly a Maya place. Do you know any other places that are using Houdini and even Modo in their Pipelines here in SA Kind regards Angus On 2014/03/07, 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G 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: A list like this one but for Maya
I get what you guys are saying, but with all that's happened in the last few days, it didn't feel right to start asking how to do this in maya questions here. It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. Also, there is a strong sentiment of fuckyouautodesk at the moment, and I get the feeling that people who are going towards maya are doing it very quietly. So poll: Could we for the time being ask our how do I do this in Maya questions here with a [OTMaya] tag in the subject line? This way people who don't want to see it can set filters to send those mails to hell :) G On 2014/03/07 01:18 PM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: Hey Ger there is actually a thread called salvage the list, it has been a discussion about creating a new common ground where everyone regardless of what they have to use DCC wise can come to share/ask for knowledge. the point is for people not to split up. On 7 March 2014 11:00, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk http://www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Hi Sandy That¹s very helpful. I suspect I got my shops mixed up. Kind regards Angus On 2014/03/07, 3:16 PM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Angus, Blackginger do not really use Maya at all - they used to use it for Ncloth, but are now using Marvelous Designer. They use Softimage for everything up to end of animation, where they use Houdini for VFX and rendering in Mantra - they have been that way for about 4 -5 years now. We are using Maya up to animation, then we are doing the same with Houdini - VFX and rendering using Mantra. I do not know anyone else doing this, and as for Modo - not sure - they was an ad for someone looking for Modo people, but I do not know who they are. S. On 2014/03/07 2:31 PM, Angus Davidson wrote: Hi Sandy Here at wits we have reached out to the places that have traditionally used softimage to see what they were thinking of switching to. Its interesting to hear Blackginger is also using Houdini as well as I was under the impression it was mostly a Maya place. Do you know any other places that are using Houdini and even Modo in their Pipelines here in SA Kind regards Angus On 2014/03/07, 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland sandy.mailli...@gmail.com wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G 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 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: A list like this one but for Maya
LOL - yep Cape Town - just a quick reminder G. Gauteng doesn't have the number plate GP for nothing - Gangsters Paradise. S. On 2014/03/07 12:57 PM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
The old Maya mailing list is cool but the beauty of a Softimage to Maya list would be artists who are experienced in both Soft + Maya teaching you where the equivalent buttons/methods are. The 'Salvage the list' thread isn't great as its already emotionally charged by title. A Softimage to Maya list was made but maybe it would add to the fear of community migration. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/softimage2maya So a [OTMaya] tag or [TOMaya] tag sounds like a good idea. It could create problems for new posters who aren't aware of a tagging system but nothing to lose sleep over. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I get what you guys are saying, but with all that's happened in the last few days, it didn't feel right to start asking how to do this in maya questions here. It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. Also, there is a strong sentiment of fuckyouautodesk at the moment, and I get the feeling that people who are going towards maya are doing it very quietly. So poll: Could we for the time being ask our how do I do this in Maya questions here with a [OTMaya] tag in the subject line? This way people who don't want to see it can set filters to send those mails to hell :) G On 2014/03/07 01:18 PM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: Hey Ger there is actually a thread called salvage the list, it has been a discussion about creating a new common ground where everyone regardless of what they have to use DCC wise can come to share/ask for knowledge. the point is for people not to split up. On 7 March 2014 11:00, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]
I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm sorry I'm not helping much, but you should check if you can render the same frame in the UI. If not, then you can start deactivating stuff in the scene of hiding objects to find the problem. On 07-Mar-14 07:26, Mirko Jankovic wrote: Hey, I'm trying to render out something on deadline and couple computers are giving me this info. My and 1 more are working fine no problem at all, couple others are throwing this error and stopping rendering over deadline. Also to note that when scene is open locally on them it works fine. Any idea what could be wrong?? 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Executing command: RenderPasses(Passes.Set_01,int(210),int(214)) 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering pass 'Set_01'... 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering frame 210 (0.0% done) 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000-REND-RenderPasses - Unspecified failure 0: STDOUT: RenderPasses Passes.Set_01, 210, 214, , siRenderVerbosityDefault 0: STDOUT: Command failed, returned -2147467259 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39] 0: STDOUT: ERROR - Script failed. 0: STDOUT: FATAL - Script Aborted.
Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]
Note to self: I really should read the entire post carefully before replying. On 07-Mar-14 08:57, Francois Lord wrote: I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm sorry I'm not helping much, but you should check if you can render the same frame in the UI. If not, then you can start deactivating stuff in the scene of hiding objects to find the problem. On 07-Mar-14 07:26, Mirko Jankovic wrote: Hey, I'm trying to render out something on deadline and couple computers are giving me this info. My and 1 more are working fine no problem at all, couple others are throwing this error and stopping rendering over deadline. Also to note that when scene is open locally on them it works fine. Any idea what could be wrong?? 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Executing command: RenderPasses(Passes.Set_01,int(210),int(214)) 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering pass 'Set_01'... 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering frame 210 (0.0% done) 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000-REND-RenderPasses - Unspecified failure 0: STDOUT: RenderPasses Passes.Set_01, 210, 214, , siRenderVerbosityDefault 0: STDOUT: Command failed, returned -2147467259 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39] 0: STDOUT: ERROR - Script failed. 0: STDOUT: FATAL - Script Aborted.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Well if you read the only post in the soft to maya group, we are off to a positive start`.- I like this list, but I don't want to piss you great people off with my stupid Maya questions Believe me... they will be stupid. Just ask Matt Lowery how annoying I got when he taught me Soft. So I'll wait for the outcome of this informal poll so far 2 of us likes the idea of the [OTMAYA] tag :) G On 2014/03/07 03:38 PM, Will Sharkey wrote: The old Maya mailing list is cool but the beauty of a Softimage to Maya list would be artists who are experienced in both Soft + Maya teaching you where the equivalent buttons/methods are. The 'Salvage the list' thread isn't great as its already emotionally charged by title. A Softimage to Maya list was made but maybe it would add to the fear of community migration. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/softimage2maya https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#%21forum/softimage2maya So a [OTMaya] tag or [TOMaya] tag sounds like a good idea. It could create problems for new posters who aren't aware of a tagging system but nothing to lose sleep over. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I get what you guys are saying, but with all that's happened in the last few days, it didn't feel right to start asking how to do this in maya questions here. It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. Also, there is a strong sentiment of fuckyouautodesk at the moment, and I get the feeling that people who are going towards maya are doing it very quietly. So poll: Could we for the time being ask our how do I do this in Maya questions here with a [OTMaya] tag in the subject line? This way people who don't want to see it can set filters to send those mails to hell :) G On 2014/03/07 01:18 PM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: Hey Ger there is actually a thread called salvage the list, it has been a discussion about creating a new common ground where everyone regardless of what they have to use DCC wise can come to share/ask for knowledge. the point is for people not to split up. On 7 March 2014 11:00, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com mailto:nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk http://www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: Friday Flashback #162
