RE: Softimage WIKI dead?
That would be a shame, I noticed it not responding a couple of days ago as well -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Softimage WIKI dead?
This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Softimage script : Mail after render is finished
Hello, I remember back in xsi 2004 I used to use the script Mail after render is finishedand I kind of remember you play (execute it) on the script editor. Time has gone by and now I was wondering if that script is still around softimage 2014? And as an off topic thing: Can now be possible to post to twitter or facebook as an stat message?I believe Facebook allows you to post things as such if you get an id token and developsome kind of conection between those two parties (XSI -FB) Has anyone tried that idea? Cheers. David Rivera 3D Compositor/Animator LinkedIN Behance VFX Reel
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
It wouldn't load during the day for me yesterday then randomly last night it did from home. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Leendert A. Hartog hirazib...@live.nl wrote: Still no reason to kill it without warning (if that is what happened). Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Know the ID of an Object in an Envelope and Group? Copy Weights? Partial Gator?
A - Something that always bugged me is that I don't know a way to inspect the Order ID of and object in a Group or in an Envelope. So say I have Null_H Which in the deformers or group list shows up in 8th position (ID7) because it comes after Null_A, Null_B, etc. But that doesn't mean that when the group was made that was the selection order. So when you do a Set Envelope and select the group, again it uses the same order, even though the lists are ordered alphabetically. Now... I can do this in ICE like this... http://i.imgur.com/OIegAAA.png But feels cumbersome... :/ B - How do I copy the all the weight information from one point to other points. If one has to have parts to have plain weight values that match a nearby point it's handy to sort of Constrain Object To Cluster, but there's no Copy Paste in the Weight Editor for a single point whole info. Again, I can do it in ICE... but.. Cheers -- *--[image: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s202/animatics/probiner-sig.gif]Pedro Alpiarça dos Santos Animator 3DModeler Illustrator http://probiner.x10.mx/ http://probiner.x10.mx/*
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: That would be a shame, I noticed it not responding a couple of days ago as well -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Re: Know the ID of an Object in an Envelope and Group? Copy Weights? Partial Gator?
A) mesh.Envelopes(0).Deformers should give you the object collection in the proper order. You can recreate the group by using the Envelope Select Deformers and once selected, create a group. B) You'll have to write a script for that. Check the GEAR tools I think there might be a tool in there for that. Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:07 PM, pedro santos probi...@gmail.com wrote: A - Something that always bugged me is that I don't know a way to inspect the Order ID of and object in a Group or in an Envelope. So say I have Null_H Which in the deformers or group list shows up in 8th position (ID7) because it comes after Null_A, Null_B, etc. But that doesn't mean that when the group was made that was the selection order. So when you do a Set Envelope and select the group, again it uses the same order, even though the lists are ordered alphabetically. Now... I can do this in ICE like this... http://i.imgur.com/OIegAAA.png But feels cumbersome... :/ B - How do I copy the all the weight information from one point to other points. If one has to have parts to have plain weight values that match a nearby point it's handy to sort of Constrain Object To Cluster, but there's no Copy Paste in the Weight Editor for a single point whole info. Again, I can do it in ICE... but.. Cheers -- *--[image: http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s202/animatics/probiner-sig.gif]Pedro Alpiarça dos Santos Animator 3DModeler Illustrator http://probiner.x10.mx/ http://probiner.x10.mx/*
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
A lot. It had a lot of inside information and addendums to stuff that was left out of the main documentation. For example, how to write a custom operator using the C++ SDK. Think of the wiki as the original XSI Blog. Matt Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:27:19 -0500 From: Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Softimage WIKI dead? To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com
Re: [PLUG] mGear Teaser
Miguel, don't hesitate to keep posting here about Mgear, too. You gave a lot to the Softimage community with your TD Survival videos(and Alan, too); i hope that doesn't change. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Miquel Campos miquel.cam...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Thanks Jeremie for your kind words!!! You are the master mind here, I am just a copycat :P Nicolas: The tools i am talking is for example the PoseLib. In Maya you have plenty plugins and really good to do the same thing. But the important stuff will be there ;) Also I will publish a bunch of little tools to make Maya more friendly for Softimage fellas. Gerbrand: For the moment with Maya I have enough. but Gear is open source so maybe some one else can take this challenge ;) I will post again here when the first release is public next week. After that I will not annoy any more here. I created a Newsletter that will be the official annoying list for mGear stuff. So please join it if you want to stay update http://www.miquel-campos.com/newslettermiquel and please spread the word!! :D Thanks again for the nice comments to everybody! Cheers, Miquel Miquel Campos www.miquel-campos.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Miquel did an awesome job on this one. I played a bit with it and it's pretty close to what it is in Softimage. It's not the full toolset though.. but it makes sense as you might not need the same kind of tools in Maya anyway. Miquel knows Gear better than I do now. I haven't touch it for a while so you can trust him to be the perfect guy for the job. He knows the tool, knows what it is good for and has paid attention to make sure those nice things are now available in your least favorite software ;-) On 26 January 2015 at 17:10, Tenshi S. tenshu...