Re: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Right - good thought and that's better than nothing. But now my usual 
workflow is restored after setting that environment variable.



On 4/18/2018 10:35 AM, Andi Farhall wrote:


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*Subject:* RE: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on

You need to set a variable in the bat file.
They disabled this to optimize the viewport responsiveness.
A UI workaround: If you hold don’t CTRL while clicking, or SHIFT, or 
ALT, I think this alternates the selections under mouse. I don’t recall.


Here is the variable:

*File Location*
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2015\Application\bin\setenv.bat

*Append: *

:Fix selection block

set XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1

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*Subject:* Re: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on
Make the o

Re: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Yes, that's what I was doing as a workaround, thanks.

On 4/18/2018 10:27 AM, Softimage wrote:
> Make the outer object unselectable?
> Is that enough for what you want?
> Cheers
> Lawrence
>
>> On 18 Apr 2018, at 17:21, David Gallagher Softimage 
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello!
>> Autodesk wouldn't issue me a license for Softimage 2014 on my new
>> computer so I'm forced to use Softimage 2015 on it now.
>> Unfortunately now I don't seem to be able to select objects inside of
>> polygon models. It always selects the outermost object which is the
>> geometry. In previous versions I would turn the camera to xray which
>> would then allow me to select nulls and objects inside/behind the geo.
>>
>> I'm looking for some option that would restore this workflow but so far
>> no luck.
>>
>> Ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> Dave G
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Re: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on

[David Gallagher Softimage]

The environment variable worked. Thanks so much for telling me about that!
Dave G

On 4/18/2018 10:30 AM, Andres Stephens wrote:


You need to set a variable in the bat file.
They disabled this to optimize the viewport responsiveness.
A UI workaround: If you hold don’t CTRL while clicking, or SHIFT, or 
ALT, I think this alternates the selections under mouse. I don’t recall.


Here is the variable:

*File Location*
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2015\Application\bin\setenv.bat

*Append: *

:Fix selection block

set XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1

-Draise


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*Subject:* Re: selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on
Make the outer object unselectable?
Is that enough for what you want?
Cheers
Lawrence

> On 18 Apr 2018, at 17:21, David Gallagher Softimage 
 wrote:

>
>
> Hello!
> Autodesk wouldn't issue me a license for Softimage 2014 on my new
> computer so I'm forced to use Softimage 2015 on it now.
> Unfortunately now I don't seem to be able to select objects inside of
> polygon models. It always selects the outermost object which is the
> geometry. In previous versions I would turn the camera to xray which
> would then allow me to select nulls and objects inside/behind the geo.
>
> I'm looking for some option that would restore this workflow but so far
> no luck.
>
> Ideas?
> Thanks,
> Dave G
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selecting nulls inside of geometry when xray is on

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Hello!
Autodesk wouldn't issue me a license for Softimage 2014 on my new 
computer so I'm forced to use Softimage 2015 on it now.
Unfortunately now I don't seem to be able to select objects inside of 
polygon models. It always selects the outermost object which is the 
geometry. In previous versions I would turn the camera to xray which 
would then allow me to select nulls and objects inside/behind the geo.

I'm looking for some option that would restore this workflow but so far 
no luck.

Ideas?
Thanks,
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Re: Softimage - not going away...

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Great work!

Big high-five for using Softimage still. I do too!
Curious though, how do you handle new employees? Do you only bring in 
people who know Softimage already? I'm just imagining a new employee 
learning your pipeline with EOL software and how they handle that.


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Re: Maya plug-in developers

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Thanks!

On 9/6/2017 7:12 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote:

Hey David,

I think you might have better luck with the "Python Inside Maya" list 
here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!forum/python_inside_maya 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?#%21forum/python_inside_maya>


I know it has "Python" in the name but C++ developers exist among the 
crowd as well.


If that fails you can also try the "Highend3D Maya" list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!forum/maya_he3d 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?#%21forum/maya_he3d>

(It's probably the most popular Maya-focused general mailing list.)

Cheers,
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Hello!
Some of you might know about our free AnimSchool Picker plug-in enjoyed 
by thousands of Maya users and many studios. We also have a Softimage 
version!


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 We are looking for a programmer to help compile the plug-in for the 
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There is usually quite a bit of troubleshooting and setup issues to 
overcome for each version of Maya.


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Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay?

[David Gallagher Softimage]

How do you see prices on those?


On 6/7/2017 6:15 AM, Andreas Böinghoff wrote:

For new machines we're going for supermicro.

https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/7048/SYS-7048GR-TR.cfm

We always had HP Z800-840 - Since we were doing more and more jobs on 
redshift his workstations are the best machines we ever had.


A

On 07/06/2017 14:02, Rob Wuijster wrote:


I agree, although some of my friends who are into 2D design and a tad 
of AfterEffects will probably running to the store as soon as they 
can get their hands on it ;-)


Rob

\/-\/\/
On 7-6-2017 13:45, Jonathan Moore wrote:
Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple hardware as the luxury 
end of the consumer PC market. There’s so much about OS X that I 
prefer to Windows but I’m also aware that I’m paying an extreme 
premium for the experience.


However, It’s been a long time since I’ve considered Apple hardware 
to be an optimal choice for creative professionals per se, never 
mind 3d professionals. The iMac Pro is a lustful piece of consumer 
electronics for sure but it would be a exceptionally odd choice for 
a 3d professional.


On 7 Jun 2017, at 12:17, Christopher Crouzet 
> wrote:


Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software.

During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at 
only supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly 
implementing it. To make things worse, they decided to go their own 
way with their Metal API without providing any support for Vulkan 
(unless I missed something). I don't think many developers are 
willing to write their software using the Metal API to boost 
rendering performances when the 3D market is fairly small on Mac.


Surely it's a bit cocky from them to be boasting their graphics 
marketing when they seem to be hated by graphics developers.



On 7 June 2017 at 17:37, Rob Wuijster > wrote:


One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one:


https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give-the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/



Rob

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Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and
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of for some of the dumb decisions made in the last two years.
Up to and including today.

At least dell gives decent EDU discounts. Going to make the
move from apple far less painful for us

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unity animation export

[David Gallagher Softimage]

Is anyone here familiar with Unity? I'm trying to export a rig and an 
animation to unity.
I've made a rig with all the bind joints in a separate heirarchy, all 
parent constrained to the rig parts. I exported that and it seems ok.


Then I tried to plot the animations, Plot>All Transformations like this.

It created a 2.5 MB file so it may have the info but I don't think it's 
importing it correctly. Instead of a single animation file, it is 
getting a list of objects -possibly. Dragging it onto the character 
doesn't seem to be working like the few tutorials I've done.


Any help welcome.
Thanks,
Dave G
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