If all evangelists had been that funny, there would've been way more religion in this world... :D Mark will be missed (especially also by Autodesk, to be honest. They won't find anyone like him ever again!) -- Leendert A. Hartog – Softimage hobbyist AKA Hirazi Blue – Administrator @, NOT the owner of si-community.com
Re: MODO XSI layout and Shorcut keys
@Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' @David: yes this is what I meant by 'partial' success... the mouse input preset is really for navigation only. I don't think it attempts to translate the keyboard shortcuts. And to the question about a keyboard remapper in Modo You have two options: 1) The Input Editor gives you access to all of that. /Menu Bar System Input Editor/. Unlike the Soft equivalent, this doesn't present you with a keyboard representation. It's a massive, filterable table that lets you assign any command (with args if you like) to any key combination. 2) On-the-Fly: - Run a tool or command - Pull up the cHist (Command History). Most layouts have a little command line entry in the very bottom right of the UI. Drag the divider above it to expand the full command history. - Find the command you just fired, right-click on it, and choose 'Map Command to Key' Any customizations you make to the keyboard mapping will be automatically saved */when you close the app/*, unless you go to /File Config Save/. -Tim On 3/6/2014 6:14 PM, Peter Agg wrote: Another navigation tip: For some reason that God-forsaken trackball rotation setting is in the Open GL menu. If anyone can tell me how to make the equivalent of Simple Select when I'm not clicking on a manipulator I'll buy them a beer. On 6 March 2014 23:44, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com mailto:activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: Amazing!! Thanks for the link. Also: I notice the Preferences Remapping Mouse input presets, only cover MOUSE modding. What about the keyboard? Thanks. David R. On Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:26 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: By the way, one of the Modo users, Adam O'Hern, put a good bit of thought into his cadjunkie zen http://cadjunkie.com/zen layout. It's not geared toward every single step of the process, but it's very well thought-out and gives you an idea of how flexible the UI is. -Tim On 3/6/2014 4:59 PM, David Rivera wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knows a layout for MODO that looks like XSI? And also what shortcut keys is this post referring to?? - The keyboard shortcuts in Modo can resemble XSI´s? http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=32t=7369 Thanks. David R. -- -- Signature
Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]
rendering from UI works fine, Deadline is rendering using command line. they all access file storage withouth problems and that is the only problem that comes to my mind... but it is same setup for every user on storage and on computers so no idea... btw got taht problem on 2 of thsoe is with Redshift as well and new version, but 3rd one got same configuration same GPU as on of the working.. kinda hard to nail problem.. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: On those problem computers, and you render in the UI? With xsibatch from the command line? If you can render with xsibatch on one of those computers, but Deadline cannot, then what's different? The user account? permissions? environment variables? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.comwrote: Note to self: I really should read the entire post carefully before replying. On 07-Mar-14 08:57, Francois Lord wrote: I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm sorry I'm not helping much, but you should check if you can render the same frame in the UI. If not, then you can start deactivating stuff in the scene of hiding objects to find the problem. On 07-Mar-14 07:26, Mirko Jankovic wrote: Hey, I'm trying to render out something on deadline and couple computers are giving me this info. My and 1 more are working fine no problem at all, couple others are throwing this error and stopping rendering over deadline. Also to note that when scene is open locally on them it works fine. Any idea what could be wrong?? 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Executing command: RenderPasses(Passes.Set_01, int(210),int(214)) 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering pass 'Set_01'... 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering frame 210 (0.0% done) 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000-REND-RenderPasses - Unspecified failure 0: STDOUT: RenderPasses Passes.Set_01, 210, 214, , siRenderVerbosityDefault 0: STDOUT: Command failed, returned -2147467259 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39] 0: STDOUT: ERROR - Script failed. 0: STDOUT: FATAL - Script Aborted.
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
Me too. I'm curious what else Modo can do well besides modeling. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Mikael Pettersén mikael.petter...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in the webinar. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: +1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
Nice, I learned a new trick today =) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: That's a cool trick Cesar. Thanks to Brent, Softimage already has that Maya tool built-in; you'll have to map it in your keymap, it's called Time Slider Tool In the Maya keymap, it's already mapped to the K key On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cesar: Ha, really nice! Never thought of doing it that way, here I was looking at trying to grab mouse position! :P Thanks again for coming to the rescue! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/6/2014 8:42 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
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Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
WTF, don't do that. Artur 2014-03-07 15:47 GMT+01:00 Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
You guys are doing it the hard way. There's already a tool for this! Been there forever: *Application.TimeSliderTool()* (You can map a key to it in the Keyboard Mapping window, in the XSI section, it's called *Time Slider Tool*.) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Nice, I learned a new trick today =) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: That's a cool trick Cesar. Thanks to Brent, Softimage already has that Maya tool built-in; you'll have to map it in your keymap, it's called Time Slider Tool In the Maya keymap, it's already mapped to the K key On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cesar: Ha, really nice! Never thought of doing it that way, here I was looking at trying to grab mouse position! :P Thanks again for coming to the rescue! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/6/2014 8:42 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
Sorry guys just playing around! :)— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Artur Woźniak artur.w...@gmail.com wrote: WTF, don't do that. Artur 2014-03-07 15:47 GMT+01:00 Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
Yeah I think asking Maya questions or houdini questions or whatever is not such a bad idea, the community here is very helpful and important, but let's see little by little how people feels. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Well if you read the only post in the soft to maya group, we are off to a positive start`.- I like this list, but I don't want to piss you great people off with my stupid Maya questions Believe me... they will be stupid. Just ask Matt Lowery how annoying I got when he taught me Soft. So I'll wait for the outcome of this informal poll so far 2 of us likes the idea of the [OTMAYA] tag :) G On 2014/03/07 03:38 PM, Will Sharkey wrote: The old Maya mailing list is cool but the beauty of a Softimage to Maya list would be artists who are experienced in both Soft + Maya teaching you where the equivalent buttons/methods are. The 'Salvage the list' thread isn't great as its already emotionally charged by title. A Softimage to Maya list was made but maybe it would add to the fear of community migration. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/softimage2maya So a [OTMaya] tag or [TOMaya] tag sounds like a good idea. It could create problems for new posters who aren't aware of a tagging system but nothing to lose sleep over. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: I get what you guys are saying, but with all that's happened in the last few days, it didn't feel right to start asking how to do this in maya questions here. It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. Also, there is a strong sentiment of fuckyouautodesk at the moment, and I get the feeling that people who are going towards maya are doing it very quietly. So poll: Could we for the time being ask our how do I do this in Maya questions here with a [OTMaya] tag in the subject line? This way people who don't want to see it can set filters to send those mails to hell :) G On 2014/03/07 01:18 PM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: Hey Ger there is actually a thread called salvage the list, it has been a discussion about creating a new common ground where everyone regardless of what they have to use DCC wise can come to share/ask for knowledge. the point is for people not to split up. On 7 March 2014 11:00, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: A list, just like this list, with people who have things in common with the people on this list, is actually *this* list? If it keeps going indefinitely, as more of us transition to other software, isn't this the best place to share our experiences, questions, help etc? On 7 March 2014 10:57, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Were are you at the moment Sandy, cause Cape-town, while being in SA is still far from Gauteng :) On 2014/03/07 11:55 AM, Sandy Sutherland wrote: Very little worthwhile lists for the dark side G. but we are running houdini here now and Blackginger do too, in quite a big way - so it is very much gaining ground. S. On 2014/03/07 9:53 AM, Gerbrand Nel wrote: Hey guys This goes against my grain, but I can sit around bitching, or I can move on. My initial instinct says not to support AD, but I'm a freelancer and it is important for me to slot into a team, or lead a team with the same software. Right now the South African market has a nice collection of both Soft and Maya freelancers and studios. Not much Houdini near where I live. It stands to reason that in the future there will be more Maya than anything else. Only time will tell, but for now it can't hurt to get really good in Maya (I hear one needs to be in order to fix all its fucking bugs) So the question is: Does a mailing list like this exist for the dark side, and if not, will you join me in making sure there is such a list for us orphans who needs to bend over and take it in the dark place? Thanks G . -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
Hahah maybe autocad! Lol— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
I'm interested in the webinar as well. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Me too. I'm curious what else Modo can do well besides modeling. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Mikael Pettersén mikael.petter...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in the webinar. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: +1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- bill hinkson animator designer http://billhinksondesign.com
Re: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39]
Yes, I know Deadline renders from the command line. Did you try rendering with xsibatch on that machine, using the same user account that Deadline uses? And the same env vars, if possible? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.comwrote: rendering from UI works fine, Deadline is rendering using command line. they all access file storage withouth problems and that is the only problem that comes to my mind... but it is same setup for every user on storage and on computers so no idea... btw got taht problem on 2 of thsoe is with Redshift as well and new version, but 3rd one got same configuration same GPU as on of the working.. kinda hard to nail problem.. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Stephen Blair stephenrbl...@gmail.comwrote: On those problem computers, and you render in the UI? With xsibatch from the command line? If you can render with xsibatch on one of those computers, but Deadline cannot, then what's different? The user account? permissions? environment variables? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Francois Lord flordli...@gmail.comwrote: Note to self: I really should read the entire post carefully before replying. On 07-Mar-14 08:57, Francois Lord wrote: I don't know Deadline, but usually when xsibatch.exe returns a big negative number, it's a crash. A crash can be caused by anything, you won't see it in the output log. I'm sorry I'm not helping much, but you should check if you can render the same frame in the UI. If not, then you can start deactivating stuff in the scene of hiding objects to find the problem. On 07-Mar-14 07:26, Mirko Jankovic wrote: Hey, I'm trying to render out something on deadline and couple computers are giving me this info. My and 1 more are working fine no problem at all, couple others are throwing this error and stopping rendering over deadline. Also to note that when scene is open locally on them it works fine. Any idea what could be wrong?? 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Executing command: RenderPasses(Passes.Set_01, int(210),int(214)) 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering pass 'Set_01'... 0: STDOUT: ' INFO : Rendering frame 210 (0.0% done) 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000-REND-RenderPasses - Unspecified failure 0: STDOUT: RenderPasses Passes.Set_01, 210, 214, , siRenderVerbosityDefault 0: STDOUT: Command failed, returned -2147467259 0: INFO: Ignoring error because Strict Error Checking is disabled in the plugin configuration. 0: STDOUT: ' ERROR : 21000 - Unspecified failure - [line 39] 0: STDOUT: ERROR - Script failed. 0: STDOUT: FATAL - Script Aborted.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Well if you read the only post in the soft to maya group, we are off to a positive start`.- I like this list, but I don't want to piss you great people off with my stupid Maya questions Believe me... they will be stupid. Just ask Matt Lowery how annoying I got when he taught me Soft. So I'll wait for the outcome of this informal poll so far 2 of us likes the idea of the [OTMAYA] tag :) G Ok, I think you should definitely ask your questions on the Maya forum of cgtalk, this is where everyone is. The maya team also participates. There will be plenty of people experienced with XSI that can help you, and... also of students and other people of all skill levels.
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
Maya has stoped working. Check online for a solution and close the program. Restart the program. Check online for a solution. Its all fun and games, and then something has to get done by the end of the day. And then someone gets hurt :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Hahah maybe autocad! Lol -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
I must say that I'm Beta testing Maya 2015 and Bifrost looks great. :)— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Maya has stoped working. Check online for a solution and close the program. Restart the program. Check online for a solution. Its all fun and games, and then something has to get done by the end of the day. And then someone gets hurt :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Hahah maybe autocad! Lol -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
It may be the hard way, but finding out about this neat trick was worth it. I had no idea you could do that. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: You guys are doing it the hard way. There's already a tool for this! Been there forever: *Application.TimeSliderTool()* (You can map a key to it in the Keyboard Mapping window, in the XSI section, it's called *Time Slider Tool*.) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Nice, I learned a new trick today =) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.comwrote: That's a cool trick Cesar. Thanks to Brent, Softimage already has that Maya tool built-in; you'll have to map it in your keymap, it's called Time Slider Tool In the Maya keymap, it's already mapped to the K key On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Siew Yi Liang soni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cesar: Ha, really nice! Never thought of doing it that way, here I was looking at trying to grab mouse position! :P Thanks again for coming to the rescue! Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 3/6/2014 8:42 PM, Cesar Saez wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/https://vimeo.com/user4174293http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd.If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone.Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.
Re: Scrub timeline while mouse is in viewport?
Maybe this works too, it's worth a try. Application.SelectObj(Autodesk.ShotCallers) Application.DeleteObj() On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Cesar Saez cesa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Siew, It's a bit of a hack but works ;) Application.SelectObj(Application) Application.SetMarking(PlayControl.Current) Application.VirtualSliderTool() Cheers!