@gmail.com wrote: I always wanted an upgrade version of the old forgotten Gear..for Softimage; it deserved it. Anyway. Thanks for sharing Miguel. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Martin Contel martin3d...@gmail.com wrote: So cool, Miquel!!! :D -- Martin Contel Square Enix (Visual Works) On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@themarmalade.com wrote: Nice Stuff Miquel! On 26/01/2015 17:25, Miquel Campos wrote: Hello, I didn't post in the Softimage list since long time. But today I have some news. Not for Softimage, but I hope it helps to make less painful the transition to Maya (if you decide to make it, of course!) The Gear version for Maya is ready. The public release will be next Monday, February 2nd. More info about mGear and a little teaser: http://www.miquel-campos.com/post/109208179003/mgear Best regards, Miquel Miquel Campos www.miquel-campos.com
Re: [PLUG] mGear Teaser
Hello, Thanks Jeremie for your kind words!!! You are the master mind here, I am just a copycat :P Nicolas: The tools i am talking is for example the PoseLib. In Maya you have plenty plugins and really good to do the same thing. But the important stuff will be there ;) Also I will publish a bunch of little tools to make Maya more friendly for Softimage fellas. Gerbrand: For the moment with Maya I have enough. but Gear is open source so maybe some one else can take this challenge ;) I will post again here when the first release is public next week. After that I will not annoy any more here. I created a Newsletter that will be the official annoying list for mGear stuff. So please join it if you want to stay update http://www.miquel-campos.com/newslettermiquel and please spread the word!! :D Thanks again for the nice comments to everybody! Cheers, Miquel Miquel Campos www.miquel-campos.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Jeremie Passerin gerem@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, Miquel did an awesome job on this one. I played a bit with it and it's pretty close to what it is in Softimage. It's not the full toolset though.. but it makes sense as you might not need the same kind of tools in Maya anyway. Miquel knows Gear better than I do now. I haven't touch it for a while so you can trust him to be the perfect guy for the job. He knows the tool, knows what it is good for and has paid attention to make sure those nice things are now available in your least favorite software ;-) On 26 January 2015 at 17:10, Tenshi S. tenshu...@gmail.com wrote: I always wanted an upgrade version of the old forgotten Gear..for Softimage; it deserved it. Anyway. Thanks for sharing Miguel. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Martin Contel martin3d...@gmail.com wrote: So cool, Miquel!!! :D -- Martin Contel Square Enix (Visual Works) On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Andreas Böinghoff boeingh...@themarmalade.com wrote: Nice Stuff Miquel! On 26/01/2015 17:25, Miquel Campos wrote: Hello, I didn't post in the Softimage list since long time. But today I have some news. Not for Softimage, but I hope it helps to make less painful the transition to Maya (if you decide to make it, of course!) The Gear version for Maya is ready. The public release will be next Monday, February 2nd. More info about mGear and a little teaser: http://www.miquel-campos.com/post/109208179003/mgear Best regards, Miquel Miquel Campos www.miquel-campos.com
RE: Softimage WIKI dead?
I have a local backup of the site, dated from 3/22/2014. I'm not sure about the legal circumstances if I'd provide download links here. Until I'm not sure, just contact me off-list. cheers, sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Saeed Kalhor Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:35 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Softimage WIKI dead? It opens for me but very slowly! with Germany's IP. I wish some one make an offline copy of it. It will be very useful in future. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Matt Lind speye...@hotmail.com wrote: A lot. It had a lot of inside information and addendums to stuff that was left out of the main documentation. For example, how to write a custom operator using the C++ SDK. Think of the wiki as the original XSI Blog. Matt Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:27:19 -0500 From: Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Softimage WIKI dead? To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
Other recipients: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com, dr...@villagefx.com.au Just in case you are interested... In fact, many links within the documentation actually display wiki pages or html files hosted on the wiki. Long live the Softimage wiki! :) So What happened to those doc pages hosted on the Wiki And many (if not *most*) searches give many results on Wiki pages and little and sometimes none to doc pages And There were also quite a few things specific to there. And many links around point to the Wiki as opposed to Doc pages (for a reason) Why for heaven sakes take it down? Too much bandwidth? On 01/27/15 15:27, Eric Thivierge wrote: What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: That would be a shame, I noticed it not responding a couple of days ago as well -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
