I agree with Alan, in my experience Crosswalk is probably the most reliable
format to transfer animation from Maya to Softimage.
But If I haven't misunderstood you, you don't want to convert Mel scripts
to VBS/JS/Python + SI SDK, you want to convert Maya Ascii files to
Softimage without using Maya
Maya doesn't make it easy either thanks to a staggeringly retarded
descriptor of the FCurves.
We did write such a thing (something to move curves seamlessly and below
the float precision threshold between Soft and Maya), and in the end the
only way to propely re-interpret from or to Maya was a lar
There are more than a few apps that barf at win8 in metro mode, and even
with several tweaks some are just plain too painful.
The Crytek SDK one and half release ago in example outright refuses to run
for many people.
It's a minority, and my experience is Soft, Maya, PS, ZBrush etc. all run
perfec
Converting a Maya ASCII file (I suppose this is what you refer to as MEL?) to a
softimage scene is very hard to do, there are some concepts in Maya that don't
translate well over to Softimage. For simple animation and Polygon Meshes it
should be a bit easier, I thought about writing a Maya ASCI
What programs were causing the most problems? Did you try running them in
compatibility mode? I'm thinking of buying a new workstation and going down
the windows 8 route but might not if its a world of pain.
On 23 Aug 2013 00:40, "Ben Houston" wrote:
> Tried to install software on windows 8 today
Did you try Crosswalk?
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=13525184&linkID=12544121
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far as I saw there is the possiblity to modify the python script in
> order to be read from Softimage..
As far as I saw there is the possiblity to modify the python script in
order to be read from Softimage...but programming is not my thing...
I was just looking for animation to transfer over SI ( basically the scene
is some animated nulls )
2013/8/25 Alan Fregtman
> No, there isn't. It'd be a go
Softimage has a bunch of patents actually.
Render region:
http://www.google.com/patents
?id=1k8EEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=avid%20technology%20render&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false
XSI's QuickStretch deformer:
http://www.google.com/patents
?id=NxcgEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=softimage&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false
T
No, there isn't. It'd be a good learning experience to try making one
though. :)
Do you expect a full 1:1 conversion of MEL to the Softimage SDK? Or just
for animation to transfer over?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
> I'm currently
Hello there,
I'm currently testing a software to expand my pipeline, but the main
problem is that currently it only supports Maya scripts as export ( MEL )
I succesfully exported the MEL script from Maya to Softimage and everything
is working properly ( however don't know why in FBX the animations
I think it's because of the look of the floating window. I would have say
the same, but it's quite far now.
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Director | TD | CG artist
http://vimeo.com/ahmidou/videos
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2013/8/25 Eugen Sares
> I know..
I know...
But I have to say, that retro-look has something very appealing to it.
With a little brushup it would look quite fresh and modern.
Maybe it's because I like understatement... a super simple almost cheesy
interface, but the most powerful 3D technology underneath.
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