Re: Softimage and Alembic?

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Leydecker
Hi Luc-Eric, I´m a long-term Maya user. In regards to the Maya interface, I would hope that you guys could look into the following perception when using Maya: This should work but there must be a setting that is wrong or off. -- As an example, Maya2012 had brought new envelope editing

Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread adrian wyer
congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829 adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Alan Fregtman
Wow! Stellar work!! :) On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:04 AM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Lampi
Wow! Great work! Eric On Nov 22, 2013 9:04 AM, adrian wyer adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St.

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Greg Punchatz
Brilliant work guys! And why did AD buy Xgen??? *Greg Punchatz* *Sr. Creative Director* Janimation 214.823.7760 www.janimation.com http://www.janimation.com On 11/22/2013 9:00 AM, Alan Fregtman wrote: Wow! Stellar work!!

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Mirko Jankovic
Didn't you hear yet, AD has no idea that they have SI, how they could know that they don;t need xgen or bifrost or.. maya.. max ;) On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Greg Punchatz g...@janimation.com wrote: Brilliant work guys! And why did AD buy Xgen??? --

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Philip Melancon
This mailing list is starting to be like Godwin's law... as an online discussion about softimage grows longer, the probability of a snarky comparison with maya approaches 1. Great work Whiskeytree, that layout system is pretty darn impressive ModusFx On 22/11/2013 10:26 AM, Mirko Jankovic

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Rares Halmagean
Excellent! Sharp breakdown. On 11/22/2013 8:04 AM, adrian wyer wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0) 207 580 0829

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Absolutley impressive! And the tools! Wow! What a powerful plugin is Softimage for Maya that Maya didn't need to be used at all! Good work Whiskey Tree! 2013/11/22 Rares Halmagean ra...@rarebrush.com Excellent! Sharp breakdown. On 11/22/2013 8:04 AM, adrian wyer wrote: congrats

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Jonah Friedman
Wow- this is what having one's shit truely together looks like. Congrats to Whiskytree. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Emilio Hernandez emi...@e-roja.comwrote: Absolutley impressive! And the tools! Wow! What a powerful plugin is Softimage for Maya that Maya didn't need to be used at

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Jon Swindells
even seeing the viewcube didn't stop me enjoying this love it. :) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 06:25 PM, Jonah Friedman wrote: Wow- this is what having one's shit truely together looks like. Congrats to Whiskytree. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Sylvain Lebeau
holy mother of god.. you guys rock at WT! sly On 11/22/2013 09:04 AM, adrian wyer wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your library toolset is a thing of beauty! a Adrian Wyer Fluid Pictures 75-77 Margaret St. London W1W 8SY ++44(0)

Re: maya ui comment

2013-11-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
the lock ppg toggle is iAttribute Editor-List-Autoload Selected Attribute The feature to create compounds where you publish only selected attributes in the attribute editor and elsewhere is the Assets menu. Better node editor support will be investigated for the future. (Hypergraph does it now)

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Sebastien Sterling
Hairy ballz of the Gods !!! On 22 November 2013 17:46, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: holy mother of god.. you guys rock at WT! sly On 11/22/2013 09:04 AM, adrian wyer wrote: congrats to everyone at Whiskeytree for this epic demo! https://vimeo.com/71148018 your

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Peter Agg
What's that soundtrack from? Seems familiar but I can't quite place it... On 22 November 2013 16:58, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.comwrote: Hairy ballz of the Gods !!! On 22 November 2013 17:46, Sylvain Lebeau s...@shedmtl.com wrote: holy mother of god.. you guys rock at

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Crowson
Tron Legacy. Gorgeous work, WT! On 11/22/2013 11:11 AM, Peter Agg wrote: What's that soundtrack from? Seems familiar but I can't quite place it... On 22 November 2013 16:58, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com mailto:sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Hairy ballz of the

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Juhani Karlsson
Tron legacy? Daft Punk? Maybe? On Nov 22, 2013 7:12 PM, Peter Agg peter@googlemail.com wrote: What's that soundtrack from? Seems familiar but I can't quite place it... On 22 November 2013 16:58, Sebastien Sterling sebastien.sterl...@gmail.com wrote: Hairy ballz of the Gods !!! On