Never really went there for docs. There were a few articles by various folks that were helpful sure. The majority though was covered in the docs I felt. I'm not looking for it to be taken down, just was wondering what people were looking on there for these days. Can't remember the last time I was on there. Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Jason S jasonsta...@gmail.com wrote: Other recipients: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com, dr...@villagefx.com.au Just in case you are interested... In fact, many links within the documentation actually display wiki pages or html files hosted on the wiki. Long live the Softimage wiki! :) So What happened to those doc pages hosted on the Wiki And many (if not *most*) searches give many results on Wiki pages and little and sometimes none to doc pages And There were also quite a few things specific to there. And many links around point to the Wiki as opposed to Doc pages (for a reason) Why for heaven sakes take it down? Too much bandwidth? On 01/27/15 15:27, Eric Thivierge wrote: What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McFall jeff.mcf...@sas.com wrote: That would be a shame, I noticed it not responding a couple of days ago as well -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com
Re: Know the ID of an Object in an Envelope and Group? Copy
A - The default behavior in Softimage is to use chronological order of creation, not alphabetical order. If a tool takes it's input from the selection list, items are processed in the order which they were selected. B - the easiest way to copy weights is to store them in a GridData object as a scratchpad, modify the weights values as desired, then apply the GridData weights back onto the envelope. The GridData is a 2D array just like you see in the envelope weights editor. Each row of the GridData is a point on the envelope. Each column of the GridData represents a deformer. To copy the weights between points, you copy the weights from one row and paste onto another. // example - JScript // get reference to selected enveloped geometry var oObject = Selection(0); // get envelope operator from enveloped geometry // NOTE: should verify Object.Envelopes.Count 0 // before grabbing the envelope operator var oEnvelope = oObject.Envelopes(0).Envelope; // store weights in a temporary GridData object (2D array) var oWeightData = XSIFactory.CreateGridData(); oWeightData.Data = oEnvelope.Weights.Array; // Make modifications (example, copy weights from vertex 23 to vertex 164) var aVertexWeightValues = oWeightData.GetRowValues( 23 ).toArray(); oWeightData.SetRowValues( 164, aVertexWeightValues ); // update the envelope with modified weights. // (this will trigger the scene graph to re-evaluate the envelope.) oEnvelope.Weights.Array = oWeightData.Data; The SDK docs show much the same in more detail. Keep in mind when you do your weight copying/pasting in ICE, it's doing it as an operator and persistently copying the data to maintain the relationship. Whenever an input or output is modified, the ICE tree gets triggered to do it again and again until you freeze or delete the ICE tree. When you copy/paste weights in scripting, it's a one time operation and more efficient. As you can see, it doesn't take much code. Matt Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:07:34 + From: pedro santos probi...@gmail.com Subject: Know the ID of an Object in an Envelope and Group? Copy Weights? Partial Gator? To: Softimage Mailing List softimage@listproc.autodesk.com A - Something that always bugged me is that I don't know a way to inspect the Order ID of and object in a Group or in an Envelope. So say I have Null_H Which in the deformers or group list shows up in 8th position (ID7) because it comes after Null_A, Null_B, etc. But that doesn't mean that when the group was made that was the selection order. So when you do a Set Envelope and select the group, again it uses the same order, even though the lists are ordered alphabetically. Now... I can do this in ICE like this... http://i.imgur.com/OIegAAA.png But feels cumbersome... :/ B - How do I copy the all the weight information from one point to other points. If one has to have parts to have plain weight values that match a nearby point it's handy to sort of Constrain Object To Cluster, but there's no Copy Paste in the Weight Editor for a single point whole info. Again, I can do it in ICE... but.. Cheers
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
It opens for me but very slowly! with Germany's IP. I wish some one make an offline copy of it. It will be very useful in future. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Matt Lind speye...@hotmail.com wrote: A lot. It had a lot of inside information and addendums to stuff that was left out of the main documentation. For example, how to write a custom operator using the C++ SDK. Think of the wiki as the original XSI Blog. Matt Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:27:19 -0500 From: Eric Thivierge ethivie...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Softimage WIKI dead? To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com softimage@listproc.autodesk.com What is on the wiki that isn't in the docs or else where? Eric T. Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com
RE: Softimage WIKI dead?
The wiki is back up. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hsiao Ming From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Hsiao Ming Chia [hsiao.ming.c...@autodesk.com] Sent: Wednesday, 28 January, 2015 10:21:42 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Softimage WIKI dead? Thanks for reporting this. We are looking into it. No worries, it is not being killed. Hsiao Ming -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:38 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com attachment: winmail.dat
RE: Softimage WIKI dead?
Thanks for reporting this. We are looking into it. No worries, it is not being killed. Hsiao Ming -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:38 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert -- Leendert A. Hartog AKA Hirazi Blue Administrator NOT the owner of si-community.com attachment: winmail.dat
Re: Softimage WIKI dead?
No-no-no Thank you! :) On 01/27/15 21:21, Hsiao Ming Chia wrote: Thanks for reporting this. We are looking into it. No worries, it is not being killed. Hsiao Ming -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Leendert A. Hartog Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:38 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Softimage WIKI dead? This was just reported on the si-community: it seems the Softimage WIKI has gone offline and it apparently has been offline for at least a week. Is this a temporary outage or has it finally been killed? Greetz Leendert