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
What have you been drinking today? Share please. I need this too. Artur 2014-03-07 16:05 GMT+01:00 Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com: I must say that I'm Beta testing Maya 2015 and Bifrost looks great. :) -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Maya has stoped working. Check online for a solution and close the program. Restart the program. Check online for a solution. Its all fun and games, and then something has to get done by the end of the day. And then someone gets hurt :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Hahah maybe autocad! Lol -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.comwrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com wrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: MODO XSI layout and Shorcut keys
@Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' Basically, when you aren't clicking on a manipulator I like the Maya-style of being able to select other objects. The equivalent in Soft is setting PreferencesToolsTransformClick Outside Manipulator to 'Select Tool'. I suspect that it's just the way Modo works though (like that weird 'Rick Click to Lasso' style of selection) and I'll have to get used to should I ever start using it properly. On 7 March 2014 14:21, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: @Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' @David: yes this is what I meant by 'partial' success... the mouse input preset is really for navigation only. I don't think it attempts to translate the keyboard shortcuts. And to the question about a keyboard remapper in Modo You have two options: 1) The Input Editor gives you access to all of that. *Menu Bar System Input Editor*. Unlike the Soft equivalent, this doesn't present you with a keyboard representation. It's a massive, filterable table that lets you assign any command (with args if you like) to any key combination. 2) On-the-Fly: - Run a tool or command - Pull up the cHist (Command History). Most layouts have a little command line entry in the very bottom right of the UI. Drag the divider above it to expand the full command history. - Find the command you just fired, right-click on it, and choose 'Map Command to Key' Any customizations you make to the keyboard mapping will be automatically saved *when you close the app*, unless you go to *File Config Save*. -Tim On 3/6/2014 6:14 PM, Peter Agg wrote: Another navigation tip: For some reason that God-forsaken trackball rotation setting is in the Open GL menu. If anyone can tell me how to make the equivalent of Simple Select when I'm not clicking on a manipulator I'll buy them a beer. On 6 March 2014 23:44, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.comwrote: Amazing!! Thanks for the link. Also: I notice the Preferences Remapping Mouse input presets, only cover MOUSE modding. What about the keyboard? Thanks. David R. On Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:26 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: By the way, one of the Modo users, Adam O'Hern, put a good bit of thought into his cadjunkie zen http://cadjunkie.com/zen layout. It's not geared toward every single step of the process, but it's very well thought-out and gives you an idea of how flexible the UI is. -Tim On 3/6/2014 4:59 PM, David Rivera wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knows a layout for MODO that looks like XSI? And also what shortcut keys is this post referring to?? - The keyboard shortcuts in Modo can resemble XSI´s? http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=32t=7369 Thanks. David R. -- --
Re: MODO XSI layout and Shorcut keys
There is a feature in Modo called 'Select Through' that is enabled by default, so that if you're in Item mode, select an object, transform it, then click on another object, you're still in whatever transform tool you were in, but your selection has changed. Just keeps you from having to drop and reactivate the tool you were using. Now the transform tools themselves don't require you to be interacting with an actual handle, so in the case of the Move tool, you could very well click off somewhere in the viewport and move the item. But if a different item is under your cursor when you click, it will select that item instead. You can disable this if you like by going to the Lists tab (3 over from Properties, along the right), then in the Pipeline section, with your tool active, right click on the tool's entry in the Pipeline view and uncheck 'Select Through'. Not sure if that's what you're looking for? -Tim On 3/7/2014 9:02 AM, Peter Agg wrote: @Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' Basically, when you aren't clicking on a manipulator I like the Maya-style of being able to select other objects. The equivalent in Soft is setting PreferencesToolsTransformClick Outside Manipulator to 'Select Tool'. I suspect that it's just the way Modo works though (like that weird 'Rick Click to Lasso' style of selection) and I'll have to get used to should I ever start using it properly. On 7 March 2014 14:21, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: @Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' @David: yes this is what I meant by 'partial' success... the mouse input preset is really for navigation only. I don't think it attempts to translate the keyboard shortcuts. And to the question about a keyboard remapper in Modo You have two options: 1) The Input Editor gives you access to all of that. /Menu Bar System Input Editor/. Unlike the Soft equivalent, this doesn't present you with a keyboard representation. It's a massive, filterable table that lets you assign any command (with args if you like) to any key combination. 2) On-the-Fly: - Run a tool or command - Pull up the cHist (Command History). Most layouts have a little command line entry in the very bottom right of the UI. Drag the divider above it to expand the full command history. - Find the command you just fired, right-click on it, and choose 'Map Command to Key' Any customizations you make to the keyboard mapping will be automatically saved */when you close the app/*, unless you go to /File Config Save/. -Tim On 3/6/2014 6:14 PM, Peter Agg wrote: Another navigation tip: For some reason that God-forsaken trackball rotation setting is in the Open GL menu. If anyone can tell me how to make the equivalent of Simple Select when I'm not clicking on a manipulator I'll buy them a beer. On 6 March 2014 23:44, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com mailto:activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com wrote: Amazing!! Thanks for the link. Also: I notice the Preferences Remapping Mouse input presets, only cover MOUSE modding. What about the keyboard? Thanks. David R. On Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:26 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com mailto:tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: By the way, one of the Modo users, Adam O'Hern, put a good bit of thought into his cadjunkie zen http://cadjunkie.com/zen layout. It's not geared toward every single step of the process, but it's very well thought-out and gives you an idea of how flexible the UI is. -Tim On 3/6/2014 4:59 PM, David Rivera wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knows a layout for MODO that looks like XSI? And also what shortcut keys is this post referring to?? - The keyboard shortcuts in Modo can resemble XSI´s? http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=32t=7369 Thanks. David R. -- -- -- Signature
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com wrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
Haha! I cant talk about details sorry guys! I really want too But I cant... The only thing I can say without being arrested by Autodesk's Special Police Force is that their main goal is to make something like ICE 2.0. I'm sure something will come out soon.— Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Maya has stoped working. Check online for a solution and close the program. Restart the program. Check online for a solution. Its all fun and games, and then something has to get done by the end of the day. And then someone gets hurt :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Hahah maybe autocad! Lol -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: AAUTODESK TO DISCONTINUE MAYA WITH 2015 RELEASE!!!!
Shame ice 3.7 wouldn't be enough to help maya users out. :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Haha! I cant talk about details sorry guys! I really want too But I cant... The only thing I can say without being arrested by Autodesk's Special Police Force is that their main goal is to make something like ICE 2.0. I'm sure something will come out soon. -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ognjen Vukovic ognj...@gmail.com wrote: Maya has stoped working. Check online for a solution and close the program. Restart the program. Check online for a solution. Its all fun and games, and then something has to get done by the end of the day. And then someone gets hurt :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.comwrote: Hahah maybe autocad! Lol -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.comwrote: Aw shucks, I just got a whole heap of Maya licenses traded in for my dusty old Soft licenses. Hopefully I can trade in the Maya lics for some PowerAnimator ones or something. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Mário Domingos mdomingos.p...@gmail.com wrote: :P -- Sent from Mailbox https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox for iPhone
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.com wrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.