Re: Events/updates stop working

2013-11-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
baffling. the only thing I could think of is if something is causing a messagebox to pop behind the softimage window, or some other plugin is doing custom UI (PyQT?) because it sounds like a message queue constipation problem. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.com

Friday Flashback #147

2013-11-22 Thread Stephen Blair
Friday Flashback #147 http://wp.me/powV4-2UR April 1992 #SOFTIMAGE Animation Software Breaks New Ground

Re: maya ui comment

2013-11-22 Thread Tim Leydecker
Ah. It´s right in front of me. The Assets menu. Very nice. Obviously didn´t even notice that part of the menu bar until now. Maybe I read about it and forgot about it just to come back and request it as a feature. Would not be the first time. Cheers, tim On 22.11.2013 17:46, Luc-Eric

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Daniel Brassard
Tron Legacy Daft Punk, Recognizer On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Juhani Karlsson juhani.karls...@talvi.com wrote: Tron legacy? Daft Punk? Maybe? On Nov 22, 2013 7:12 PM, Peter Agg peter@googlemail.com wrote: What's that soundtrack from? Seems familiar but I can't quite place it...

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
thanks for the kind words everyone! i will pass along the praises... some extra info for those interested... -we used arnold 3.x to render this -because of how we partitioned the work out, and how sitoa exports ICE instances we had to come up with a way to make sure there was no redundant

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Meng-Yang Lu
Really nice. Love the fact you shared stats and memory allocation. -Lu On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Steven Caron car...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the kind words everyone! i will pass along the praises... some extra info for those interested... -we used arnold 3.x to render this

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Simon van de Lagemaat
This is awesome. It's funny how Arnold has changed our pipeline, we're no where near what you guys have but the entire Model reference ass switching workflow is what we've implemented already i.e. the ability to swap between all three at any time, make changes to the source in the lighting

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
yes, we publish an asset and you get a full resolution xsi model and another model which is just the lightweight arnold standin. that script is swapping the resolutions. that is all we don't do hundreds at a time we also can skip the importing as full resolution, and just import the standin. we

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
i think the speed of the demo and clever use of interactive snapping might be fooling you ;) but you give me an idea for a custom tool plugin like piotrek's mesh paint plugin but for our pipeline. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Simon van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com wrote: I love

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread David Gallagher
Great! posted on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AnimSchool On 11/22/2013 11:34 AM, Steven Caron wrote: thanks for the kind words everyone! i will pass along the praises... some extra info for those interested... -we used arnold 3.x to render this -because of how we partitioned

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Simon van de Lagemaat
Ya I realize that demo was sped up... I guess I let my mind run away a little :-) I was thinking you had done some sort of mesh drop using a constrained null or something. Then I started thinking you could switch between normal constraints or just axis constraints i.e. align to ground or just Y

RE: Events/updates stop working

2013-11-22 Thread Matt Lind
With more time to study the problem comes more details. Scenes I create behave normally on all computers in the studio, but when I receive a certain set of scenes from others, the problem shows up. One of my office mates is affected the same way from those problem scenes. We both have Dell

Re: Events/updates stop working

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
were you debugging a scene and had any of the 'scene debugging' options on in the preferences? this preference is getting reset when you rename the user profile. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Matt Lind ml...@carbinestudios.comwrote: With more time to study the problem comes more details.

RE: Events/updates stop working

2013-11-22 Thread Matt Lind
No. I wasn't in debug mode as this problem only occurred on select scenes. We do not use ICE or Python either. Most scenes open and function as expected, but we have a small number of scenes that contain something that causes events to stop functioning when they're opened and the problem

Re: Events/updates stop working

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
yep, i am aware there is no ICE or python in your pipeline... i just know we had issues were someone complained about these weird issues, only they got. then in desperation they renamedd their user profile and it worked. i dug into that profile and found many debugging options were on. i restored

Question about schematic view

2013-11-22 Thread Sergio Mucino
Very quick question. What does it mean when a node has a border around it? I've noticed even one of the illustrations in the manual depicts this... (http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/softimage2013/en_us/userguide/index.html?url="">)... 3rd illustration from

Re: Question about schematic view

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Thivierge
Usually means the hierarchy under that node has been collapsed under it. Middle click I believe is the way to collapse / uncollapse. On Friday, November 22, 2013 3:29:18 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: Very quick question. What does it mean when a node has a border around it? I've noticed even one of

