Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
I wonder how many people had to look up who Stibitz was :) On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM, olivier jeannel wrote: > This is not "these days", it's "once upon a time" :) > > Le 15/10/2013 06:52, Raffaele Fragapane a écrit : > > Where's Kim Aldis when you need him? > His first computer was, alle

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Angus Davidson
Mine wasn't that far back. I started out on a Panasonic that had two 8inch Floppy drives and then moved on to the Sperry IT (which was my Dads but I was given a whole 2MB partition (of the 20MB dish drive) to myself . Think it ran POV Ray but rather badly. Kind regards Angus From: Raffael

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread olivier jeannel
1 :) Le 15/10/2013 09:34, Raffaele Fragapane a écrit : I wonder how many people had to look up who Stibitz was :) On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM, olivier jeannel mailto:olivier.jean...@noos.fr>> wrote: This is not "these days", it's "once upon a time" :) Le 15/10/2013 06:52, Raffae

Pixar's Universal Scene Description

2013-10-15 Thread Ben Houston
I posted this elsewhere but it is also likely of interest here I've been hearing about this for a while, it is nice to see it finally released: http://graphics.pixar.com/usd/ Here is the USD Google Group mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/usd-interest -- Best regards, B

Silhouette Edge Drawing with ICE

2013-10-15 Thread Jakob Schindegger
Hi there! May I introduce myself shortly. My name is Jakob Schindegger and I am a motion graphics designer who likes to develope new looks and also likes to code (still on a low level though) I was always interested in NPR Rendering, especially silhouette edge drawing. So I took on the challen

Re: Pixar's Universal Scene Description

2013-10-15 Thread Angus Davidson
Cant stress how great it would be to have a standard for this ;) On 2013/10/15 11:38 AM, "Ben Houston" wrote: >I posted this elsewhere but it is also likely of interest here > >I've been hearing about this for a while, it is nice to see it finally >released: > >http://graphics.pixar.com/us

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Chia
Just imagine from those days with KB limit to the current 2GB limit... Salute to all for surviving all these crap issues in technology. Lol Chris On 15 Oct, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Raffaele Fragapane wrote: > I wonder how many people had to look up who Stibitz was :) > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 a

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Angus Davidson
My Dad is a programmer and he worked mainly on mainframes. That had to flowchart everything and only had two compiles. i.e. One to find the bugs, and on the second one it had to work (because the mainframe time was that expensive) I seem to recall his one accounting package he wrote was about 1

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Jens Lindgren
I had to google Stibitz :) On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Raffaele Fragapane < raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I wonder how many people had to look up who Stibitz was :) > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM, olivier jeannel > wrote: > >> This is not "these days", it's "once upon a tim

Re: File size limit?

2013-10-15 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Actually my first contact with 3D graphics was the flight simulator for that Apple II plus... It was a biplane with a grid as the ground, a line to the left representing the mountains. And haha, when the first mouse came out, my first CGI ever was the cover art of Judas Priest's "Screaming for Ve

image_lookup doesn't respect color space settings!

2013-10-15 Thread Ales Dlabac
Hi, can someone confirm that image_lookup node is not working properly? If I tried switch srgb to linear in my clip and it always gives me same wrong result. On other hand Image node works as expected. Because I need control uv coords in specific way so Image_lookup is only one possibility. I've

Re: image_lookup doesn't respect color space settings!

2013-10-15 Thread olivier jeannel
I had this with RedShift, I thought it was redshift... A Color Correction node in between, and it was good. Le 15/10/2013 15:20, Ales Dlabac a écrit : Hi, can someone confirm that image_lookup node is not working properly? If I tried switch srgb to linear in my clip and it always gives me same

Re: Pixar's Universal Scene Description

2013-10-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
I think the better expression is "finally mentioned publicly." The source code has not released, yet. Everyone tweet @pixarsrenderman and @DisneyPixar that you want USD released. :p On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Angus Davidson wrote: > Cant stress how great it would be to have a standard fo

Re: Silhouette Edge Drawing with ICE

2013-10-15 Thread Stefan Kubicek
Welcome to the list Jakob! That looks promising, I've been playing with the very same idea for over two years now but never had a production to actually use it on, hence no time to develop it past the concept stage. Good luck sorting out the ramaining issues, I'm looking forward to the first p

Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread David Rivera
I came across this link: http://gfxspeak.com/2013/10/02/autodesk-sales-strategy-includes-discontinuing-upgrade-purchases/ So what happened to the "rental" sales model? David R.