Re: MODO XSI layout and Shorcut keys
I guess it hasn't quite clicked for me then - I suspect I keep on trying to box-select things using the left mouse button rather than the right and moving the manipulator instead. Ah well, I'll get it eventually. On 7 March 2014 15:15, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: There is a feature in Modo called 'Select Through' that is enabled by default, so that if you're in Item mode, select an object, transform it, then click on another object, you're still in whatever transform tool you were in, but your selection has changed. Just keeps you from having to drop and reactivate the tool you were using. Now the transform tools themselves don't require you to be interacting with an actual handle, so in the case of the Move tool, you could very well click off somewhere in the viewport and move the item. But if a different item is under your cursor when you click, it will select that item instead. You can disable this if you like by going to the Lists tab (3 over from Properties, along the right), then in the Pipeline section, with your tool active, right click on the tool's entry in the Pipeline view and uncheck 'Select Through'. Not sure if that's what you're looking for? -Tim On 3/7/2014 9:02 AM, Peter Agg wrote: @Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' Basically, when you aren't clicking on a manipulator I like the Maya-style of being able to select other objects. The equivalent in Soft is setting PreferencesToolsTransformClick Outside Manipulator to 'Select Tool'. I suspect that it's just the way Modo works though (like that weird 'Rick Click to Lasso' style of selection) and I'll have to get used to should I ever start using it properly. On 7 March 2014 14:21, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: @Peter: what do you mean by 'Simple Select?' @David: yes this is what I meant by 'partial' success... the mouse input preset is really for navigation only. I don't think it attempts to translate the keyboard shortcuts. And to the question about a keyboard remapper in Modo You have two options: 1) The Input Editor gives you access to all of that. *Menu Bar System Input Editor*. Unlike the Soft equivalent, this doesn't present you with a keyboard representation. It's a massive, filterable table that lets you assign any command (with args if you like) to any key combination. 2) On-the-Fly: - Run a tool or command - Pull up the cHist (Command History). Most layouts have a little command line entry in the very bottom right of the UI. Drag the divider above it to expand the full command history. - Find the command you just fired, right-click on it, and choose 'Map Command to Key' Any customizations you make to the keyboard mapping will be automatically saved *when you close the app*, unless you go to *File Config Save*. -Tim On 3/6/2014 6:14 PM, Peter Agg wrote: Another navigation tip: For some reason that God-forsaken trackball rotation setting is in the Open GL menu. If anyone can tell me how to make the equivalent of Simple Select when I'm not clicking on a manipulator I'll buy them a beer. On 6 March 2014 23:44, David Rivera activemotionpictu...@yahoo.comwrote: Amazing!! Thanks for the link. Also: I notice the Preferences Remapping Mouse input presets, only cover MOUSE modding. What about the keyboard? Thanks. David R. On Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:26 PM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: By the way, one of the Modo users, Adam O'Hern, put a good bit of thought into his cadjunkie zen http://cadjunkie.com/zen layout. It's not geared toward every single step of the process, but it's very well thought-out and gives you an idea of how flexible the UI is. -Tim On 3/6/2014 4:59 PM, David Rivera wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knows a layout for MODO that looks like XSI? And also what shortcut keys is this post referring to?? - The keyboard shortcuts in Modo can resemble XSI´s? http://community.thefoundry.co.uk/discussion/topic.aspx?f=32t=7369 Thanks. David R. -- -- --
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
there's a vast difference between building upon an old, supported architecture and a soon to be obsolete and desolate one. besides, are you really going to base your pipeline on the goodwill of AD ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:24 PM, Arvid Björn wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman [1]jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall [2]hack...@outlook.com wrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... [3]http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ [4]https://vimeo.com/user4174293 [5]http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 [6]http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ [7]http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. References 1. mailto:jon...@gmail.com 2. mailto:hack...@outlook.com 3. http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ 4. https://vimeo.com/user4174293 5. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ 7. http://spylon.tumblr.com/
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
me too please :) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:00 PM, Bill Hinkson wrote: I'm interested in the webinar as well. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Alan Fregtman [1]alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: Me too. I'm curious what else Modo can do well besides modeling. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Mikael Pettersén [2]mikael.petter...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in the webinar. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Chris Marshall [3]chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: +1 on webinar -- Greg Maguire | Inlifesize Mobile: [4]+44 7512 361462 | Phone: [5]+44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | [6]www.inlifesize.com -- [mint.png] Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 [7]www.mintmotion.co.uk -- bill hinkson animator designer [8]http://billhinksondesign.com References 1. mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com 2. mailto:mikael.petter...@gmail.com 3. mailto:chrismarshal...@gmail.com 4. tel:%2B44%207512%20361462 5. tel:%2B44%202890%20204739 6. http://www.inlifesize.com/ 7. http://www.mintmotion.co.uk/ 8. http://billhinksondesign.com/
Re: SI and Houdini
Thanks for your generosity Mr. Bares. Great homework for the weekend! Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-03-07 7:30 GMT-03:00 MauricioPC (gonebadfx) goneba...@gmail.com: You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. -- From: Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving... if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.comjordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to... I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - 1/2 On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - 1/2 -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: Luxology Modo 50% off for this mailing list - A new word from Brad Peebler
only been a lurker on this list, but a relative long time Softimage user (since XSI v4), and considering my next options so count me in an webinar too Robert 2014-03-07 16:37 GMT+01:00 Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm: me too please :) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:00 PM, Bill Hinkson wrote: I'm interested in the webinar as well. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: Me too. I'm curious what else Modo can do well besides modeling. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Mikael Pettersén mikael.petter...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also interested in the webinar. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Chris Marshall chrismarshal...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't mind knowing more On 7 March 2014 10:33, Greg Maguire g...@inlifesize.com wrote: +1 on webinar -- *Greg Maguire* | Inlifesize Mobile: +44 7512 361462 | Phone: +44 2890 204739 g...@inlifesize.com | www.inlifesize.com -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk -- bill hinkson animator designer http://billhinksondesign.com
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