Re: Question about schematic view

2013-11-22 Thread Sergio Mucino
Thanks Eric! One of our modelers had this really weird problem where he duplicated some geo, and the duplicates showed up that way in his schematic. The interesting thing was that they were nowhere to be found in the Explorer. He could manually select them and assign them

Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Sergio Mucino
Another "n00b" question... how do I go about copying a weight map between objects? I have two meshes that are exactly, the same, just under different models. I've painted a weight map on one that I'm using to modulate the effect of a deformer. Now I need the other mesh

RE: Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Matt Lind
GATOR. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sergio Mucino Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:32 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Copying/transferring weight maps Another n00b question... how do I go

Re: Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Caron
inspect the source weight property page, top right, folder icon, save preset... inspect the target weight property page, load preset... On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.comwrote: Another n00b question... how do I go about copying a weight map between

Re: Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Thivierge
Select the weight map you are trying to copy. Hit the freeze button to freeze the weights. Then you'll be able to Ctrl+ drag and drop on the other mesh with weights in tact. You should make sure you freeze those properties and ops when you're satisfied with the weights. On Friday, November

Re: Question about schematic view

2013-11-22 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
if the Scene Explorer seems to be missing something, press F5 in it to refresh it. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.comwrote: Thanks Eric! One of our modelers had this really weird problem where he duplicated some geo, and the duplicates showed up that way

Re: Question about schematic view

2013-11-22 Thread Eric Thivierge
This works but more often these days once it starts to not update, it's most likely not going to continue to update and a restart is needed. It's impossible to repro otherwise I would have sent something in a year and a half ago. :\ On Friday, November 22, 2013 4:41:55 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau

project archive

2013-11-22 Thread Eugen Sares
Hi, is there a simple way to add all scene assets (scene, pictures, whatnot) to an archive (rar, 7z whatever) file? (3ds max has a tool like this) Only the actually used items, that is! Or just copy them someplace else, for easy creation of the archive? Got a lot of clutter in my pictures

Re: project archive

2013-11-22 Thread Mirko Jankovic
If it is for textures used and reference model fast solution now from head that I use dis load scene, create new project, save scene as new scene and turn on copy all external files to project folder check box that will get everything used into new project. Shame that there isn't some faster way

Re: project archive

2013-11-22 Thread Mirko Jankovic
full option name is Copy External Files under Project check box right above file name in Save As On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Mirko Jankovic mirkoj.anima...@gmail.comwrote: If it is for textures used and reference model fast solution now from head that I use dis load scene, create new

Re: project archive

2013-11-22 Thread Eugen Sares
Good trick, thanks, Mirko!! Am 22.11.2013 22:55, schrieb Mirko Jankovic: If it is for textures used and reference model fast solution now from head that I use dis load scene, create new project, save scene as new scene and turn on copy all external files to project folder check box that will

Re: Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Sergio Mucino
Thanks a lot everyone! I actually noticed that even if the sub-ops didn't come along for the hike, the weight map still works! I will for sure go back and freeze the original. Looks like everything is still just fine at the OK corral. ;-) On

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Votch
We did build some tools for auto aligning objects (non particles) to surfaces though it's not in that demo :) On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Simon van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com wrote: Ya I realize that demo was sped up... I guess I let my mind run away a little :-) I was

Re: Copying/transferring weight maps

2013-11-22 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
UVs and vertex maps are drag and dropable if topology matches. Other properties are drag and dropable either way. Em 22/11/2013 20:00, Sergio Mucino sergio.muc...@modusfx.com escreveu: Thanks a lot everyone! I actually noticed that even if the sub-ops didn't come along for the hike, the weight

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Frederic Servant
nice work On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Votch megavo...@gmail.com wrote: We did build some tools for auto aligning objects (non particles) to surfaces though it's not in that demo :) On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Simon van de Lagemaat si...@theembassyvfx.com wrote: Ya I realize

Re: Whiskeytree Athens tech demo

2013-11-22 Thread Alok Gandhi
Very impressive indeed! Bravo Whiskeytree! Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Frederic Servant frederic.serv...@gmail.com wrote: nice work On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Votch megavo...@gmail.com wrote: We did build some tools for auto aligning objects (non