Re: Silhouette Edge Drawing with ICE

2013-10-15 Thread David Rivera
Jakob, I´d love to try your ICE compound with this: https://vimeo.com/76961204 It´s a recent project of mine and I was wondering what other parameters I´d need to config correctly before the "right" npr arrives for this style. I´d gladly provide you the head of the model so you can toy around wit

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
Did you read the whole thing? >From the article: *"The plan is to shift customers away from single product purchases toward suites, and to move from buying perpetual licenses to acquiring software on long-term subscription or short-term rental."* On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:56 PM, David Rivera <

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Daniel Brassard
It is this article and the current Softimage cross-grade offer that make me decide to take the jump to the Ultimate Suite. I am glad I did, I can now test plugins and shaders on the three platforms and do other things as well. And enough money left for some nice plugins or apps too. AD may have a

RE: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Sven Constable
uhm, isn't he idea behind this model to cut any development costs by three thirds in particular and sell all three as one package for a higher price? And make it sound a good deal because costumers will get three tools instead of one even they don't need one or two of them? Maybe I do not comprehen

RE: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Sven Constable
Of course I meant one third of the costs for every tool, not three. And I used "thirds" as a term incorrectly. It was lost in translation. Sorry about that. sven From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven Constable Sent

RE: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Matt Lind
But strangely accurate ;-) From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sven Constable Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1:53 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Autodesk´s Sales model Of course I meant one third of t

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Rob Chapman
it also seems to be selling a lot of insider shares recently whilst buying 0 - with Carl Bass (the boss) shedding 40,000 recently.. not that I am a markets speculator - but I wonder what that means if anything? http://seekingalpha.com/article/1746722-insiders-are-selling-autodesk?source=email_rt

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Jordi Bares
I see the feature list year by year and well… I am very disappointed on Autodesk's way of handling quite a few products, starting from Softimage, Motion Builder, Mudbox, etc… my 2 cents Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 15 Oct 2013, at 21:33, "Sven Constable" wrote: > uhm, isn't he idea be

crowdFX question - do textures transfer to max and maya when cached?

2013-10-15 Thread Greg Punchatz
Is it possible to transfer the charcters back to Max and Maya and retain the ability to have them textured properly in both apps? Thanks everyone -- *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janima

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Sergio Mucino
Autodesk is for some reason following Adobe's footsteps quite accurately. Adobe started selling suites... Adesk did. Adobe goes rental... Adesk follows. I really can't tell how positive or not the change will be, and what it will mean for the future of the tools... I gues

Can a runtime SCOP define a PPGLayout?

2013-10-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
And if not, can a plugin-based SCOP do so? Any help appreciated. Trying to make my scripted operator pretty. :p Cheers, -- Alan

RE: Can a runtime SCOP define a PPGLayout?

2013-10-15 Thread Matt Lind
Aren't runtime scops deprecated? Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fregtman Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:44 PM To: XSI Mailing List Subject: Can a runtime SCOP define a PPGLayout? And if not, can a plugi

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Sebastien Sterling
is this it for maya ? http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-maya/buy On 15 October 2013 23:48, Sergio Mucino wrote: > Autodesk is for some reason following Adobe's footsteps quite accurately. > Adobe started selling suites... Adesk did. Adobe goes rental... Adesk > follows. I really can't

Re: Can a runtime SCOP define a PPGLayout?

2013-10-15 Thread Alan Fregtman
Since when and why? On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Matt Lind wrote: > Aren’t runtime scops deprecated? > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Matt > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Ala

Re: Autodesk´s Sales model

2013-10-15 Thread Ed Manning
When people start to wonder why ADSK is doing something in a particular way, I always think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkJ-Uy5dt5g I find it sadly illuminating, if also illustrative of the challenges they've set themselves. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Sebastien Sterling < se