btw, we can host a softimage-to-maya list, but I just think it's a little early to be doing that. in my opinion, a lot of people using Softimage also use Maya occasionally, so it's beneficial to talk about Maya here - even for the people that won't be doing that transition. This isn't the 'anything but maya' mailing list . On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Well if you read the only post in the soft to maya group, we are off to a positive start`.- I like this list, but I don't want to piss you great people off with my stupid Maya questions Believe me... they will be stupid. Just ask Matt Lowery how annoying I got when he taught me Soft. So I'll wait for the outcome of this informal poll so far 2 of us likes the idea of the [OTMAYA] tag :) G Ok, I think you should definitely ask your questions on the Maya forum of cgtalk, this is where everyone is. The maya team also participates. There will be plenty of people experienced with XSI that can help you, and... also of students and other people of all skill levels.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows. Not to mention when it happens you'll be stuck with whatever version and Microsoft doesn't support them anymore. It usually ceases support about ten years after each release, after which you no longer get security updates and if you're online you might as well have a hack me! sign stuck on your back. To put things in perspective, WinXP is ending support this April: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/lifecycle Here's a thought experiment for you: Imagine Soft had died years ago and XP was the only version it ran in and Win7/8 gave errors. :( Now imagine the latest cool helpful software, say the latest version of ZBrush, no longer ran in XP in the latest version (because who uses that, right?) Now you're gonna have to keep one OS for your Soft antiques and one for the modern stuff. That's not gonna be fun. Granted this won't happen for several years, but better learn new platforms now before you're dead in the water. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.comwrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
Oh and let's not even talk about modern Linux support... You need to sacrifice a chicken and chant some unholy spell to get Softimage working in Ubuntu. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows. Not to mention when it happens you'll be stuck with whatever version and Microsoft doesn't support them anymore. It usually ceases support about ten years after each release, after which you no longer get security updates and if you're online you might as well have a hack me! sign stuck on your back. To put things in perspective, WinXP is ending support this April: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/lifecycle Here's a thought experiment for you: Imagine Soft had died years ago and XP was the only version it ran in and Win7/8 gave errors. :( Now imagine the latest cool helpful software, say the latest version of ZBrush, no longer ran in XP in the latest version (because who uses that, right?) Now you're gonna have to keep one OS for your Soft antiques and one for the modern stuff. That's not gonna be fun. Granted this won't happen for several years, but better learn new platforms now before you're dead in the water. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.comwrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
running fine in mint16 (ubuntu 13.10 based i think), no sacrificial poultry needed. running unity by any chance ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:59 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Oh and let's not even talk about modern Linux support... You need to sacrifice a chicken and chant some unholy spell to get Softimage working in Ubuntu.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
That's a good point, though then years is quite a lot of time and should even allow the largest company with lots of backlog to transition gracefully to whatever is hot and sexy then. Meanwhile, how about using a virtual machine of XP in a more modern version of windows along with your other apps? Here's a thought experiment for you: Imagine Soft had died years ago and XP was the only version it ran in and Win7/8 gave errors. :( Now imagine the latest cool helpful software, say the latest version of ZBrush, no longer ran in XP in the latest version (because who uses that, right?) Now you're gonna have to keep one OS for your Soft antiques and one for the modern stuff. That's not gonna be fun. Granted this won't happen for several years, but better learn new platforms now before you're dead in the water. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Andi Farhall hack...@outlook.comwrote: just as a shell basically with their own customization and updating, so could one of the larger houses using soft not do the same thing? ... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. -- - Stefan Kubicek ste...@keyvis.at - keyvis digital imagery Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien Phone: +43 (0) 699 12614231 www.keyvis.at -- This email and its attachments are-- -- confidential and for the recipient only --
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
it's the mainwin/linux side of things that I worry about. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd say pretty likely after two or three versions of Windows. Not to mention when it happens you'll be stuck with whatever version and Microsoft doesn't support them anymore. It usually ceases support about ten years after each release, after which you no longer get security updates and if you're online you might as well have a hack me! sign stuck on your back. To put things in perspective, WinXP is ending support this April: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/lifecycle Here's a thought experiment for you: Imagine Soft had died years ago and XP was the only version it ran in and Win7/8 gave errors. :( Now imagine the latest cool helpful software, say the latest version of ZBrush, no longer ran in XP in the latest version (because who uses that, right?) Now you're gonna have to keep one OS for your Soft antiques and one for the modern stuff. That's not gonna be fun. Granted this won't happen for several years, but better learn new platforms now before you're dead in the water.
Re: SI and Houdini
It has been always great fun to share stuff on the Softimage community, plus it forces me to learn before I say stupid things. ;-) :-) Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 7 Mar 2014, at 15:47, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your generosity Mr. Bares. Great homework for the weekend! Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-03-07 7:30 GMT-03:00 MauricioPC (gonebadfx) goneba...@gmail.com: You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. From: Jordi Bares Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving… if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - ½ On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - ½ -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
I would actually really really like that, Luc-Eric. We'll be transitioning to Maya here and we'll need some help translating certain workflows. For example... set dressing by ICE-scattering instances of plants everywhere... Stuff like that... Not so much the 'where's the Inset tool' but more 'how do I translate this workflow/solution?' -Tim On 3/7/2014 9:58 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote: btw, we can host a softimage-to-maya list, but I just think it's a little early to be doing that. in my opinion, a lot of people using Softimage also use Maya occasionally, so it's beneficial to talk about Maya here - even for the people that won't be doing that transition. This isn't the 'anything but maya' mailing list . On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Gerbrand Nel nagv...@gmail.com wrote: Well if you read the only post in the soft to maya group, we are off to a positive start`.- I like this list, but I don't want to piss you great people off with my stupid Maya questions Believe me... they will be stupid. Just ask Matt Lowery how annoying I got when he taught me Soft. So I'll wait for the outcome of this informal poll so far 2 of us likes the idea of the [OTMAYA] tag :) G Ok, I think you should definitely ask your questions on the Maya forum of cgtalk, this is where everyone is. The maya team also participates. There will be plenty of people experienced with XSI that can help you, and... also of students and other people of all skill levels. -- Signature
Re: SI and Houdini
Fantastic work Jordi, this is exactly the perspective we need! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for your generosity Mr. Bares. Great homework for the weekend! Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-03-07 7:30 GMT-03:00 MauricioPC (gonebadfx) goneba...@gmail.com: You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. -- From: Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving... if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.comjordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to... I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - 1/2 On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - 1/2 -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
On 03/07/14 8:21, Gerbrand Nel wrote: It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. While it's still moving under the tight saran wrap.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
We have a saying in spanish, The bedsheets are still warm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/07/14 8:21, Gerbrand Nel wrote: It almost feels like discussing the will of a loved one while identifying the body at the morgue. While it's still moving under the tight saran wrap.
Re: A list like this one but for Maya
On 03/07/14 11:16, Tim Crowson wrote: This isn't the 'anything but maya' mailing list . No, it's the official anything but ... list
Re: SI and Houdini
I have prepared already 2 big ones, will finish them tomorrow and post… stay put. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:16, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic work Jordi, this is exactly the perspective we need! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your generosity Mr. Bares. Great homework for the weekend! Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-03-07 7:30 GMT-03:00 MauricioPC (gonebadfx) goneba...@gmail.com: You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. From: Jordi Bares Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving… if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - ½ On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - ½ -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
Equally fine on centos 6.5 under kde (or gnome). Original message From: Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm Date:03/07/2014 11:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya.. running fine in mint16 (ubuntu 13.10 based i think), no sacrificial poultry needed. running unity by any chance ? -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 05:59 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Oh and let's not even talk about modern Linux support... You need to sacrifice a chicken and chant some unholy spell to get Softimage working in Ubuntu.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
I'd say you're safe within 3+ versions of windows, ran SI3D on Win7 some time ago, booted in a second lol. On 03/07/14 10:24, Arvid Björn wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com mailto:jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places.
Re: Just a thought - I hear the framestore use an ancient version of maya......
I'd say you're safe within 3+ version of windows, ran SI3D on Win7 some time ago, booted in a second lol. On 03/07/14 10:24, Arvid Björn wrote: What's the risk of Soft 2015 ceasing to work with future versions of operating systems and hardware? On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Jonah Friedman jon...@gmail.com mailto:jon...@gmail.com wrote: Long term, that's roughly my thinking with using Fabric Engine for in house development. It puts that very idea within reach of smaller places.
Maya feature request from Softimage users
Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/
Re: SI and Houdini
For those that are looking at Houdini for rigging and animation… some tiny examples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTBdRdClFE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cKnahxkUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjsaut_XKk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6Lue1TMZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gHw3jsGMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1gt9BkIw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_YVx69zub0 Sure, the animation toolset is not great yet but the rigging toolset is very very very powerful (imho much better than maya and xxi) enjoy Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:34, Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com wrote: I have prepared already 2 big ones, will finish them tomorrow and post… stay put. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:16, Arvid Björn arvidbj...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic work Jordi, this is exactly the perspective we need! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Gustavo Eggert Boehs gustav...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your generosity Mr. Bares. Great homework for the weekend! Gustavo E Boehs Dpto. de Expressão Gráfica | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | http://www.gustavoeb.com.br/ 2014-03-07 7:30 GMT-03:00 MauricioPC (gonebadfx) goneba...@gmail.com: You até fast. Will take a look. Thanls for the efforts. From: Jordi Bares Sent: 07/03/2014 06:57 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI and Houdini The wheels are moving… if you go to the forum http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forumItemid=172page=viewtopict=31012start=25 you will have access to my dropbox PDFs so you can download them.. More to come. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:40, Javier El Elástico javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: That it is very interesting. Jordi, where you will putting this basic guides? In the Houdini Forums? El 06/03/2014 20:22, olivier jeannel escribió: Please, drop a line here when you have something ready. Le 06/03/2014 11:52, Morten Bartholdy a écrit : Wow, that is very geerous of you Jordi - much appreciated. Morten Den 6. marts 2014 kl. 10:18 skrev Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com: for those who have not read what is going on in the Houdini forums, I will be putting together some basic guides to transition to Houdini easily and maintain your workflows under the new philosophy, from partitions, to overrides, to… I may need help so guys so don't hesitate to pop and drop a line, specially if you have already done the transition. see you very soon! Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 6 Mar 2014, at 02:33, Francisco Criado malcriad...@gmail.com wrote: Already signed in, and must say it feels very comfortable how sidefx is receiving ex-si users! Thanks a lot! F. On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: I was young and I needed the money! And the beer. Mmm... beer. - ½ On 14-03-05 06:55 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: On account of having furthered something like Mental Ray in the past, even if with the best intentions, I reckon all beer debt is forfeit. He's lucky he's getting away lightly with just a beer forfeiting. At least he seems to be working on something that's not qualified as a crime against humanity these days. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Meng-Yang Lu ntmon...@gmail.com wrote: So what's the deal? Do we still owe him beers or are we absolved? :P Good to see you Halfy! -Lu On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Halfdan Ingvarsson half...@sidefx.com wrote: Hello there It's been a while. I thought I'd post here and let you know, since there's been a lot of interest in Houdini, that we've created a dedicated forum for SI users on the SideFX site. ( http://goo.gl/cixz4s ). Feel free to swing by and ask any questions you'd like about Houdini and SideFX. I know this is a pretty tough time for everyone, but I just wanted to let you know that you're all welcome in our community. Hope to see you there! All the best, - ½ -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
You said it all gator, SI shape system, change modeling.. well really what we need is Softimage :) Can't imagine daily work without any of those tools, most importantly stable non destructive workflow. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
All that, Jeremie, and - GEAR ;-) - The Tweak tool, with all its bells and whistles - Reproject shape when smoothing (aka Relax) - Smooth by Convexity/Concavity - ICE-based instancing for populating enviros -Tim On 3/7/2014 10:59 AM, Jeremie Passerin wrote: Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/ -- Signature
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
That's what worries me Jeremie - I use all those daily, and can't see them being integrated easily at all, if ever. On 7 March 2014 17:11, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow -- www.matinai.com
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
When I had to move over to Maya, Gator, ICE, the weights painting tool and the Weights Editor were definitely the most missed. So missed that I would prototype deformers in ICE and convert them in code for Maya. I also wrote a small workflow to allow me to paint the weights and to model corrective shapes in Softimage, to then import them back in Maya. But for the operator stack, I don't think you'll be able to get a such thing. There's actually one UI that shows an operator stack in Maya with the possibility to reorder deformers but it is more a failed attempt than a proper working tool. And I'm not even sure if it would work out with the nodal structure that Maya relies on. As for changing the model in a rig, it is just a node to update. So theorically it's simple but of course it breaks all the deformers applied to it. Hence the need like in every software that I know of to have a clean workflow to easily export/import/convert mesh attributes. Or maybe have I already forgot how Softimage works? :) On 7 March 2014 11:59, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/ -- Christopher Crouzet *http://christophercrouzet.com* http://christophercrouzet.com
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Script check if xsi is rendering?
there is a save scene as command but it won't let you save outside a SI project structure. You can save your scene to a different name by adding a version number, date, or whatever. It seems that we'll have a backup option without changing the current scene in the last version of SI. Martin Sent from my iPhone On 2014/03/07, at 19:50, Simon Reeves si...@simonreeves.com wrote: Ive made a backup plugin/event that has been useful, though a bit scary as it also autosave's the current scene before copying it elsewhere (it would be good if there was a 'save scene as' command but I don't know of one?) Anyway the main issue with it is that it interrupts if a render is in progress, preview/frame/render region, so is there anyway to check if a render is in progress? Or if the region is open/preview window open? Cheers Simon Simon Reeves London, UK si...@simonreeves.com www.simonreeves.com www.analogstudio.co.uk
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
1. A totally new and coherent interfase. 2. The same selection object component behavior. 3. That if you select an item it will stay selected until you deselected. 4. An M tool 5. The same shape system of Softimage. 6. Stacks 7. Ability to have the same Softimage keyboard shortcuts layout. 8. Hide all the connections in the Channels/Layers Editor 9. Redisgn the graph editor behavior. 10. Ability to lock the propoerties of the object you are editing no matter what other object you selected. 11. Active mouse over window 12. Render region 13. Pass phylosofphy as the one in Softimage 14. If you make a connection, ability to write expressions there instead of build an intrincated node laberynth. 15. Object to have only one node, not the object and shape node. 16. Ability to use any object to envelope 17. Implicit objects 18. Operators Well just for a start. and the rest others mentioned. The easiest thing maybe will be to call Softiamge, Maya and there you go. --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-07 11:07 GMT-06:00 Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com: All that, Jeremie, and - GEAR ;-) - The Tweak tool, with all its bells and whistles - Reproject shape when smoothing (aka Relax) - Smooth by Convexity/Concavity - ICE-based instancing for populating enviros -Tim On 3/7/2014 10:59 AM, Jeremie Passerin wrote: Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/ --
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
I know none of us are happy, but I feel like I ought to point out that Max has a lot of these things. The operator stack in Max works quite well. Sure, Soft had a lot of things that Max lacked, but Max has a lot that Soft lacked. Ephere's Lab provides at least some of the ICE functionality as well: https://www.ephere.com/plugins/autodesk/max/lab/ On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Christopher Crouzet wrote: When I had to move over to Maya, Gator, ICE, the weights painting tool and the Weights Editor were definitely the most missed. So missed that I would prototype deformers in ICE and convert them in code for Maya. I also wrote a small workflow to allow me to paint the weights and to model corrective shapes in Softimage, to then import them back in Maya. But for the operator stack, I don't think you'll be able to get a such thing. There's actually one UI that shows an operator stack in Maya with the possibility to reorder deformers but it is more a failed attempt than a proper working tool. And I'm not even sure if it would work out with the nodal structure that Maya relies on. As for changing the model in a rig, it is just a node to update. So theorically it's simple but of course it breaks all the deformers applied to it. Hence the need like in every software that I know of to have a clean workflow to easily export/import/convert mesh attributes. Or maybe have I already forgot how Softimage works? :) On 7 March 2014 11:59, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys... What do you want to see added to Maya ? Autodesk is saying they will add Softimage features to the other packages... What is that ? As a Rigger, here is what I will miss the most - Gator - ICE : Especially to create custom deformers - Proper weights painting tools - Weights Editor ! - The Operator Stack, reorder, delete operator... - Being able to change modeling whith Envelope, Shapes already applied to the mesh - Blend shape workflow I would really like to hear Autodesk plan to incorporate some of those features in Maya. I'm guessing there not all super easy to merge, but some of them would be considered as amazing new feature by the Maya users. J/ -- Christopher Crouzet *http://christophercrouzet.com* http://christophercrouzet.com -- Joe Laffey The Stable Visual Effects http://TheStable.tv/?e34039M/
RE: Maya feature request from Softimage users
uv unfold please!! ...really dont like maya uv's tools! IMDB | Portfolio | Vimeo | Linkedin Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:30:22 + Subject: Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users From: sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
Max.. heh.. please.. when it comes to rigging and character animation well animation at all Max is nightmare.. I know a LOT of animators, my self included that hates animating in Max more then even working in Maya. I even turned down a lot of work because it is Max based.. character animation and Max no thank you... In Maya you can at least animate... once you get to working rig that is... but in Max.. ugh! On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Manuel Huertas Marchena lito...@hotmail.com wrote: uv unfold please!! ...really dont like maya uv's tools! IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4755969/ | Portfolio http://envmanu.com http://envmanu.carbonmade.com/| Vimeohttp://vimeo.com/manuelhuertasmarchena| Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelhuertas -- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:30:22 + Subject: Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users From: sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
My advice to Autodesk, as we all know they are not selling their patents, intellectual property, etc, bla, bla. Although they could sell Softimage to another company and still charge them for exploting all this patents, etc. and enjoy of the earnings without putting a dime in Softimage, will be: Leave Softimage 2015 as it is with fixing minor bugs, or not even that. Just leave it as it is. And at a devs pace start integrating all of these features into a new redisigned DCC tool, that will bring the gap of the artists using Maya and the artists using Softimage. Give it a new name, and then put to rest Maya and Softimage. My 2 cents. --- Emilio Hernández VFX 3D animation. 2014-03-07 11:30 GMT-06:00 Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com : the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
I believe Maya 2015 adds a new unfold3D tool... On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Manuel Huertas Marchena lito...@hotmail.com wrote: uv unfold please!! ...really dont like maya uv's tools! IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4755969/ | Portfolio http://envmanu.com http://envmanu.carbonmade.com/| Vimeohttp://vimeo.com/manuelhuertasmarchena| Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelhuertas -- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:30:22 + Subject: Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users From: sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow
Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users
And I believe you're breaking the NDA here? On 7 March 2014 12:47, Nic Sievers siev...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Maya 2015 adds a new unfold3D tool... On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Manuel Huertas Marchena lito...@hotmail.com wrote: uv unfold please!! ...really dont like maya uv's tools! IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4755969/ | Portfolio http://envmanu.com http://envmanu.carbonmade.com/| Vimeohttp://vimeo.com/manuelhuertasmarchena| Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelhuertas -- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:30:22 + Subject: Re: Maya feature request from Softimage users From: sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com the ability to show/hide components, like in every other DCC ever made. the ability to relax selections of polygons edges and vertexes. neither of these should prove to be too difficult... baby steps On 7 March 2014 17:23, Oscar Juarez tridi.animei...@gmail.com wrote: You nailed right there Jeremie, basically being flexible when rigging, every day I go splitting geometry, regatoring meshes, and merging again, transfering everything seamlessly. Multi attribute editor, it's really stupid that when you select multiple things you only see one at a time in the attribute editor, there is the spreadsheet editor but that sucks in comparison. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Maya 2039 (rewritten) On 03/07/14 12:06, Mirko Jankovic wrote: stable non destructive workflow -- Christopher Crouzet *http://christophercrouzet.com* http://christophercrouzet.com
